~ Banana split ~~~~ byler

•Chapter one, Hope•

*background information, will is still in Hawkins, he never moved out and is in the "Hellfire club" continuing to be best friends with Lucas, Max, Dustin, and Mike.*
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Will heads down the stairs, panicking.
"Shit, shit, shit. Im gonna be late." he dashes out the doors and reaches his bike.

"Finally will, you took FOREVER." Dustin complained, "Yeah, you dont think I know that?! Let's just go,"
"What even took you so long?" Lucas asks,
"I was using the restroom?" Will responds slightly annoyed.
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*More background information:*
→ Will is 15
→Mike is 16
→Lucas is 16
→Dustin is 15
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Lucas notices the slight voice change, "Geez, I was just asking will," Will rolls his eyes at Lucas.
"Well, here we are!" Mike sighs pushing the door open.
Mike looks at Lucas, shifts his eyes to Dustin, and finally, Will, he was looking him up and down. "Well, what are we waiting for?" Mike chuckles. Will walks in first, Mike holding the door for him, and he walks in behind him.
Lucas and dustin follow, stopping the almost closed, slow, push doors. As soon as they got in, they started to look around for Eddie Munson, the leader of this club. "Well, well, well, look whos late, and you know how I am when you guys are late." Eddie raised his tone a little , there was a long silence, you could only hear the crickets hopping. After the silence he bursts into a laugh, "Just kidding! Oh? Whos this new fella? " He asks welcoming, stepping off the table.

"Oh.. uh--I'm Will! I really love DnD and my friends introduced me to this club!" Will shyly introduces himself. After the long silence he looks at the floor and reconsiders what he could of said, " I-uhm, I wanted to join this, club.. If possible!" Eddie looks at him and then back to Lucas and dustin.
"Well, your in the right place, Will... whats your last name?" He blurts out, curious. "I- well uhm.. Byer-.."
"Well, you're in the right place little Byers!" Eddie says, interrupting him.

Mike notices Will blushing, and gets worried, knowing he is a shy boy
"Hey, uhm, Will, you ok?" Mike whispers over to him, "Oh- yeah Mike! Just fine!" Will whispers back reassuring him.
blushing, he looks down the other way, away from mike.
"WELL, how about, we enter the chamber, whos your DnD character Will??" Eddie interrupts, saving will from the awkward moment.
"I'm called Will the wise.. I play him in DnD!" Will says.
"Will the wise! Sha'll we? " He says in a low-pitched voice.
He nods and takes a seat next to mike and Dustin
~~~~~~~30 Minutes in ~~~~~~~
"Shit, shit, SHIT! What if its Vecna? Ohhh, we are SO. DEAD. If it is Vecna," Dustin quickly murmurs panicking.
"Its not Vecna! He. is. dead." Lucas sighs.
Eddie smirks holding a toy vecna behind his back and reveals him
he places Vecna on the board, "Vecna is BACK!"
"WHATTT?!?! Isnt he dead??!" Lucas gasps in disbelief.
"So it was thought, So. it. was. thought." Eddie grins

~~ 20 Minutes Later~~

"A moment eddie, please." Dustin says, holding a hand up. Eddie nods and smirks "Whatever you say"
He sits down grinning, and the group members go to talk. "Mike, how much health do you have??" Dustin asks, "I'm dead."
"12" Mike says putting his hand over his face.
"Oh Shit. We are so dead, it takes a perfect 20 roll to kill this son of a bitch." Dustin says, stressed out.
"I-I've got a 14!" Will blurts out determined. "Come on Will, we need luck on our side, we shouldn't take the challenge,
lets just run!" Lucas follows.
"Yeah! We'll never beat him!" Dustin shouts. "I think hes right!" Mike continues disapprovingly and looks down.

"No, no, no, Are you guys even HEARING yourselves? Mike, you got this, no matter what. Nothing can stop us. We may need luck, but i'm determined we, You, can do this. Same goes with the others!" Will says, determined and holds mikes stressed arm.
"Y-you really think?" Mike stares at wills hand on his arm while blushing. He grins, happily.
"Yeah, really?" Lucas follows, as a slight smile forms on his face.
"Think? No. I know." Will reassures his friends.
"Might as well hit this Son of a bitch where it hurts." Dustin says looking at Eddie and back at his friends.
"You guys done yet?" Eddie shouts across the room, growing impatient. "Yeah! Just finished" Dustin yells, running back to the table taking a seat.
"So, what will it be? Will you run away?" Eddie smirks. "No." Will says determined.
Eddie looks at Will and admires his determination, "thats new," he whispers under his breath, smirking. He passes Mike the dice, catching it, mike shakes it, for a long time.. until, he rolls...

"6" Eddie grins and picks up the dice, passing it off to Will.
"You've got this, Will, believe." Mike whispers to him and walks off with the others.

"Believe" Will thinks to himself. He has hope, he shakes the dice for a good, long, time.
Then Boom, The clicking of the dice on the table. the suspense of the dice stopping.
It was almost. Just almost. as if the time stopped. The world was spinning around Will. Wondering, what he had got
Everyone was in a cold sweat. Wills heartbeat had sped up a tiny bit. Dustin covers his eyes and tries not to look. But Will, STILL. had Hope.

v ~~~To Be Continued~~~ v