Ghostly love || Miles Fairchild x Will Byers ||

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"Will, sweetie, c'mon we are gonna be late. The flight leaves at 1:30, and it's a 2 hour drive to the airport." Joyce said standing in front of the open door to Will Byers' bedroom, "Everyone is waiting to say goodbye to you."

"I know mom, just wait a few minutes!"

Will was stuffing clothes into his bag, that he was sure it was going to break soon, he has had the backpack for around 4-5 years. At 4 years he was sure it was going to break as well, but it stayed strong, and he was thankful for that.

with a sigh he looked up from his backpack, his mom was gone already, probably in the kitchen or outside.

He zipped up his backpack and walked out of the house, to a sight of all of his friends waiting outside for him. They were waiting for him?! The infamous William Byers? 

"Byers!" which came from, Dustin Henderson, one of his best friends. He ran up to Will and gave him a hug, a little too tight for Will. Lucas walked up to Dustin "c'mon Dustin, you're going to hug the life out of him." Dustin let go, eventually, and muttered something. as he let Lucas hug him "I'll miss you guys." Will whispered, but loud enough for Dustin and Lucas to hear. "We'll miss you too Will." 

Lucas let go of Will with a big smile plastered on his face, he was teary eyed. Will smiled at him and walked over to Max, another one of his really good friends. Max and Will had grown to like each other a lot. They became really good friends, Max was an amazing friend to Will. "..Will." she said, her eyes filled with tears. He gave her a hug, and thats when he began to cry. "I'll miss you so goddamn much." Max said in-between sobs. "I'll miss you too, Max." He really would, he would miss her a lot, she never made Will feel left out. "you better send letters." She muttered, Will let out a wet laugh "of course I will."

She let go of Will, and he looked up from the teary-eyed girl in front of him. And there he was. Mike Wheeler, His best friend. His first best friend, who had ignored him. Will was going to skip over Mike, but Mike grabbed Will, and scooped him into a hug, Will let out a tiny gasp, barely audible. He began to sob. Will began to sob into Mike's shoulder, audible sobs. Mike patted Will's back, "I'll miss you, Will." He felt his stomach turn. Mike Wheeler, his best friend, (and crush) who he used to have sleepovers with, told everything to, did everything with, was hugging him. William Byers.

And with that, Will was the one to let go, not wanting to make their hug awkward, though he wanted to keep hugging Mike, he wanted Mike to hold him close to his chest, never let him go. But that was selfish, and he knew it was because Jane Hopper, Michael Wheeler's girlfriend, was staring at him. Waiting for her hug.

He hugged her, He would miss her, He would miss his mom, he would miss how nice everyone was to him. 

"Alright, buddy, you ready to go?" Jonathan said. Jonathan, his brother, he would miss his brother, how nice he was to him. How much he cared about him. Jonathan had told Will that he was his 'favorite person in the whole world' when Will was little, and Jonathan stuck with it, he did so much for Will, he hung out with Will when Will didn't want to go out with his friends, he understood him, he trusted Jonathan, with his life.

"yeah.. yeah I'm ready." and he had completely forgot, his own mother. who ran up to Will and gave him the biggest hug known to man. squeezing him so hard Will couldn't breath. "Mom, I can't- can't breathe." she looked at Will, still with her hands on his shoulders. "Yeah, Yeah I know- I know, I'm sorry." She gave him a kiss on his forehead and let him sit in the car.

Jonathan started the car, "buckle up." Will nodded and put his seatbelt on. 

They were talking about random stuff, entertaining stuff, any conversation with Jonathan was entertaining Will decided, Jonathan made him smile, made him laugh, he was genuinely an awesome brother.

"Jonathan," Will started, "Yeah bud?" Jonathan quickly took his eyes off the road for less than a second. Will swallowed, "It's not gonna be scary, right?" Jonathan stopped at a red light and turned his focus to Will, "no- no it's not gonna be I promise. You're going to come back home for fall break, right? it'll all be good. I'll call you, okay?" He smiled at Will and focused his eyes back on the road. "y-yeah, yeah, okay." 

. . .

"Will, Will, wake up, we're here." Jonathan said tapping on Will's shoulder. Will was never a heavy sleeper, so he woke up pretty quick. "h-huh? where are we?" He looked out the window to see planes flying, taking off, and landing. "oh, at the airport." Will muttered. "c'mon Will." Jonathan said as he was already out of the car. Will sat up and got out of the car rubbing his eyes. He yawned and looked around. "wow it's pretty big, how am i going to find my way across?"

"you'll get your way across, and if you don't, just call the house, okay?"

"okay.."

Jonathan gave Will a hug, making Will begin to cry.

"stay safe, okay bud?"

"Of course."

. . .

And with that, Will was already on the plane, all alone, with complete strangers. 

This will be fun.

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a/n: Thank you for reading this chapter! it did in fact take a while, but maybe we will meet Miles tomorrow. I don't want to write Will's journey on the plane because i'd be a little boring, but I'll add some things!

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