repeat ✧ byler ✧ flayed mike au

Fear

Saturday, June 29th, 1985.
7:42 AM

"Jesus, what time is it?" Mike says.
"Seven forty... OH CRAP, I'M GONNA BE LATE!"
June 29th was the day the new Starcourt Mall opened. Mike and his friends agreed to meet there at 8:30. Although he had a little less then an hour to get ready, he broke his bike and never got the chance to fix it. His parents were on a vacation for the next month or so, and Nancy couldn't drive him because she was gone too for her work. Thank god my parents hired a good, cheap babysitter for Holly. Mike thought. He didn't want to bother anyone to pick up him up, but he had no other choice. Lucas' house was less then a block away from him, so he decided to ask him if he could catch a ride. He called Lucas while he was getting ready and asked him if he could ride on his bike since his was broken. "Seriously Mike? You're an idiot. How the hell did you manage to forget??" Lucas tells Mike. "Listen, I'm sorry. Can you please just let me catch a ride with you? Just once?" Mike replies. "Fine, but just ONCE." Lucas clearly expressed that he was annoyed. "Finally, I'm gonna head over now." Mike hangs up and dashes out the door, almost forgetting to lock it.

25 minutes later

"There you boys are!" Max exclaims, rolling her eyes. "We've been waiting for like, 30 minutes!"
Jeez, no need to be so rude about it.
Everyone turns around and looks at the mall. It looks like the majority of the town is there! It opens in about 20 minutes. "So I guess we just wait then? What do we do in the meantime?" Will asks. "Not sure, but just to start a conversation, anyone remember their dreams? I don't." Mike begins. The party all said yes.
Guess  I'm the odd one out.
One by one, they all said their dream and what they thought about it. That took up about 15 minutes of time. Now that they had but 5 minutes until it opened, they walked toward the entrance, leaving them 2 minutes.
Everyone anxiously waited, they could barely hold in the excitement! Before they knew it, the mall opened and they walked inside.
"This is exciting!" Will said, the happiness in his eyes growing bigger an bigger. "Calm down, Will!" Mike said whilst laughing. "Okay, okay, sorry. Where do we go first?" El suggested the ice cream shop "Scoops Ahoy".
Steve worked there, and they wanted to see him. "Okay, it's been decided. Let's go, hurry up!" Max yells. They run to Scoops Ahoy and find a girl at the counter.
"Hello, my name's Robin, how can I help you?" She asks. "Is Steve here?" El asks. "Hold on, one sec. HEY DINGUS, YOU GOT VISITORS!" Robin yells.
"God, okay, I'm here. Oh, hey guys!" "Hi Steve! It's good to see you finally got a job." Dustin jokes. "Yup, it's not as bad as I thought. Anyways, what would you guys like?"
No one could decide, it took everyone a good 4 minutes to finish ordering.
"Alright, here you guys go!"
Will insisted on paying, and no one had a problem with that.
"Thanks Steve!" El said while smiling. Everyone walked away, and for a good 4 or 5 hours, they were all visiting every store they could. At 12 PM, everyone was hungry again. They walked around for a bit and finally spotted a not crowded restaurant.
While walking there, Mike was a bit behind and passed a very long white corridor. He looked down it for a couple of seconds and then felt something in his mouth.
It was blood.
He ran to the others.
"Hey guys, I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'll be back." Mike said, clearly panicked.
In less then a second, Mike was out of sight. Will walked toward his direction for a second or two and then looked down.
He saw two small drops of something.
Will looked closer.
One drop was of blood, one was a gooey black substance.
He couldn't exactly make out what it was, but he knew that it was from Mike.
"Will, cmon! We'll save Mike a spot, don't worry!" Dustin yells.
"Coming..!" Will mutters.

With Mike

"Shoot, shoot, shoot."
Mike is running to the bathrooms.
He enters a stall and starts vomiting blood and black goo.
What the hell is that?
He vomits even more.
And more.
And even more.
Once he became sure he was done, he backed up to the side of the stall and started to shake.
What's happening to me?
"Don't be frightened." A voice whispers.
"Huh? Who's there?"
"It will all be over soon, Michael."
"Stop it."
The voice keeps whispering and roaring in his ears.
"STOP IT!"
It didn't.
"STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!" Mike yelled.
He started crying.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!"
It still didn't stop.
That voice told him terrible things.
Terrible, horrifying things.
"Please.."
And finally, it stopped.
Mike wipes his tears and cleans himself up.
It looks like nothing ever happened.
He ran to the others.
He tried to, at least.

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Hello! I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I'll try my best to upload at least twice a week.
My stupid school is restarting next week, so chapter upload may be a bit slow.
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Also, once a week, I'll be including peoples Stranger Things OC in a chapter! (if anyone reads this)
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Week 1 OC: My OC, Vesper. They will be featured in the next chapter.
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Word Count: 1030 words
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