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XVII. The Disco

After his talk with Hopper, Will went back downstairs to the basement and saw that Mike, Lucas, and Dustin were all still sound asleep. Will didn't want to talk to him mom about what has been happening to him. He didn't want her to know about his powers so to say. Will plopped down on couch where he slept and laid back down. He stared at the ceiling thinking to himself
"What is happening to me?"
Will couldn't stand the silence in the basement any longer. He knew he was going to get inside his own head and possibly create chaos again like the night before. He only laid there for about 2 minutes before pulling himself back up and going back upstairs. He saw Hopper, still at the table, now sitting with his mom. In order to avoid having to talk anymore than he already did, he quickly ran upstairs to Mike's room. Mike's room was strangely orderly. Will hadn't been up there since they fought, but he wasn't expecting it to look different in there. Mike's bed was made, there wasn't a single spec of dirt anywhere on the floor. The garbage can that was once filled with pre-writing of letters to Will was now empty. All of Mike's clothes had a spot in the closet, and all of Will's clothes that he had left up there were freshly washed, folded, and sitting in a pile on the floor of the room. All of his trophies from school had been wiped down and his books on the book shelf were arranged in color order. Finally, on the floor laid the air mattress where Will slept, fully dressed with clean sheets and folded blankets on top. 

"When did he have time to do all of this?" Will asked himself.

"You like it?" Mike replied, causing Will to jump out of fear. The fear, causing Will to slam his closet door.

"Jesus, you scared me!" Will said smiling at his new form of company, even though he was quite embarrassed.

"I didn't mean to, sorry Willy" Mike said, smiling back, "Anyways, you like it? I think i have this new thing that whenever I get upset, I like, aggressively clean. " 

"There's nothing wrong with that, I do that too sometimes." Will said as he sat down on Mike's neatly made bed. It was now almost 9:00, and both of the boy's moms were now awake and making breakfast for the kids.

Mike sat down beside Will and wrapped his arm around him. Will flinched, he knew Mike meant no harm, but he was still a little flustered from the fight yesterday. He was still covered in cuts and bruises, meaning he had a pretty sleepless night from all the pain. 

"Sorry, did I hurt you?" Mike said, rubbing his thumb up against Will's shoulder.

"N-no you didn't, just still a little on edge from yesterday I guess" Will explained, falling more into Mike.

"Troy and his goons are assholes, I won't let them go near you again, promise." Mike said, laying a kiss on the top of Will's head.

"I know they are, I still feel bad for what I did to them though-" Will cut himself off, remembering he never actually told Mike how he had actually gotten away from Troy. 

"Wait, what did you do to them?" Mike said, turning to look Will in the eye, " Is there something you're not telling me Will?"

"No, no it's not that I didn't want to tell you, I was just scared," Will began.

"Well, that's fine. I get it, what happened though." Mike said 

"You remember last night, with the soda can?" Will asked, and Mike replied with a gentle nod. "Well it was more like when El threw Lucas into the bus in the junkyard to get you and him to stop fighting. I don't really know how it happened, I just lost control of myself I guess."

"Wait, how do you know about what El did to Lucas, you were still in the Upside down." Mike said, confused.

"Mike, I live with Eleven. She told me all about everything I missed." Will said, letting out a chuckle. "Did you forget?" 

"For a second, yeah I did. Anyways, is that all? You didn't like, kill them right?" Mike said.

"No Mike, they both got up and ran off. I think it scared me more than it scared them." Will said.

"Well, let them be scared. Maybe they won't bother you anymore." Mike said, pulling Will in to a kiss on the lips, causing Will to make the light in Mike's room flicker. 

Mike pulled away once he noticed the lights, 

"Hey, is this ok?" He said

"yeah, why wouldn't it be?" Will said.

"The lights, they were blinking, I thought something might've been wrong." Mike said, looking around at all the light sources he had in his room as they stopped blinking.

"It's fine Mike, I don't just make things happen when im scared." Will began explaining. " Hop said it could happen when I show any emotion, it doesn't just have to be fear."

"Oh okay, sorry I thought I scared you, " Mike said

"Well you did earlier, I didn't even hear you come up the stairs!" Will said, smiling at Mike.

"Aw im sorry Will, I didn't mean to scare ya" Mike said pulling Will into a warm hug and holding him there for a little while.

Will and Mike sat and talked for a little while before eventually being called down to breakfast. Lucas and Dustin were now awake, and Lucas had a few choice words for Will. Lucas was feeling fear toward Will, not only had Will grown since the last time Lucas had seen him, but now he has these powers that could potentially put the whole party in danger? Lucas didn't like it. 

Mike and Will sat down at the table, sitting across from Lucas and Dustin. The parents ate at the island in the Wheeler's kitchen and let the boys have the kitchen table to themselves.

"So Will, pretty wild night last night right?" Lucas said with an attitude.

"I-I guess so." Will said looking down at his plate of waffles.

"You could've killed us you know that? " Lucas said, gaining Will's attention enough to cause him to look up at him. "So what you're a freak now too? Just like that one's girlfriend?" 

Will just stared at Lucas in disbelief of what he was saying. He didn't even realize he was making every light in the house start to blink. 

"Knock it off Lucas" Mike said aggressively, taking notice of the flickering lights and the now shaking dining room table.

"No Mike YOU knock it off! He could've hurt us! What if that wasn't a can that blew up and it was your head? Then would you be defending him?" Lucas said back to Mike

All the lights in the house were blinking now, causing Hopper to take notice to the fighting at the kitchen table. He saw a panic stricken Will with his hands in his lap, and Mike and Lucas now yelling at each other.

"Please stop Lucas" Will said in a low voice.

"Oh he speaks! He doesn't need his boyfriend to defend him anymore!" Lucas yelled at Will, causing Will to get more frustrated since Lucas was mocking Will's sexuality.

"Shut up Lucas" Mike yelled back

"You must just love freaks right Mike? First El, now this fairy?" Lucas said

Almost immediately after Lucas called Mike a fairy, Will looked at Lucas, made his plate of food come flying at him, and caused the power to go out in the whole house. Will immediately got up from the table and looked around to see the whole kitchen filled with confused and concerned faces. This made Will feel even more overwhelmed than he already was. Without thinking, he grabbed his shoes and ran out the door and didn't stop running until he reached the old junkyard. Once he reached the junkyard, he fell to his knees in exhaustion and sent a sonic wave of destruction out of him as he began to sob. 

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