Charisma Check Chapter 7 Sneak Peek!
Will searched through his backpack for the third time that morning before letting it drop back onto the floor. Then he resumed pacing his room, checking underneath random stacks of paper and carelessly discarded clothes.
He’d only started using that sketchbook a week ago, so there weren’t many drawings in it yet. But it had been one of the rare gifts Hop had picked out for him that actually made sense. A dark green sketchbook with thick, high-quality pages that Hop had gotten from out of town for his graduation. It couldn’t have been cheap. He’d hate to have lost it.
He usually made sure to remember exactly where every one of his sketchbooks was.
Especially the one he kept locked away in the bedside table.
Had he…
He fished the key out from behind an old picture frame and unlocked the drawer, just in case.
The green sketchbook wasn’t there. The only one in that drawer was blue, its edges worn. Unlike all his other sketchbooks, which had some sort of label or name so he could tell them apart, this one was the only one that didn’t.
Though it was older than most of the others, its color was still almost pristine. It rarely saw daylight, usually leaving its hiding place only after the sun had set and Will was certain no one would suddenly burst into his room.
Sometimes he reached for it when a particularly cold day made him shiver, or when a door banged close too loudly in their house.
Most often, though, he took it out in the middle of the night, when he woke up in a cold sweat from a nightmare.
It had been eighteen months since Will had last added a drawing to that sketchbook.
For anyone just stumbling across this, fic is Charisma Check (DnD is just an excuse for flirting without consequences):
Summer 1989 post-canon fic
Mike randomly includes a mysterious, recurring NPC in one of their campaigns who turns out to be gay and interested in Will - he only gives out information when Will flirts with him ;D
Lucas, Dustin, and Max have to sit through all that
including Surfsahoy and Cleradin crumbs
rainy summer vibes
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