Guilt

  The 4 boys were walking towards their school, 4? Yes, Will was no where to be seen, Dylan was trapped in his thought following his friends like a zombie thinking about all the possibilities of why Will was missing. Did he come early? Did someone, take him? Or something?

  Dylan's thoughts were cut short by one of the most agonizing voices in the world."Welcome ladies and gentlemen, get your tickets to the freak show!" Troy yelled while James followed him laughing. Dylan along with the other boys turned around slowly to face the bullies. Glaring at them.

  "Who do you think would make more money in the freak show?" Troy said stepping forward calling them by their unoriginal nicknames he had assigned themTroy pushed Lucas "Midnight"He pushed Mike "Frog face"He pushed Dylan "Scars" And he pushed Dustin " or Toothless"

James rubbed his chin taunting the boys before making a decision, "I think.....Toofless!" James said looking at Dustin making fun of his lisp.

Dustin looked down, "I told you a million times my teeth are coming in it's called Cleoidocranial Dysplasia." Dustin explained

"I told you a million times!" James just Mocked him again. "Do the arm thing!" Troy said to Dustin, Dustin then dropped his bag and took his jacket off but Dylan grabbed his shoulder and looked at him shaking his head. "Do it freak!" Troy yelled, Dustin then touched his shoulders together.

"Ew! Gosh it gets me every time!" Troy and James walked away laughing. Dylan grabbed Dustin jacket and Bag to give to him, Dustin quietly thanked Dylan.

"I think it's pretty cool, it's like you're a superhero!" Mike said trying to make Dustin feel better.

"Except I can't fight evil with it." Dustin responded sadly but smiled at the comparison.

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Dylan was waiting on the bell in science, ignoring whatever Mr. Clarke was saying about next week. *ring!* The boys all crowd around Mr. Clark's desk when everyone else had left.

"Is it here!" Mike excitedly asked

"Sorry to be the bearer of bad news boys." Mr Clarke said sadly "but.....It came!" He said tricking them.

The boys open the Av club door and crazily admired the radio they spent weeks dreaming about.

"I bet you could talk to New York on this thing!" Mike said

"Think bigger." Mr Clarke responded

"California?"

"Bigger!"

Dylan was amazed "Australia!" He said which Mr Clarke nodded too.

"Man when Will sees this he's gonna blow he's shit!" Lucas said excited forgetting Mr. Clarke was a teacher.

"Lucas!" Mr Clarke said sternly

"Sorry." Lucas looked down a bit containing his laughter. The boys were joking around pretending to talk to Australia in a Aussie accent when the AV club door opened showing the principal and chief Jim hopper, Dylan locked eyes with Hopper and knew something was wrong,

"Can I get Lucas, Mike, Dustin, and Dylan for just a moment please." The principal asked Mr. Clarke, Dylan didn't waste a second, rushing out the AV club doors and following Hopper.

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The boys were in the principals office, all sitting on the couch, Mike and Dylan in the middle with Dustin and Lucas next to them. They were just told the worst news. Will was missing. Lucas, Dustin, and Mike were all talking at the same time confused on what was going on.

Dylan just sat there mortified, he was right. Will was in trouble. It was his fault. His thoughts were cut short by Lucas and Dustin arguing about the hobbit?

"I said that I know it." Hopper said leaning forward in his chair.

"We can help look!" Mike said "Yea!" "Yep!"

Hopper then cut them off raising his voice "no, you are all to go home, that means no late night bike rides, or looking for your friend!.....do you understand?" Hopper said sternly, which the boys nodded too.

"Yes sir." All of them said quietly

They then were excused but Dylan stayed behind and waited for Hopper to notice him, after a bit Hopper looked at him.

"Chief? He's not lost." Dylan said picking at the skin on his thumb not looking Hopper in the eyes

Hopper immediately turned to Dylan and walked to him. "What do you mean?" Hopper asked the boy.

"Will knows this town like the back of his hand, he also knows the woods, he couldn't have gotten lost! Something happened! I know it!" Dylan was rambling nervously, before Hopper crouched down to his level and put a hand on his shoulder comfortingly.

"Hey! I promise I will find your friend alright, don't worry. Now go, don't want you to be late for your next class." Dylan then looked at hopper and walked out the door.

Hopper had always cared for the boy, ever since he found him that day on the road, he has always questioned where the hell that boy came from and how the hell he ended up with those injuries.

Dylan came walking out and was surprised when he saw Mike. "What are you still doing here?" Dylan questioned Mike, "waiting for you." Mike then hugged Dylan. Dylan was surprised by the hug but hugged him back. "Everything's going to be okay. Okay?" Mike said

"Yea okay." Dylan said to Mike with a faint smile feeling a bit better but dread and guilt still piled over him and Dylan felt it for the rest of school and when he got home.

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Dylan was now laying in his bed his mind flooding with thoughts, *what happened?* *is will okay?* *it's my fault.* Dylan then heard a slight voice on his  super comm he picked it up and heard Mike

*Dylan! It's Mike do you copy, over* said Mike

*Yea, I copy what's up* Dylan responded

*Get a jacket and supplies we're going to look for will, coming to your house now, over and out!* Mike then turned his walkie off

Dylan didn't waste a second he grabbed his yellow rain jacket and put his converse back on, then he grabbed his bag and opened his window. He looked around, used his powers to safely get down from his window on the second floor, he then grabbed his bike and saw the boys in the distance and rode to them. They then went to the forest by Mirkwood to look for will.

—————————————————————-Didn't mean to make this so short 😭 but the next chapter is longer I promise.