Ghostly love || Miles Fairchild x Will Byers ||

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"Would you like any snacks dear?" The flight attendant asked Will, "oh, uh- no thanks." 

Will sat on the window side with one other person, which was a man, which he assumed was in his mid 30s. They hadn't talked to each other at all, and Will wanted it to stay that way.

"So, where you heading, kid?" The man asked Will, "oh- uh- I-I- um-" Will stuttered, not knowing why he was stuttering, "Sorry- I'm going to a boarding school." Will didn't want to tell this random man what boarding school it was exactly. "oh, nice, I'm just visiting family"

"oh, that's cool." and the man nodded, as he went back to reading his book, and Will just stared out the plane's window.

. . .

When Will woke up there was food in front of him. "You were asleep, so I jus' told the lady to give you anything."  The man told Will

"oh yeah, thank you." And the man nodded.

Will looked down at his food to see soup, bread, butter, and a cookie.

Will ate a little bit of his soup, and ate his bread completely. He ate his cookie last, but only took about 3 bites. The soup was cold, didn't taste like any of the soup Mrs. Wheeler made on Thanksgiving. And the cookie was hard and lacked flavor. Will usually preferred soft cookies, not hard cookies with no flavor. 

. . .

Will woke up to the plane landing, he groaned as he stretched his arms out. He looked outside, it was dark, really dark. but Will didn't have to worry, his mom's friend was going to pick him up and drive him to her house, he'd sleep there and then get dropped off at the school the next day. And he'd stay at the school, in the dorms.

. . .

"Hey Will! how've you been?" 

"I've been good, thank you for letting me stay at your house for a night."

"of course dear, c'mon in!" She opened the door the the car for Will, and Will sat in the car. "seatbelts on!" She said cheerily.

. . .

They got to the driveway and the women opened the door, "you're a little late, your class started yesterday." Will knew, he knew he was late, and he wasn't happy about it, he wanted to be there when everyone else started. Because with him starting after everyone, more eyes would be on him, which made him feel really uncomfortable.

"your bedroom is upstairs, first room to the left." 

"Okay thank you."

"Of course dear, there is also a bathroom in there you can use to shower in the morning."

Will nodded with a smile and headed upstairs. 'Why does she have such a big house if it's only her and her husband?'  Will wondered. He made his way to the bedroom, it was a bit bigger than the one he had at home, but barley noticeable. The bed covers were white, like most of the room, it was a bit boring, but there were paintings on the wall, and a clock next to them. His temporary bedroom had a phone next to the bed on the bedside table, which he figured he would call his mom on tomorrow morning.

He changed into some comfortable clothing, a large t-shirt and shorts (which were oddly short) and hopped into bed. He didn't realize how tired he was, he closed his eyes and automatically dozed off.

. . .

"Will, wake up, it's time for you to get up and going!" 

Will's eyes opened slowly as he yawned. 

"I'll put your uniform in the counter on the bathroom, okay? The school gave it to me, they said they'd give you more at school along with your dorm. I already called your mom to tell her you made it safe, so no need to worry about that."

"Oh okay, thank you, Mrs. Nadia."

Mrs. Nadia smiled and walked out.

I should probably take a shower.

Will let his feet hit the cold tile with a small thud. He walked to the bathroom, it was very spacious, white and grays decorating the entire bathroom. His uniform was on his counter, a white collared button up, a long v-neck sweater vest, a green tie, and black blazer, with a logo on it, which Will assumed was the school's logo.

He quickly got in the shower, the water was cold at first, but after a while it got warmer, which Will appreciated. 

. . .

Will finished his shower, grabbed a towel and wrapped it around himself. He got out of the shower and dried himself before putting his clothes on.

He didn't entirely know how to tie- a tie, but he tried his best, and was pretty proud of himself. 

He dried it wet hair enough so it was damp but still looked wet, he didn't have enough time to dry his hair completely, so he left it at that.

He walked downstairs and saw Mrs. Nadia making food. "Will, dear, come sit down, I made eggs, eat those then we will be off to school." Will nodded and sat down at the table. His share of eggs were already on the table, he began to eat. The eggs were flavorful, the perfect amount of salt, pepper, and everything. He practically swallowed the eggs whole, "Slow down there." Mrs Nadia said, "These taste great! way better then the food on the airplane." 

"Thank you dear, anyways, come on, we need to get to school."

"alright."

Will grabbed his backpack, which surprisingly had everything in it, his school books, his clothes, his toothbrush. everything.

put his shoes on, and was out.

. . .

They got to the school and Mrs. Nadia waved him goodbye as he walked in. Now all Will had to do was find the office to get his schedule and dorm.

He saw a room that had two doors, and he assumed that was the office, because- well because it had two doors.

so he opened the door.

but he was wrong. oh how he was wrong.

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a/n: ahhh we didn't meet Miles yet... but we will in fact meet him next chapter. for sure. Thank you so much for reading this chapter! (not that many will read it.) 

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