○Help Me○ ||Byler||

9.

Mike's POV

Mike was done changing info his clothes and walked out of the bathroom to Wills room. When he got to the door, he knocked 3 times and then he heard a 'come in" from the other side of the door. He opened the door to see Will all dressed up fiddling with his hands. He looked very nervous.

"Why is he so nervous" Mike thought.

"Ready to go?" Mike asked. Will just nodded and walked towards Mike. He walked past him to the front door to grab his jacket. Mike followed closely behind.

As they grabbed their jackets they put them on and walked our of the door after saying bye to Joyce. They walked around the house into the forest.

Will was fiddling with his hands. When Mike noticed this he grabbed Wills hand and intertwined their fingers. After about a minute Will started fiddling with Mike's fingers that were intertwined with his own.

Mike didn't care about this he was just confused about why Will was so nervous about telling Mike why he knew how to use a first aid kit.

When they arrived Will stepped inside and immediatly went to sit on a pillow. Mike sat on the pillow next to Will.

"So" Mike started.

"So" Will repeated.

"I don't know why I've never told you about this" Will started

"You know my dad, right?" Will asked.

"If you're talking about the dad you don't like then yes." Mike answered.

"I don't don't like him, I hate him"

"Oh"

"Oh, yeah indeed. So what I was trying to say was, that he kind of.. abused us.. especially me. I don't know why, he would beat me up almost every day" Will confessed. Mike was suprised at first. But when memories of Will coming to school with a bruised body and/or face, it all made sense.

Will was getting embraced by Mike's arms when Mike finally realised what Will had just told him.

Wills eyes began to water. And eventually he started sobbing.

As Will was sobbing in Mike's shoulder, Mike was rubbing Wills back for comfort.

"Why did he never tell me this" Mike thought. Wills sobs began to slow down. Which means he was calming down.

When Will stopped he pulled back from the hug.

"I'm sorry" Will said.

"Don't be sorry. It's okay." Mike smiled a bit.

"Hey, uhm, can I ask you something?" Mike asked Will.

"Yeah sure" Will answered

"Why didn't you tell me this before?" Mike asked in a low tone so he didn't sound angry.

"I- uhm, I- I don't know" Will said looking everywhere but Mike.

Mike noticed Will getting nervous so he put his hand on top of Wills which made Will look terrified at Mike for some reason.

"You know you can tell me anything right?" Mike said in a low tone.

"Yeah I know, it's just that I thought you had enough problems of your own, you didn't want to have mine too." Will truly spoke.

Mike felt terrible. He just realised he always came to Will with his problems but Will never said anything about himself.

"I'm so sorry, Will. I shouldn't have put all of my problems onto you. I'm so sorry" Mike apologised