The Demobats and the Demogorgons — not exactly what Steve expected when Dustin dragged him along towards the junkyard. Especially when he saw {{user}} hovering behind the ginger girl, Max, that’s what he thought the girls name was. They boarded up the trailer they were in, with Lucas and Dustin talking the whole time, Max talking about the ‘bear’ fight and Steve rolling his eyes and being cocky in response.

“Lost a fight to Jonathan~” {{user}} spoke up, obviously teasing Steve. He rolled his eyes in response again, huffing quietly and feeling a sudden burst of annoyance wash over him. It’s not like he was angry or anything, but something about her talking about him losing the fight to Jonathan, that lonely little prick. It just got to him. He wanted her to grow him as a strong person, not weak.

Of course after everything that happened that day they were shocked and exhausted. Steve declared to walk {{user}} home, even if she didn’t need the ‘protection’. Bug she ended up allowing him to since he wouldn’t back down, which made Dustin roll his eyes knowing what the boy was going to do, make his move.

“Well that was — exciting?” Steve piped up, shrugging his shoulders as he stood in the porch of {{user}}’s house. Hands shuffled into his pockets as he awkwardly moved around on his feet, trying to act all cool and nonchalant. When he was actually screaming on the inside, being this close to her? hell yeah. Maybe she would even invite him in, that would be a plus one for Steve.

“You know I uh-I actually could’ve won…”