"Uno!" Max yelled excitedly.
A Friend group of five are playing uno in the dorm of Will Byers and Dustin Henderson.
Will rolled his eyes. "You have one card now but in two seconds, someone's going to make you draw two."
"And how do you know that?" max argued.
Will sighed. "With your luck, that's how it always is. Either something happens and we need to stop the game, or you're forced to draw cards."
Max made an offended face. "Not true."
Lucas looked out the window. "Hey Will, cute guy is back, and he's shirtless." Lucas joked.
Everyone looked out the window and looked into the window of a dorm that's across from them.
"Shut up." Will said as he rolled his eyes.
"Are you ever going to talk to him? You've been drooling over him for weeks, if not, months." Dustin exclaimed.
Will sighed. "I'm with Gareth." He said stubbornly.
"Will, admit it, you said you'd let him fuck you if he asked." El said. Will hit her arm.
Max made a face, as if she had just met Jennifer Aniston. "He really said that?"
El nodded.
"I really hate you El." Will half joked.
"Aw you know you love me." El attacked Will with a hug. Will tried to escape from her grip but it wouldn't work.
"See Max. I told you you have bad luck with Uno." Will rolled his eyes, yet again.
Max rolled her eyes back.
Then they heard Wills phone ring.
Will tried to grab it, but El is still gripping on to him.
"El, let go." Will threatened.
El shook her head no. "Why would I? It annoys you."
Will sighed. "Dustin, answer the phone for me and put it on speaker."
Dustin nodded and grabbed Wills phone. He put it on speaker.
"Hello?" Will asked.
"Hey Will," Will recognised the voice to be Jim Hoppers voice, Els dad, "I have some bad news, I couldn't get ahold of El but I need you, El, Max, Dustin and Lucas down at the station like right now."
"Uhm okay, we'll be there." Will replied as he hung up the phone.
El stopped hugging Will. "Did you just hang up on him like that? You do realise he's a police officer."
"Whatever."
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"So I have some news and I don't think you're going to like it." Hopper sighed as he sat down in a chair across from the group of five. "Your friends Gareth, is dead."
"What? Sorry I don't think I heard you correctly." Will laughed.
Hopper gave a sorrow look at Will before sliding Gareth's diary towards them.
"You might want to read this." Hopper stated.
Will grabbed it and opened it to the first page.
I just killed someone. Do I feel sorry? No. Do I feel happy? Yes. I fucking do. That scared look on his face. Him begging me not to kill him. It was all just perfect. I want to kill someone really badly. Will Byers. He thinks I like him. But I don't. I'm not some f@g. I hope I get the chance to kill him soon. I really do.
"This is a sick joke right?" Will looked up at Hopper. "Please tell me this is just some sick joke."
Hopper shook his head 'no'. "I'm sorry kid." Hopper said before standing up and patting Will on the shoulder.
Hopper left the room.
Max grabbed the book from Will and read the first page as well.
"Holy shit." Max whispered.
Max hugged Will and Will started crying into her shoulder.
A few minutes later, Will had calmed down and the deputy and detective came in.
"So," The deputy started, "I know this must be hard but if you guys don't mind, can I ask you a few questions?" The detective asked.
Everyone nodded.
"Have you guys been together all day?"
Everyone nodded again.
"Yes." Will whispered.
The detective nodded. "Okay, did anyone leave for a long period of time to go to the bathroom or anything?" She questioned.
"No. Sometimes we did leave to go to the bathroom, but only for a few minutes." Lucas answered.
"Okay." The detective nodded.
"Why are you asking these questions? You already know Gareth was the murderer." Max rolled her eyes.
The deputy sighed. "Someone murdered Gareth." He replied. Dustin looked confused.
"Isn't that a good thing?" He asked.
Deputy nodded his head 'no'. "Instead of turning Gareth, they killed him."
"Couldn't it have been self defence?" Max asked with her eyebrows furrowed.
The detective sighed. "If it were, they would have called the police." She responded. "We got a call from someone saying that they heard screaming from the dorm next door."
"We also found someone else dead in the same dorm." The deputy added. "Eddie Munson, twenty-four year old who lived in the dorms with Gareth but didn't go to school there. He was helping Gareth. Did Gareth ever mention him? Did you guys know him."
"No." Lucas, Dustin and El said at the same time.
Wills good up. "I'm done here." He started walking out.
Max grabbed his arm to stop him. "Where are you going?" She asked as Will looked at him.
"Out of New York State." Will responded coldly and started walking out of the room again.
"I'm afraid that's not possible." The deputy said. Will stopped again.
"What do you mean?" Will questioned with a confused face.
The detective sighed. "Well you guys are all suspects. We can't let you guys leave the city." She replied.
Will sat back down.
"Now, let's continue." The detective said with a fake smile.
