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They were at home now, Will, Joyce, and Leah sitting around the kitchen table.

"I can't remember." Will said.

"I need you to try." Joyce said sighing.

"I...I was on the field and... and then it... it all just went blank, and... and then you were there."

"Will, I need you to tell me the truth."

"I am." He sputtered out.

Joyce got up from the table and walked over to get something.

"It'll be okay." Leah said reassuringly, Will simply nodding in return.

Joyce came back to the table placing a picture in front of Will. "This shape, I saw it on the video tape from Halloween night. It's the same shape as, as your drawing. These episodes that you're having, I think Dr. Owens is wrong. I think they're real. But, but I can't help you if I don't know what's going on. So you have to talk to me. Please. No more secrets okay."

"Okay." Will says shaking his head.

"Did...did you see this thing again on the field?"

"Yes." Will said nodding again.

"What is it?" Leah asks.

"I don't know. It's almost more like a feeling." He explains, crying now.

"Like the one you had that night at the arcade?"

"Yes."

"What does it want?" Joyce asks.

"I don't know. It came for me, and, and I tried to make it go away. But it got me, Mom."

"Well, what does that mean?"

"I felt it, everywhere." He explains. "Everywhere. I-I still feel it. I just want this to be over."

Joyce pulled him into a hug trying to soothe him. "It's okay. It's okay. Hey. Listen. Look, at me." She said pulling him away and holding his face. "I will never, ever let anything bad happen to you ever again. Whatever's going on in you, we're gonna fix it. I will fix it. I promise. I'm here. And Leahs here, and your friends will be with you too."

Leah was currently standing beside a dumpster her nose scrunched up in disgust as Lucas rooted through the trash looking for Dart.

"This is so disgusting. Is this really necessary?" Max asks.

"I agree with Max, do we really think he's in the dumpster?" Leah said.

Dustin emerged from around the corner. "What the hell's going on?"

"What do you think? We're looking for Dart." Mike responded.

The two were interrupted by bags of trash flying out of the dumpster and landing in the ground, it's contents spilling out.

"Jesus!"

"Ugh!"

Lucas popped up and jumped to the ground. "Well, well, well. Look who finally decided to show up. After I drew the short straw. Real convenient."

"You stink." Max stated walking over to stand by Dustin.

"Hi Max." Dustin said smiling.

"Hi."

"Where's Will?" Dustin then asks.

"He'll be here." Mike said.

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