Just Friends - Byler

XV

"Where's everyone else?" Will asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Shopping. I didn't want to go!" Holly danced happily around Will and Mike.

Mike sighed and smiled at Holly then looked at Will. Will at Mike and went over to Holly, "hey hey, calm down crazy! What do you wanna do?" He asked Holly.

"Coloring!" Holly jumped up and down and grabbed Wills hand to lead him to where her drawing supplies are. She took out a big box of crayon and lots of paper and coloring books. Will laughed and let go of Hollys hand to wave Mike over. Mike smiled, maybe it was ok and Will wasn't actually that mad at him. He still wasn't over it, he still felt deep down that Will was mad at him, which was not true.

"You wanna color with us Mikey?" Holly smiled and handed Mike a piece of paper and a smaller box of crayons. She grabbed a paper and black crayon for herself and started drawing what looked like three people. She drew the smallest person with pigtails and the tallest one with messy longish hair. The second shortest person had a short mushroom cut. "Look at my drawing Mikey!" Holly pointed at her paper.

"That's so good Holly!" Mike smiled at her. "Who are they?"

"Thats you, Will, and me, silly!" Holly laughed and flipped through her coloring book.

"That's amazing Holly." Will looked at the drawing and patted her on top of her head.

Holly smiled and started coloring a picture of a cat in her coloring book. She grabbed an orange, brown, black, and green crayon. Holly was peacefully drawing with her orange crayon, Will was next to Mike drawing a picture of the man in his so called 'dream'.

"Who's that Will?" Mike raised an eyebrow at Wills drawing. It was too detailed to not be real, but Will was a very talented artist.

"Oh...it's um-it's..." Will couldn't find the words to explain his drawing. He only had one excuse since he was never good at making them and that one excuse stopped working not that long ago. "I don't know, it's just a random character I guess." Will tried to not make eye contact, people tend to tell when he was lying with the eye contact he made with them. He always blinked too much and his face got overly red.

"Are you sure it's nothing?" Mike put a hand on Wills shoulder, making him feel butterflies dancing in his stomach.

"I said I'm fine Mike!" Will snapped, "you don't need to be worried." Will quieted his voice once he saw Holly jump.

"Would you like me to make you something Holly?" Mike interrupted the awkward moment after a long while of silence and stood up from his seat.

"Yes yes yes!" Holly got up, dropping her crayons and danced around Mike.

Mike placed a fake smile on his face, hugged Holly, then walked out of the living room to the kitchen.

"I'm- I'm gonna go help him, Holly." Will awkwardly smiled and got up.

"Okay, bye-bye Will!" Holly smiled and went back to coloring her drawing of an orange cat.

Will entered the kitchen and sighed before speaking, "Mike look, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to flip out like that. I'm just stressed...about something."

"And you can't tell me?" Mike sounded hurt. "We've been best friends since kindergarten, please don't say you can't tell me whats wrong with you now!"

"Mike, it's hard to explain." Will started pacing the kitchen and running his hands through his hair."

"What makes you think I won't understand?" Mike started getting defensive now.

"Mike...it's not that...it's-"

"What-what is it Will?!" Mike was getting angrier by the second, uncontrollably mad.

"It's-it's...I can't say it, please understand." Will was on the verge of tears, trying to find the words to say.

"I can't do this Will, I can't live life on a bunch of lies. We can't keep secrets!" Mike set down the bread and walked over to me, getting closer and louder.

"Us?! What about us, Mike. What lie are you not telling exactly!?" Will shoved into Mikes chest and yelled.

"This isn't about me!" Mike tried to avoid Wills questions.

"No- no, if you want me to so badly tell the truth all the time, I think you should too! What's your secret?!" Will threw his hand down to his side, annoyed.

"I guess we both have something we can't tell each other." Mike backed away, looking defeated.

Mike walked back over to the counter and continued making Holly a sandwich. Tears were spilling out of Wills eyes like a river.

"We can't keep doing this Mike..." Will stood next to Mike, who was now cutting Hollys sandwich in half.

"What, fighting?" Mike laughed, even though he didn't find it funny at all.

"Why can't we be like other people, not constantly fighting. I came here to visit you and hang out, not fight!" Will cried.

"I know Will but we're not like other people. You're so special to me and no matter how many times we fight, I'll never stay mad at you." Mike faced Will and smiled at him.

"Thank you Mike." Will stood up on his tippy toes to hug around Mikes neck.

Mike snaked his arm around Wills waist and hugged tightly. After a while, Mike had to let go of the hug to go and give Holly her lunch.

"Were you and Will fighting?" Holly frowned. "I don't want you guys to fight."

"It's ok Holls, we're better now." Mike patted Holly on the head and set her sandwich down in front of her.

Mike set his hand on top of Wills and smiled. "We're good, right?"

"Yeah, we're good Mike." Will blushed from Mike basically holding onto his hand.

"Ok, good." Mike said in a sigh of relief.

A/N:
writers block sucks, this ending sucks, and I don't know where this story is heading to. <3

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