THE SECRET ; byler ✗

~Chapter 13: The Walk~

Will Byers woke up to find that Mike wasn't on the mattress on which he,Mike, spent the night on. The night before was weird. Mike and Will had barely talked to eachother at all. The only time they would talk to eachother was when El was with them. Anyway, Will put on a white t-shirt and some black trousers and went downstairs into the kitchen.

Once he entered the kitchen, he saw Mike and El sitting by the counter with El's hand on Mike's. Will would've thought this is normal but he didn't. It wasn't like a loving touch. El was smiling however she had tears in her eyes. Mike also did. Will cleared his throat, scaring Mike and El. "Good morning, guys." Will said as he walked over to the cupboard to get the cereal out.

"Good morning Will!" El greeted cheerfully. She had wiped away the tears. Mike didn't say anything. He just turned away and went on his phone. Will felt a bit hurt. Why didn't Mike at least say good morning to him? Did Will say or do something to him?

"Hey, why don't we make pancakes?" Mike suggested, looking up from his phone. "Sure!" El exclaimed. Mike looked at Will and they made eye contact. Perhaps for a little too long because El began smirking. Mike noticed this and blushed. "Why not?" Will said, smiling. He was slightly blushing too.

El and Will put the cereal box and bowls away and got the the ingredients to make pancakes. Mike flipped the pan ,once they mixed everything together and put it in the pan, and the pancake landed on his face. El and Will burst out laughing and didn't stop.

Mike wasn't annoyed though. He was smiling at Will laughing.

**TimeSkip**

They finished eating and Will went upstairs to put on a sweater because Mike asked him to go on a walk with him. El was going over to Max's so she wouldn't be lonely. Will put on a maroon jumper and raced downstairs. He put on his white converse and went out the door.

Mike was waiting outside for Will to make an appearance. Mike looked up from his phone and smiled at the approaching Will. "Ready to go?" Mike asked the shorter boy. "Yeah." Will replied. "Let's go then," Mike said as he began walking.

They were talking about the most randomest stuff. Music, School literally anything they could talk about. Mike found that he could talk to Will about anything. He just wished he could tell him about how much he loved Will.

"You know," Mike said as they took a left. "I missed you. Like talking to you and stuff. Like sure, it's Hawkins, but it's not the same without you. OK, There's Dustin,Lucas,El and Max but they're not you, Will. And they don't understand me the way you do." Mike said. Will looked at Mike.

"Well, this just got suddenly dark and sad," Will joked and Mike smiled. "It was the same in Lenora. I made some friends but I missed everyone back here," Will confessed. Mike smiled and put his arm around Will's shoulder.

Mike hoped that Will would think it as a platonic touch and not push his arm away in disgust. Thankfully, Will did not push his arm away. Will was too busy blushing.

Suddenly they were in Mike's neighborhood and Mike pulled his arm away. He did that just in case people were watching and that Mike's neighbourhood was basically the biggest homophobic one in all of Hawkins. Will instantly felt colder the moment Mike pulled his arm away

There was silence. Until Mike spoke up. "Have you ever felt like, you felt something you weren't to supposed to feel but you kept feeling that same feeling?" Mike asked. Will looked over at Mike, confused.

"What do you mean?" Will asked. They had reached Mike's house. Mike had ran out of time. He didn't tell Will. He didn't have enough time to tell Will that he loved him. But there was always another time right?

"Never mind. See you later maybe?" Mike asked. "Sure. We could go to the movies later? With the party?" Will suggested. "That would be good. Bye Will!" Mike said as he approached the front door. "Bye Mike!" Will called as Mike closed the front door. Will stared at the house for a while until something caught his eye.

There was a figure in Nancy's room. At first, Will thought it was Johnathan but then realized that it was his friend Robin Buckley. Will looked at Robin and Robin looked back.

Will made a sign meaning, "what are you doing here?" to Robin and Robin made a sign meaning "I could ask you the same," Will shook his head and walked off.

As Will walked back to his house and remembered the touch of Mike's hand on Will's shoulder and bushed. He was blushing so much that the people passing thought he had a fever or something.

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Here's some Byler content for y'all. Sorry for not updating btw. Once school starts, I might be not able to be online all the time.

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