never leave me - noah schnapp

Three: Skater Girl

Finally breaching through the dense forest again I find the school oval. Quietly sneaking around all of the students as you could tell it was the end of school. Seeing bike racks I recognise the boys bikes with the lights on the front, placing a hand on one of the bikes handlebars I think back to all the memories when I was on the back of Gaten's... Thank god they are still here, that means Mills might be here too.

I make my way into the school itself. Having little flashbacks here and there of the dead people on the floor and the 5 of us rushing down the halls trying to escape them when they were alive. Walking past a hall I catch a glimpse from the side of my eye a boy who looks like Finn. Rushing down the hall I look left and right to see a few stragglers of students making their way out as it was the end of school.

Continuing to make my way down the hall I find the doors to the gymnasium, the place where I made Troy pee his pants. I look inside and see. Finn! Oh my god I missed him so much, not clearly as much as Millie but a lot.

Holding back from bursting through the doors I see another girl, not Millie, on a skateboard, making me frown. Who was this girl and why was she with Finn. The girl continued to circle Finn on her skateboard as I stared at them, lost in thought. It was so amazing to even see Finn again. I have to look away to distract myself but I now find myself looking at the all too familiar white floating particles that can only be found in the upside down.

The temperature drop making my legs tremble I look around as all of the vines cover the halls of Hawkins Middle in a dirty way. Running down the halls, trying to escape this horrible nightmare, I pinch myself over and over trying to get myself to wake up, I run into someone? Wait. I run into someone?

"Hello?" I say as they continue to run.

"Hello? Stop!" I yell trying to catch up to them. They run out the doors and run onto the eerily quite oval and stand in the middle and start to stare out beyond the school.

"Hello?" Getting a clear look I find myself realising that it was Noah. The boy looks a lot more grown up from last time I saw him in pictures. In fact, he kinda looks cute.

"Noah? It's me Alexis." He suddenly grabs onto me, pulling me by his side.

"Alexis?"

"Yes, yes it's me." Looking back at the school I see a huge and dark looming monster in the sky, screeching it moves closer to us. Closer and closer.

"Noah!" I say grabbing his arm, he pulls out of my grip but I continue to run away from the oval. Turning around I see Noah, still where he was before standing his ground.

"Noah! You have to get out of there!"

"Go away!" He yells out at the monster, it's tentacles nearing him every second. "Go away! Go away! Go away! Go away! Go away!"

Suddenly one of the tentacles twist into a shadowy drill and hurdle towards Noah, engulfing him like a tornado.

"Noah!" I scream running back, trying to save the boy I barely know.

"Alexis! Alexis!" I barely hear him say through the tornado. Bringing up enough courage I run through the tornado and push him out, seeing Noah form into tiny little white particles, he must be back in the real world.