The nightmares started years ago. But they never seemed to go away.

The first one came after your brother Will went missing. You were supposed to be there. But you stayed behind to help Mike clean up the D&D game.

And before you knew it, he was gone.

Will had been your other half. Literally. you two were twins, and inseparable. People rarely saw one of you without the other.

But even after Will was found, the nightmares stayed. They were always so real. They looked like memories. Over and over until you woke up in a cold sweat. And you didn't tell anyone. Nobody except Will and.. Mike.

Ah, yes. Mike Wheeler. Your best friend since first grade. Mom used to tell you how when Mike first came over you were all shy and nervous. But you sore up and down you were just a seven year old who never interacted with a boy that wasnt her dad, or one of her brother.

But I digress. You and Mike have been inseparable since. Shared trauma and all that made it hard to leave eachothers side.

Now, you're here. Back from California, trapped in Hawkins after the upside down basically split the place down the middle. The monsters stayed out for a while. But not the goddamn monsters that you lived through. The demogorgons, the mind flayer, (twice. how shitty is that?), and vecna. Vecna was the one thaf plagued your dreams the most.

Like now, you woke up from a particularly nasty nightmare and walked upstairs into the Wheelers kitchen. Then, yoh here soft footsteps. Mike.