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Ethan now lived in Pennsylvania. He was still with Nicole, and as spring break rolled around, he planned a flight back to Hawkins, wanting to see his friends again. His mother wouldn't be going with him, seeing her kid would be okay alone on a plane for a few hours. She had work to tend to, or at least, that's what she said.
Steve would come and pick him up from the airport, and he'd surprise the party when he came back. Although, sweetheart Will Byers and now not superpowered best friend El wouldn't be there in Hawkins, trapped in California over the break. Sad, but he wanted to check on Max after losing her stepbrother and stepfather, and moving into the trailer park off Kerley. He wanted to see his new friend Robin working at the video store with Steve. He wanted to see Dustin and Lucas be the geeks they were, and he wanted to see Mike play the dungeon master again. He could wait, he couldn't pay for a flight across the country anyways, to see El and Will again.
Maybe by some lucky chance El, Will, and Jonathan could travel 2,000 miles across the country to visit for break and surprise him when they got there? Who knows. Knowing Ethan's luck, probably not, so he didn't keep his hopes up on the last day of school pre-spring break.
As of 12:09pm, he sat in his sixth period class, English. For the break, the class had been assigned an essay assignment about a fictional story for extra credit. Ethan, although not in dire need of extra credit, decided to do the project. He could use his own trauma and stories for a class and no one would believe it was real, so whatever. This high school could suck his balls, either everyone was a cocksucker or nice enough to be somewhat tolerable, although no one was very nice to a nerdy gay kid. The only reason everyone in the school knew to make him a pariah was some football jock who saw Ethan writing a letter to Will.
Ethan wrote most of his letters to Will in school because he had nothing else better to do, plus, he'd always forget to write them at home. On November fourteenth, during a break period in the library, some football jock under some stupid name walked up to him, teasing him about what he was writing.
"Writing to your girlfriend, weirdo?" he asks, taking the letter from under Ethan.
As he inspected the letter he saw Will's name at the top, and a scratched out 'I love you' where he left off. Damnit, stop writing in pen.
That was the story of how Ethan became a complete outcast with no friends at his new school.
Ethan didn't mind being alone much, but as he walked out of class to go to art, he saw the infamous cliques of the school in the halls as he walked past, leaving him to feel all alone. The popular girls, jocks, nerds, geeks, band kids, art kids, etcetera. He was just the gay kid.
Ethan made his way downstairs, and through the school to the art room. Upon reaching his seat, he set his backpack down in one portion of the large white tables that filled the room, five to be exact. The teacher wasn't in the classroom, was most likely in the bathroom or monitoring the halls.
