( 🚲🌑 ) 𝑺𝑼𝑩𝑱𝑬𝑪𝑻 𝑵𝑰𝑵𝑬. mike wheeler!

viii. mama

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CHAPTER EIGHT: MAMA
❝Three to the right,  four to the left.❞

"It's like...it's like I can feel what the shadow monster's feeling. See what he's seeing."

"Like in the Upside Down?"

"Some of him is there. But some of him is here, too."

"Here, like, in this house?"

"In this house and...in me." As Will spoke, the ringing in my ears became louder and louder. "It's like he's reaching into Hawkins more and more. And the more he spreads, the more connected I feel."

I couldn't bare to listen to this conversation anymore. Just the name 'shadow monster' made me sick to my stomach. I just wanted to run away back to Chicago where everything was going fine, but I couldn't just leave my friends behind.

"Excuse me for a sec," I said, getting up from my spot on Will's bed.

I went out of the bedroom in searched for his mother. I found her looking over the map of the tunnels that Will had made. The were all over the walls and floor.

"Mrs. Byers?" She turned to me and hummed in reply.

"Where's your bathroom?"

"Oh, it's just right there." She pointed to the hallway.

I headed to the bathroom and sat on the toilet seat and buried my face into my hands in exhaustion. I know that my friends need severe help, but Miss Easten and I moved here to start fresh. And 'start fresh' in my book means not having to deal with anything in my past.

I pulled the blindfold out of my pocket and tied it around my head. And a few second later, I was surrounded in darkness.

"Where are you, Jane?" I mumbled to myself.

From the corner of my eye, I saw her. She was crouched down on her knees in front of a woman who sat motionless in a rocking chair. This woman was very familiar to me and I knew her very well. She's the woman that raised me until I was taken away from when Jane was born.

Mama.

I approached them slowly and kneeled down beside Jane. I was so caught up in her beauty that I didn't even understand what Jane was saying anymore.

She had a wonderful personality and she was the most beautiful woman I had ever known. But what happened to her? She kept mumbling something under her breath and it took me awhile to understand.

Breath. Sunflower. Rainbow. Three to the right, four to the left. 450.

I didn't know what that meant, but I knew it meant something. "Oh, mama," I said, "what did they do to you." I placed my hand on her hand. Then, the unexpected happened.

Everything became dream-like. It was like, I was seeing what she saw.

She was laying in a hospital bed and she was in labor with Jane. "Breathe," Aunt Becky said, who was right beside her. And in her arms was me, who wasn't even a year old yet.

Then the scene switched to after Jane was born and in my vision was a sunflower. "Sunflower."

Next, there was a door with a rainbow on it. I recognized the door since it was in the lab. "Rainbow." The door was opened and inside were Jane, a girl that I barely remember and was a bit older, and I.

After that, mama was putting in a combination. "Three to the right, four to the left."

Then, I had to watch the most horrifying thing. It was worse than the shadow monster, worse than the Demogorgon. She was having electroshock therapy with 450 volts. "450."

These scenes kept going on a loop, each time getting faster and faster, until I lifted my hand off of mama's. Tears streamed down my face like waterfalls.

"Lily?" I heard my name as it echoed.

"Lily?"

"Lily?" I took the blindfold of my face.

"You okay?" It was Mike. He was standing in the doorway. "Hey, what's wrong."

He came over to me and pulled me into a tight embrace. I did nothing else cry. For some reason, Mike made me feel different than anyone else made me feel. With him I felt safe and protected ( even though in reality, it was my job to protect him and everyone else in Hawkins ).

My life was a complete mess—not that I already knew that—but maybe when this is all over, I can actually make a living here. I mean, I know my childhood was rough, but all that matters now is the future.

lily speaks hey peeps. hope you liked chapter eight. i realized that there wasn't really any mily action going on, so here you go. but also, if you can come up with a better ship name, please let me know lol.