Will and Mike (Stranger Things) Byler Fanfic

Home Depot Passions (1)

Will and Mike were, you guessed it, in a home depot again, because that's literally all that could ever entertain him, according to Will.

"Will, look! They restocked the Husqvarna 130 16 inch gas chainsaw!" Mike said, dragging Will by the wrist to look at it.

"What is a Husqvarna." Will said in a dead, monotone voice. He was feeling tired of Mike getting excited at seeing chainsaws, as that's all he's been doing for the last 20 minutes.

"The best brand, of course! Oh my God, Will, look at the blades on this thing!" Mike said, running his pale, large finger gently across the shiny metal of the blades.

Will's hands had always been smaller than Mike's. Mike had made fun of him for the longest time for that. Will admired how Mike's strong hands looked. Will himself had gentle, soft hands.

"Hey Will, wanna sneak into the 'employees only' room with me?" Mike said, smiling his regular mischievous, coy little smile. There we have it, Mike's Crazy Idea of the day. Will had no choice but to obey, because Mike said he'll pay for McDonald's today.

"Fine." Will said, in his unenthusiastic voice.

"Okay, we'll have to wait until they've all left from in there, and when the store closes and everyone's gone. Of course, they're going to lock the door behind us, but once we steal some cool shit, we can just use the front door and leave, because they don't have cameras there anyways. What were they thinking? Anyways," Mike continued to ramble on. Will figured, there mustn't be too much harm in sneaking in... he, himself wouldn't steal anything. So how could he get in trouble?

"So how about this, we'll hide in that empty shelf for now and just move some boxes in front of ourselves so they can't see us. We'll be a bit trapped, but that's still safe, right? It's already almost closing time and we'll be out of there in I assume, 5-10 minutes. Okay, Will, help me move this box."

Mike talks a lot when he speaks about his Crazy Idea of the day. Yesterday he droned on for 20 solid minutes about how to do the plan (which Will still didn't understand.) Will would obey and be a good boy, so they can get McDonald's about 3 hours later around 12 AM (because Will knows Mike won't buy McDonald's until around late because that's when workers are tired and they give in to Mike's persistent whining that they forgot a few things off the order. But hey, at least it's free food.)

So then, they chilled there for about 10 minutes in absolute silence while they waited for most customers and staff to start filing out. Will quite enjoyed the silence, as it gave him time to heal from his headache (which Mike gives him when he yammers about silly things all the time.) Mike was a bit restless though, and he kept tapping his fingers on his knee, continuing to think about the things he would steal from the room.

"Will, it's time." Mike whispered, slooowly moving the box out of the way, being careful of any people left.