When will you realise (byler)

Chapter 5

(Mike POV)

"Oh man. Okay. This is not the way it's supposed to go, okay? Oh man, oh man, oh man. Okay this is so messed up. This is so messed up! THIS IS SO MESSED UP! Okay. Dude's probably got like a family, kids, you know, all that shit. We gotta go to the cops with this man. Lay it all on 'em. Your superpowerd girlfriend, bad government dudes, upside down dimension planet thing."

"No." We all say in unison interrupting Argyle.

"But... But listen! The bad government dudes are after your super girlfriend, right? RIGHT? Okay. So maybe cops can help us find out where she is. Cause they gonna kill her man. If they kill her, they're gonna kill us."

"Hey!" Johnathan yells interrupting Argyle again

"Actually they might kill us before they kill her, I dunno man." Argyle continues acting like he never hears Johnathan.

"ARGYLE!"

"Actually I don't know what order they wanna go."

"Listen to me! HEY!"

"Eeny meeny miny moe."

"ARGYLE! LISTEN!"

"WHAT!"Argyle says finally acknowledging Johnathan's existence.

I start to tune them out and start to get lost in my thoughts i think about my friends back home wondering what they would be doing right now. I imagine Dustin hanging out with Steve Dustin probably trying to explain the entire concept of dungeons and dragons to him or maybe they are at Steve and Robins work Dustin annoying Steve and Robin the entire time. I imagine Lucas hanging out with all his new basketball friends probably completely forgetting about us. I imagine Max sitting in her room listening to music probably just trying to forget about how shitty her life is now. I imagine El sitting in a room by herself all alone not knowing what is going on.  I think about Will and his perfect eyes and perfect smile then i think about what happened in the van and how his eyes they almost looked like they weren't there I look up only to get caught in wills gaze I quickly get back to work realizing i had been slacking off the whole time.

Will pulls me aside once we finish the work i know i should listen to him and i think part of me is because i do keep answering all his questions but i can't just stop thinking about well everything   don't know what i think but i feel different when i'm around will i get feeling like a feeling i used to get when i was around El.

"Hey does anybody know the dead dudes name?"

"What?"

"the dead dude. I'm making him a headstone."

"you do realize we spent all morning hiding the body"

"i'll just  write here lies unknown hero agent man, yeah saved Argyle, Johnathan, Will and Mike from certain death."

"You- your gonna write our names on the pizza box?"

"they're pretty common names."

I'm already getting sick of Argyle and I've only known him for 2 days i can't imagine how annoying he is for Will I don't think Johnathan notices though cause it seems like he's always stoned but I feel like even he is starting to get annoyed with him at this point.

I'm going to start skipping bits from season 4 so that I can get on to the good stuff so the next scene will be in the van again.

(Wills POV)

I look down at the painting I made for Mike my stomach gets back on that roller coaster every time I look at the painting I think it's just because I think I'm nervous. WHY AM I NERVOUS? It's not like I've never spoken to him before I mean he was sort of distant when we moved at least from me he was it was almost like he was pleased I was gone- Why would i think that I know he missed me, I think, I hope. Okay, okay Will you need to calm down breath in, breath out, breath in, breath out much better. Okay what Will I say? I don't want to tell him that I thought of it what could I say? Oh I know EL! Okay well I guess there is no time like the present.

"Can I show you something?" Mike nods in response.

okay Will this is fine it's going fine. Should I unravel it? nah, I'll let him do it. Oh god I hope he likes it. Okay he seems happy good sign.

"this is amazing! did you paint this?"

"yeah, yeah i mean, i mean, i mean El asked me to she commissioned it. I mean she told me what to draw."

okay that works too. Why did I say that I really need to think about what i say before saying it and to take my time to i don't stutter on them because i sEem to be doing that a lot lately.

"Anyway my point is."

Shit what's my point i can't tell him the actual reason.

"see how you're leading us here you- your guiding the party. I- Inspiring us that's what you do, and see your coat of arms here it's a heart and i know it's kind of on the nose but- but that's what holds this party together heart because  i mean without heart we'd all fall apart,"

yeah sure that sounds convincing right. Honestly i'm surprised i came up with that on the spot.

"Even El especially El."

Why do i keep bringing her up?

"These past few months she's been so lost without you she's just so different from other people and when your, when your different sometimes you feel like a mistake"

Yeah like when your like me, when you- your, no Will don't even think that! You literally just gave a speech about you/El being different and why it's fine.

"But you make her feel like she's not a mistake at all like that shes better for being different and that gives her the courage to fight on, so if she's ever being mean to you or like shes pushing away from you it's probably just because she;s scared to lose you, just like how you're scared of losing her an- and if she was going to lose you i think she'd rather just get it over and done with quickly like taking of a band-aid. So yeah El needs you Mike  and she always will."

"yeah?"

"yeah."

Okay, that wasn't too bad but i didn't actually get to tell him anything that i wanted to.

(1050 words)
I  think chapters 4 and 5 are switched around so just be mindful of that