monochopsis - byler

tell me something that I won't forget.

a/n: this entire chapter is pretty sensitive but important to the plot. I just recommend viewer discretion. warnings: suicide, talk about being harmed, drugs, talk about sex.

(mikes pov)

I asked Will to hang out with me on Friday. I'm not 100% sure why I asked him to go to the place where I tried to off myself in 7th grade. We won't be doing any dying this time though. Probably just get high or something. I think that's what Californians do? I don't really know what Will got into that year he was gone. All I know is that Will Byers liked music, art, and dnd. He liked the arcade and just hanging out with his friends.

I keep putting myself into danger. I ask to do these things we did as kids, and now it just seems weird to do.

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(wills pov)

I'm not sure exactly I'm getting into going swimming with Mike at 8 pm, but I'm wearing swim trunks and a random band shirt. I try to be sneaky before leaving, mom knows but she's asleep on the couch with Hopper right now. Of course, El comes into my buisiness.

"Where are you going?" She interrogates me.

"Just out to swim with someone." I reply.

"Who?"

"Mike."

"Oh. Okay. Bye!" She cheerfully says.

When I get there, he's already waiting for me near the smaller ledge of the two sections. He also already has his shirt off.

"Fuck! Am I late?" I ask.

"No, I'm early." Mike replies.

"Good. Didn't want to leave you hanging." I tell him.

"Yeah, no you're fine!" 

Without thinking, I take off my shirt and jump into the water. 

"Woah man! Wait for me!" He jumps in too, and I'm faced with a splash of water to the face.

"AH MIKE YOU SPLASHED ME!" I yell.

"Too bad I guess." He shrugs teasingly.

...

After we hang out a little bit in the water we get out. He takes something out from his backpack.

"Wanna get high?" He asks and shows me the weed. I'm going to be honest; I've never smoked before. I also never thought Mike would do that shit.

"Where the hell did you get that?" I question.

"Eddie." He tells me.

"Oh so now he's okay?" I taunt.

"Just answer the question." He tells me, still laughing.

"Yeah. I do wanna get high."

"Good answer." He lights the joint and takes a blow out of it. He passes it to me and I just copied what he did.

After a while we started feeling pretty high. We both lied on our backs and looked at the stars.

"So, ever hooked up with anyone before?" He asks.

"Nope." I reply. I don't know if I can call that a lie or not.

"Well you know about El." He tells me.

"Yeah I do. I never really wanted a girlfriend, Mike. Just hanging out with you and the guys is enough." I explain.

"Honestly I wouldn't mind ditching El for the party." He states. "I mean I like her, but she's very clingy."

For a second it was quiet and I realized that he was looking at my stomach.

"That scar is totally messing up your abs. Who even gave you that?" Mike asks.

"Totally a secret, but it was dumb Troy Walsh." I answer.

"He's such an ass. He actually tried to make me jump off the quarry."

"Really dude? When?"

"Like seventh." 

"Damn."

"Damn."

"Wish I could beat that dickhead's ass."

We were both facing each other now.

"Not like that would make anything any better. Nothings really that good right now. El and I fucked, and she won't shut up about it."

"That's exactly why I don't want a girlfriend." 

"I honestly thought you and Max were a thing."

"Hell no!" 

"Like I really thought you went down on each her at first when I heard you guys were hanging out together alone."

"Believe me, we are just friends."

"Thank god. Can't have her steal the soul of the only other party member besides me that she hasn't taken slave too using her redhead powers!" Mike teases.

"Redhead powers? Mike that is the dumbest shit ever."

"Maybe she has taken part of your soul."

"Oh my god Mike."

"Hey you never know what secrets someone might have."

"What's your secret Mike?" 

"You know what Will? I will tell you my secret." I really wasn't expecting him to actually tell me.

"I wouldn't even be mad if I did jump off that cliff in 7th." Mike confesses. Wow.

"I have a pretty pathetic secret too." I stand up.

"It can't be that bad." He stands up too. 

"believe me, it is."

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