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(THOS IS GOING TO BE VERY BAD, I AM LAzY)

Alex is sick today, and Ms. Franklyn was at work. So Tess had to ride her skateboard to the Wheeler's house. Tess preferred her skateboard to her bike.

In the Wheeler's basement; Eleven tries to find Will, just like how she did the other night.

"We keep losing the signal, but you heard it, right?" Mike says.

"Yeah, I heard a baby," Lucas says, not impressed.

"What?"

"Mike, you obviously tapped into a baby monitor," Lucas tries to convince Mike, clearly not convinced himself, "It's probably the Blackburns' next door."

"Uh, did that sound like a baby to you? That was Will!"

"Mike..."

"Lucas, you don't understand. He spoke last night. Words!" Mike tells Lucas, "He was singing that weird song he loves. Even El heard him!"

"Oh, well, if the weirdo heard him, then I guess—" Lucas says, but gets cut off. 

"Are you sure you're on the right channel?" Tess interrupts.  

"I don't think it's about that. I think, somehow, she's channeling him. Like... like Professor X," Mike tells the party.

"yeah" Dustin whispers

"Are you actually believing this crap?" Lucas asks Dustin, looking at him, then looking at the girls to see if they believe its Will too.

Both of the girls just shrug to Lucas' question.

"I don't know, I mean..." Dustin says, remembering a time when Will sounded like a 'baby' in the words of Lucas. "Do you remember when Will fell off his bike and broke his finger?" 

"He did sound a lot like that," Tess says, making Cheryl whack her arm.

"What... I'm sure you would've said the same thing if you weren't as kind," Tess whispers to Cheryl. 

"Did you guys not see what I saw?" Lucas asks his friends, like everyone blind, or was focused on something else, "They pulled Will's body out of the water. He's dead!"

"Well, maybe it's his ghost," Tess says, her eyes light up at the thought, but also wants to scare her friends, "Maybe he's haunting us."

"It's not his ghost," Lucas denies Tess' thoughts.

"So how do you know that?" Tess argues.

"I just do!" Lucas argues back as Tess just rolls her eyes.

"Then what was in that water?" Lucas asks, like she knew something he didn't — even though she didn't.

"I don't know!" Tess argues, "All I know is Will is alive. Will is alive! He's out there somewhere. All we have to do is find him."

Mike turns to El, while she's still playing with his radio.

Mike sighs, "This isn't gonna work. We need to get El to a stronger radio."

Dustin gets an idea of what to use as a stronger radio, "Mr. Clarke's Heathkit ham shack." 

"Yeah," Tess agrees.

"I think thats a great idea, but the Heathkit's at school," Cheryl says.

"There is no way we're gonna get the weirdo in there without anyone noticing. I mean... look at her," Lucas argues with them all this time, not just Tess.

Cheryl basically took charge, making the boys and Tess choose a sensible outfit that would fit El, along with a wig.

So she went to do El's makeup, which wouldn't be much.

The boys and Tess went to grab the costume box, which Mike led them too.

Tess made most of the boys find a wig, while she and Mike when to find a dress for El.

Cheryl used to practice doing makeup on her little sister, so she was familiar of what to use, and what too much, and too little is.

Eventually, they all were done with their tasks, Cheryl revealing the new El.

"Wow... She looks... Pretty," Mike says, trying to hide the fact that he may or may not like the girl, "Good. You look pretty good."

Cheryl takes El to look at herself in the mirror, "Pretty," is all she can whisper.

Once the group get to the school, they run over to the AV room, which is where the heathkit is stored in.

"Attention students, there will be an assembly to honor Will Byers in the gymnasium now. Do not go to fourth period," the man on the PA/speaker says.

"It's locked," Tess tells them, trying to open the door.

"What?" Cheryl asks, not believing it, since it's normally always open when she goes in the room.

Tess turns to El,  "Hey, do you think you can open it?"

El just stands there confused, "With your powers?" Tess says, as El nods this time.

She gets ready to open it, head down a little, eyes focusing, and her hand facing the door.

Before she could do anything else, she was interrupted.

"Boys?" Mr Clarke calls out, giving everyone a bit of a fright. They turn around to see him standing right behind them.

"Hey," Lucas says. 

"Assembly's about to start," Mr Clarke tells them, as if they didn't hear the man on the speaker.

"We know. We're just, you know... Upset," Cheryl speaks up.

"Yeah, definitely upset," Dustin stammers, making the teacher turn to Tess confused. Probably 'cause he's never felt like she was one to get upset, but then again, her best friend did just 'die' last night.

"We need some alone time. To cry," Tess says, thinking he wouldn't believe them, unless she said something about crying.

"Yeah, listen... I get it. I do. I know how hard this is, but let's just be there for Will, huh? And then..." Mr Clarks says, pulling the AV room keys out of his pocket, "the Heathkit is all yours for the rest of the day. What do you say?"

The teacher then turns to look at El, "I don't believe we've met. What's your name?"

"Ele-" El starts to say her name, but gets cut off by Mike, "Eleanor! She's my, uh-" Mike tries to think of something until this time HE gets interrupted.

"Cousin. Second cousin." Dustin says.

Mike sighs, "She's here for Will's funeral."

"Ah, well, welcome to Hawkins Middle, Eleanor. I wish you were here under better circumstances," Mr Clarke tells 'Eleanor'.

'Eleanor' turns around to look at her some-what friends, before saying thank you. 

"Uh, where are you from exactly?" Mr Clarke asks.

"Bad place—" El responds, shaking her head like it's really bad. Though it does seem like it is.

"Sweden! I have a lot of Swedish family."

"She hates it there," Dustin adds.

Tess pretends to laugh, "Cold!" she says with wide eyes.

"Subzero." 

"Shall we?" the teacher asks his students, and El.

"Yep!" they all say in sync.

At times like these... it is important that we come together as a community. We come—" the principal's in the middle of a speech about the school, before the door closes with a loud bang. 

"Abort," Tess says, trying to wriggle her way out of everyones stares - she's never likes too many people staring at her.

But she could get away with it, but since Lucas was right behind her, he pushed her back to where she was before. All of them go to an empty area, squishing past all of the other students in the row.

Normally Tess would be stronger, but after loosing one of her best friends, and multiple stares coming her way, her muscles weakened.

"We come together to heal... we come together to grieve..." the principal keeps saying, like no one interrupted him.

"Will Byers' death is an unimaginable tragedy. Will was an exceptional student and a wonderful friend to all of us. It's impossible to express the hole his loss will leave in our community. I'd like to introduce you to Sandy Sloane. She's a local grief counselor from the church over in Jonesboro. But before she comes up here, I just want those of you who are having trouble dealing with this tragic loss..."

"Look at these fakers," Mike says, looking at James and Troy.

Tess looks where her friend's looking, only to face the 2 people she absolutely despises, she scoffs while rolling her eyes "They probably didn't even know his name till today."

Troy and Jame both laugh at the announcement the principal is making about Will.
"Who is interested in this? This is so stupid," Troy says to James, "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah..." Both of the bullies chuckle again.

"Oh, he was such a great student," Troy mocks his principal, "Oh, he's going to leave a hole in the community."

"Mouth breather," El whispers to herself, but Cheryl heard and looked at her confused.

While the principal and Sandy Sloane kept saying more and more about Will, Troy and James kept mocking them.

The school bell finally rings, signalling for the students to leave. Making the hall very loud, as everyone started talking to their friends.

"Hey! Hey!" Mike says, trying to walking up to the bullies, but they didn't stop moving, "Hey, Troy!" Mike says again, but they still didn't stop walking, so Tess spoke up, "Hey, Troy!" she says, louder than Mike, which caused the bullies to finally stop moving and turn to them.

"You... you think this is funny?" Mike says, after muttering a quick thanks to Tess.

"What'd you say, Wheeler?" Troy says.

"I saw you guys laughing over there," Mike stammers, "And I think that's a real messed up thing to do."

"Didn't you listen to the counselor, Wheeler? Grief shows itself in funny ways," Troy tells him, like he grieves stuff by laughing.

"Besides, what's there to be sad about, anyway?" Troy says, again, "Will's in fairyland now, right? Flying around with all the other little fairies. All happy and gay!" he says, mimicking a fairy by pretending his hands are wings, and flapping them.

Tess runs up to him, pushing him on the ground. she would've punched him again, but teachers were still in the hall.

Troy grunts standing back up. and making everyone who saw that, but the party and El exclaim at Tess' action. They knew she'd fought with kids before, but never actually seen it in person. unless your the one she fighting with.

"You're dead, Franklyn!" Troy yells, running to try and catch her, "Dead!" 

Both of them start running, Troy trying to catch up with Tess, but she's also a fast runner.

But El didn't know that, so she used her powers on him to make his bladder drip.

Everyone in the room laughs, excluding the teacher, cause once again, they didn't hear, "Dude, Troy peed himself," one of the students says.

"Holy shit!" Dustin yells, as Tess comes to him, watching Troy 'do his thing'.

"Hey! What's going on here?" one of the teacher yell, FINALLY paying attention.

"Shit!" Cheryl yells, hearing the teachers, "Tess, Let's go!" she yells, seeing Tess still standing there.

Tess starts running to catch up with the others. But first turns back to Troy with a smirk, who is staring at her with anger.

She won again. She's been in a lot of fights, and she's won them all, so it's basically like a game (not really) 25 - 0.

The party, plus El were in the AV room. El had her eyes closed, as she was trying to find will's voice through the heathkit.

it did work, and they were able to contact Will. Well sort of.

They could hear Will, but Will couldn't hear them. Instead he could hear his mum, who could luckily, hear him too inside the Byer's house walls.

(i couldn't be bothered to write what he said so yeh)

Before the children knew it, the heathkit blew a fuse, causing the fire alarm to go off.

Everyone jumps back at the sudden burst, Tess grabbing the fire extinguisher to hose the fire away or some shit like that.

Cheryl and Mike check on El, to make sure she's okay, as everyone in the school evacuate the school. Luckily, the AV room was near the back door, leading to the field where Tess liked to either read, or play basketball alone.

They all get on their bikes - except for Tess as she had her skateboard which was on her the whole time - El rode on the back of Cheryl's bike, again. All of them heading to the door that lead straight to the Wheeler's basement.

sorry for the short chapter, but like it said at the start, Alex was sick.

my cat was literally sitting next to me for most of the time i was writing this. i swear cats are so fucking cute

2000 words+

NOT EDITED