After the three had left the mall, they had decided to go back to Eleven and Hopper's cabin. At first, they were only going to be there for a couple of hours, but since Max couldn't be bothered to make her own way home and Eleven didn't want Asher going back home after what he had told her, the three decided to have a sleepover. Well, Eleven and Max decided to have a sleepover and told Asher that he had to stay with them since he is still one of the girls. "As much as I am loving this girl time" Asher says as he sits up "Is there anything we can do that I can somehow relate to?"

"We let you pick the music" Max says. To convince Asher to stay at Eleven's for the night instead of going home, they let him pick the music they listened to, so Asher put on his tape of AC/DC which he carries around with him at all times in case something like this ever happened to him.

"But I'm still bored" Asher complains "Is this all girls do, sit and look through magazines?"

"And other things" Max says with a shrug while dancing around the room.

"Your hand" Eleven says, pointing to the bandage around Asher's hand that was covered in dried up blood "Is it okay?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore" Asher says with a smile "Do you have a trash can I can put this thing in?" He asks as he takes off the bandage, showing some scars on his hands.

"Holy shit, what happened?" Max asks with worry laced in her voice as Eleven takes the bandage off of him and puts it in the trash can in her room.

"It was just an accident" Asher says with a shrug as Eleven sits back down, looking down at the magazine that they had bought at the mall.

"Oh, you found Ralph Macchio" Max says with a laugh as she sits down next to Asher.

"Macchio?" Eleven asks.

"Yeah, he's the Karate Kid" Max says with a smile "He's so hot, right?"

"I've seen better looking people" Asher mumbles, not being a big fan of the conversation they're having.

"I bet he's an amazing kisser too" Max says to Eleven, ignoring Asher.

"And now I'm uncomfortable" Asher comments, standing up to go and sit on the floor opposite the girls, wanting to be as far away from that conversation as he could while having the girls not get annoyed at him.

"Hey, this is girl talk and you're one of the girls so this is what you're putting up with" Max says to Asher before looking back at Eleven "Hey, uh... is Mike a good kisser?"

"I don't know" Eleven says with a smile "He's my first boyfriend."

"Ex-boyfriend" Asher corrects, making Eleven frown and Max glare at him "What did I do?"

"Hey, don't worry about it, okay?" Max comforts Eleven "He'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'" She says, making both of the girls laugh while Asher sits there awkwardly, not knowing what to do. The only two real friends that Asher has ever had are Eddie and Dustin, who are both guys, so he doesn't really know what to do around girls. If he was being honest, this is the closest he's ever been around girls so he has no idea what to do or say around them. "God, what I wouldn't give to see their stupid faces" Max says, making Eleven have a weird look on her face.

"What is it?" Asher asks before remembering something "Wait, you can see their stupid faces" He says with a smile as he goes back to sit on the bed next to Max.

"Wait, what?" Max asks, being kind of confused.

"Yeah, okay, so El can see people in... I don't know what it's called, but when she puts a blindfold on and goes into this trance thing she can see people" Asher explains "She used it when we were finding Will and I'm not sure if she used it last year but she can do it, right El."

"Right" Eleven says with a smile.

"So, we're basically spying on them?" Max asks Eleven and Asher with a smile.

"Yeah, pretty much" Asher says with a shrug.

"I'm so in" Max happily says before they start getting everything sorted so Eleven can spy on the two girls exes. "Is this really going to work?" Max asks as Eleven puts her blindfold on, making Eleven nod her head "Holy shit, this is insane."

"Max, shut up" Asher says to the girl next to him "She can't do it if you're talking."

"Yeah, quiet, sorry" Max mumbles, leaving the three sat in silent.

"I see them" Eleven bluntly says, making Max and Asher sit on the floor next to her.

"What are they doing?" Max asks the girl.

"Eating" Eleven says, leaving the three in silence as Max and Asher give each other confused looks. As a boy himself, Asher could kind of guess what they were doing, just lying around, eating food while Mike complains about the break up. "They say we are species."

"What?" Max asks sound confused.

"Emotion not logic" Eleven repeats what Mike and Lucas are saying.

"What?" Max and Asher both repeat at the same time.

"I'm going to fucking murder them" Asher mumbles under his breath. If Asher was being honest, he was pissed about that. Yes, he was a guy, but he knew that girls were actually a lot smarter than guys. In his fifteen years of living, he was always terrified to get on any girls bad side because he knew that a girl, in the most respectful way possible, could go batshit crazy on you. So yeah, if anyone worked on emotion and not logic, it would be Lucas and Mike.

"Please do" Max says as Eleven takes her blindfold off, making the two look at her confused "What? What happened?" Max asks, making Eleven just laugh.

"What did that girl witness?" Asher asks as Eleven lies on the floor, laughing like she had witnessed the funniest thing she'd ever seen, but that laughter quickly goes away when they hear a car pull up and the door get slammed open "Shit, who's that?"

"Hop" Eleven whispers as she throws Max a magazine and the three lie on the floor, acting like they've just been sat there reading the whole time.

"Hey! Hey! When I say three inches, three--" Hopper shouts, opening the bedroom door to see the three on the floor.

"Do you knock? Jeez!" Max asks, getting a surprise by the door hitting the wall.

"Yeah, jeez" Eleven says in the same tone as Max.

"Oh, hey" Hopper says, realising he just jumped to conclusions "I'm sorry. I thought that uh--"

"Mike isn't here" Asher cuts off Hopper.

"Max and Ash wanted to have a sleepover. Is that okay?" Eleven asks, making Hopper glare at Asher.

"I don't think it's a good idea for him--" Hopper goes to say but gets cut off.

"Hop" Eleven says, nodding her head to Asher's cut-covered hand, making it known to Hopper that Asher's dad was the cause of the injuries on Asher's hand.

"If it makes you feel more comfortable, I can sleep on the couch?" Asher suggests.

"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your parents know about it?" Hopper asks Max, who nods her head "Uh, yeah, that's cool. But you, sleep on the couch" Hopper says to Asher.

"Will do, sir" Asher says with a nod, making Hopper just stand looking down at the three of them awkwardly.

"Did you need something?" Max asks Hopper, wondering why he's still stood there.

"No, no. I'll leave" Hopper awkwardly says, before shutting the door.

"He's so drunk right now" Asher mentions with a laugh.

TIME SKIP BY MAX, ASHER AND ELEVEN BEING THE BEST TRIO

After a while, Max and Eleven had decided to play a spying game with Eleven's powers. The three couldn't think of anything to do, and since they had already spied on Mike and Lucas, this game was the first thing that the two girls had came up with, and unfortunate for Eleven, she had to spy on Billy Hargrove.

Since the day that Asher met Billy, he never liked the guy. The first time he'd ever met him was at the Byers house the year prior when he tried to beat up Lucas and did beat up Steve. Ever since that day, the boy has despised everything about Billy Hargrove. During his freshmen year of school, he saw Billy living his best life, and it made Asher hate the guy even more, if that was even possible. So, Asher did what Asher does best and started a fight with him, which he somehow won. While it did put Asher in a shit situation at school, with Billy and Tommy making Asher's freshmen year a living hell, he was still happy that he put a bruise on Billy's ego and reputation at school. In his mind, Asher couldn't let some racist dickhead walk around like he owned the place, so he had to do something about it, and he did.

"Okay, look, I should just warn you, if he's with a girl or doing something gross, just get out of there before you're scarred for life" Max warns Eleven.

"She probably won't even know what he's doing" Asher says to Max "Look at her innocent little face."

"Yeah, and I don't want her innocence ruined because of my idiotic step-brother" Max says to Asher, rolling her eyes.

"Max--" Eleven goes to say but gets cut off.

"No, I'm just saying I'm serious" Max says to Eleven "He's really gross."

"Max!" Eleven shouts, getting the girl to shut up.

"Okay, shutting up now" Max says with a smile as Asher gets the radio sorted and Eleven puts her blindfold on.

But what the three didn't know was that spying on Billy was going to cause them a whole load of problems for the next few days.

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