I Tried To Laugh About It

Chapter 1:Flying Up

Chapter 1

Flying Up

Hawkins is being scrutinized by Will, Mike, Hopper, Joyce, Nancy, and Jonathan. Hawkins, the place where they all have fond memories. But it is now completely destroyed. Lightning turned the entire sky red.

A shiver goes down Will's spine, he can feel him getting closer.

Come home, Will. A voice says

'What..?' Will says soft

Come back home, Will

His head starts to pound and his vision gets blurry. Will feels like he is getting stabbed with knifes everywhere in his body. That's when his vision goes fully black.

'Do you feel anything?' Mike asks Will as they stare at their destroyed town. When Will doesn't respond, he asks again. 'Will, do you feel anything, like in the back of your neck?' Once again, no response. Mike turns to face Will, who is completely frozen in place. His eyes rolled back into his head.

'Will?' 'Hello, Will?!' 'Will, can you hear me?' Mike screams. The rest of the group notices something is wrong and rushes over to Will and Mike. 'Will, can you hear me? Please!' Mike turns around and casts a helpless gaze towards the others in the group.

When Will his vision came back to normal, the boy scans the area. His friends have left, and his body feels completely frozen. His head still pounding. 'MIKE, MOM, JONATHAN, EL!' He screams while his headache only gets worse. When Will raises his hands to his forhead because of his worse getting headache, he sees his hands covered in blood. 'What..?' He quickly looks around to see of anybody was with him. No one is there. Will then began frantically sprinting around. 'Anybody, please help!'

Will's headache begins to progressively worsen as he runs. It feels like his neck is on fire. At that point, he collapses on the ground. The boy cries out in pain. Will grabs for his neck in an attempt to alleviate the pain by placing his hand there. But when it doesn't work and Will puts his hand back up to his face, his hand is much more coated in blood. 'Oh my gosh...' His neck was bleeding like hell.

Blood didn't frighten Will. When Will was in Hawkins after he was possesed, he always had a little knife is his underwear drawer. He would take the knife out of his drawer and lightly slash himself whenever he felt bad about what he had done and what had occurred. At first, he did it just twice a week. But that later changed in almost 3 times in a day. Whenever he was getting dressed, his eyes spotted a burn mark on his left side of his body. And each time he saw it, the scene from the cabin kept replaying in his mind. He didn't deserve to live, and all he wanted to do was die. Will hated who he was.

So, after getting dressed, he would hurt himself. And again. And again...

When they relocated to California from Hawkins, his nasty behavior ceased. However, the scars were still visible.

Will stand up quickly when that's when he sees that he isn't in the same place anymore. Will surveys the area in which he is standing. He is standing in a corridor. A familiar corridor. A hallway in Hawkins lab. 'No..No..no..' Will says. He hurriedly dashes to the closest exit, but as he does so, the door just moves farther away, making it appear as though Will is sprinting backwards when in fact he isn't. Will halts and scans the area for a different exit. However, there isn't. He looks back at the exit he was sprinting for and notices that it has also vanished. He is trapped

Come home, Will

'I DON'T UNDERSTAND!' Will yells.

Will lets his breath out. He is unaware of what is going on, why he is in this place, or what that voice wants from him. It's all to much for him. The corridor's lights then started to flicker. Will regarded the above lights. 'What the..?' The lights then abruptly stopped shining. The corridor was dark and Will couldn't see a thing. He begins to panic, then the light suddenly turns on. However, the corridor is no longer empty.