The Scholar & The Bard [Sequel to Bookworm & Toothless] (Stranger Things AU)

[9]

El sighed, focusing again.

Focusing on Jessie.

She opened her eyes, surrounded by darkness.

"Hey Once...it's me."

El turned to see Jessie laying on her bed, still in her costume.

"Day 353, huh? Can't believe it's almost been a year."

El came and sat on her bed, looking at her.

Jessie's looked slightly to where El sat.

"Halloween was today. I know that if you were with us still, we could have gone as ghosts together to fit with the whole Ghostbusters dynamic for this year. Last year, it was Star Wars."

Jessie giggled and El smiled, feeling a bit better.

"I was Princess Leia, Dustin was Han Solo, Mike was Luke Skywalker, Lucas was Chewie, and Will..."

Jessie laughs.

"Will was R2-D2. It was fucking hilarious."

El grinned as Jessie started to giggle, giggling as well.

Jess sighs.

"Well, everything was going well the first couple hours of trick-or-treating with the exception of a few people getting our costumes wrong when...this girl came along and ruined everything."

Jessie groaned as El frowned.

"She dragged Dustin and Lucas away from us and I swear I wanted to break her arm for making it so easy to distract them from hanging out with us. Mike wasn't pleased either and I swear to god if looks could kill, she would have been very dead."

Jessie sighed.

"Not to mention, Will had an episode afterward so...Halloween was pretty fucked up this year."

El looked down, frowning.

"But what really scared me today was...the fact I was almost hit by a car today."

El's head shot up, her eyes widening in horror.

"Mike, Dustin, Lucas, and I were just pedaling back home, talking how no one wore their costumes to school and we didn't know about it when, this car starting to drive towards us, trying to run us over."

Jessie took a deep breath.

"I was pedaling so fast that I probably moved my foot in the wrong direction because, I fell off my bike, rolling towards the car. And at the last second, the car swerved the other way. It was so scary."

Jessie frowned, sighing.

"You probably don't know but...in 12 days it will mark officially 1 year since..."

El frowned, grabbing her hand.

Jessie froze, tears streaming down.

She moved her fingers, making it seem like their fingers were intertwined.

"Bye, El. I hope you had a nice Halloween."