𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑛 || 𝑚．𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑟

eighteen . . . vecna's curse

CARDIGAN | SEASON IV ; ACT III
.୧ ‧₊˚⋅📼  chapter 18 ━━━━━━ ❛vecna's curse❜
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Ara had woken up that morning in worse condition than before. It was around 6:30 am. She had had a nightmare. Of course. She always did.

It made her to scream. To who? Who knew. But seeing Billy die over and over. Hearing this strange voice calling to her. Feeling so helpless. Correction. hopeless. It made her stoop so low as to scream into her pillow at night and daydream of taking away all her pain.

And so, she started the day feeling numb and her head pounding. Like something was knocking on her cranium. Waiting for something to open the door and let it out.

She half heartedly took some Tylenol. She almost always woke up with her head pounding now.

Max came down a few moments later and they were startled but the sound of police sirens.

"What's going on?" Max sent her sister a look of confusion, furrowing her brows. Ara only shrugged in response.

They went out to check out what was happening and it turned out that the police weren't just passing by but stopping in the trailer in front of them.

Ara had recognized it. The Munson's, which comprised of Eddie and his uncle, lived there, and it seemed like their mother, who had went out to look, had as well.

"Looks like that Munson boy's up to no good again." Susan said, a bit worried.

Ara walked over to take a closer look at the crime scene and urged Max to do the same.

They watched at the cops spoke amongst each other while others went in to investigate.

She spotted a body. One that look eerily similar to Chrissy Cunningham, but something was wrong.

"Hey." A cop warned. "You can't be out here. Get back inside."

Ara tried to get another look at the contorted body.

"Back inside." The cop warned again.

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Ara stood alone in front of the Wheeler's door. She waiting for someone to come along and answer. The door opened and Mike stood there.

"Hey." He said. "Is everything okay? My mom said—"

"That doesn't matter right now." Ara interrupted a bit too harshly for her liking. "Something important happened." She started fidgeting and avoiding his gaze. "There's a small chance it's linked with the upside down."

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Mike and Ara soon met up with Dustin and Max and their bikes. The four teens made it to the family video store, where Steve and Robin now worked ever since the mall closed down.

Ara thought that a discount on movies didn't live up to sneaking into them plus ice cream.

A bell rang as they opened the the door and went straight to the older teenagers.

"Hey, Steve." Dustin greeted hastily.

"You see this?" Steve queried, pointing to the television with the news playing.

"How many phones do you have?" Dustin questioned.

"Someone was murdered."