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NATALIE D'ANGELO

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NATALIE D'ANGELO



the day after halloween it seems like everything has changed. the boys suddenly talk to max and i and even walk around with us. its like halloween with us changed them.

the only person who didn't wanna speak to max or i was mike. i was glad to be talking to will though. i missed him.

he was my first friend in hawkins.

max and i walk with lucas talking about will and the events that had happened the year before both of us moved.

"i still don't get why they call him zombie boy, i mean i get it, he got lost in the woods for a week or something but why is he a zombie? is it because everyone thought he was dead?" max asks.

lucas and i look at her before lucas opens his mouth to speak. "yeah, i mean, we had a funeral for him and everything" lucas says.

the thought of will being dead makes the hairs on my neck stand up. i cant imagine my life without will. even if i have only known him 3 months it felt like i have known him my whole life.

just like ollie

"after a week?" max asks. "well, see some other kid drowned at the quarry and we thought it was will because his body was super decomposed."

"what? okay that's not funny" we stop right outside of mr. clarke's room. i give max a look. it feels like she isn't believing a single thing lucas is saying.

"it's not a joke alright? it's public knowledge, you can ask anybody but will because he's really sensitive about it alright?" his eyes are big.

max mumbles an okay and walks herself into mr. clarke's. lucas and i stand out of the classroom staring in as max walks to her seat.

"i believe you" i say to him. he looks at me and lightly smiles. "thanks nat"

we walk in and take our seats. the first part of class is relatively the same. talking something about the case of phineas gage.

the man who survived an accident where a metal rod was driven through his skull. he survived it but something changed with his personality.

that was the only thing i had picked up because i was too busy watching max as she stared at will. "maxine!" i whisper to her.

her gaze is too set on will. she blocks everything else out. i kick her foot and she looks over at me furrowing her eyebrows. "what?" she mouths.

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