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[willbyerstm]

[𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊]:  𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐐𝐔𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 [𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒]: accepting [𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌]: @entitytaken​ | jonathan [𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄]:  ❛ so apparently the 'bad vibes’ i’ve been feeling are actually severe psychological distress. ❜ (from Jonathan, probably after a smoke session with Argyle)

Sometimes, Will wonders if Jonathan thinks that his smoking...activity with his new friend Argyle, is a secret. At least he has a new friend, unlike Will and El who remain the pariahs at their school. He can’t imagine how it would be, if he didn’t have her  — a thought that had never crossed his mind when she was spending all of her time with Mike.  Will looks up from his sketch book, deciding to humour his brother. Or support him, if this is actually serious and not the result of the weed in his system. ❝ Please, tell me this isn’t about missing Nancy. ❞

[willbyerstm]

[𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊]:  Send 🌛to find my muse up late at night [𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒]: accepting [𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌]: @telekinel​

It had been difficult, being away from everything and everyone he has ever known. But at least, as they were leaving Hawkins, he thought, he hoped that at least distance would put an end to his nightmares. That somehow everything he had experienced the past couple of years would remain back home. It didn’t take more than a couple of days settled into their new home to prove him wrong. They still come to him at night — memories mixed with fears of what could have happened, what can still happen — vivid as they ever were.

Tonight, he almost screams, waking up trembling. He does not dare to go back to sleep. Instead, he changes his t-shirt and goes to sit by the back yard. It’s humid in a way that had never been in Hawkins, but he is still getting the fresh air he desperately needs. El’s voice startle him but he is quick to relax  ❝ Hey. What are you doing up? ❞

[willbyerstm]

[𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊]: 200 RANDOM DIALOGUE [𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒]: accepting [𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌]: @vcnusians​  | El [𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄]:  ❛ you’ve been so quiet. what’s on your mind? ❜

Friends don’t lie. Family doesn’t either, only this is something El should never know. Not only because he doesn’t want her to be angry at him, but because he doesn’t want her to feel bad either and he certainly doesn’t want to cause any more trouble for her. With everything that has been going on, she deserves to be happy, even more than before. So he has to lie. 

The smile on his lips is a lie, too, and he hopes she doesn’t see through it. ❝ Oh. Nothing... I haven’t slept well, that’s all. ❞ Will pauses and decides to ask her about... well, the reason he has been so quiet. Which is the same reason she has been smiling  ❝ Mike is coming in two days. How does that feel? ❞

[willbyerstm]

[𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊]: 𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 [𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒]: accepting [𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌]: @jonbyers​ [𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄]:❛ i didn’t want you to see me like this. ❜ 

❝ Why not? ❞ Will asks, even though he knows the answer. Jonathan, just like his mother, seem to feel like they have to act all tough and strong, in order to be what Will needs them to be. Or because they don’t want to show that there is anything wrong with them  — he is not sure. It’s not that he can blame them for it, Will himself prefers not to externalise what he’s feeling either ( not in words, at least, only in actions ) , despite what people say about him. Will too, prefers keeping quiet when something has upset him, to focus on his drawings and wait until he feels better. What bothers him is that despite their attempts to hide it, Will can still tell they’re hurting. He can still tell how their mother is grieving for a man she never even had the chance to be with — another love lost, only in a few months time. He can tell how Jonathan isn’t exactly happy here either, only Will isn’t sure if there is a single reason for that, or myriads of reasons, a pile of events that have happened and the other hasn’t had the chance to process just yet. They’re hurting, and Will doesn’t really know how to help them.

Will moves from the door to where his brother is sitting and takes a seat next to him ❝ What has happened, has not only happened to me. ❞ he continues, his voice soft ❝ I can take care of you too, you know. But I think you have to talk to me first. ❞