THE SUN BEAMED DOWN on the two pacing girls. Sam was confused. Why hadn't Lucas come yet? And where was mike? El was just as confused as Sam but also annoyed.

El stormed into the house, her going to the phone and Sam going to her supercomm on the couch. She switched to their private channel. "Is everything okay?" Hopper asked, seeming to stand in the kitchen as he watched the two girls.

El didn't answer but sam did, "Yes."

"Lucas, do you copy? Over."

"Yeah..over." Lucas answered, his voice sounding hesitant.

Sam walked into the bathroom, slamming the door closed. "It's 9:32. Why aren't you here? Over." Sam asked.

"Well, Hopper said that we needed to be apart for a bit." Lucas blurted out. Sam furrowed her eyes rows, "Why? Over."

"Something about us being too close but I think it's just about us being a little bit after curfew." Lucas answered.

"Oh. Well, did you get home Okay? I couldn't talk to you because I was crying from my skin and tired. Over." Sam told him.

"Of course, and you weren't crying from your skin, you were sweating. Over." Lucas disagreed. "Oh." Sam shrugged. "Well, I think I'm going to hang out with the boys today." Lucas told her and Sam immediately shook her head but realized that he couldn't see her. "Okay. Well, see you." She bid.

   "Yeah. Bye."

   Sam's face was casual as she walked out of the bathroom, hopper face was blurred as the only thing she saw was a sad el.

She threw her supercomm on the couch and walked into her and els room. "Hey. What's going on?" Hopper had asked but Sam was already in the room and el had ignored him.

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   Sam caught the skateboard, el standing beside her as she did. Max looked up to see the two girls and her expression turned confused. Sam and el walked towards the girl, and Sam held out Max's skateboard. Max took it gradually. "Hi." The two girls said in sync.

   "Hi?" Max said but in more of a questioning manner. "Can we talk?" El asked.

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   "And then he said he—he missed me."

   "Then he just hung up."

   El sat on Max's bed, explaining what had happened not too long ago. Max was pacing, but not nervously, angrily and also absorbing information.

   "He's a piece of shit." Max suddenly said causing Sam to furrow her eyebrows. "What?" El asked. "Mike doesn't have jack shit to do today, and his nana obviously isn't sick," Max objected before walking over to the two girls, "I guarantee you guys, him and Lucas are playing Atari right now."

   El shook her head, "But Friends don't lie."

   "You lied yesterday." Sam blurted, then glancing at el. Sam hadn't meant to say it out loud but it was the truth, she had lied about curfew to hang out with mike. "No...That was watering down the truth." El said, repeating it just like mike told her.

   "Exactly What's wrong now. Boyfriends lie. All the time." Max throughly nodded her head. Even though Sam couldn't relate to the problem, Max was right. Mike must have lied to her about lying even though he was the one to tell them that friends don't lie.

   Max sat next to Sam who was beside el. "You're going to stop calling him. You're going to ignore his calls. As far as you're concerned, he doesn't even exist." Max told them. Sam leaned in A bit, "Doesn't exist?"

   "He treated you like garbage. Treat him like garbage. Give him a taste of his own medicine." Max smirked. El nodded officially. "Give him the medicine."

   Max nodded with a proud smile, "Mm-hmm. And if he doesn't fix this, if he doesn't explain himself, dump his ass."

   El nodded, eyes wide. Sam only laid back, head hurting from all the boy drama.

   Max stood, "Come on." Getting one hand of each girl and pulling them up. "Where are we going?" El asked. "To have some fun." Was Max's reply.

   "There's more to life than stupid boys, you know." Max added as she dragged both girls out of her room. Sam smiled, they were going to do something fun.

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   Sam, max and el got off the bus. Sam looked up at the sign, STARCOURT MALL. "So, what do you guys think?" Max asked, smiling up at the place she been two nights before. Sam looked at the other people who were walking around, and realized that she stood out. Everyone with there colorful clothes while Sam had just her flannel and jeans.

   "Hey, what's wrong?" Max asked the two girls. "Too many people. Against the rules." El replied, glancing at Sam who had nodded. Max's concerned expression turned upwards, into a smile. "Seriously?" She asked before giving el a little push. "You two have superpowers. What's the worst that could happen?"

   Sam plastered on a smile and soon they headed for the doors. Max took hem to the middle of the mall and Sam stared up in awe, she hadn't seen so many colors since the snowball. "So, what should we do first?" Max asked, smiling.

   Sam looked over at her before shrugging. Max laughed, "You two have never been shopping before, have you?"

   El and Sam shake their heads. "Well, then i guess we're just gonna have to try everything." Max smiled.

   As the two girls looked around, small smiles began to envelope their faces. Max looked up at something and her eyes went wide, "Ooh, come on." Max grabbed els hand, and el instantly grabbed Sams—since she had slightly wandered off— and they were being dragged somewhere new.

   El and Sam ran as max jogged towards the store called, the gap.

   Once they reached the store, Sam was in awe. There was so many shirts and pants. Colorful at that. Sam touched almost everything she passed, as did el.

   Sam and el stopped walking and looked up at two clothing hangers. One shirt was a blue background and colorful lines on it as a design. The other was a red background with kissy lips as the design.

   "You guys like that?" Max asked. Sam and el glanced at her, before looking back up at the shirts. "How do I know...what I like?" El asked. Max shrugged, "You just try things on. Until you find something that feels like you." Max explained.

   Sam bit her lip, staring up at the shirt. "Like me?"

   "Yeah," Max smiled beside shaking her head. "Not hopper. Not mike. Not Lucas..."

   "Lucas is good at dressing though.." Sam reasoned with a slight pout.

   "No! Be better!" Max argued, shaking her head even with a small smile on her face.

   Sam and El looked back up at the shirt.

   "You."

   Sam smiled widely, grabbing the same kind of shirts below the display.

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   Sam and el jumped out of the dressing room. Sam had on mom jeans, with the shirt she had eyed before and a jean jacket over her shoulders. El had on yellow baggy pants, with the Same shirt she had eyes, red and while suspenders and max had a yellow French hat for her.

   When el put on the hat, it was on her forehead but max fixed it. Sam twirled in her and her jacket fell off her shoulders. El laughed as Sam picked it up. El pulled back her suspenders and when she let them go, they made a rubber sound, which made her and Sam laugh while max giggled.

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   Sam came out with a skirt that was red and the bottom yellow lines, she had a matching red shirt but it had yellow stars on it. El had on a white skirt with the Same design as the shirt she had on before.

Max had a yellow belt and a red one. Sam grabbed the yellow one and started twirling. When she did, el had started as well. Soon both girls fell into Max's arms laughing.

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   Sams hair grew longer over the last six months and was now below her shoulders. She patted her hair down straight and slid a golden headband on. She had on a red pant jumpsuit with a golden belt and red converse.

   El had on a shorts jumpsuit that was black with all kinds of shapes and colors on hers.

   Sam excitingly grabbed both girls hands and headed to the cash register. Sam, el and max all conjoined their arms as they skipped through the wall after walking out the store.

   Sam smiled cheekily, feeling happiness envelope her like a new blanket on cold winter day.

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   They ran to another store called, Flash studios. The girls threw on, purple, yellow and blue jackets with jewels and pearls with fancy headbands. "That's it girls!" The photographer said as he snapped he photo. The girls had their backs against each other's. Max had her back against el and Sams shoulder, holding up the peace sign.

   The next one, el had her arms rested on Max's shoulders as did Sam on els shoulders. Sam had lips pursed. After the photo had taken, the three girls burst out laughing.

   "Wardrobe change! Thank you!"

   Next the girls had jean jackets, max and el with dark blue, and a whiter blue but Sam had hers over her shoulder and her posture was her head on her hand that was planted on her arm.

   After that, the girls had leather jackets, el with plain yellow, Max with yellow and black and Sam with black and white. Sam put her arms on both girls heads and a wide smile on her lips.

   Then the girls put back on the jean jackets and started shaking their heads. "Shake it. Shake it out for me." The photographer said.

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   The girls went to another store and el had on heels. Sam had on jet black y'all boots. She had balanced herself but el was wobbling with each step. El fell down eventually and Sam couldn't help but laugh as the El did.

   Other girls in the store turned to look at them, when Sam and el got up, Sam from laughing too much, the girls rolled their eyes and turned back to the shoes. The two girls stopped laughing but Sam didn't, which made the girls burst out laughing once again when Sam snorted.

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   Later on, Sam, el and max peered from out of the wall as they spied on the previous girls. Sam focused her energy on the girls around the girl who rejected Dustin, and suddenly all their drinks exploded. Sam gasped and couldn't control the giggles that escaped her mouth.

   Max grabbed her hand and dragged both girls say from the scene. "Come on!" Max demanded brought her own giggles.

   As they ran max started taking again, "See? What'd I tell you two? There's more to life than stupid boys."

   Unknowingly, those girls passed those stupid boys.

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   "Okay, here you go, you got a strawberry and then a vanilla with sprinkles. Lastly, another vanilla with sprinkled and gummy worms." Steve told them as he handed the first cone to max, the second to el and lastly the third to Sam. "Thanks." All three girls said in sync as they started to dig into their ice cream.

   Steve glanced at Sam and el, "Wait a second. Are you even allowed to be here?"

   Sam glanced from her Ice cream, to Steve and back to her Ice cream. Afraid he might take it away, Sam ran away, max and el following after, giggling.

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   After that, max and el pushed the doors open while Sam walked behind them. "Wanna trade?" Max asked. El handed her to max but Sam jerked hers away, "uh-uh." Max and el giggled at the girls stingy ways.

   "That's ridiculous. Why can't I just.."

   Max turned her head first and her smile disappeared. "Oh, you've got to be shitting me." Max said and el and Sam turned to her gaze.

   Sams smile never once faltered once her eyes landed on Lucas, Mike and will pulling their bikes out of the bike racks.

   "Isn't this a nice surprise?" Max announced loudly as they approached the boys. Sam stood in front of Lucas and waved to him. Lucas waved back to Sam slowly, taking in her appearance made his cheeks warm at how she looked.

   Mike instantly dropped his bike, "What are you doing here?"

   "Shopping." El answered bluntly. "This is El and Sam's new style. What do you two think?" Max asked, gesturing to both mike and Lucas.

   Lucas smiled brightly and nodded to sam, "You look amazing." He mouthed since he and Sam both felt the tension building up. Sam smiled and mouthed, "Thank you." mike only glared at max, "What's wrong with you?" Mike glared. "You know she isn't allowed to be here. Neither is Sam!" Mike continued.

   "What is she? your pet?"

   "Yeah," el agreed. "Am I your pet?"

   "What's happening?" Sam asked, her lips pressed in a thin line. "They are arguing." Lucas informed and Sam nodded. This made her think back to when she, El and Hopper argued. That was the day that the two girls ventured off on their own. "What? No!" Mike shook his head.

   "Why do you treat me like garbage?" El asked, growing angrier. "Huh?" Mike dumbly asked, guilt across his face.

   "You said nana was sick." El said.

   "She is!

   "She is. She is sick!" Mike turned to Lucas for help. "Yeah. She- is sick!" Lucas glanced at el. Sam glanced up at him, was he lying?

   "She is super sick. That's why we're here, actually." Mike went on. "Yeah, were shopping. Not for me, but for nana." Mike smiled, and Lucas smiled to, keeping the lie going.

   "Also, We're to get a gift, for you." Mike guilty glanced down then meet els angry gaze. "Just, we couldn't find anything that suited you and I only have, like, $3.50, so it's hard."

   "Super hard." Lucas added. "It's expensive."

   "You lie. Why do you lie?" El asked, her eyes never leaving his since after all he was the whole reason she was even there.

   Mike opened his mouth but the public bus came, causing both el and Sam and max to glance behind them.

   El looked back at Mike, waiting for an answer. Mike couldn't help but feel stupid, why couldn't he just tell her? Why did he lie?

   El was over it. She took a few steps towards Mike, "I dump your ass." El said officially and then stormed away without a second thought.

   Sams mouth went agape, el had did it. She dumped mikes ass. Sam pressed her lips in a thin at Mike but turned to Lucas with a small smile. "Bye." She waved before racing to the bus with max.

   Lucas waved and then put his hand on mikes shoulder, "Sorry, man."

   The girls got on the bus, in the back. The three girls glanced at each other and giggled. Sam and max high fived, then el and max , lastly Sam and el high five.

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Lexi probably won't be in this season but next season she will because It's something to do with location. If I throw her in now, el will wonder where's Kali and then there's that. And I really don't want to make it seem like I'm trying to push Lexi all in the storyline so I simply won't and I think it's going to be a bit better this way.

Also I felt like publishing this, so what's up? Maybe I'll publish randomly this whole week? Who knows!?