Just Friends - Byler

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"You don't have to tell me if you're not comfortable with it." Mike said from the basement couch, Will had another nightmare that night.

"Thank you Mike." Will choked out from all the tears running down his face. His nose was bleeding and his eyes were bloodshot. Mike went to sleep in the basement with Will to keep a close eye on him. Will woke up screaming bloody murder.

"NO! NO! NOOO!!!" He sobbed. The pictures fell off the basement walls to the floors. Oddly it was only pictures of Mike and Will he drew.

"Will, what's wrong?!" Mike asked, in total shock from hearing his best friend scream at the top of his lungs. Will opened his eyes and looked back at Mike still crying.

"Mike?" He asked.

"Yes Will?" Mike asked in his gentle tone. He put his hand on Wills shoulder to attempt to comfort him a little bit.

"I-I saw you..." he whispered.

"Wh-what did you see?" All Will did was close his eyes. "What did you see Will?" He rose his voice causing Will to flinch. Mike tightened his grip on Wills shoulder. "I'm sorry...you don't have to tell me if you don't want to." He sighed. Mike got up from the couch and picked up Wills sketchbook. He turned to the page where Wills most recent drawing was. "Were you back there?" He faced the sketchbook towards Will and pointed to the drawing, Will didn't answer. "Come on Will! You have to answer me, I want to help!" He's finally lost it, he shouted at Will to tell him what happened. Will didn't answer. He sighed loudly and walked upstairs with a, "we have to tell Joyce!" Wills eyes shot up to the basement steps where Mike was marching up to.

"NO DON'T!" The door slammed shut.

Mike slowly turned around to look at Will, his eyes were filled with tears and his nose was running a deep red, falling onto his upper lip. He looked like he was just about to faint, and that he did. He fell to the ground with an agonizing scream. Wills head was pounding and he couldn't stop it, he lost a lot of blood from his nose. Mike ran to the phone to dial 911, after he was done calling an ambulance he rushed over to Mike.

"It'll be okay, you'll be okay." He whispered to Will. What the hell was that... he thought to himself as he latched onto Wills hand. Not on purpose though, he just felt it was the right thing to do at the moment.

"Micheal, why is there paramedics here?" Karen shouted in worry.

"I'll explain later! Get Joyce, Will needs her!" Mike shouted with a teary voice.

With no time to waste Joyce walked down to the basement to see the horrific scene. She clasped her hands over her mouth and gasped.

"Oh my god-Will!" She ran up to him. "Honey, speak to me! Are you alright?"

She lifted up Wills head, he was now loopy from the amount of pain in his head. She hugged onto Will and attempted to walk him upstairs to the ambulance, Mike put Wills other arm around his shoulder and held onto Wills hand so he didn't fall over.

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"Do you know what happened?" Joyce breathed out.

"No...he just, got angry." Mike said, looking closely at Will with squinted eyes. He stared at Will who had an IV in his arm and tubes in his nose to help him keep a steady breathe. The doctor walked into the room with a clipboard and started asking questions.

"It seems he had a lot of bloodloss, does he take any drugs you know of?" The doctor questions.

Joyce shot her tired eyes up to the doctor in shock, "no no no, my-my Will wouldn't do that." Her glassy eyes glanced over at Will.

"Okay, I see. It looks like it was just caused by stress then. Whomever or whatever caused it he should stay away to lower his stress levels ma'am." He glared over to Mike, when he said the word whomever. "Anyways, there's no major damage to the brain or anything like that so your son and his boyfriend will be out shortly. The doctor glared at Mike in disgust before walking away. Mike didn't try and deny it when the doctor called Will his boyfriend he actually quite liked it, even if the doctor meant it in a rude way. Mike looked away from the doctors eyes and back to Will.

"I don't think the people who work here like me very much." Mike chuckled, trying to brighten the mood. It was quiet until the rest of the party barged into the cold room with balloons and cards and all of Wills favorite stuff. Will lifted his head up, that didn't have a pounding feeling in it anymore. His throat still hurt from yelling mostly all day though, even in his sleep.

"Hey pretty." Mike teased Will, getting confused looks from the party and Joyce. "I-it was a joke we have." Mike tried to explain himself. Everyone shrugged and looked away from Mikes tomato red face.

"I'm so glad you're okay Will, I heard you lost a lot of blood!" Max hugged.

"I heard you and Mike had a fight, again." Lucas pushed Wills shoulder over in a playful manner.

Dustin handed over the cards and balloons to Will and took out a bunch of snacks, "sorry dude, I got hungry!" Dustin said when he saw Wills face of confusion when he handed Will a half empty bag of nacho cheese Doritos. Eleven sat in the corner of the room flipping through a magazine.

"You gonna say hello?"Max retorted as she walked over to Eleven.

"I don't think he likes me..." Eleven whispered in sadness, looking down at her shoes and playing with the strings.

"I swear he likes you, he can't hate you El." Max laughed and pulled Eleven up to walk over to Will.

When Will saw El he smiled widely and leaned over, halfway off the hospital bed, to hug her. He didn't know why he was so happy to see her, he just was.

Maybe she can help me with whatever's going on.

A/N :
Sorry for the long wait, I've been pretty busy with school. 19 days till stranger things season 4!! I can't wait :) Also Happy Mothers Day! ( I wrote this previously )

Time written: May 7, 2022 4:46 p.m
Word count: 1090