Who Knew - Byler

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Karen finished preparing Will and Mike's bed in the basement. "Thank you" Will said, softly, as he lied in the bed. "It's okay" she replied, "but are you sure your mum's okay with this? She didn't call me or-"

"Believe me, Mrs Wheeler, my mum needs some rest. And I would never leave home without telling her". Even if it had happened months ago and Joyce was starting to let his son a little bit of independence, she still worried when Will wasn't home. "Yeah, of course. I'll call her in the morning anyways. We need to catch up" Karen said. Mike was in his bed with Rory, listening to the conversation. "Thank you, mum. Goodbye" Mike said. "Okay, okay, I'll go now. Good night" she said, walking up the stairs. "Good night, Mrs Wheeler!" Will exclaimed.

When the door closed, Will and Mike smiled at each other excitedly and got up. 

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"Well, Becky, I'll have to leave soon. But can I please have a chat with Jane first?", Hopper asked. "Yeah, sure!" she replied. She left the room. He wasn't going to see her  for two weeks, he needed some time alone with her.

"I miss Mike", Jane muttered.

"Jane, I know you love him a lot, but you're so young! You left that horrible lab and one week later you were already suffering when you weren't with him. You haven't had one second to be alone and not miss him. That's just not healthy. So try not to think of him at all these two weeks," Hopper said. 

"It's love. Isn't it like the best thing ever?", Jane answered, with an angry look in her face.

"Listen, kid, love is great. But it's not healthy if you don't get some time alone. All I'm saying is, don't call him, don't think of him, don't miss him this two weeks. Because when you go back you'll be all over him again. So now is the only time you'll have for yourself," Hopper explained. Jane nodded, and it was clear to Hopper that she was not going to listen to him. 

"Well, i'm gonna go now," Hopper said, standing up. Jane stood up too and she hugged him. "i'm gonna miss you," she said. "As much as you'll miss Mike?," Hopper replied. Jane didn't answer, knowing the truth wouldn't make him happy.

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The phone was ringing. Mrs Wheeler sighed and got up, leaving her book in the table. She walked to the phone. "Who can it be this time at night?," she muttered to herself. 

"Hi, Mrs Wheeler here," she answered. "Mrs Wheeler?," a voice repeated on the other side of then phone. "Yeah it's me. Who is this?"  "Uh, this is Dustin," the voice replied. Karen smiled. Of course it was Dustin. "Hi, Dustin. So, what do you want? It's pretty late," she said.

 "I know, I know, sorry. I just have a really important message for Will but when I called him at his place Joyce said he was here, and-" Dustin said, but Karen interrupted. "Yeah, he's here, but both Mike and Will went to bed a long time ago. They'll probably already be asleep by now." Dustin sighed. "Can you please check? It's really important, Mrs Wheeler," he insisted.

"Sure. Wait a second". She left the phone in the table and walked to the basement door. She slowly opened it. There weren't any lights on downstairs and the two bumps in the bed were still. She closed the door again and took the phone.

"They're asleep. Can you call again tomorrow?," she said. "Yeah, of course. I'll call again tomorrow," he said. They both said goodbye and hung up the phone.

-

"Oh my God, Dustin, that was so smooth," Lucas complained over the supercomm. "What message did you have for Will?", he asked. Dustin smiled and grabbed his supercomm. "I didn't have one. But now we know that Mike and Will are spending the night together," he replied, proud of himself. 

Lucas rolled his eyes. "And what would have you done if Will had answered the phone?" he asked. "I hadn't thought of that," he answered. "You really had everything planned, huh?," Lucas said, teasing him.

"At least i got us some information."

-

The door closed and Will sighed. Mrs Karen almost caught him touching Mike's cheek. Thank God she opened the door slowly. "What were you thinking of?," he thought. "What if Mrs Karen saw you? What if Mike woke up?" But his cheek was so soft. "Last time and then you'll go to bed", he said to himself. 

He slowly started approaching Mike's face. The first contact was soft. Will's heart was dancing. He moved his fingers from his ear to the corner of his mouth, wondering what it would feel like to touch his lips with his own. 

Mike suddenly moved and Will turned around as fast as he could and pretended to be asleep. His heart was beating extremely fast. Had Mike caught him? 

"Will?," Mike said, with a sleepy voice. "Are you awake?". Will didn't answer. He heard Mike turn around and go back to sleep. Will sighed. He was never gonna do that again.

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Gosh i haven't posted in forever. I've been super busy with school and volleyball practice and music classes and my instagram acc. And with BTS! Are you guys ARMYs? If you are, dm me on @perfectly.tae , my instagram acc so i can rant about how in 25 days imma go to the premiere of their movie, Burn The Stage (IM EXTREMELY EXCITED SDLSKLJDL)! 

But anyways, here you go!