Back to Hawkins || ➵ Byler

Chapter 25 ➵ Present

(Time skip to Christmas)

Will's Pov:

We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas, we Wish you a Merry Christmas, and a happyyyyy New Yearrrrrr!

It is Christmas day, and I get to open Mike's present. Yesterday when I talked to him, he told me that he would call once he's done with all of his family traditions.

Such as opening gifts with family, eating breakfast, etc,.

It's 9:30 am now, so I'm hoping he will call soon. Most years, my family opens up gifts during brunch time. We all sit down around the fireplace and Christmas tree, eat food, and open gifts all at the same time.

This year I'm personally hoping for some new crayons or colored pencils. You know me, always drawing.

And Im definitely going to start drawing more with the new journal/notebook Mike got me. I've already filled out 2 pages. That's a lot for me. Especially since they're elaborate drawings, not sketches or kiddy drawings.

I drew a detailed picture of Mike, and then I drew a picture of house in front of a sunset with a dragon off to the side. What? Dragons are cool.

"Will?" a small voice echos from my walkie talkie. "Are you there, Will?"

"Mikey?" I ask myself. I turn around and rummage around for my walkie. It couldn't have got far! I was just looking at it a few seconds ago.

"Will are you there?"

I crawl onto the floor and peak under my bed.

"Where the hell are you?" I groan. I stand up and check all of my pillows by throwing them onto the floor.

'Not under those..'

I finally check underneath all of my blankets, and i'm pleased to find my walkie vibrating from Mike's voice.

"Willlyyyy. Are you there?" He chuckles.

I instantly grab the walkie and click the button that allows me to soeak

"Hey Mike. I'm here.... sorry, I lost my walkie." I gasp. All of my oxygen supply felt like it was wooshed right out of my body.

"It's alright." He laughs. "Sooo.. you ready to open your gift.

"Yeah. Just one sec."

I embarrassingly place all of my pillows and blankets back on my bed in an orderly fashion. Mike didnt even have to be here for me to be embarrassed about that...

I was having a seizure cause I couldn't find my stupid walkie talkie. Im such an imbecile.

"Okay Im back and I got the present."

"Alright. Open it."

I smile to myself at the colorful wrapping and red and green design on the wrapping paper. Theres a silver bow on top and theres a little piece of paper that says, "to Will, from Mike♡."

The heart at the end made MY heart flutter. Why the hell does a drawn on heart from Mike make me feel like this? It's so stupid. I cant even be there with him to open the gift.

"Did you open it?"

"I'm about to. I just wish that you were here with me." I frown.

"Me too, but I'll see you soon."

"How can you be so sure?"

"Just a feeling." He says.

"Well I hope your feeling is correct. I miss you." I frown.

"Me too. Open your present now."

"If you insist." I giggle.

I peal the bow off the paper and throw it next to me.

He really shouldnt have got me a gift.

"When me and my mom went to get it, I had to tell her that the gift was for both you and El."

"Geez Mike. What is it?" I eye the box.

"Just open it."

"Fine."

I tear open the box, and inside there's a whole bunch of photos of all of us. Me, Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Max, and El. There were also some with just us guys.

Along with the photos, underneath them, there was a medium-sized Polaroid camera. I've always wanted one of these!

I could take pictures and put them in my notebooks. Like scrapbooking.

I feel my huge grin fading down into a frown. My gift is so lame compared to what he got me.

"Mike!" I shout into the walkie. "These things are super expensive!"

"You're welcome." He laughs. "I knew you always wanted one."

"How?" I raise an eyebrow.

"Um, you told me.." he chuckles.

"Oh." I say. "Well, thank you Mikey, I love it. As well as the photos."

"No problem. Willy."

"Don't call me that!" I whine.

"Too bad. You're gonna have to deal with it for the rest of your life, Willy."

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Hey guy's! I just wanted to thank you so much for reading this story. I know at some parts its really boring and stupid, but i tried my best. After all, this is one of my very first stories so my writing skill are still growing. Anyways, I love you guys so so much. THANK YOU FOR READING! 

Epilogue chapters will be coming but after that, it's all over :(

I will also be marking this story as "completed".