Two seemingly broken people seem to find something truly amazing within one another in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana. What started out as annoyance, quickly turned to something much more. Something neither Lana nor Billy wanted to admit. Things...
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I sat in my car in the parking lot of Hawkins High, not able to move an inch from the mere feelings taking over my mind and heart. I just met this guy a few days ago! Why the hell should I care about him what so ever? Sure, we hooked up. But that's just it. Hooking up! It clearly meant nothing to him. So now all I have to do, is convince myself of the same thing.
But that immediately left my mind the moment a sharp pain coursed through my head out of nowhere, sending me jolting back against my seat. I could hear crying. Will's crying. Suffering. Something massive and black was consuming him. My eyes welled from the pain of it all, seeing the setting he was in and completely lost control. The upside down..... I mustered up enough strength to make it out of my car and ran straight for the middle school, feeling it happening there.
"Will!!!!" I ran to the field in the back of the school, just as Dustin came running towards me with clear panic written on his face. Joyce, Mike, Lucas and Max were all there and trying desperately to bring him back. But all the while, I'm having these flashes in my mind of what exactly is going on, wishing that it wasn't real. That I was having yet another nightmare.
"Dust..... I cant.... it's too much." I suddenly collapsed to the ground, not understanding what is happening to me. How am I connected? Is it the effects of being in the upside down for so long? Does that explain why I sometimes think I hear Eleven in my mind? Or am I simply going crazy?
"Help me get over there Dustin! I.... I see it happening. I don't have time to explain. But we've got to help get Will away from it!!" He put his arm around my waist to help get me over there, slowly bringing myself back up and walking with the sudden help of Max right next to me.
"What's going on Lana?!" They were all panicking, just as my eyes locked with the scared ones of Joyce, knowing that she knew exactly what was going on with me. When it all started after we came back home, her, Hopper and Jonathan were the only people I told about what I was seeing and feeling.
Sometimes I will awake in my room and be right back there, terrified and screaming. But it simply goes away. Like it was never there to begin with. Hopper knew my dad. So naturally, when the bastard left town, Hopper really did a lot for me. He's the only male role model I've ever known. So I always confide in him. He's one of few people I can trust.
"I honestly don't know Max. But it's scaring the shit out of me....." It suddenly just vanished, no longer seeing the black mass going into every part of Will. He was snapped out of it. And i felt fine. I took a massive breath to calm my racing heart, terrified from what I just witnessed.
"Joyce?! Will?! Is he okay??" Will suddenly hugged Joyce when I ran over there to check on him, seeing the far away look in his eyes. Something is wrong. Terribly wrong. It's happening again, isn't it? Then again, did it ever really leave? Apart of me knew that it hadn't. But I locked it far away inside my mind so I wouldn't have to accept the fact that it was here. Again.
