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“Aren’t you coming, Will? C’mon everyone’s waiting for you” Mike said, looking at me with that concerned look again, yeah, I knew he meant well, he was just worried about me yet I hated this. I hated it all, the way people would still treat me this way, I mean, the shadow monster’s out of me now, I think. Why was Mike suddenly acting like this? Vecna’s gone, for now. So why were they all still so concerned about me? Clearly Vecna didn’t care much about me anymore.
But, maybe I was really upset that Mike only cared about me when I was hurt. When I was possessed or in danger. When I’d act weird. He didn’t care about me anymore, busy being with El or whatever. Swapping spit.
“Um, yeah, one sec” I said to him as I put my shoes on and followed him. We were going to the hall where everyone who lost their homes because of the “earthquake” were, for the past week we’d been helping out there with the rest of the party and our friends and I guess it was nice, having something to do instead of sitting around and worrying about when Vecna would be back to destroy everything and everyone.
I mean, yeah, everyone (mostly Mom, Hopper and Murray) was still trying to build up a plan for what to do when Vecna comes back, ready to kill everyone, but it was tiring and helping out everyone helped distract us from that.
Max was getting better too, she’d recovered enough that they got rid of all her casts and Lucas finally seemed happy again.
As me, Mike and Dustin were organizing the clothes people had donated, I could suddenly feel him. But no, it wasn’t like he was close, it felt like he was…calling me. It was the same feeling I had when he was inside of me. That terrible feeling.
The lake. He wanted me to go there and I felt as though there was nothing I could do to stop this. It was just like when the demogorgons and mind flayer got through and killed everyone because of me, except this time, no one knows.
I mean, it’s not like they’d care if I was possessed again. They’ve all changed so much. Or maybe they’d finally care about me like before if i was possessed. I stopped thinking and focused on striding towards the lake, it was like I was in a trance. He wasn’t really taking over me but I couldn’t stop, this time, I wasn’t even tied up or with everyone else so I’d be able to warn them. I really didn’t want to go but I couldn’t stop it. I mean, he was obviously going to make me spy on everyone again, to destroy them once and for all if i did go, but I just, couldn’t stop walking.
When I got to Lover’s lake, it was pretty late, and dark. Despite that I still knew where I had to go. He was telling me, almost moving me. I jumped into the lake, swimming down to the gate.
Shock rushed through me as goosebumps erupted on my skin - someone was pulling me out, holding me. I tried to move away, I didn’t want to. He was making me do it, he needed me to go through the gate and come to him. Desperately.
As I’m put down on the ground, a clumsy hand starts fumbling around all over me, as I cough up some water. I open and shut my eyes a few times to clear my blurry vision, only to be met with the face of Mike. An even bigger rush of shock passes through me as I unintentionally let out a small gasp.
“What’re you doing here?” I manage to ask. “You were acting weird, Will” He says in the most worried tone I’ve heard in a while that my heart breaks a little, “And then you randomly walked out and started walking, so I followed you here. What’s going on, Will?” What I thought was literally unthinkable had happened.
He noticed. Mike noticed. He’d even followed me here, and oh, his hand it was still around my waist, pulling him closer to me as his other hand was still fumbling around for some reason. He was acting…weird.
I tried to just ignore it and answered him, “Mike, he’s back. Vecna, he was trying to get me to come to him. I mean, now that I’m really thinking about it, I don’t think he’s inside of me, he just somehow spoke to me. It felt, different and I guess I listened to him because a part of me wanted him to posses me again, I mean, I’d be able to spy on him for us. Just like before.”
“Will, what’re you talking about? I won’t let you get possessed by Vecna, no way, who cares about spying on him? We can defeat him without that.” He said, looking a bit angry as if me even suggesting that was a crime or something.
He was staring into my eyes so intently, he hadn’t done that, at least not in a while. Him staring at me like that just made me want to keep talking so it wouldn’t be awkward, so I kept talking. I even started saying stuff I probably shouldn’t say.
“I guess I thought that if he’d possessed me again, everyone would actually care about me. Maybe then I’d matter to you again.” I blurted in a quiet voice, and I was surprised I’d even said that, it just, came out. He then just went quiet, which scared me.
But he then leaned in, quickly, and kissed me? He’s, kissing me. Oh God, he’s kissing me. Mike Wheeler’s kissing me. He then leans back and stops, but only to say, “Don’t you ever say something like that again, I mean, what happened to us defeating Vecna together, seriously? Not cool.” He says as if trying to brush off what he just did, he was still so close to me that with every word he spoke his lips touched mine. I grabbed his face and pulled him back to me, kissing him. I was doing it in such a clumsy and desperate way but I didn’t even care. His fingers were tugging on my shirt to bring me closer, his other hand still wrapped around my waist till now.
After we both pull away, panting for breaths, I suddenly spoke, “crazy together?” Mike then smiled a genuine smile and nodded, “Yeah, crazy together.”