Chapter Twenty Three | Not A Goodbye
Three months went by so quickly. Hawkins got over every single news channel about the Mind Flayer raided our small town, and about how we saved it, but they didn't know our names.
Now I sit in Will's lounge, packing away things with Max. Since Hopper didn't make, and Joyce wanted a break from Hawkin's, she decided they'd move away for a bit.
Of course, we were all devastated about it. Also in those three months time, Will and I kissed somewhere in between and have been inseparable basically ever since. I felt a bit like El and Mike.
El was moving with Will, Jonathan, and Joyce. Joyce wanted to take El in and raise her, too.
"Turn around," Max and I begin to sing. "Look at what you see, in her face, the mirror of her dreams, rhythms that keep their secrets! Will unfold behind the clouds,"
Max cuts me off from singing any more. "Wait, did we get that verse right? Its unfold behind the clouds?" Max teased.
Across from us was Dustin giving us a bitch face look, sitting amongst the boxes. "Yeah, but you're butchering it, so could you please stop?" Dustin complained.
"So then join in, Dusty-bun," I give him a blow air kiss.
"Yeah, come on, Dusty-bun," Max nods her head. "Why don't you join us?"
"You guys are so funny, you should be on Carson," Dustin remarked, packing away some things for the Byers family.
"Can't we just hear your rendition?" Max pleaded.
"No," Dustin replied sharply.
"Please? Just one verse," I begged, lacing my fingers together and holding them up, an appose to begging.
"No," Dustin states. "No way. It's reserved for Suzie's ears and Suzie's ears alone."
Max and I looked at each other, smirks forming on our face. "Turn around! Look at what you see," Dustin gives us the finger, waving it around the air making me click my hands and rolling shoulders.
That's when I noticed my boyfriend, Will, walking in with some books and placing it on top of the box.
"Shut up, you guys," Dustin groaned and I quickly stood up. I walked towards Will, trailing off my singing as I reached him.
"Woah, dude, that's the donation box," Mike suddenly said to Will.
"I know." Will nodded. "I'll just use yours when I come back. I mean, if we still wanna play."
I looked down and saw that D&D sat there on the box. "Yeah, but, what if you want to join another party?" Mike asked.
Will smiled and looked over at me and Mike. "Not possible,"
Mike chuckles and Will grabbed my hand before dragging me to his room. I checked my jacket pocket to see if my going away present was still there.
Thankfully, it was.
"So I kind of have something for you." I begin to tell Will and he turns to me, stopping in his tracks and frowned. "I've got the first present and second present with me,"
Will shakes his head. "You didn't have to-"
I stepped forward, closing the gap between us and lock our lips together. He kissed back instantly, his hand touching my cheek carefully.
I pulled away and smiled. "That was your first present." I pulled out the tiny jewellery box. "This is your second one."
"Seriously, you didn't have to-"
"Shut up Byers and open the present," I giddily say, jumping up and down a few times. I watched him open up to reveal a silver and gold necklace that matched up to a love heart. "You don't have to wear it, I just brought because I thought-"
He cut me off by quickly kissing me. It was a small peck. "I love it and I'll wear it until I die." One of the heart says his only and the others reads her's only.
"Um, I'll take his only," I tell him, taking it out of the box and put it on. "It only makes sense."
Will smiled. "Yeah." He takes the silver one out. "Um, can you put it on me?" I smiled and nodded, putting the box back inside my pocket and taking the golden heart. I put the necklace around his neck and clip it the back.
"There, perfect." I clapped my hands for no particular reason.
"Hey, Will?" Jonathan suddenly stepped in. "We're finished and leaving now." Will's face dropped and he laced our hands in together.
I was getting emotional, you could say. My boyfriend and one of my best friends were leaving us.
There were hugs. Lingering hugs you could say. I hugged Joyce first, and she rubs my back a few times. "Goodbye, sweetheart." She murmurs. "We'll see you soon, okay?"
I nodded. "Bye, Joyce," I whisper and pulled back. I turned to El, a few tears prickling in my eyes. "El," she wrapped her arms tightly around me, more and more tears streaming down her face.
"I'm going to miss you so much," El sobbed. "I'm gonna miss all of you." A huge lump formed in my throat.
"I love you, okay, El?" I tell her and she nodded, pulling me back.
"I love you too," she smiled through her tears and turned to Lucas.
Will had walked over to me and wrapped his arms around me, a huge sob left his mouth. "Damn, I didn't realise it would be this hard. I never want to let you go."
"Neither," I whisper, gripping onto him. "At least we can use Cerebro to contact each other, am I right?"
Will chuckled. "God old Cerebro."
"Will?"
"Yes?" He whispered back, turning to look at me. I kiss him, knowing the others were watching but I didn't care. He kissed back, after a few seconds of kissing I pulled back. "I love you."
Tears streamed down my face and I let out a happy laugh. "You dingus, I was going to say that." I sniffled. "I love you too."
Will kissed my forehead, letting it linger a few. "Remember, this isn't a goodbye," Will tells me, pulling back.
I smiled through the tears and nodded. "It's a see you later." Will then gathered everyone for one last finally group hug. It was for a few moments before Joyce pulled apart.
"Come on guys," Joyce sniffles. "We have to go now."
Will, El, and Jonathan pull away from the hug. The ones that stayed behind, me, Mike, Max, Lucas, Nancy, Dustin, formed a line. My heart slowly breaks as the Byers family begins to leave town.
El and Joyce were in the moving truck, towing a green car of theirs, with Will and Jonathan in the cream coloured car behind them.
Max wrapped an arm around me and I lean on her, holding my necklace.
Eventually, once the truck and cars were gone, we all said a short goodbye to each other. We hoped on our bikes. Max and I finally got a bike, too. Mine's a bright purple and her one was orange.
Max and I begin to peddle down the streets. "Max," my voice cracked and she looked over at me briefly before keeping her eyes on the road.
"Yes?"
"I'm going to Robin's house." Max nodded and I waved goodbye to her before pulling onto a different street.
Ten minutes later, I dropped the bike outside of Robin's house. I knew her parents weren't home much and that she was mainly home alone but I needed her comfort.
I knocked on the door and a few seconds later she opened it, her eyes turned soft when she saw me break down once again.
"Oh, Aspen," Robin murmured and wrapped her arms around me. "It's going to be okay,"
"But it's not," I sob against her, sniffling. "It's not okay, life's not okay,"
"I know it seems like it at the moment, baby," Robin cooed, rocking me gently back and forward. "But I promise it's going to get better. It may not be tomorrow, or the next day, or the next month... but I promise it will, okay?"
I could only nod, the tears slowly drying out. I've cried too much today. "O-okay," I then closed my eyes, as Robin and I do nothing but hug each other in front of her door.
A/N
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Um this is the last chapter until season four, I'm sorry :(
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