Summer Ends

Summer '85, Hawkins, Indiana.

The Party has made a list of plans for the summer. Will has made his own.

The Party: Summer '85
1. Finish the campaign
2. Stay together
3. No new members

Will: Summer '85
1. Spend more time with Mom
2. Get to know Max and El
3. Do the thing

In an alternate universe where there's no monsters in Hawkins, Will spends the summer trying to tell his friends something he's been hiding for years. Something he only just said out loud to someone for the first time. Something he thought he would never be able to say.

And then he says it, and his world is both building itself up and falling apart.