Lights /Stranger Things\

~revealed~

"Like all at once I wake up from something that keeps knocking at my brain, before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head and spring up in my bed screaming out the words I dread; I think I love you!"

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Will's pov:

I opened my eyes, seeing Mike and Erica looking at me with worry, when noticing I was awake, Mike pulled me close to him, hugging me maybe a bit too tight.

"He's up!" Erica called somewhere, I looked around to see I was on a couch right now.

"What happened? Are you okay? This is like the third time in the past three days," Mike asked, pulling away to look at my face. "And your nose is bleeding," he stated, handing me a tissue.

"I need to tell you something, but just you," I said, looking around. Mike took my hand and helped me up, we walked over to 'my' room in Murray's house and I closed the door. Mike stayed quiet and waited until I start speaking, I took a deep breath.

"Remember when you asked about the flickering lights?" I started, Mike nodded. "I lied, I saw them. And not only saw them, it was also me who was flickering with them and I also broke that light on Angela, but that was when I didn't know I could do that yet," I continued, Mike just nodded, still processing, I drew another breath and continued. "Until now only El knew because she figured it out. I wanted to tell you sooner, but I never had the courage to do it, I'm sorry," I mummbled. "You know how El can go into different places in her mind?" I asked, Mike nodded, confused again. "I can too, but randomly with no control over it," I explained, Mike nodded in understanding, but he kept quiet. "Mike, please say something," I let out anxiously.

"Yeah, sorry, I just.. I need a moment," Mike mummbled, I bit my lower lip out of nervosity. Mike walked over to me, giving me a hug. "I just want you to know that this changes nothing about you, okay? Or how I feel about you, we'll figure it out, I promise," Mike said, I nodded against his chest, I felt him kiss my forehead.

"Are we gonna talk about last night?" I asked, I'm not even sure I want to know more about what happened.

"I just needed to realize that it was never El, it was always you," Mike sighed against my hair.

"It was always me?" I asked confused.

"It was always you, the one I was, and still am in love with," Mike said, his voice shaky, then he let out a sigh, "Wow, it feels weird to say it out loud," Mike said, letting out a laugh, sounding relieved. I pushed him away to look at him.

"You mean that?" I asked, my voice sounding higher than usual.

"Y-yeah, I mean that," Mike said with a nod, looking anxious.

"I love you too," I let out, relaxing and letting Mike hug me again. "I realized after the upside down, but I think I've always loved you," I admited.

"I kinda realized when you were leaving to Cali, but I've been denying it for years before, even before El. I think I saw her as an option to escape my feelings, I guess I was kinda hoping I would fall in love with her eventually, but the only person that I've ever loved was you," Mike said with a smile.

"Eww, that's cheesy, stop," I said, shaking in disgust, Mike just laughed, kissing my forehead.

"You better get used to it," Mike mummbled against my hair, I let out a scoff.

"You better not," I replied, crossing my arms, "you were never like that with El, don't be with me either."

"Okay, if you say so," Mike shrugged, but he was still holding me close to him.

"Mike, does this mean we're together? Like officially?" I asked, quieter than before.

"If you want to, but can we keep this just between us for now?" Mike replied, sighing kinda sadly.

"Sure, but I think Murray and Erica know anyway," I said with a chuckle.

"Okay, can we not tell anyone, beside them?" Mike said, rolling his eyes as a smile spread across his lips.

"I'm fine with that," I said, forcing a smile. I get why we can't tell anyone, but I wish we could, if only it wasn't so dangerous.

"I know you're not, but I need to sort things out with El and my family first. I promise we'll tell them one day, alright," Mike said as if he was reading my mind.

"Yeah, but can we not talk about it right now? Can we just enjoy what we have right now?" I asked, not really wanting to set the mood to depression again.

"Yeah, sure," Mike said with a smile, pulling me into a kiss. I kissed him back, wrapping my hands around his neck.

"Hey, you guys okay in there? Murray's asking what happened," Erica's voice and knocking was heard on the outside of the door.

"Yeah, everything's fine," I called back as Mike started kissing my cheek with a smile.

"You sure? You didn't look fine just minutes ago," Erica stated, I saw Mike roll his eyes.

"Get rid of her," Mike whispered to me, I held in a laugh and just smiled at that.

"Yeah, just a little tired, that's all. Can you leave me alone now?" I called, throwing my head back in annoyance. Mike laughed quietly at that gesture.

"Sure, just .. um... don't forget to use a condom," Erica let out in that typical way in which she talked when making fun of someone.

"You shouldn't even know what that is," Mike called behind her, if she heard, she ignored it. Mike turned back to me, kissing me again.

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