When will you realise (byler)

chapter 3

(Mikes POV)

I- I know i should feel that that i broke up with El (sort of) but i don't well i mean i do it's just it's almost like this weight has been lifted of my shoulder and i can breath freely for the first time in a long time, sine that day that will went missing since then i guess life just hasn't been the same we get attacked by monsters from the upside down at least once a year I know i shouldn't but kind of blame my mom and dad for all of this if they had let us play for just a little longer we would've finished the campaign right then and there Will wouldn't have gone missing we wouldn't have found El. Well i guess it would've still happened we just wouldn't be at the center of it.

"you're packed already?" i hear Will say as i enter his room.

"yeah, i mean i never really unpacked. Thanks by the way.

"for what?" he questions me.

"For knocking some sense into me i mean i was being a total self pitying idiot."

"oh i didn't say it."

"You didn't have to." i say, I feel like telling him everything about the fight but i just can't after all he is her sister now. I can't help but notice how good he looks when he smiles like that a genuine smile that was another thing i missed about him over that year.

"hey, also about the last few days-"

"you don't have to say anything. I- I was being a total jerk to El i deserved it."

"No!" why would he think that was it something i said, was it something i did? "No, no, no. you didn't deserve anything!" why does he look so confused he didn't do anything wrong. It- it was something i did i- i didn't speak to him at the Rink-o-mania, I- I didn't hug him at the airport be- because i was scared i wouldn't want to let go. "listen the truth is the last year has been weird you know? and i mean max and Lucas and Dustin they're great it- it's just it's Hawkins it's not the same without you, and i feel like maybe i was worrying too much about El, and i don't know, maybe i feel like i lost you or something. Does that make sense? I have no idea what's gonna happen next. but, whatever it is, I- I think we should work together. I think it'll be eaiser if we- we're a team. Friends. Best friends."

"cool."

"cool."

We both turn towards the door as Argyle arrives in his surfer boy pizza van.

"that was fast!"

"30 minutes or less."

"All right, you guys ready?"