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Your family moved all over the country. Moving schools and even states was normal in life or at least for you. You look out the window of your parents station wagon watching the dull scenery of Hawkins Indiana fly past. The car is too full of your family leaving the air warm and suffocating.
Your siblings roar in impatience around you and your only saving grace is your Walkman that you got for your birthday. You're currently blasting Judas priests British steel as loud as your cheap headphones would allow. As many times as your mother's told you that your music was obnoxious and obscene, suprisingly, she let you keep it for days like this.
You tap your fingers along the cheap plastic cover of the car doors surface. As your dad rounds a corner and turns down your street you see a teen girl drift down the street on a skateboard. Her wild red hair caught your eye as she drifted past and it almost made you jealous.
Your dad pulls into a dead end Street and parks in front of a large and noticeably old home. Finally, even though It may look like shit, you're home. It's a cheap part of the neighborhood but youre used to it given having a large family your family has occasional money issues. You open the car door and practically leap onto solid ground. You grab your backpack and run to the front door. When you dip inside your dodging the movers.
You make a beeline to your bedroom and open the door. When you whip inside the first thing you do is spin in a circle making plans for decorating the empty space. You already know where your bed, mirror and tons of posters and art is gonna go.
You hear a knocking at the door and look up to see your mother. She smiles and gestures to take your headphones off.
"hey mom what's up?"
She smiles and comes to hug you.
"we bought a pizza, if you want dinner before unpacking?" You wrap your arms around her and smile.
"You know what that sounds pretty good."
You and your mom go downstairs to eat and you see the wonderful mess of your family. It's the six of you. You are the oldest of four kids three boys and one girl. In order it's you, Robbie the thirteen year old, Lynn the five year old and Jackson the one year old. Your mom only just married your step dad but he has more of your respect than your birth dad. Your family may be messy but that's who you are.
You and your family are a strange bunch and that made your family the subject quite the lot of town gossip. You all just moved from California to Indiana after all and everyone treated You like aliens so far. Hawkins is a very small minded town so when news got out about your strange little family all you heard moving in was murmurs.
People looking at you and gossiping right in front of you. To be Frank you weren't excited about having to spend your senior year of high school in Hawkins instead of California.
Speaking of high school you're already aware of Monday rolling up. You grab food and hurry upstairs to finish unpacking.
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You get up early, well, earlier than you'd like to. You drag your feet over to the closet and get dressed. You put on your ripped van halen shirt and grab your stonewashed jeans. You decide to wear some random accessories around your room and your black studed belt. You get dressed and throw on your patch jacket before putting on and tying up your converse.
You grab your school bag and head down to the kitchen. You grab your car keys before shouting.
"whoever wants a ride better be ready now!"
You hear Robbie shuffling around upstairs before slamming his door open.
"WAIT!"
You giggle "T- 30 Seconds!"
Then he dashes back into his room. You grab a poptart and pop it into your bag before shouting again.
"T- 10 Seconds!"
Then Robbie's door slams back open and he runs down the stairs. You smile and ruffle his hair. "good timing." he groans.
"don't start with that I almost missed you."
You laugh and open the front door.
"almost. Let's hope Lynn doesn't need a ride she wasn't even up yet." Robbie laughs and jogs over to your car.
"sucks to suck then doesn't it?" You roll your eyes and open the doors climbing inside.
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You pull up to Hawkins junior high and let Robbie out. You turn down your music a bit and turn to Robbie. "hey don't worry man you got this. Hawkins isn't ready for you dude you'll blow their little minds." he smiles at you and winks.
"oh I know they aren't. Good luck to you man don't get set on fire for witchcraft or something." You scoff and roll your eyes.
"that's just Tuesday bro. Anyways see ya!" he waves and races of to class. You pull up to Hawkins High and drive to the parking lot. You park next to this dingy looking van. You put on your headphones on and head inside.
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Your plan was to be quiet and find friends on your own time. This was not going according plan. You're sitting in the corner of a quiet classroom and now all eyes are on you.
"Mr y/n you're new to hawkins, why don't you introduce yourself." God damn it. Apparently the teacher known as Miss O'Donnell thought putting you on the spot was a great idea. So far for not being noticed.
"uh sure okay.." You stand slow and turn to your classroom. You look around the room and all seats are full save for one. You take a breath and the second you start to speak a door slams open. She looks to the door and sighs.
"that F is really starting to stick Mr Munson." The whole class laughs and you hear a groan.
"yeah yeah, I'm sorry I'm late." there you see him. He's a tall guy with long frizzy hair, obviously a metal head and The most gorgeous features you've seen on a guy in a while. You sorta just stand and gape.
Miss O'Donnell clears her throat and redirects attention to you. "so as I was saying, Mr y/n was about to introduce himself."
The boys laughs and looks to the teacher.
"isn't that a little elementary school of you miss?" The whole class kind of snickers under their whole breath. Miss O'Donnell rolls her eyes then turns to you.
"please go ahead y/n."
You hold back a groan of frustration. Munson or whatever his name is almost saved you.
"well I'm y/n l/n and I just moved here from California... Is that all I have to say?" You ask at the end. Miss O'Donnell nods and you sit back down. Dear god. You put your headphones on as your class starts.
When you've finally had enough time to focus on your doodles you hear a weird noise to your right. You don't look up until you see a little note passed by your arm. You grab it and unfold it.
It reads "is that mötley crüe I hear?" You look up and see Munson looking at you. You write back on the other side. "yeah live wire." You hand it back to him. You didn't notice it before but he sits rather close to you. You hear him snicker before writing something and tossing it back. "not alot of other metal heads in Hawkins. I can respect that." You smile.
Miss O'Donnell is quick to break up your chatter and the class ends shortly after. As you pack up your things you see Munson approach you.
"I'm Eddie by the way. It was cool to meet you maybe we can hang and talk music sometime." You smile and look at him.
"sure would you be down to chill at lunch?" You grab your things and toss them into your bag. He chuckles and rubs the back of his neck.
"as long as you don't mind a crowd. I've got a club to manage but you can join." The second bell ringing snaps you both out of your conversation as you quickly say your goodbyes and run to your next class.
The day goes by rather quickly and now it's five minutes to lunch and your practically counting the seconds till then. This is the fastest you've talked to anyone new when you moved so you were very glad it was on a good note.
When the bell rings you already have your bag ready to go. You walk to the cafeteria skipping out on the food cause yikes. You search among the sea of heads looking for frizzy brown hair. You don't see him until you hear a loud bang. When you whip your head over you see Eddie walking on the table making some sort of speech.
Found him. Guess he wasn't kidding about a crowd. It also seems like this town doesn't like him too much either. When he hops down you see him scare the shit out of a teacher then bow to let some cheerleaders pass.
Eddie and his Legion of weirdos were your kinda crowd. When you walk up the majority just gawk at you. It was a rarity to see anyone willingly approach them let alone a senior.
Eddie notices you and turns to the group.
"oh yeah, guys this is y/n he's gonna chill with us today. No complaints." The rest of them nod and go back to their conversations and Eddie turns to you. "damn you actually came. I was expecting someone to talk you out or it to be a prank."
You look at him confused "even if someone tried to talk me out do I look like someone who'd follow the crowd like that?" You gesture to yourself and Eddie snicker.
"I suppose not. So y/n have you ever played dnd before?" he looks to you hopefully.
"yeah I have! I love the character creation aspect of it. Drawing my characters is super fun." he smiles and nods.
"well little sheep I just so happen to run the hellfire club. We're the resident dnd Club. I also happen to be the dungeon master. You came at a convenient time we just lost a member and have an empty slot. Would you wanna join?" You look to him hopefully.
"you'd let me join just like that?" he shrugs and rolls his eyes.
"unless you want me to haze you, yes I would. If you have a character we're starting the campaign on Friday. So are you in?"
"I am so in! What do we have already I wanna pick a character that compliments the party well."
The entirety of lunch you and Eddie just sit and talk about dnd and his campaign. You picked a drow Ranger seeing as the rest of the party are either purely magic or just heavy fighters. You debated on doing a cleric but Eddie laughed and said "let them save their own asses do what you want."
You've never met such a chill person before and it's honestly been refreshing. When the end of lunch came You wish you had more time.
"hey we eat here everyday so if wanna come you can drop by anytime. Plus now that you're part of hellfire well be expecting you. See you later l/n." he smiles at you and walks off.
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Your driving home from school with Robbie. You've got look back and laugh by minor threat on. You mother keeps saying your infecting Robbie with your horrible music taste but you can't find it in you to care. As you drive your tapping to the beat. You and Robbie stop at the family video to pick up a movie for your brothers movie night. As you pull up you see a familiar dingy van.
You and Robbie walk in and you turn to him.
"okay you give three suggestions and I give three and we'll pick a final two. Sound good?" he nods and dashes over for the action section. Of course.
Your first stop is horror. Your picks are Halloween, nightmare on elm Street and poltergeist. As you go to the action section you see Robbie looking at top gun and Indiana Jones Raiders of the lost arc. Your final picks end up at Halloween and Indiana Jones. When you take them to the counter a tall boy steps behind the counter and starts ringing you up.
"haven't seen you Before, you new in town?" You look down and see a name tag that reads Steve.
"yeah from California we just moved in Saturday. I'm y/n and this is Robbie." Robbie nods.
"ah I have some buddies down there. And I'm Steve if you couldn't tell. Action and horror huh?" You nod and snicker.
“yeah me and Robbie do weekly brother movie nights so you'll see us often. It's my excuse to try and get him to like horror movies." Robbie rolls his eyes.
Steve nods "yeah I get that I end up babysitting a bunch of fourteen year olds all the time so I get it." as Steve finishes ringing you up you feel a tap on the shoulder.
"horror buff?" You turn and see Eddie. You scoff and laugh a little.
"You stalking me Munson?" he anxiously laughs.
"No just returning a movie for someone and it would seem I just have convenient timing." he passes Steve a vhs and Steve rolls his eyes.
"You didn't answer my question l/n."
You chuckle "yeah and Halloween is a classic how could I not." he smiles and nods. Steve hands you your movies and gives you your receipt.
"thanks for coming and it was nice to meet you y/n now stop flirting in my store Munson and leave." Eddie clutches his heart like he's offended. You smile and wave walking out. As you hop in your car Eddie follows you to your door and leans on the window.
"what do you need Munson?" You turn in the car and minor threat starts playing again.
"punk too huh? Interesting." You roll your eyes.
"is that all you wanted to follow me just to see what I was listening to?" he smiles and shrugs.
"eh more or less and I need to give you this." he turns to the dingy van that is apparently his and goes into the back pulling out a large cardboard box. "what's your shirt size l/n?"
You look at him puzzled "I'm a medium." he nods grabs something and basically chucks it at your face. When you catch it, albeit poorly, you see it's one of the hellfire shirts that all the members have.
"I forgot to give it to you after school so when I ran into you I thought it'd be smart to just give it to you now." You smile and throw it into the backseat of your car.
"thanks! I'll see you tomorrow." he nods and jumps into his car and peels out of the parking spot in the most aggressive driving you've ever seen. You chuckle at the way he hits the curb and speeds off.
Robbie looks at you and laughs.
"dude you got it down bad." You look at him in astonishment. You never told him you were gay but you never really needed to as he could basically tell from the get go. You roll your eyes.
"yeah whatever. I just met him today I don't know what your talking about." he laughs and you two head home.