Uptown Girl (A stranger things Story)

Chapter Five: The flea and the acrobat

   The day was wills funeral, I was burying will..saying goodbye to will. Or who I thought was will.

  I was putting on my black dress, which wasn't out of the norm for me, but black has a whole new meaning to me now, I get why Queen Victoria stayed in mourning for 44 years.

I feel as if this is all my fault, Barb, Will...I feel as if I am responsible for everything.

  My dad wasn't here, I didn't know where he was. I'm assuming he is doing his duties as cheif of Hawkins.

So I went to Wills' funeral by myself, I had to be there for the boys. And Johnathan.

  Everyone was there. Including people I wasn't known of.

I was standing beside Dustin and Lucas. As they were looking into the hole, we were burying 'Will' in.

  The preacher was giving a sermon about death. I looked over to Ms. Byers and Johnathan and Lonnie.

Joyce looked antsy. And Lonnie didn't show any emotion maybe to haply for his own good. Johnathan didn't really show grief.

I guess anyone has a different method of grieving.

I then see Dustin nudge Mike looking over at a girl who was crying.

"Just wait till we tell Will that Jennifer Hayes was crying at his funeral," Dustin says.

I then looked at the boys and shushed them. I'm trying to help them with manners and some respect.

They all fixed themselves and started looking back at the hole.

After the sermon and the ceremony, we all started to throw yellow roses in the hole, making a quiet thud against the dark wood coffin.

No matter who it is..will or not, this is making me sick to my stomach the thought of burying one of my boys.

I then see Nancy and Johnathan sitting by the other graves against the fence.

I walked over there seeing what they were doing.

I then see a map they are holding.

"What are you guys doing?" I ask the duo.

Nancy and Johnathan looked up from the map they were holding, and Nancy patted a seat next to her, implying for me to join.

I did so, sitting down beside her.

"We're hunting down the monster." Nancy says.

I nod my head as a signal I'm in this plan and urged them to continue.

"This is where we know for sure it's been, right?" Johnathan asks.

"So that's?" Nancy says before Johnathan finishes her sentence.

"Steve's house. And thats the woods where they found wills bike and...that's my house, " Johnathan says, pointing to the x's on the map.

I look intently at the map. It was all too close together for my liking.

"It's all so close." I say.

"Yeah, exactly." Nancy and Johnathan say together.

They are creeping me out how mirrored they are.

"It's all within a mile of each other," I say, focusing back on the topic.

"Whatever this thing is, it's...it's not traveling far," Johnathan says to me and Nancy.

  "You want to go out there." Nancy says, looking in Johnathans eyes.

"We might not find anything," he says.