Chp 32. Talk with Byers

Hawkins Cemetery.

Many people were present here in black clothing for Will's funeral. All his neighbors, teachers and some officers were also present at the funeral. Mike and his friends were also present but their expression were abit weird. Robert sighed as he saw how poor their acting skills were, he felt that he shouldn't have told them about Will's fake death to make them act more realistic.

At the funeral only Will's big brother, Jonathan Byers was present. While Joyce refuses to accept her son's death and kept saying that she just talked to him yesterday. Everyone thought that maybe she is a bit mentally shaken and couldn't handle Will's death. But Robert saw that even Jonathan was a bit absentminded.

He didn't asked him first because of the funeral and waited for people to leave. After few minutes people began to go back but Rosie, who had a crush on Mike came to him and suddenly hugged him. Mike was stunned to be hugged by the girl he likes, while Lucas and Dustin had envy in their eyes and Robert looked at Mike with a teasing smile.

Mike saw his mom and sister were looking at him seriously but their eyes were full of teasing. Although he was embarrassed but didn't push Rosie but hugged her instead. After a few seconds both separated from each other and notice their red faces. "Take care." Rosie said and walked to her friend, who had tears in her eyes as if her boyfriend has died.

From her surface thoughts Robert got to know that this cute girl, Lily Stane had a crush on Will. He didn't expected that anyone would have crush on Will. After everyone left they also began to walk home when suddenly Jonathan call them.

"Wait a minute guys..." He said as he walked towards them, he opened his mouth to say something but hesitated a bit which puzzled everyone.

"What's the matter Jonathan?" May asked seriously. Jonathan saw that everyone was looking at him, he encouraged himself and asked "What if I told you that Will wasn't killed by drowning? Will you believe me?"

Hearing his question although everyone was a bit surprised but more curious, as Jonathan didn't look like a smart person. Jonathan saw that everyone wasn't surprised by his words but were curious which confused him. "What do you mean by that Jonathan?" Karen asked.

"Follow me first" Jonathan saw that their were still few people in the cemetery so he walked where his car was parked. Only after they came out of the cemetery and drove their car to a particular distance did Jonathan talked to them. "It's like this, mom don't believe that Will is dead saying that she just talked to him..." he said with a helpless smile.

"...and she says that a monster was chasing him" He looked at Robert and others and continued "At first even I didn't believed it but yesterday I found a picture that made me believe her" He put a picture on the car and pointed out at a particular spot. Everyone took a closer look, a figure was seen in the picture which looked like human with long claws. If Jonathan hadn't pointed out maybe even Robert won't have notice it.

"...So you feel that Will is also alive?" Robert asked a important question. Hearing his question Jonathan was surprised but soon let out a sad smile and said "I also want to deny Will's death but... I have to take care of mom"

Seeing Jonathan's face which had mix of denial and acceptance, Robert thought that it was better to tell him about all the things they knew. "Jonathan, let go and meet your mom. We have something to tell you both" Robert patted his shoulder and said. Although Jonathan was curious about what Robert wanted to say but he remained silent as he would eventually know about it.

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Byers household.

"So.. you are saying that Will is still alive!!" Jonathan asked in disbelief.

"I knew it that Will is alive. See I told you that I had talked to him" Joyce looked at her eldest son and said proudly. After a few seconds of happiness she asked an important question "But how did you all know about this?"

May and Karen began to tell her about Robert and his friends adventure in the forest for finding Will. Jouce hugged the boys saying thank you repeatedly while Jonathan also thanked them, both were happy for Will to have such nice friends.

Robert and others were embarrassed to get such nice words from someone. Joyce and Jonathan also got to know about Robert having superpowers and the people because of whom Will disappeared. Joyce also wanted to question those guys but Jonathan and others stopped her as telling them won't help Will but instead get us into trouble.

Just as all of them were thinking how to save Will by entering the upside down world, the lights in the room suddenly started to flicker. Looking at the flickering light everyone was puzzled but Joyce showed a happy smile "Will are you okay? Will are you here?" She suddenly took a decorating wire bulbs around the room while shouting Will's name.

"Wait... wait aunt!! Why are you doing this?" Robert stopped and asked her. "Y-You see this light flickering... last time when Will talked to me this light flickered in the same way" Joyce said while moving around the house. Robert also spread his psychic power around the house to notice any abnormalities.

Soon he notice that in the backyard wall of the house was been stretched. "Everyone come with me!!" He yelled and ran to backyard, although others were confuse by his behavior they still followed him. All of them saw Robert staring at the wall, they all saw the wall been stretched out as if something wanted to come out of it.

"W-what is this?" Nancy took two step back and asked with fear. Everyone was also a bit scared to see such a weird scene but Robert didn't seem to be scared but excited. He hoped that the creature from other side would tear open the space so they can easily entered the upside down world but it was hopeless.

After a few minutes of struggle the creature on the opposite side seem to notice that it cannot break the barrier and stopped his actions. Everyone let out a sigh of relief, in the last few minutes the atmosphere was tension because they didn't knew when the monster will come out. Such a stressful atmosphere made the adrenalin their body reach it peak.

"Tsk!!" Suddenly a disappointment voice was heard, turning their head they saw Robert had a annoyed face. "What happened Robert? Why do you have such a face?" May asked.

Robert looked at his mother and then at everyone and sighed "Don't you know what you just miss?" Hearing his question everyone shook their heads. "We just miss the chance to save Will" Robert said seriously while looking at the wall.