Hopeless (byler)

Ch 2.5: Mike

The girls came back downstairs after about 10 minutes, and as Mike was talking with El about how dnd works, he could have sworn for a few seconds he saw Max analyzing how him and El were talking with her eyebrows wrinkled in concentration.

After watching Stand By Me, everyone decided to go to sleep. He and El were on a couch with Max and Lucas on the other one and Will and Dustin in the floor in sleeping bags. Mike fell asleep in a few minutes, on the outer side of the couch because El was afraid of falling off the edge. In about 20 minutes, Mike woke up due to his hand falling off the couch, and he immediately saw Will asleep in his sleeping bag.

Mike again started noticing all Wills features in his head, including how cute he looks when he's sleeping, how his hair falls in front of his eyes, and how cute and warm he looks in his sleeping bag. Just as Mike was about to move his hand back under his blanket, he saw that Wills hand was reached towards the couch, and their hands were nearly touching. Something inside of Mike was telling him to not move his hand and to let it be, so instead of moving his arm, he simply let sleep take him away.

The next morning, Mike was the second one up, Wills sleeping bag was empty. The clock read 8:12 AM, so Mike got up and made his way to the kitchen to make some pop tarts and coffee. As he was walking through the hallway to get to the kitchen from the basement door, he could see Will standing at the stove, with his back facing Mike. Mike tried walking slowly to see what he was making, and as he shifted a bit to the side he could clearly see Will was making pancakes and bacon for everyone.

Seeing this made Mikes face light up with joy, and he felt fluttering in his stomach. The fact that Will would wake up early just to make his friends good food seemed so... cute to Mike.

Mike slowly crept up behind Will as he was flipping the bacon, and tapped him on the shoulder as he half-yelled "Boo!". Will was startled and jumped back and clutched the spatula to his heart so quickly, Mike barely got the word out. "OH MY GOD DONT DO THAT!!!" Will said whisper yelling, trying to not wake up the others. The two boys broke into laughter.

Mike stopped for a second, looking at Wills face in the morning, he had violet under his eyes and messy hair. Mike quickly snapped out of it jeez, what going on with me? he thought. "You did this?" Mike asked Will, "uh, yeah. I was already up and hungry and I saw that you had the ingredients for pancakes, I would have made eggs too but you only have like 2 left, sorry.", Will spoke so quickly that he ran out of air, and chuckled slightly. Wills face was going a slight shade of pink that Mike didn't notice, "Well, thanks man this is great!" Mike said to Will, he then said "can I have the first pancake?" Will quickly answered with "The first pancake is always the ugliest one in the batch." "They all taste the same to me," Mike said in response. Mike looked down, and thought he saw Will looking at him through the corner of his eye.

Mike and Will went downstairs to wake the others when the food was done, and just before that they had a mini food fight in the kitchen. Everyone else made their way upstairs and all ate their breakfast after thanking Will while he was cleaning up the kitchen. Mike kept staring at him, and he looked over and saw El staring at Mike himself.