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MIKE
Will reaches for my hand, then falls down on the floor. His eyes have turned upside down, and his whole body is trembling. ''Will! Will! Wake up!''
''He's cursed by Vecna!" Dustin screams.
''Help me take him out! He needs air, we should wake him up!'' I drag his body, outside and i leave him on the grass. He looks like he's possesed again. Two years ago, when the Mind Flayer got into his brain and infected it, when I almost thought I lost him. I was more scared than ever then. And now it's the same, all over again. I can't lost Will. I just can't. I have lost him so many times. When he dissapeared in the Upside Down, when he was possesed, when they moved to California. I can't lost him again. I grab his shoulders and shake him. ''Will wake up!''
''Stop! You are not helping him!'' Max shouts, as they bend over Will's shaking body.
''What should we do?'' I ask them.
They look each other, trying to find the right words to explain to me what's going on.
''It happened to me too.'' Max says. ''They put me headphones and played my favourite song, and that saved me.''
''What is Will's favourite song?'' Lucas asks.
''Uh... I don't know.''
''You don't know your best friend's favourite song?!''
''Shit, think Mike, think!''
I immediately run away, back to the truck. I open the door, and take my backpack. I go back, and empty its contents on the ground, looking for once specific thing. I find a tape, with the letters For Will written on it with a red marker.
''Does anyone have a walk-man?'' I ask, and Max hands hers with her headphones. We put them on Will's head, as I'm trying to put the tape on the walkman, but my hands are sweaty and shaking too much. Dustin takes the tape from my hands, and quickly puts it inside. He press the play button, as Will starts to rise.
I scream, as Will floats higher on the air like a balloon. He rising higher, with open hands like he's embracing something.
''Don't worry. It has happened before and I survived. Will is going to make it.'' Max says and she touches my shoulder, as we are watching Will rising above our heads, in the dark starry sky.
WILL
''I will come with you.'' I mumble.
I can see a faint smile, on his hideous face.
You are a smart boy.
His hand is still on my face, and the vines are still suffocating me. Why he does not let me go?
But I'm afraid you have to die first. Your body on the real world, is useless to me. I have to kill it.
His hand reaches closer, as I'm feeling an intense pain crashing my bones. A dazzling glow rises, I close my eyes as I feel my inevitable death, finally coming towards me. And then, I hear a song coming from the sky, surrounding the whole crooked world around us.
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song, sounds like she's singing
He looks away, only for a second but that's all I need. My hand rises from the vines, with a force I did not know I had, and I open my burning glowing palm to his face and I scream. An invisible wave, crashes him and throws him back. I scream again, and the vines around me fall dead. I stand on my feet, stretching both of my palms to his direction, and I scream, and scream, and scream.
And the days go by, like a strand in the wind
In the web that is my own, I begin again
Powerful waves of energy are coming through me and sparks are rising from my hands. I hit him, again and again making him fall on his knees, drowning him in his own disgusting flesh. And then, when he seems weak enough, I turn back and run away.
He was no more than a baby then
Well he seemed broken-hearted
Something within him
But the moment that I first laid
Eyes on him, all alone
On the edge of seventeen
I run in this horrid world, as ruins of it are falling in my direction, but with just a movement of my hands, I make them fall away. The Dark Wizard didn't lie, I am powerful. And I can destroy the whole world if I wanted to. I'm not going to destroy my world, but this one. The song surrounds me, as my feet are flying on the ground, and I see a hole opening in the red sky. A growl follows me, and a quake shakes the ground, but I don't care. I'm running as fast as I can, and I will win. For the first time in my life, I'm going to win.
Yeah yeah, well, the music there
Well, it was hauntingly familiar
Well, I see you doing what I try to do for me
With the words from a poet and a voice from a choir
And a melody, and nothing else mattered
I focus on the music, I focus on that hole in the sky. I can see them, outside watching me floating above them. I focus on the song, I focus on my power. I think of all the things that make me happy, and all the people I love, and everything I want to do when I get back. I want to grow up, I want to live a happy life, I want to paint and create, and laugh with my friends, and be happy. I want to love and be in love. I want to see my favourite people, I want to hug my mom and Jonathan, and tell them that I love them. I want to hug El, I want to hug my friends. And I want to be with Mike. If I get back, when I get back I will tell him how I really feel. I will give him my painting. It doesn't matter if he rejects it, if he rejects me. I will be happy because, I finally confessed my feelings. I think of Mike, his cheeks blushing, his messy hair, his eyes glowing in the dark. As he was leaning on me, our lips getting closer. I'm not delusional, I'm not stupid. Mike likes me back. And I love him. Suddenly I'm so happy, so I laugh like a madman, running faster than ever. I'm getting closer to the exit, I'm getting closer to my salvation. I will be okay.
Well I hear you in the morning
And I hear you at nightfall
Sometimes to be near you
Is to be unable to feel you, my love.
I jump, and there's no gravity to hold me back, so I rise in the red sky and I'm flying straight to the exit.
I open my eyes and fall back on the ground. I look at my hands, I look the stars on the sky and then I look the faces of my friends and I laugh. I'm alive. I hug Mike and I hold him tightly.
''Oh Will... you scared me so bad.''
''It's okay. I'm back now.''
''No it's not.''
I can see now, that Mike is crying. I've never seen him cry. Only once when we were younger, and some bully from school kicked him down and he broke his front teeth. He's crying now, sobbing uncontrollably reaching for my hand. We hear Robin scream from the house, and our friends run back in, but I stay outside with Mike.
''It's okay Mike. I'm here. Everything is okay now.''
''No it's not. Because I thought I lost you.''
''Mike look at me. You didn't lost me. I'm right here.''
''Will, I love you.''
We both freeze. Mike sniffs and wipes his eyes with his sleeve. ''I've never said that to anyone. Not even to my mother.''
''Oh.''
''You are my favourite person you know? And I really, love you. I always did. But right now, when you were floating there in the sky, I realised it for the first time. The amount of love I feel for you. I don't know what's going in my head, and I don't know how to handle it but...''
Suddenly he stops, and freezes. A drop of blood drips from his nose. His eyes slowly turn upside down, and his whole body begins to tremble.
''Mike!''
For the first time, I'm not the cursed one. But I wish I was.