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The news Caroline received last night had made the 17-year-old girl feel so much pain, this news made her hurt more than it did when she found out about her father's passing.

Flashback *last night*

Caroline had returned home after spending a few hours with Mike and El. Her famous lasagne had put a smile on both the kid's faces. She played a few games with them and tried her best to cheer up Mike, even if it was only for a few minutes all she wanted was to see the boy smile again. El, on the other hand, was warming up the Newby girl more than she realized. Whenever the boy would go to the bathroom or go fetch something the two girls would always silently snicker about something, those were some of the few moments both the girls had smiled or even laughed that day.

Later that night she was busy watching a movie in the living room when she heard multiple ringing sounds coming from her doorbell, showing that whoever was at the door needed to see her urgently. She, put her bowl of popcorn down on the coffee table, stood up from her comfortable position on the couch and walked over to the door. She unlocked the door, twisted the handle and was met by a forlorn-looking Lucas and Dustin from the lights that were on the steps to her door she could see the bloodshot red eyes that both the boys had she immediately stepped aside and let them in.

" Guys... what happened? Why're you crying?" Care asked in concern as the boys sat on the armchair with their elbows resting on their laps and their faces in their hands taking deep breaths trying to calm themselves down so that they could at least speak.

" When-when we went looking for Will again. We... we saw c...cop cars d...driving to the quarry." Dustin stuttered

" When we got there, there... there was an ambulance and they were lifting a...a...a body out." Lucas explained as calmly he could but his voice cracked and he stuttered now and then.

" Don't tell me..." Care begged as glossy tears began to fill her eyes.

" They... the... they found Will!" Dustin spoke the devastating news to the blonde.

Her heart shattered into millions of pieces and tears began to stream down her cheeks. She had never felt such a huge lump in her throat in 4 years. She held in the big sob for she didn't want the neighbors to worry but all she did was bite her lip as her face went red and tears fell down her face once more.

" Come here, guys." She instructed the boys right before the two boys jumped into her arms and started sobbing into her shoulders. Her sweatshirt was getting filled with salty tears and icky snot but she couldn't care less. What hurts the most was that she blamed herself for his death. She was there the day Joyce came home with the newborn boy, she and Valerie had spent the day at the Byers comforting a nervous and scared Jonathan Byers. When the four turning five-year-olds first saw him they instantly fell in love with the boys' adorable baby features and wanted to make sure he was always happy no matter what.

Caroline was there for the Family when the parents were fighting, she and Jonathan had made a mixtape for the youngest Byers boy and played it to him, showing him all the latest tunes that she and Jonathan had found that would interest him. But alas she would never be able to have those small moments with him or bike rides or even when they competed on Dig Dug to see who could get the highest score. Will has and will always think of her as a sister when he first started talking he thought that Caroline was his actual sister that was until he grew up and realized the truth. But this loss was going to drive Caroline off the edge down the cliff of sadness and despair and she would drown in the lake of misery her contagious smile going with her.

After a few moments of crying and sobbing Caroline changed her sweatshirt and drove the boys home.

When she got back she slammed the door shut then slid down it, wrapped her arms around her knees and cried, sobbed into them, not caring about how much noise she was making. Alexis was currently asleep, not knowing about the nights events but Bethanie, on the other hand, couldn't sleep due to the strong meds she had to take and came down the stairs to find her eldest daughter crying by the front door and immediately rushed over to her and held her with her good arm, Caroline let g of her knees and wrapped her arms around her mother waist and sobbed even more than before, stroking her blonde brown hair Bethanie cooed at the calamitous 17-year-old girl saying that 'she will be ok' or that 'Will is in a better place now' but Bethanie knew that nothing she said would change how Caroline would feel forevermore.

*End of Flashback*

A/N

Ok, I feel/know that this was short but I had to summarise the last minutes of episode 3 as a chapter.

Signing out

- Miss Swan