𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞 || Byler

"Chapter 16; Tired"

Mikes pov

We ran up to where Will was sitting. I stopped abruptly realizing he was asleep. It was pretty late, my guess would be around 2am. He looked so adorable sleeping in that chair. Today had been so stressful, especially now that Joyce had run away. I think we honestly need to just find somewhere to sleep for the night.

"Will get up, we have to leave." El shook him awake. She sounded almost annoyed, she's probably just tried like the rest of us.
Will shot awake and rubbed his eyes.

"Oh hi Dustin." He laughed lightly, before getting up and yawning.

We all walked over to the car. I was no longer holding Eleven's hand since my concern was more on Will.

"Two people will have to sit in the back, since Steve only has two seats up here, and Robin and Steve get the front." Dustin told us.
I offered El the extra seat, and she seemed almost disappointed I offered for some reason, but still got in and sat next to Dustin. Will and I got in the back and Steve started driving.

Third person pov

The car ride was pretty silent other than the offer that Steve made to the hospital crew to crash at his house which they accepted. Steve and Robin were chatting quietly in the front and everyone else was silent.

Mike looked over at Will who had his head rest on the wall behind him before it fell limply onto Mike's shoulder. Mike smiled and leaned his head onto Wills. His eyes fluttered closed as the sounds of the world around him disappeared.

Robin looked back to make sure everyone was on and saw the two boys sleeping.

"I was right about them! Look at my fruit loops." Robin thought to herself.

Dustin and El were too busy looking out their windows to notice the scene behind them.
The car ride was silent from after on, everyone just focused on something else. The only sound was Mike softly snoring, and the tap of Steve's finger on the wheel. Robin stared ahead, into the dark street before them, it being illuminated softly by the headlights on the car. Usually, Robin found silent car rides like this awkward, but this one was almost calming to her. She was with her friends, and two were sleeping and the other two were just hanging out.

"So, why were you at the hospital?" Steve spoke so suddenly, Robin jumped, before looking back at Eleven and Dustin.

"Er..- We found Joyce in the cabin. She was all beat up, and was in really bad condition. Hopper was gone, so uh, Mike just drov-" Eleven started, before she was interrupted.

"Mike DROVE?" Robin grinned, before scoffing and shaking her head. "He knows how to?"

"I know! You'd be surprised, actually." El grinned, laughing. "Well, anyways, uh, Mike drove us all there. We got Joyce in the room and got up, before running and ditching us to go see Murray." Robin nodded, before looking back at the road.

After a while, Steve's car pulled into the driveway. Everyone got out as Steve walked Dustin and El to the door, but Robin got up and walked to the car door where Mike and Will sat. She opened it, and shook Will's shoulder.

"We are here." Robin smiled lighty, but frowned and rolled her eyes when neither woke up.

"GUYS! WAKE UP!" Will woke up with a jerk, quickly moving his head from Mike's and getting out of the car. Mike on the other hand, woke up slowly, yawning and stretching his arms before getting out.
"Yeah, good morning." Mike mumbled under his breath, slowly following in Will's footsteps and into the house.

Will's POV

I woke up with a start, the need for sleep weighing my body down. Robin had basically yelled at me to wake up, and it reminded me of something, but I was too tired to want to remember. As I got out of the car slowly, I heard Mike mumbling and following behind. We walked into Steve's house, and all as I slowly woke up more and more, able to think proper again. Looking up, I watched as Mike walked into a spare room with El, the door shutting behind them and I saw the lock click shut. I looked back at the other two, and Dustin was setting up a bed for himself on the couch in front of the TV. Steve was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly, I felt a hand on my shoulder, and I jumped.

"Ah! Uh-" I turned around, and was face to face with what I assumed to be Steve's mother. I threw on a weak smile, and she pointed down a separate hall with only one door at the end of it.

"You can sleep in there, kiddo." She smiled at me, before walking away down another part of the house and disappearing into the depths of her bedroom. Glancing back down at my feet, I walked over to the small room placed down the middle of the hallway and went to open the door. At first it wouldn't budge, and then I eventually got it open and coughed as a poof of dust flew into my face. I looked into the room, and it didn't look bad for a dusty old door that was broken. It had a window in the corner, facing outside, and a bed and a dresser tucked neatly against the wall. I smiled and walked in, closing the door behind me. Walking over to the bed, I flopped backwards onto it, staring at the popcorn ceiling. I sat there for a while, laying on the uncomfortable blanket that I think was made out of wool, and making out shapes on the roof. Slowly, my eyes heaved shut and I slipped out of consciousness.
After what I think was about an hour of sleeping, I woke up to a loud crash. I sat up and looked around, and the clock read 2:23AM. I sighed, and sat up. Getting to my feet and dragging myself to the door as my hand met the door handle and swung it open, shutting it softly behind me, I walked to the kitchen.
There, I saw the mess. Robin was standing in the middle of the kitchen with coffee spilt all over the floor and the mug smashed. I couldn't help but laugh, and Robin looked up at me before also laughing.

"Do you need help cleaning up?" I offered Robin.

"God yes, I can't do this by myself." She grinned at me before breaking into a laughing fit again, and I joined her, grabbing onto a paper towel and getting down on the floor to soak up the spilt beverage.

A/N
Idc if this is an unrealistic interaction. Will needs to have some fun in life y'all, he may be a traumatized boy but he can laugh sometimes too :P

An old chapter that never got posted! Working on the next one right now.. it's gonna get angsty 🤭