𝙵𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 - 𝙱𝚢𝚕𝚎𝚛

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"𝘚𝘰 Mike! How is Hawkins?"

"Everything is great Joyce!" Mike tried to say
Slightly enthusiastically.
"Great! When was the last time you ate?" Joyce asks.
𝘖𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥. 𝘖𝘩 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 3 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺.
"Um," Mike hesitates. Maybe Joyce won't over exaggerate. His mom never said anything about it. Usually.
"Three days ago..?" Mike says slowly.
"Three days ago!? Are you hungry?" Joyce replies quickly.
𝘠𝘦𝘴. 𝘈𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺. 𝘐'𝘮 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨.
"No."

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Will sits on his bed patting a spot next to him signaling Mike to sit down.
"So how are you liking California so far" Will says while Mike slowly walks towards the bed.

"Uh I wasn't Really awake so I haven't noticed much about California so far. Sorry." Mike chuckles in the middle of saying sorry, attempting not to sound as bad as he felt.

"It's fine really! I'm just glad you're here."
Mike's stomach turned by the way will said that.
But he's dating Jane! He can't just get butterflies from will randomly!
Why is this all just happening suddenly?

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There's a notepad on Will's desk.
It's far enough for me to only see that there is a sketch of someone's face.

It's a seems like a boys face .

A quick sting of something that seemed to be jealousy hit Mike right in the stomach.

"So Will, what're you drawing? I haven't seen you're art in a while." Mike asks with a face that showed he was genuinely curious.

"Oh uh it's nothing! Anyways, are you sure you aren't hungry? You haven't eaten in three days and I don't think that's very healthy."
Will quickly switches the conversation closing the notepad immediately.

"Um. Yeah.." Mike says. It was a total lie. Unsurprisingly, Will noticed.

"Well, I was going to ask my mom to make us the lunch we would always ask her to make when we were younger. Remember? We would always ask her to make tacos with extra lettuce so we would look like dinosaurs. They didn't look good But they really were."
Will laughs his usual laugh. His laughs had meanings. This one meant he was just trying to lighten the mood.

He knew something was wrong with Mike.

"Oh! Uh I guess I could eat. I miss eating like a dinosaur sometimes" Mike also laughs. It wasn't like wills. This one was awkward.

"Great! I'll go ask her now! In the meantime, you should go spend some time catching up with Jane.." Will's smile slowly fades at the end of the sentence. I wonder why. Either way it was a good idea. Even tho Mike wasn't planning on eating, he knew what to do afterwards.

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Thanks for reading chapter two! This one was pretty  short sorry! :(

Word count: 454 :!)