Will POV
I curl up into my bed and play the playlist that I made when I realized that I loved Mike. It had songs that remind me of him and remind me of our love, or in this case what our love was. I shouldn't have ended it so suddenly, but there is no way we can stay together in today's society. Cooper and Troy will never leave us alone if we stay together and try to be public about relationship, and I'm not sure that u have the energy to hide ourselves forever.
I just have drifted off, because when I hear the door open, my hair is a mess and I have drool rubbing down my cheek.
"Will! I'm home!" I hear my mom yell. I can hear her footsteps through the living room and down the hallway until there is a knock at the door.
"Will, honey, can I come in?" she asks.
"Yeah." I squeak out, still covered by a blanket. I hear the door creak open.
"Where's Mike? What's wrong?" she asks, sitting down next to me.
"Mike went home." I cry.
"Why?" she asks.
"B - because I broke up with him. I broke up with him." I repeat, sobbing
"Oh, honey. Why? What happened?" she asks, worriedly.
"T - Troy and Cooper egged our house and yelled at us just because we're gay, a - and I told Mike that we can't be together." I say, loudly sobbing between words.
"Oh, Will. I'm so sorry. Breakups are one of hardest things that you'll have to deal with in your life, especially your first one." she says, trying to comfort me, but all I can think about is Mike and the way his face fell when I said we should break up.
"I know b - but I still love him." I cry.
"I know. Take us much time as you need, Will. I'll bring you some dinner and desert." she says.
"No thanks, I'm not hungry." I say, the thought of eating making me sick to my stomach.
"Okay. Call me in if you need anything." she says, kissing me on the head and walking out of the room, shutting the door behind her.
I continue to cry and listen to music for hours and hours as a million memories with Mike come flooding back into my head every time I try and force myself to fall asleep.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mike POV
The rain hits me violently as I try to bike as fast as I can home, my vision being blurred with the rain and tears. Mostly tears, though.
When I get home, I slam my bike into the wall of the garage and run into my house, ignoring my mom who is calling my name repeatedly as I slam my door, falling into my bed. A little while later, I hear Nancy's voice calling my name from outside the door. I tell her to come in, and I can hear her gasp a little when she sees me crying and a few things knocked off my shelf in anger.
"What's wrong?" she asks.
"Will broke up with me because of how bad we are getting bullied at school." I tell her.
"Oh, Mike. I'm so sorry. Do you need anything?" I ask. Just as I'm about to tell her to leave, my dad walks in.
"Finally you're home. Where have you been?" he asks, angrily.
"Wills house." I say.
"You need to stay away from that fag, Mike. He's pressuring you into pretending like you like him." he says, ripping the blankets off of me.
"Stop saying that. I like boys and girls, and there is nothing wrong with that. Plus, we broke up." I say sadly.
"Good. Boys shouldn't be together romantically." he says, my blood boiling. I stand up and come face to face with a man who I once saw as a father figure, now just a weak old man.
"Stop. Saying. That." I yell right in his face. Before I can dodge out of the way, he punches me right in the face. I hear Nancy gasp and she claps her hands over her mouth, tears immediately coming out of her eyes.
"Dad! Stop!" she says, just before he hits me again in the same spot. This one hurts so bad that my vision becomes blurred and I fall into the floor, blacking out.
I don't remember anything until I see Nancy standing over me and putting a pillow under my head and placing an ice pack on my right eye as I wince in pain.
"W - what happened?" I ask.
"Dad he - he hit you really hard and you fell." she says, tears running down her cheeks.
"He - he's never hit me before. I can't believe he did that." I cry.
"I know, Mike. God, I'm so sorry. Let's move you up to the bed and you can rest." she says. She helps me stand up and my vision is blurry until I'm laying down. She covers me with a blanket and puts the ice pack on my eye like I'm a little kid. I feel like a little kid right now.
"I'll be right back." she says. She returns a few minutes later with a pint of cookie dough ice cream, my favorite along with a spoon.
"Thanks, Nance." I say, opening up the ice cream and taking a bite.
"Mike, this day must be the worst, and I know you probably have a lot on your mind, so if you need to talk to me, that's fine. I've been through breakups, so I know what it's like. It sucks. A lot. I know how close you and Will were and how much you love each other. Nothing is going to change that, Mike. Not even bullies." she says, my heart feeling like it just shattered into a million pieces.
"Thank you, Nancy. That means a lot." I say, placing the ice cream down next to my and crying into her shoulder and she rubs my back like she used to when I got sad.
YOU ARE READING
confused - byler
Fanfiction"It's just, sometimes I feel like I'm still going a little crazy." "Well, how about we keep going crazy together." *takes place in the fall of their freshman year - will and el did not move away and this does not follow any of the events of season f...
