The painting ~ byler

III

- Will's POV -

11:58 am

Mike and El got back together.

'Don't worry about it'. Like I was going to worry, Mike. I mean- I love El. I want her to be happy. But there's a horrible part of me that wishes they weren't back together, so that I would maybe have a chance. But how could that happen?

I thought back to what happened earlier. I had lied to Mike. But I couldn't let him know what it was about. I would just have to create another lie. But he had to know about vecna.

I open up the just closed door and shout for Mike, to which he turns around in a second.

"Can we talk?" Here we go.

12:05

Once me and Mike had awkwardly made our way to the couch, I finally open up to say something.

"Do you remember, just before you talked to El how I asked if you were real...?" I begin.

"Oh yeah! I meant to ask you... is everything okay?"

"Yes- I mean, no. It was vecna. He... he got in my mind and I..." I start to tear up. What was I going to tell Mike?

"Vecna? I knew you told me he wasn't dead... but this soon?" Mike's eyes opened wider. "What did he want? Did he put you in a trance? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine. Really. And yeah, he did. He wants to kill. Kill me."

"What happened in the trance? And how did you get out of it?"

Shit.

"It doesn't matter, can we just call the others, to tell them about it then we can move on." My mind was thinking for a lie but nothing came up.

"Move on- Will? It does matter!"

"No Mike. It doesn't. I- I will tell you later. For now can we please just get the others to help." I wasn't going to tell him later. Never.

12:44

Eventually everyone got to the house. Dustin and Erica first, followed by Nancy, Jonathan Steve and Robin. Eleven still didn't come out of her room and Lucas wouldn't leave Max's side.

We were all sat in a circle. Dustin next to Erica, Steve next to Robin, Jonathan next to Nancy and me next to Mike.

"so it turns out we didn't kill this vecna dude, what's new?" Robin says, trying to lighten to mood.

"I don't understand... where could he have gone to? We got him out of his house." Nancy continues, ignoring Robins failed attempt.

"He must have found a new hiding spot. Somewhere better then his last." I say a little shaky.

"Where ever he is, what ever he wants. We have to protect Will." Mike finishes. Everyone nods their heads in agreement, and begin to leave after a while.

3:24 pm

Everyone except Dustin and Mike had left. They said they were going to figure out a plan on how to get rid of him. For good.

"Wanna play some DnD?" Dustin asks.

They wanted to play DnD? "Yeah! Sure."

5:01

After about an hour and a half of playing, we finally packed up and Dustin left. I'm not sure if Mike enjoyed it as much as I did, but I think Dustin did.

It was just me and Mike now.

"I'm guessing you want to be going now to." I try to break the tension.

"Oh... yeah." Mike begins to make his way to the door, slowly. "Actually," he turns back around. "Could I maybe, stay for a sleepover? Just to make sure you're okay tonight."

Shit.

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Sorry for the shorter chapter then usual nothing really happened in this one😭