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She can hear the squeal of rubber tires before she actually sees Steve pelting onto her street like the bats of Hell are on his tail and thinks, for a moment, that Billy is back, scorching the roads with his reckless driving. Any second, he'll swing out from the driver's seat of the blue Camaro, cigarette hanging loosely from his scowling lips as smoke drifts across his face, and Max will scarper back up the hall to her room before he sees her. Familiar, routine; she wonders whether, if she had the chance now while still knowing what she knows, she would still run from him instead of tentatively, carefully, extending that olive branch she had once offered when they first met. Wonders whether he would accept it instead of snapping it two and throwing it back in her face.
In the Battle of Starcourt aftermath, Max is struggling with the impact of Billy's death and her mother's spiralling mental health alone, all her friends fixated on the loss of Jim Hopper and the impending departure of the Byers to California come September. But when she gains the friendship of Steve Harrington and Eddie Munson to fight in her corner, things might just begin to change for the better.