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the vanishing of will byers
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HAWKINS WAS A SMALL TOWN. It was easy to get around whether it was by foot, bike or car. But sometimes, even in the smallest of towns, there are secrets. There were many secrets in Hawkins, many places still lay undiscovered.
Sometimes being in the wrong place at the wrong time can lead to finding something that was never meant to be found.
Take Will Byers for example.
"Hey Scar!" Lucas rushed past his cousin, out of breath. Scarlett turned from her spot in the window and watched Lucas slam the door to his room with a puzzled expression on her face. Getting up, she walked to his door and gently tapped on it.
"Lucas, you do realize everyone's asleep right?" She says as the doorknob turned and the door opened, revealing Lucas who had a guilty expression on his face, which soon morphed into a look of confusion.
"Then why are you still up?" He asked her, waving Scarlett into his room as they both took a seat on his bed. He watched as Scarlett played with her ring, a ring that meant so much to her. She never took it off, understandably. The ring was from her mother, Lucas didn't understand why she liked it so much because she had never even known her mother.
Scarlett let out a sigh that pulled him out of his thoughts, "couldn't sleep. Just thinking, you know? The usual." She shrugged. "What were you doing out so late? Hanging with a girl?" She teased, nudging him as they both let out a laugh.
Scarlett knew well enough where her cousin had been, and it was definitely not with a girl. But as always, she wanted to hear about his day.
"Well, no. But we did finally have that campaign!" Lucas grinned excitedly. He looked up to his cousin, telling her about his day was his favorite part of it. Scarlett was always the 'cool' cousin. She was like the older sister he'd never had. He'd known her all his life and was so grateful to have her by his side. Although, it was annoying when his friends brought her up, considering they all had massive crushes on her.
"Really? Like the one that you've been planning for months?" She exclaimed, sharing the same amount of enthusiasm as him.
"Whoa, months is a reach. Weeks, maybe." Lucas held his finger up to her face.
"Okay then, how'd it go?" She laughed, gently pushing his finger down.
"It went well, until the Demogorgon came out of nowhere! We were all low and Will needed to make a move. We were in deep shit but we needed to get by, so I told Will to fireball him! Dustin was all like, 'noo cast a protection spell!' But he needed to roll a thirteen. He decided on fireball and rolled the dice and the dice went flying! We couldn't find it. Mike went upstairs and Will found the dice. It was a seven but.. I told him it didn't count." Lucas rambled on, "hopefully when we continue, it won't take ten hours."
