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━━━━━━━━━━━ "Then she laughed. And it wasn't like a cheap, fake laugh either. It was like... It was real, genuine laugh" Robin tells Steve in the video store where the two work
"Of course she laughed. It's my Muppet joke. It's hilarious" Steve tells her putting back a movie on the shelf
"My point is that Vickie laughed and everything was just like, it was perfect" Robin tells him
"But?"
"But i'm having this problem where it's like, i should stop talking. I have said everything i need to say. But then i guess i get nervous, and the words keep spilling out, and it's like my... my brain is moving faster then my mouth, or... or rather my... my mouth is moving raster then my brain. And it's like i'm digging this hole for myself and i want to stop digging, i'm trying to stop, but i can't. And i'm doing it right now, aren't i?" Robin rants on
"Yeah, you are" Steve tells her
"Oh, i'm hopeless"
"Say something i don't know" he says shaking his head
"Ooh, i think i found our morning movie" Robin says running past Steve and grabbing the movie "Doctor Zhivago"
"Ugh, you know i don't do double VHS" Steve tells her
"But it's about doomed love"
"Oh, well, that's pretty relatable for you" Steve says walking over behind the counter
"Precisely. Also, Julie Christie is b-b-bonkers hot in this. Like, seriously, the most beautiful creature i have ever seen in my life"
Robin makes her way around counter and tunes on the TV.
"We're in the Forest Hills trailer park in eat Roane County" the news reporter says on the TV "We don't have a lot of details now, but we can confirm that a body of a Hawkins High student was discovered early this morning. Police have not released the name..."
"Holy shit"
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"Hey, Steve" Dustin says as him and Max walk into the store
"You see this?" Steve asks him pointing to the TV
"How many phones do you have?" Dustin asks him
"Someone was murdered"
"How many phones do you have" he asks Steve again
"Two. Why?" Steve answers him
"Technically three, if you count Keith's in the back" Robin adds on
"Yeah, three works" Max says to Dustin
Dustin takes off his backpack and chucks it over the counter knocking most things that are sitting on the counter as Steve and Robin step back.
"My pile!"
Dustin jumps over the counter with Steve and Robin yelling at him while Max walks around to stand next to him.
"What are you doing, man?" Steve asks as Dustin sits at the computer
"Setting up base of operations here" Dustin tells him
"Base of operations?"
"Stop, get off of it" Steve tells him
"I need it"
"For what?"
"Looking up Eddie's friends phone numbers" Dustin tells him
"Oh, Eddie, your new best friend you think is cooler because he plays your nerdy game?" Steve asks with jealousy laced in his voice
"Seriously, you guys, come back on a Monday you can play around here like toddlers, but it's a Saturday. It's our busiest day" Robin says as she cleans up the mess
"Okay, Robin, i totally empathize, but this cannot wait unit Monday"
"What, calling all of Eddie's friends is an emergency?"
"Correct!"
"Want me too strangle him or you want to?" Steve asks Robin
"Let's take turns"
"Can you fill them in while i do this?" Dustin asks Max
"Fill is in on what?" Robin asks with a sigh
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Max had filled in the two young adults on what is happening. Steve is currently helping an old lady pick out a movie.
Dustin sits on the computer while both Robin and Max are on the phones crossing out names.
"Hey, guys, i might have a lead" Max says hanging up the phone
"Seriously?" Dustin asks her
"Yeah. Apparently, Eddie gets drugs from some guy named Reefer Rick and sometimes Eddie crashes there" Max explains to them
"That sounds promising. Where does Reefer Rick live?" Robin asks her
"See, thats the thing. No one knows. He's more of a legend then someone that people actually know"
"Any last name?"
"I don't know that either"
"Bet the cops know the last name" Steve says as he sorts through some movies
"What?"
"Cops. I mean, listen, if this Reefer Rick is actually a drug dealer, i guarantee you he's been busted at some point. Means he's in the system" Steve tells them
"The cops? Really, Steve? That's your suggestion?" Dustin asks him
"I think at this point they should be filled in on what we know, what's going on"
"You think Eddie's guilty, don't you?"
"Whoa, i believe in innocent until proven guilty, all that constitutional shit. I just, you know, don't think we can rule it out" he says as he leans on the counter
"That's precisely what we're trying to do here, Steve" Max says to him annoyed
"And maybe we'd have a little bit more luck if you spent less time messing around in here and more time trying to find Eddie" Dustin snaps at him
"Well, somebody has to attend to the customers" Steve tells him "We've got a very big selection in here. It can be super overwhelming for people"
"Yeah, it can be" Robin says with a smile and moves over to the computer where Dustin moves to let her sit down
"What are you doing?" Max asks her
"Maybe we don't need a last name" Robin answers as Steve moves around the counter "Twelve Ricks have accounts here"
"That's a lot of Ricks"
"So let's narrow it down then"
"Rick Alderman's latest rentals are Annie and Dumbo" Robin reads off "What are the chances our drug dealer has a family?"
"Not likely"
"Rick Conroy. Sixteen Candles, Teen Wolf, Romancing the Stone"
"No"
"Rick Joiner. Mask, Footloose, and Grease"
"Nah"
"Rick Kimbrough. The Blue Lagoon and Splash"
"Definitely not"
"Rick Lipton. Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Cheech & Chong's Next Movie. Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams. Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke"
"Bingo"
"Lipton?"
"Spelled like the tea. 2121 Holland Road" Robin says reading off of the computer
"That's out by Lovers Lake" Dustin tells them
"Middle of nowhere"
"The perfect place to hide"
𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠. . .
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𝔇𝔬𝔫𝔱 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔐𝔢
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