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[kenzisnyder]

Mean Things

Chapter One:

It’s the start of the 2004-2005 school year at Hawkins Shore High School in Hawkins Illinois, and Eleven is about to start her first day at a “normal” high school as a junior. For the last 14 years she has lived in the Hawkins research lab with her totally normal father figure, Papa. The only weird thing about her life is that she’s been experimented on since she was kidnapped as a premature infant.

She heads into her new school and searches for a seat when her teacher, Ms. Beyers walks in with Principal Hopper. Principal Hopper is frightened by Eleven and her shaved head and says that she must be the new student from the lab,

“One- One.” She politely corrects him and says, “It’s Eleven.”

After she finally finds a seat, she strikes up a conversation with a couple of fellow outcasts named Barb and Jonathan. Jonathan proceeds to stroke Eleven’s buzz cut and tell her how fabulous and edgy it looks, while Barb laughs and introduces her to Jonathan as “too gay to function.” After class, Barb and Jonathan take Eleven out to the back of the school where she is told that she gives off an edgy vibe that’s sure to help her move up the ranks at Hawkins Shore. They also give Eleven her first introduction to Hawkins Shore’s most popular group in school, the scienceltes. They start out by describing Dustin, the “space case” of the group. Although he is viewed as the nicest member of the scienceletes because he’s funny and always willing to share his snacks, he’s definitely hiding something mysterious. The next member of the group is Lucas, who’s the most blunt and straightforward in the whole group. Lucas is mean and he doesn’t care, because his dad is the inventor of eggos. After they tell Eleven this she stops them, and asks what the hell an eggo is. Barb tells her that she’ll find out soon enough, but there is just something about that word, “eggo,” that strikes a connection for Eleven. Despite this, Eleven listens as they continue by describing the last, and most prominent member of the group, Mike Wheeler. Mike is the star of the school and everyone treats him like true royalty. Mike is the one person who can make being a total science nerd cool. It’s mostly because his older sister Nancy literally ran the school before she graduated. She won Spring Fling queen her junior year, and prom queen her senior year. People still talk about Nancy at Hawkins Shore High school. No one knows what exactly Nancy is doing now that she’s graduated, but everyone knows it's nothing shy of amazing. The most common rumors involve Australian modeling, being on a Japanese game show, and even living undercover as a spy on the Saudi Arabian government. Nancy had it all at Hawkins Shore: the hottest boyfriends, the coolest friends, and she always threw the best ragers. Now Mike is following in her footsteps. He’s already got the popularity, the posse, and the parties. All he needs now is the sweet arm candy to follow in his royal sister’s footsteps. For some reason though, Jonathan totally has a vendetta out for Mike, and Barb seems to cringe every time she hears Nancy’s name. The pair quickly changes the subject to lunchtime seating when Eleven begins to question their reactions to Mike Wheeler’s name. Barb hands Eleven a map of the cafeteria and describes every social group at Hawkins Shore and their typical lunchtime seating arrangements.

Later that day when Eleven is walking towards her new friends at lunch, eggos in hand when a douchey looking guy stops her. He tells her his name is Tommy H and that he has series of new student questions to ask her. He asks if she needs syrup for her eggos, and if she needs someone special to put that syrup on her eggos. Eleven is super confused and is trying to formulate a response when The Mike Wheeler stands up and tells Tommy H to “fuck off” and “leave the new girl alone because he called dibs.” Mike then proceeded to invite Eleven to sit with them. Mike apologized and said that Tommy H wouldn’t of known when to stop if he wouldn’t have been so harsh. Mike also asked why he’d never seen Eleven before and she told him that it was because she’d been the subject of a groundbreaking experiment for the first 15 years of her life. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing, he was like “omg, shut up!” He also said Eleven was super pretty for being locked up all of those years, and then complemented her demogorgon tattoo. Lucas said “yeah girl, that shit is boujee,” and Mike snapped back at him that boujee was a stupid word and he needed to stop being so lame if he wanted to remain at the table. He then whispered something to both Lucas and Dustin, then he turned to Eleven and smiled. Lucas said, “just so you know this is not something we do..” “like ever” said Dustin, “but we want to invite you to our table, like for the rest of the week.” Eleven didn’t even get a chance to respond before Mike said, “Awesome, so wear green on Wednesday.”

After lunch, Eleven went and told Barb and Jonathan all about her lunch with the infamous scienceletes of Hawkins Shore. Jonathan tells Eleven that she HAS to become part of the scienceletes and tell him and Barb everything Mike and his posse say. Eleven asked Jonathan why he hated Mike so much and Barb started to say something about Jonathan’s brother, but Jonathan stopped her and told Eleven it would just be really fun to talk to them and see what it’s like to be a part of their group. He said it didn’t matter what happened with his brother, that she just needed to do it so she could learn to act normal and learn all the secrets about Nancy. Eleven reluctantly agreed and asked Jonathan and Barb for green clothes to wear on Wednesday.

After her discussion with Jonathan and Barb, Eleven got to go to math class, and that’s where it happened. Eleven saw the most attractive guy she’d ever seen...although she’d been pretty much locked away from seeing any guys from the time she was an infant. She saw the one and only Steve Herrington occupied the seat directly behind Eleven in math class. She was immediately smitten, and thought about him all night and until the next day when the scienceletes began to explain the rules of being a part of their posse. Eleven was expected to play Dungeons and Dragons at least 3 times a week. She couldn’t wear pink or any dresses that made her look too girly, because after all she was joining the boys posse of scienceletes and not the plastics from Nancy’s high school years, and she was expected to always ask for approval before buying a new videogame or vintage board game. After Mike explained the rules to Eleven, he got up and went to throw his trash away, so Lucas asked if Eleven had seen any guys she was into at Hawkins Shore, so she told Lucas and Dustin about seeing Steve in math class. Lucas immediately said, “Aww hell no girl, you can’t like Steve, we have to hate him because of something that happened with his older brother and Mike’s older sister Nancy.” This hit Eleven hard, but she continued to fantasize about Steve all of the time. She Thought about him day and night and constantly wondered what happened between Steve’s older brother and the infamous Nancy. Also, where was Nancy now, and who was Steve’s older brother, and why did the scienceletes hate him so much?

Eleven’s daydreams were suddenly interrupted by a guy named Troy, who happened to be head of the mathletes. He asked her to join because he thought she had super powers because she was in the lab her whole life, and he thought she could use them during math competitions. Ms. Beyers jumped in and said she thinks it would be an excellent decision for Eleven to join, and that she could get involved. Later she was talking to Lucas about joining and he told her that everyone would think she would be weird and that if she wanted to join a cool club she should talk to Mr. Clarke about joining AV club. As she was walking home, Mike pulled up beside her with the other boys in the car and said, “Get in loser, we’re going to play D&D.” When the posse got to Mike’s house they were greeted by his mom and plates of eggos. Eleven asked if there was syrup on the eggos, and Mike’s mom told her no, but if she wanted some she wanted her to have it in the house. Mike’s little sister, Holly,  was also in his house dancing and singing to the Star Wars intro. The posse got to Mike’s basement and hangout room and they all got really silent. Then Mike looked Eleven in the eyes and said, “You’re ready to know.” He then pulled out a book from the shelf, and opened it. As he started flipping through the pages the boys began to tell Eleven the truth about Nancy. She wasn’t off doing something great, and she wasn’t in a different country. Nancy was in a different world. The boys showed Eleven a book about the Vale of Shadows and showed her some links on Mike’s MacIntosh desktop. The posse thought Nancy was in the Vale of Shadows. It’s the same as the world, but darker and scarier, and there’s a monster there, called a Mean Thing. Eleven rubbed her demogorgon tattoo while the boys went on and on about the Vale of Shadows. She knew that she had  connection to this mysterious place, but she didn’t know what it was so she kept her mouth shut and continued to be mesmerized by the boys and the stories they were telling about this not-so-unimaginable place that they thought Nancy was stuck in. It was strange and confusing, and the complexity of Eleven’s new “normal” like began to become more and more confusing by the the second.

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