One more minute ~ byler

Chapter 6

Will's POV

When Mike hugged me it felt so good, too good. When I started to get that fuzzy feeling it sent my brain into a panic and I pulled away quickly, escaping to the bathroom. I could feel the heat rushing to my face and I just leaned back into the door, sliding down. This can't be happening again, I don't want things to end up like how they did with Chance. I can't have feelings for Mike already I only just met him. I just needed to make sure my fucking feelings didn't get in the way of our friendship.

After flushing the toilet to make it seem like I was just pissing I came back out of the bathroom and got a book to read from my shelf. Mike was having a smoke on the windowsill but I didn't mind, I smoked occasionally as well. We had another hour to kill before the party so we just sat in each others company and did our own thing until it was time to go, with a bit of awkward silence involved.

When it was time to leave, we made our way back to Lucas and Dustin's room where Max said she and Lucas would be. Mike knocked on the door and we were let in by Lucas. He said that Max was in the bathroom finishing her makeup and that we can have some drink to pregame before leaving. After taking a few swigs from the bottle Max was ready to go. We hid the bottles in Lucas' backpack and started to make our way to the woods behind school, making sure to not be caught by any staff on the way.

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It took a while to get to the right spot in the woods. Parties were always held deep into the woods so the noise wouldn't wake teachers and get everyone caught. We arrived and it looked like it usually does, but Mike was staring around wide eyed because he had never been to one of these parties. I understood his reaction, the parties here always look nice, I'm sure my face was the same.

There was a good turnout tonight. There was a bonfire in the centre of a tree clearing where many people were gathered. At that moment, 'love my way' by the psychedelic furs was playing on a big boombox and people were dancing together with bottles in their hands. There were also a few fairy lights scattered around the trees so there was more light and people could be spread out.

We were all starting to feel the buzz from what we had drank earlier and Max wanted to dance. Lucas and Mike were completely against the idea but I agreed and after a few more swigs of the vodka we made our way to the crowd. I was a little awkward at first but eventually I got the hang of it, swinging my hips and waving my arms around making Max laugh.
"I'm not that bad am I?" I shouted to her over the music. She just laughed and I smirked, with a great idea coming to mind to show her an actual bad dancer.

"Max, wait one second." I said to her, while pointing up with one finger sloppily. I made my way through the crowd, trying to not bump into anyone. Mike and Lucas were stood against a tree talking, and I could tell they were more drunk than the last time I saw them. Mike was smoking a cigarette and was holding our shared bottle of vodka, still in my jumper. He looked really hot in that moment, but I promised myself to not let my feeling get in the way of our friendship. When he spotted me, he waved to me and I skipped over to him and Lucas. I snatched the cigarette from his hand, taking a drag as I began to speak.
"Guys come dance, I need to prove to Max I'm not the worst."
"Noo Will we really don't want to." Lucas replied.
"It wasn't a question though you both are coming, chop chop." I giggled to myself as I grabbed both their wrists, leading them away from the tree and into the crowd. To keep drinking, I let go of Lucas' wrist and used my now free hand to take the bottle off Mike, drinking out of it as we walked. It was already half way gone, and I could definitely feel it now.

We made it to Max and I whispered into Lucas' ear,
"Go get it on with your girlfriend man." I pushed him into Max and announced that I needed to piss, making Mike laugh at me as Max and Lucas were already doing their own thing. I turned to look at him as he was laughing and oh my god- he looked so beautiful at that moment, even with his beat up face. The light of the bonfire shone on his face making him look like he was glowing- but still, I couldn't let my feelings get in the way.

Now half panicking and becoming painfully aware that I had some sort of attraction to Mike, I really had to get out of that crowd. Without thinking, I just turned on my heel and started heading to somewhere I could piss in peace. At that time, I didn't even notice Mike following behind me trying to get my attention. When I finally got out of the crowd, I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding and continued walking away from the party to try find a tree or something to piss behind. Once I had gotten far enough, I hid myself behind a tree and began to unzip my trousers. Now that I was on my own I could really feel the alcohol. My vision was becoming more and more unfocused and my thoughts started getting fuzzy. I leaned my head against the tree and after I had finished, lifted my head back up and started walking, well, rather stumbling back to the party. On my way, I bumped into Mike who had kept on following me.

"Mmm-mmike, you're here!" I smiled, and Mike just started giggling at me.
"I want a cig do you want a cig?" He asked quickly, stumbling over his words as he spoke. I nodded and we plonked down beside each other against a big tree trunk. He then took a cigarette out of the box and put it in my mouth, taking out his lighter. He flicked the lighter open and held it to my mouth, attempting and failing to turn it on.
"Put your hands up and stop the wind Will." He mumbled to me and I weakly brought my hand up to shield the lighter from the wind.
"Not- not like that." He muttered as he took my hands and put them in a better position, but lingering his hands on mine making me go a little red in the face.

After he lit up the cigarette, we both took turns taking pulls and taking drinks out of our bottle, which was now almost gone but we didn't mind. We were both drunk out of our heads and just enjoying the moment together.
"Can you see that I can't see it." Mike said while shoving the back of his wrist into my face. I gripped his wrist and pulled his sleeve up to get a proper look at the time on his watch.
"Twelve. forty. seven." I said slowly, getting a good look at each number before telling Mike.
"Us- we have to go back." Mike slurred.
"To where?" I giggled as I shrugged my shoulders, swaying back and forth slightly.
"To help Lucas and Max, they need to go home of course." Mike replied matter of factly. I gave him a look, because, why on earth would they need help going back into school? I was pretty sure they could go back themselves.
"You need to go home." I said through laughs as I touched the tip of his nose with my finger. This caused him to start laughing too, and we started uncontrollably cackling of laughter, rolling around on the floor like mad men.

After our laughing fit, we got up and made our way back to where everyone was gathered, gripping onto each other for support as we tried our best not to crash into any trees. We spent what felt like ages looking for Max and Lucas but we really couldn't find them, and we didn't want to get thrown around in the middle of the crowd of rowdy teenagers.
"Let's just leave- we all know they're probably fuckinggg behind a tree." Mike said he as smirked, throwing the now empty bottle in a bush.
"Mmike! Don't say that I'm sure they have at least went to do it in a bedd." We both burst out in laughter again and agreed to go back to our dorm.

We arrived back to our dorm without getting caught which was honestly very surprising to both of us. Mike immediately went to the bathroom to piss and I ripped my clothes off and started looking for my pyjamas. I looked pretty hard (for the state I was in) but eventually gave up, getting into bed in just my boxers.

Mike came out the bathroom and also stripped to his boxers, walking right past his pyjamas on his desk chair and getting into his own bed. We were just looking at each other across the room when Mike spoke up.
"Who's Chance?"
My face dropped and I was instantly filled with anxiety. For fucks sake.

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A/N

Thank you for reading yet another chapter I hope you liked it.
The cliffhanger will be solved next chapter 😁
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