You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man

chapter eleven

   "What do you mean 'It's Will'?" I ask. Is he hurt? What happened?

"I don't know. He's not responding." Dustin says. Great.

"Will!" I scream into the halls. I look at Mike to see him fidgeting with his hands.

"Hey, you okay?" I ask Mike as he looks at me.
"I just wanna know what happened to him." Mike says as the door opens, revealing Joyce.

"Mike?" Joyce asks as she comes by us.
"Mrs. Byers?"
"What's going on? Where's Will?" Lucas runs inside.

"The field!" Lucas says, out of breath as he runs back outside. We all follow Lucas outside.

"I just found him like this! I don't know what's happening!" Max says as she has her hand on his shoulder. Will's standing in the middle of the field with his eyes closed.

"Will! Will! Will! Sweetie, wake up! It's mom!" Joyce says as she touches his shoulder.

"Will, wake up! Can you hear me?" I look at Will, whose eyes are fluttering up and down with his eyelids closed.

"Will, please, just wake up. Please, wake up!" Joyce begs.

  Will gasps as his eyes open.
"Will!" Joyce says as Will looks at his surroundings.
"Mom?"
"Yeah, baby, it's me." Joyce says as Will still looks confused.

"What happened?"
"You had another episode. Let's go home." Joyce says as she puts her arm around Will.

"Thank you guys for finding him, really." Joyce says as we all head back to the school.

Joyce and Will head to their car, all of us following behind.

"Okay, that totally freaked me out. Did that not freak you guys out?" Max asks us, no one replying.

"Two episodes in two days." Lucas announces.
"He's getting worse." I say.
"You think it's True Sight?" Lucas asks us.

"What's True Sight?" Max asks as she looks at Lucas.
"It's nothing." Lucas says as Wills' car runs and they leave the school, leaving us alone.

—

  Mike walks me home and we're both silent as the wind hits our hair.

"Mike?" I ask as I look at Mike.
"Yeah?"
"Really, are you okay? I saw the way you looked at Will before."
"Addy, he's my best friend. I should've been the one that found him. Not Max or Lucas. Me."
"Mike, it doesn't matter if you didn't find him or not, you were there for him and that's all that matters. Seriously. I know you want to protect Will and we all do but you don't need to be the one to protect him everytime." I tell Mike as we reach my house.

— the next day

I go to the bike rack to see no one there. Huh.
"Stop being a baby and do it already!" I hear in the distance. Mike. I walk over to the voices behind the school.

"This is so disgusting. Is this really necessary?" Max asks as I turn the corner to see Max, Dustin and Mike by the dumpster.

"Uh, what's happening here?" I ask as I look at the three.

"We're looking for Dart, of course. Sorry, I would've gotten you but Lucas was in such a hurry." Mike says as I look at the dumpster, which now has trash flying out of it.

"Ugh!" Mike yells as he backs away as Lucas jumps out of the dumpster.

"Well, well, well. Look who finally decided to show up. After I drew the short straw. Real convenient." Lucas says as he crosses his arms.