STRANGER THINGS S4/ "ONE MORE TIME"

Chapter 3.- "You really love her"

"Wow Wheeler, I didn't think you were so rude."

Troy scoffed as he circled Mike's neck with his arm, he immediately freed himself very upset. "I don't understand why you should always attack them, leave them alone, just stay away from them or I swear to God ..."

Troy didn't like it when someone challenged him. "¿What Wheeler? ¿What are you going to do? ... Listen Frogface, I don't think you're in a position to tell me what I can and can't do, I have you in my hands and you know what will happen if you don't obey me". Troy's tone was menacing, he had Mike from the collar of his shirt trapped against a tree.

"I've done everything you asked me ... What else do you want from me?" Mike's voice trembled, his eyes dampened.

"You know what I wants Wheeler ... revenge and I decide when all this ends." Troy gave Mike one last push, knocking him to the ground, with a sign he told the rest of the gang to follow him, Mike was left alone.

Mike´s POV

They left leaving me on the floor, tears sprouted from my eyes and I couldn't stop them, I was so tired, so angry and so alone, I felt terrible about what I had done to Dustin but it was the only solution, I knew that what he had in his hands was a prototype, if I didn't do something to distract Troy he would have entered the laboratory and destroyed the real project, I couldn't allow it. I know they've worked months on it.

My heart broke when I saw the look on their faces, they were so disappointed in me, I don't blame them because every morning when I woke up I look in the mirror and it's all I can feel, disappointment, disgust and shame.

I hope that one day they can know the truth, know why I am behaving like this, I hope they can know that I am still the same as before.

These months have been a nightmare, since I broke Eleven's heart I haven't been able to sleep since every time I close my eyes I remember her voice on the phone full of pain, a pain that I was causing, I would rather die than hurt her but I had no choice, I swear I had no choice.

I hate the damn day Troy returned to this school, the first weeks we thought it would be enough to evade him, that maybe being in that intership had changed him but what we didn't know is that he had a very deep resentment and all this time he had been waiting for the moment to take revenge and I gave him the chance to do it, I'm an idiot, maybe if I had been more careful none of this would have happened.

*Flashback ON*

That day the classes were almost over, there was only one more class left, Mike went to his locker to change his books and as always he spent at least 2 minutes admiring a Eleven´s photograph,

it was a "Snowball" polaroid, Jonathan had given it to him and since then he had it in his locker, she looked beautiful in that blue dress, every time he had the chance came back just to admire her, an idiotic smile appeared on his face, if he hadn't been so happy maybe he would have noticed that in the distance Troy was watching him, he could be an idiot but anyone could notice that inside that locker there was something important for Mike, so he had to find out.

The bell rang and Mike was about to commit the biggest oversight of his life, He pushed the door of his locker and went to class without checking that it was really closed.

"You're an idiot Mike Wheeler, I was thinking of flying your locker, forcing the lock or something similar but you made my job easier". Troy thought with a smile on his face as he searched Mike's locker. He needed to find the reason why he spends his minutes with his stupid head inside, he hoped it was something embarrassing or compromising but what he found was something bigger.