Cherry Wine| Max Mayfield

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The group all watched as El yanked her blind fold off with heavy breathing as Clove passed her a glass of water

"What's he doing now?" Max asked the girl

"And that's not normal right?" Nancy asked moments later after El told them what was going on and went to the kitchen for another glass of water

"Billy staying in his room on the forth of July? No that's not normal" Max shook her head

"He wants us to find him" Will nodded

"Yeah that's what i'm afraid of. If we go to Billy then the rest of the flayed know where we are" Nancy said

"It's a trap, I agree. We'll be ambushed" Mike said as Clove looked up at him. Mike stood a lot taller then he did last summer.

"No, we won't be surprised. They'll know that we're coming and we will kick their flayed butts" Lucas said as Clove gave him a weird look

"Okay but what if there's more than what we think? El's powers are already weakening from how much she's spyed on people the last couple of days... there could be more flayed then we think" Clove said as she pulled the blanket around her more

"Cloves right, it's too risky" Jonathan nodded

"Yeah and unnecessary. Killing the flayed won't stop the mind flayed, we have to find out where it's spreading from. We have to find the source" Nancy told the younger teens

"Billy knows it. Billy's been there, to the source" El spoke as she walked back into the room

"Wait it's a actually place? Not just a feeling?" Clove asked as El nodded

"Dark with water" El said as Clove frowned her eyebrows before she felt a pang in her stomach and a flash of discomfort flew over her face as Lucas caught that

"Yeah but-" Mike began but El cut him off

"It's a trap, I know. We can't go to Billy but I think there's another way" El said as she looked at everyone in the room

"Hey, um Clove?" Lucas asked minutes later as he followed the girl into the hallway

"Oh sorry, I was just gonna grab my jacket I left here before El starts" Clove said as she nodded toward El's bedroom door

"Oh yeah right, I just... Is something bothering you?" he asked as Clove frowned her eyebrows

"Aside from the mind flayer being out there possibly again.. i'm fine" Clove joked as Lucas chuckled

"No but really... somethings felt really different" Lucas as as Clove looked down

"Yeah just a lot is going on you know? Since last year my mind has been in so many places and I swear to god Lucas I think I might be going insane sometimes but then I remember it's a proven fact that if you went insane you wouldn't-" Clove began to ramble but was cut off

"Clove, Clove... shh" Lucas as she he grabbed her shoulders making her sigh loudly and nod

"Just breath a little. I'm here for you okay? You mean more to me then you think" Lucas said as Clove began to smile before hugging him. When they walked back to the living room, El put the blind fold over her eyes as she sat infront of the static tv. Clove grabbed Max hand as she gripped the yellow jumper in her other. They watched intensely before El began to panic

"What wrong? El!" Clove began to move toward her

"No stop! Hang on!" Nancy said while stopping the girl