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It was late august. The sun was always shining bright. The heat was unbearable. Most of Hawkins’ folks were in the swimming pool. Not me though. I had better stuff to do. To get some stuff out of the way: Hi, I’m (y/n), and my life, has been pretty traumatic so far: saving my crush from an evil dimension, unpossessing my possessed crush, making out with my crush (and saving his gay ass again). Oh and besides that I’m number nine, because of course I am, because everyone always has superpowers in these stories and magically always chooses the number nine despite there being literally infinite more. Enough fourth wall breaking.
That last bit, saving his ass again, was more traumatic for him. But I shouldn’t be delving into that stuff right now. Right now is moving on. And today I was doing that with a date.
Will and I decided to go out to Weathertop to have a picnic at sundown. He made it there first, despite having to deal with Joyce being unable to let him go.
“Hey Smartpants,” I said as I walked up the hill. Will was already standing at the top, next to Cerebro.
“Please don’t call me that, I’ve told you before,” Will said after which he sighed and did a weird little jog towards me. He fell right into my arms and hugged me tight. I hugged him back of course, my sweet old boyfriend. Crazy to think that I’ve even found a boyfriend considering the 80’s and stuff.
“Okay, then how about Willywill?” I asked and gave him a quick kiss.
“That’s even worse,” he answered after which he ended the hug.
“So Smartpants it is,” I said laughing and walked past him to finally make it to the top of Weathertop. There I threw my bag on the ground and pulled out the blanket. With the help of Will I placed it down and then started to unpack.
“So… I brought…” I started as I tried to grab the bag of chips I brought. When I finally got a hold of it I pulled it out.
“Oh my god, I thought this was going to be serious,” Will said after which he chuckled for a bit.
“What, why, what do you mean?” I asked as I opened the bag of chips and already started eating a few. Will proceeded to pull some plates, cutlery, bread and whole tons of stuff to put on the bread. I laughed.
“Well now at least we can spend the entire night here,” I said. “Mosquitoes?” Will immediately answered.
“God damn it Will why do you always have to ruin my plans!” I said. Will seemingly knew what I was getting at. He quickly started crawling backwards as I stood up.
“Oh god no!” he said as he stood up and started running. I quickly started chasing him. Through the fields of Weathertop. It was late, the sun was setting. Golden hour they call it right? I continued the chase as Will started cutting corners hoping I would miss and thus make a bigger distance. I couldn’t help it but laugh. From what I could see, Will was smiling, laughing as well.
Eventually I managed to get close enough. So I dived right into him which caused us to both fall to the ground. I grabbed onto him and of course, because we were on a hill, we rolled down a bit together. Laughing of course.
After rolling for a bit we stopped on a less steeper part, me lying on top of him. I looked into his beautiful eyes.
“For a Smartpants you’re really pretty,” I said. “Like, really really pretty,” I quickly added hoping to at least charm him enough to not take the backhanded compliment as rough as he could take it.
“It’s okay,” he said. Gosh he knew me well. He kissed me and I kissed him back. We spent a good few minutes just lying there.
It was already dark when we were finally actually eating. I had just this one question though.
“How’d you even get out of the house, doesn’t your mom have you under like constant surveillance?” I asked him. Will stopped eating, to think I guess.
“Well, yeah… she’s just kind of going crazy after… you know…” he said. I could hear the pain in his voice though.
“Hey, I’m sorry I brought this up, I didn’t mean to…” I said.
“No it’s okay,” Will reassured me.
“Just… trying to move on,” Will continued, his voice breaking mid-sentence. He was about to cry. I could feel it.
I crawled over to him and then threw my arms around him.
“It’s okay to not be okay, and I’m sorry if I crossed a boundary,” I said. Will disappeared into my arms. I don’t know if he was crying, but it sounded like it. I hugged him tight, trying to give him all the love I could. And like moments before, we spent some time like that as well.
If only that moment lasted forever, but sadly, it didn’t…