[Max doesn't dare let her mind go down that path. Science already isn't her strong suit. She doesn't want to make her brain implode thinking about how here she'd be in her forties. Jesus.]

you met mike? and he was nice to you? [Okay, hurt feelings: ignited. So it was literally specifically her that Mike disliked so much, and not new people in general.]

Will's... [She softens almost immediately at the mention of Will.] Will's great.

Yeah I guess demogorgons are from this game Dungeons and Dragons? So they named it that.

I don't know. The last thing I remember from home is Steve pushing me out of the way and hitting it with his bat. I don't know if it died or what.