"[singing along] ♪ You must be an angel, I can see it in your eyes, Full of wonder and surprise... [chuckles] Oh, you found Ralph Macchio." Max sings along with the song.

"Macchio?" El asked.

"Yeah, he's the Karate Kid. Hai-yah! [laughs] He's so hot, right? I bet he's an amazing kisser, too. Hey, uh... are Mike and Lucas good kissers?" Max asked.

"I don't know. He's my first boyfriend." El answers.

"Well compare him to nothing I wouldn't know." I state confused.

"Ex-boyfriends. Hey, don't worry about it. Okay? They'll come crawling back to you in no time, begging for forgiveness. I guarantee you, him and Lucas are, like, totally wallowing in self-pity and misery right now. They're like, "Oh, I hope they take us back."!" Max states. We were all laughing. "God, what I wouldn't give to see their stupid faces. What is it?"  They set up the radio and El blindfolds herself I copy them. The radio static crackling started.

"Is this really gonna work? Holy shit, this is insane." Max speaks up.

"Max." I pipe up.

"Yeah, quiet. I'm sorry." Max answers. There was distorted voices. Mike is lying on a couch, Lucas is pacing and Will is setting something up on a table.

"What's wrong with me? What did I do wrong? What did we do wrong?" Mike asks.

"Nothing." Lucas answers. The static stops.

"What did I do wrong? What could have we done wrong?" Mike asked. 

"Do I have to go through this again?" Lucas asks.

"I see them." El points out.

"What are they doing?" Max asks.

"Eating." El answers. Crunching echoes through annoying me.

"I just don't understand what we did to deserve this." Mike says to Lucas.

"Nothing. Nothing. That's my whole point. We are the victim here." Lucas answers.

"I know. It's just, why is she treating me this way?" Mike asks.

"Mike I'm in the same boat as you idiot." Lucas answered.

"I don't know." Will piped up.

"Mike-" Lucas tried again.

"What did we do wrong? What did I do wrong?!" Mike asked.

"Mike, stop. Relax. Just relax. Okay? Stop asking rational questions." Lucas answered.

"I know, I know, you're right." Mike carries on.

"Yeah." Lucas chuckles slightly.

"Because women act on emotion and not logic." Mike states and my emotions change quickly.

"Precisely. It's a totally different species." Lucas pipes up which annoyed me.

"They say we are "species."!" I stated angrily. 

"What?" Max asks.

""Emotion, not logic."!" I continue. 

"What?" Max asks.

"Guys, it's ready." Will mentions to whatever he was doing.

"Will, not right now." Lucas mentions.

"They broke up with you. What else is there to talk about?" Will asks.

"Tons." Lucas answers. 

"Yeah, we're trying to solve the great mystery of the female species." Mike states.  " [chuckles] Dude, you can smell the nacho cheese." Will groans, disgusted by his misogynistic, gross friends.

"I got that beat." Lucas answers.

"What?" Mike asks. To be honest I was confused to what the boys were doing.

"Oh, no. [this is what he's been dreading the last few seconds] No, Lucas, no." Will states.  Lucas lifts up his leg and farts.

"No! Lucas! Lucas!" Mike exclaims. Lucas was farting loudly the fart echoes. El pulls off the blindfold I do the same not long after.

"What happened?" Max asks. Me and El giggles.

"What... What? What happened?" Max asks again. El laughs which makes me laugh. A car approaches outside. Dad grunts when he sees the door closed. There was pop music playing in our room.

"[who somehow drove home drunk.] Hey! Hey! When I say three inches, three-" Dad tries.

"Do you knock? Jeez!" Max states.

"Yeah! Jeez!" El copies.

"Oh, hey. I'm sorry. I thought that, uh-" Dad tried.

"Mike and Lucas are not here." Max states.

"It's just three girls dad." I point out.

"Max wanted to have... a sleepover. Is that... okay?" El asked.

"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your parents know about it?" Dad asked.

"Yup." Max answered I smiled at dad.

"[slurring] Uh, yeah, it's cool. Yeah. That's- That's really cool." Dad states. He stands there for a minute because he is trying to process everything while drunk.

"Did you need something?" Max asked.

"No, no. Uh, I'll leave. I'll just let you... I'll leave you..." Dad tried. "Lovergirl" playing. The girls set up a spin-the-bottle-esque board on El's bed with Mr. Clarke, Nancy, Dustin, Steve, Billy and Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler on it.

"Holy shit, I can't believe we're really doing this. Ready?" Max asked El.

"Ready."  El answers then she spins the bottle.

"Mr. Wheeler." Me and Max says.

"Ugh. Boring." I state.

"Yeah, boring." El agrees.

"Spin again." Max suggested.

"Against the rules?" El asked confused.

"We make our own rules." I answer and both El and Max chuckle. El spins the Cola bottle again.

"Billy." Max and El pipes up.

"Okay, look, I should just warn you, if he's with a girl or doing something gross, just get out of there right away before you're scarred for life." Max suggests then she grabs the radio and blindfold. 

"Max-" I try.

"No, I'm just saying, I'm serious. He's really gross." Max continues.

"Max!" El says.

"Okay, shutting up now." Max stated. El starts tuning the radio there was radio static crackling.

"I found him." El pipes up.

"What's he doing?" Max asked.

"I don't know." She answered. "He's... on the floor... talking to someone." El gasps and takes the blindfold off.

"What is it? What happened?" Max asked. Me El and Max walk over to Max's house. The thunder was rumbling pretty loud.

"It's gonna start pouring soon. We should be at the mall or, like, watching a movie or something." Max suggests I just look at her.

"You don't believe me?" El asked looking a bit hurt.

"I believe you saw some super weird stuff, totally, but you said Mike has sensed you in there before, right? So maybe it was just like that. Maybe Billy just... sensed you somehow." Max answered.

"But the screams." El tried.

"Yeah, I know, but here's the thing. When Billy is alone with a girl, they make, like, really crazy noises." Max tried and I knew what she was talking about.

"They scream?" El asked looking confused.

"Yeah, but, like... happy screams." Max carries on.

"Happy screams? What is happy screams?" El asked.

"It's like... I'm just gonna lend you my mom's Cosmo. His car's not here. You really want to do this?" Max asked El.  They go into Billy's room I follow not to far behind.

"Why do I get the feeling we're gonna find all kinds of wrong in here?" Mac asked. There was heavy metal playing on stereo.

"[she opens a drawer and finds adult magazines] Ugh! Gag me with a spoon." Max says I look and chock slightly on the coke I was drinking. We go into the bathroom, the door creaking. El sees the now empty ice packets in the bath.

"Max?" El asked.

"Ice. It's just ice. Probably for his muscles or something. He works out like a maniac." Max suggested. El sees the blood on the cabinet, her breath trembling she opens the cabinet and gets out the bin. I looked at her confused.

"El, what is it?" I asked. El takes out the lifeguard bumbag that is definitely not Billy's style and a bloody whistle, breath trembling. We run to the pool. There was indistinct chatter around us. The  kids was laughing and squealing. The thunder was still rumbling when we arrived.

"Excuse me." Max speaks up.

"No one in the water until 30 minutes after the last strike. And don't try and argue with me. You wanna get electrocuted, go climb a tree." The manager says.

"Yeah, we don't care. We're not here to swim. Or get electrocuted." I pip up.

"We found this." El said showing him the bumbag.

"Does that belong to anybody here?" Max asked.

"Oh, yeah. That's Heather's. I'll get it back to her." The manager tries.

"We could give it back to her." El suggested.

"You could. 'Cept she's not here. Bailed on me today. What is this? You girls want a reward or somethin'?" The manager asked.

"No. We're just... Good Samaritans." I answered. The two girls were look over at the list of lifeguards and look at the pictures as I was watching the lifeguard and the manager.

"Heather. Do you think you can find her?" Max asked.

"No way!" The lifeguard says Pool Manager and Lifeguard chuckling the girls go into the showers I follow up behind. El covers a snorkel in duct tape while Max turns on all the showers.

"What do you see?" I asked.

"A door. A red door." El answered. El takes off her snorkel, gasping.

"What happened? El!" Max tried. El was panting really hard. I went back to Max's when they went to Heathers house to see if she was okay.