𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦/ 𝐛𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐫 ❁

-one

august 20th
parents~ yungblud
(WARNING: homophobic slurs)

       will byers, a small first grader woke up on his first day of first grade. He didn't like getting up in the morning, but he had no choice. He jumped out of his old, creaky bed. He skipped over to his small desk in the corner, where his mother and sometimes father laid out his clothes.

His outfit was a striped sweater with worn out jeans. He loved wearing sweaters, they were just so comfortable to him, meanwhile his older brother, hated them. He would much rather wear t-shirts and shorts.

After changing into his outfit, he left his room and walked down the hallway. The wallpaper in the hallway was peeling off the wall, and the photos hung in the hall were either no longer on the wall, or crooked. Will wanted to fix them but he was too short.

Will sat down at the table with his brother and father. His mother was in the kitchen. Will knew to stay quiet because of his father, his father was NOT a nice man. He always screamed at Joyce, Wills mother, and hit her. He would do the same to Jonathan and Will. Will remembers the one time, he was drawing himself in a rocket ship, but he added a rainbow too it and some other things like cats and wizards. His father screamed at him and called him a fag. Will had and still has no clue what that means. Johnathan just said it was a mean word and to NEVER use it.

When the car stops at Hawkins elementary school, Will turns his head and kisses his mothers cheek. He loved when his mother drove him to school. She would let him sit in the front and they would have really fun talks. They would talk about space, and dragons, and monsters, and drawing and so much more. Will loved talking to his mother and when his brother came along too. His brother would tell him what he would do in class and if the work was hard. Johnathan was four years older than him, so everything was different for him.

Will walked into his class and saw so many kids. The kids were everywhere. they were all doing different things. Will skipped over to a table, there was tons of paper and crayons. He sat down and grabbed a paper and a brown crayon. He started drawing a puppy. He drew a messy circle, two ovals for eyes, a sideways oval in black crayon and two lines that curved at the end. He drew two black dots in the eyes and then got interrupted.

"woah that's a cool dog!" the boy commented. Will looked up at the boy. The boy had raven black hair that was really messy. he had sharp cheekbones, and freckles scattered all over his cheeks and nose, his nose was small and his eyes were wide and dark brown.

"thanks!" will says with a small smile.

"soo when you're done, would you want to play dress up with me? we are gonna be fighting dragons and stuff!" the raven-haired boy asked. Will smiled widely.

"yeah, we can go right now!" will exclaimed and stood up. the other boy stood up too, he was a little taller than will. "what's your name?" will asked the slightly taller boy.

"i'm mike, who are you?"

"i'm will." Mike nodded and lead will to where they were gonna "fight dragons"

  Mike got a foam sword and a plastic shield and a cardboard crown. He did a prince pose by stepping up on a box with his right leg, putting the shield on his upper chest, looking up at the ceiling. Will looked at him and giggled.

"oo we should have princes and princesses battle other princes and princesses! winner gets a prize!" another boy shouted. Will frowned. He didn't want to battle Mike, he wanted to stay with him. He didn't want to battle anyone. He thought this was gonna be fun and calm.

"yes! will do you want to do that?" mike asked.

"I don't want to battle you..maybe i'll be a princess!" will suggested. Mike furrowed his eyebrows.

"aren't princesses for girls?" mike asked. Will shrugged.

"I-I don't know..I just want to be with you. I-I don't w-want to battle you." Will said looking at his shoes.

"oh. well you be the princess and i'll protect you." mike says. Will smiles and nods.

"CHARGE!" the boy from before shouts and everyone playing starts running around and screaming.

After school will rushed to his cubby and grabbed his book bag and all the papers he made today. He waved goodbye to Mike and walked outside. He looked at the line of cars and spotted his mothers car. He ran over to it and got in the back. He saw it was not his mother who was driving it was indeed his father, lonnie byers. he buckled up as his father started driving.

"so what'd you do at school today kiddo?" lonnie asked. Will nervously fidgeted with his sweater sleeves.

"I made a friend, Mike. I drew pictures, I played Kingdom. Kingdom is a game where you are prince and princesses and you battle eachother and the last person standing wins. Mike was a prince and I was a princess and—" will started to explain but was soon cut off.

"you're such a fairy. I can't believe my son turned into a fucking fairy...you were a mistake anyway. have fun in hell." lonnie scoffed and parked the car. He unbuckles and got out. Will felt his eyes prickling with tears. He unbuckled himself, grabbed his book bag and slid out of the car. was his dad right? was he really a mistake..?

Will walked inside trying not to cry. Will say at the kitchen table and put his book bag next to him. He unzipped it and pulled out a book where he is supposed to do his math homework. He wrote down some problems and solved them, a parent was supposed to check and sign it. Will really didn't want to talk to his father so he got Johnathan to do it. He was so glad for Johnathan, he helped Will though so much.