The painting ~ byler

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-Will's POV-

March 27 - 10:20

Stupid. I'm so fucking stupid.

Turns out Mike always loved El, and he never stopped. How could I have been so stupid to think otherwise. He's head over heels inlove with her, and I'm just in the background. Maybe if I was normal I could have had a chance, but I'm not. I'm different.

He still believes El told me to make the painting. Truth is she had no idea about it. But I wonder what would have happened if I had just told him how I felt, and that the painting was from me. He would have probably hated me, and I can't bare to loose my best friend... not again. Never again.

My mum and Hopper saved up and managed to buy a big new house near Mikes. That makes it easier for Jonathan to see Nancy and El to see Mike. However I haven't seen El leave her room yet, I'm starting to get worried.

I go to knock on her bedroom door.

"El? It's Will. Can we talk?" I softly speak.

"Yes" she replies, and the door starts to open.

I walk in to see her sat on her bed looking down at a glass bottle.
"Hey what's that?" I ask her. She looks up, gives me a stare then looks back down at it. She looked tired. "What's up?" I try to talk to her again.

"I didn't even get to say goodbye. To Max. What if she's gone... for good?"

"Well she's not. She's still breathing." I try to comfort her. "You can bring her back. I know you can. Why don't you invite Mike over, maybe he could cheer you up."

"I don't want to talk to him."

She doesn't want to see Mike? But I thought they were perfect. Mike said I love you nine times to her. What could possibly be wrong?

I walked out of El's room, mostly confused, but also a bit relived. I know it's bad liking her brother. I wish I didn't. I just can't seem to get over him. But I also couldn't bare to see El like this. So I thought it would be a good idea to invite Mike over to talk to her, and maybe fix their relationship.

I picked up my wallow talkie and took a deep breath before I started speaking.

"Hey, Mike!" I began the conversation happily, hoping he would give the same energy back.

"Oh... hey." He sounded drained. I don't blame him. Everything has gone to shit, I must have been so stupid to be so positive.

"Hey um..." I said a little more slower, "El... she's upset, I was wondering if you wanted to come round?" I paused for a second. "To see El, obviously..."

"Oh... oh yeah! I- um. I didn't think she wanted to see me?" He replied, sounding confused.

"Of course she wants to see you Mike."  I reassured him.

"I'll be round in about an hour, if that's alright. I just gotta do something."

"Oh. Okay! See you later" I immediately put my Walkie down regretting what I said.

I sit down for a bit to watch some tv.

I suddenly get chills on my neck, and I hear a banging from the door.

'Mike?' I thought to myself, he's here early.

I walk up to the door, however the chills were only getting stronger.

I open the door to see Mike standing there.

The chills disappeared.

"Mike? Hey! I thought you were going to be an hour?" I asked him.

"I decided to come now."

"Oh, well El's in her bedroom-"

"I don't want to see El. I want to see you." He says firmly.

I stand there confused, until I let him in and we go to sit down.

"Why did you want to see me?" I start the conversation off.

"Because Will, I like you too." He stares at me widely.

"Wh- what? How do you know I-"

"Because I know everything, William. Everything about you." He interrupts me.

"M- Mike?" I look down at his hand, it begins to turn into a bluish coloured claw. I look back up at his face. Vecna.

"You really think Mike would like someone like you? Like he will ever be like you?"

"N-no!" A tear rolls down my eye. "Of course he wouldn't..."

"I can end your suffering. Suffering of loving someone you know you can't have. Suffering of being what you are."

"I don't want to die. Not yet." I break down. "Please leave me alone"

"Not until I end your suffering"

This was the end. I couldn't say goodbye to El, to Dustin, to Lucas, to Jonathan, to mum. To Mike.

That's when I hear a knock on the door.

Mike.

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I'm aware this story won't get as many reads as my other one but I wrote that ages ago just after s3 came out, so now I'm older and s4 is out I decided to write a new story hopefully better? This story is focusing more on actual stranger things rather then making a completely new story up, and putting in some things I hope to happen in s5😍✊. Anyways I'll try to write as much as I can before school starts up again.

Also this chapter was quite short, I'm not sure how long a good chapter is meant to be but I wanna put mikes pov in the next story so It might be longer (hopefully).

PS. I'm still a terrible writer😭