𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗳𝗳𝘆- Byler Oneshots

love will always hurt

-I'm heartbroken and a will kinnie so y'all know where this is going ☹️
-insecurities, self hatred, and comfort
-the comfort isn't from Mike though, it's from someone else
-I started liking this person and the moment I thought they started liking me back they fell for someone else..but enough about me, enjoy the oneshot

It hurt.

Everything hurt.

But Will wasn't allowed to complain, he was too much of a coward to express how he felt.

It hurt knowing he genuinely thought Mike liked him back.

Just to realize he didn't.

Mike was his best friend, so why can't he just be happy for him and his new girlfriend? That's what a good friend would do.

But Will wasn't a good friend.

He was jealous, so fucking jealous.

He remembered the way his heart dropped when Mike told him he started dating this girl. How happy his best friend seemed. And Mike deserved to be happy.

It's not fair.

Will wished he had said something. Will wished he had told Mike how he really felt. What might've been if he was just honest.

But yet here we are.

Will was a bad friend for being jealous of his best friends new girlfriend. But he shouldn't be, he should just drop his feelings.

If only it were that easy.

He asked his other friends for icks to get over his pathetic crush. Nothing worked, he was already head over heels.

He had seen Mikes crushes come and go. Each one hurt a little, knowing he'd never be able to have Mike infatuated with him like that.

He had stayed in his room for a while after Mike called him and updated him on his relationship status. He couldn't even get up, he was so sad. He couldn't keep track of the time.

This was fucking pathetic.

So depressed over stupid feelings.

So sensitive.

His step sister, Jane Hopper, walked into his room and gave him a little smile. "Mama and Papa are worried about you. You missed dinner. What's wrong?"

There it was.

Those two words were the motion for his body to let all his feelings spill out. Tears formed at the waterline of his eye, eventually falling over his cheeks. "What happened?" Jane asked once she sat on the bed.

"I'm so stupid and sensitive. I shouldn't let Mike control my emotions like this, god this whole thing is just pathetic."

"What did he say to you?!" Janes eyebrows creased, a sign that she was starting to get angry, "I swear I'm gonna kill h-"

"It's not him! He's innocent, he didn't do anything. It's my fault I'm letting him control me like this, all over my stupid crush. I just wanna curl up in a ball and die."

He could just tell that puzzle pieces were clicking in Janes mind. Her expression softened when she looked up at him, "Crushes suck. I've definitely been there, trust me. One day you're gonna look back at Mike and realize he's not all that...relationship wise, I mean."

Those words were comforting yet haunting. Was there a chance this little crush would last the rest of his life? Watching Mike enter and leave relationships would be pure torture.

He isn't strong enough to tell Mike how he really feels and now he's paying the consequences. All the times people had told him to just ask him out and see what happened, he regretted brushing them off. He should've said something.

But what if that ruined their friendship? Losing a friend would be worse than a crush rejecting you. He hated how well Mike knew him and his emotions. He could always tell when somethings wrong.

That's what makes him so perfect.

That's what makes him so horrible.

He wished he had never even began to think of Mike as a romantic interest. Then none of this heartache would happen.

AN// me? Projecting onto Will?? Pshhh, never...

it's not fair, why couldn't I tell them how I felt 😕