Chapter 1

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"Danielle Byers, Jonathan's here! Hurry up!"Mom yelled as I heard his car pull up.

"Yeah Mom, I can hear him" I yell back. I grab my bag and run out to his car

"Hey Jonathon, thanks for taking me to school," I tell him, once I get into the car.

"No problem Dani" He replies, turning off my street.

"Did Will get to school alright?" I ask him

"Actually Will wasn't in his room this morning, we were hoping he went to school early" Jonathon explains, I snapped my head to him.

"Really?"I ask, and he nods.

Once I get to school, I head to my locker where I see Nancy and Barb

"Hey, Nancy and Barb" I greet the two.

"Hey, Danielle" Barb responds

"Hey Danielle, have you been studying?"She asks me

"Yes I have Nancy, don't you worry" I then notice the note in her hand

"Oh a love note from Pretty boy Harrington" I mock her. She rolls her eyes at me. I head towards my first class.

I decided to walk home today, maybe I could spot Will on the way home, I saw Castle Byers in the distance. Maybe he's just hanging there. I open the curtain to see it empty, I sigh in defeat, remembering the times I spent with my cousin here. Listening to all sorts of music and drawing, both Will and I loved art. That's what we bonded over and I would spoil him with. The curtain opens to see Joyce kneeling there.

"Couldn't find him" I ask my Aunt

"No Hunny unfortunately," Joyce says, pulling me into her side.

"WILL" Jonathon shouts into the forest area around Castle Byers

"WILL" Joyce shouts after

"WILL" I shout next, trying to find the small boy.

I spent that afternoon shouting to find Will, I sat in the living room of my Aunt Joyce's house and helped make posters when the cops showed up, they found his bike

"It was just lying there? Did it have blood on it or-" Joyce asks

"No, no, no, no... Phil" Hopper says

"If you found the bike out theorem, why are you here?"Jonathon asks

"Well, he had a key to the house, right" Hopper inquires

"Yeah" Jonathon responds

"So. Maybe he came home," Hopper says, I tilt my head in confusion from the cop's words

"You think I didn't check my own house?"Joyce stammers

"I'm not saying that, has this always been here?"Hopper asks

"What? I don't know. Probably I have two boys and a, look at this place" Joyce cuts herself off then continues again

"You're not sure?"Hopper says. He walks outside as Joyce follows him out.

That night I stayed at Aunt Joyce's house since she didn't want me out at night by myself so I called my parents and told them that and I stayed in Will's room like I used to when we were kids and have sleepovers. I hear Will's walkie going off, the boys are planning on going out, they are doing something pretty stupid. I get out of bed and try to sneak out of the house, I run to my house, grab my bike and I see Mike.

"Mike, I know what you're doing if you're going, I'm going with you," I tell him

"How did yo- You were at the Byers weren't you," Mike says, I nod. As we go past I noticed Steve trying to climb the Wheeler house

"Try doing more sit-ups Harrington" I holler at him, he gives me a sarcastic grin.

We meet up with Dustin and Lucas

"Ah man this is it"

We break our bikes and see it closed off

"Hey guys you feel that, I think maybe we should go back," Dustin tells us

"No, we're not going back," Mike says

"Stay close," I tell them. We start looking through with our torches when we come across a girl, drenched with a shaved head, my breath gets caught in my throat.

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