ʰᵉˡˡᶠⁱʳᵉ ᶜˡᵘᵇ

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Think positive.

I kept telling myself that, but it seemed impossible honestly. How could i think that way when Vecna could read my mind every second? I needed to be smarter than he was, but how? It seemed he was already 2 steps ahead.

Suddenly, I heard my name but not from Vecna. My friends were yelling my name, attempting to wake me up. But it would take more than that. I didn't know what to do as I headed to the door, opening it but saw that it was blocked.

I sighed in frustration, seeing him come closer to me. Immediate panic set in. But instead of Vecna, I saw Mike? Maybe Vecna knew of my past feelings for him, but it seemed stupid. Nothing of his words could hurt me. I wasn't going to give in so easily.

"(Y/N)... Your sister is better than you. I never will love you."

I chuckled."I know, I accepted that a while ago. I don't love you like that anymore, Mike." After that disappeared, I started to think I could get out of here somehow. But not entirely. Not when Vecna was somewhere.

The only reason I wasn't dead was because he was purposefully sparing me. Still confused on that part, though. Still, i tried to find a different way out as i kept going around the house.

"You can't leave."

It was odd, the voice was both 001 and Vecna at the same time, there was a difference. Vecna's voice was very deep, and while 001's voice was somewhat deep, it was more calmer, sweeter, angelic maybe.

"I can leave! I mutter, yet he still heard me. I just needed to find it. I was more smarter than he was by a long shot. Or I wanted to believe so. I doubted i was. He manipulated me years ago, so was i truly smarter?

I heard him laugh, so he must've known what i was thinking. But the scariest part of this, I didn't know his true intentions. That was terrifying. I soon realized any chance of escaping was none unless i thought positive memories.

That might be partly. I heard my friends rushing to find the song that saved me last time. My most happiest memories. Will, El, pretty much everyone besides Mike. Some were with him, but not by himself.

I smile hearing the song. So i could escape. Somehow, I managed to get out. Without one appearance of Vecna, besides as Mike. But pretty much it. I could get out. I could get out. I kept telling myself that. But i grew even more tired as i kept running.

But quickly, I got back to reality. "We need to go now, I insist. They nod, we run out before seeing them. The guys who believed Eddie murdered Chrissy, I didn't know who she was, but seemed to be important to Eddie and the group of guys.

The closest place was the lake, but we kept running. I certainly did. They must've been athletes, because oh boy were they fast, Eddie separated from us. So they went in his direction, the lake. Lover's Lake, to be exact.

I had a bad feeling that something terrible was going to happen. No, I knew it would. Vecna caused trouble for everyone. A new victim? Why not? It confused me why he targeted teens specifically.

"What do we do now? Everyone asks each other, getting different responses. Now, it seemed impossible to be positive. I just stood there, frozen. We should've gone after them, but for some reason, we didn't.

I felt wrong for doing that.

So in my guilt, I ran after Eddie, ignoring them yelling my name. I gasped. Vecna found a new victim, one of the guys after Eddie. He was in the air, eyes rolled to the back of his head. I could hear his bones snap and twist before dropping into the water, floating.

I shouldn't have screamed, but I did. I shouldn't have run away, but i did. I did call 911. I just hoped they didn't suspect Eddie, or me. Mostly Eddie, I was worried about. He already was falsely accused of murdering Chrissy, now his new victim? Police would never believe him.

But being a witness, I might tell a little bit that i know what happened. Even then, they might think I'm crazy, of course. Sometimes, the logical explanation isn't always the true explanation, especially in Hawkins.

"What the fuck happened? Dustin asked worriedly as I came back. "Where's Eddie? He adds.

"I don't know. He just ran off after what happened."

"Just tell us exactly what happened after you ran off, Robin told me. I sighed."okay. I don't know the exact story but most of it I think."

I added,"one of the guys who was after Eddie... he just lifted into the air and then i saw him die. He got attacked by Vecna."

"Oh shit, Dustin said."Jason might think Eddie has something to do with that too. That's why he ran off."

"Maybe."

I understood why Eddie ran, he had never experienced this like all of us so it might be strange. Or he just didn't know what to do. Also an understandable thing that most people would do.

And anyways, only we believed him. Most saw him as a psycho killer, who really was innocent. And considered hellfire club a cult.

That was the only funny part of this was people thought Hellfire Club was a cult. How dumb can people get.

When police arrived, I was of course questioned but cleared as innocent. Still, I was apparently an important witness. "What did you see during the incident? One officer asks. I sighed. "You might not believe me." They frown. "We'll believe you. Just tell us what you know."

That was total bullshit.

The one thing I learned about police here in Hawkins, is their words are total lies. Especially when it comes to mysterious things happening. 

They just didn't want to believe it themselves. It was very obvious.

"He lifted in the air, I sighed. "His eyes...white, his bones snapped then he died. I saw it all." From the looks on their faces, they didn't believe me.

Of course, as expected.