Walkman (byler)

Chapter 8

TW:mentions of self harm and scary themes

Will pov:

I woke up gasping for air. It was another nightmare. Its always about Mike finding out about who I actually am and then I always loose him either Vecna kills him or he hates me along with all of the party. I had been having them since I first went missing but now they have been more real and more scary than ever before.
"Will, oh my god are you okay?" Mike said running up to me "What happened? Are you hurt?"
"Yeah no I'm fine" I replied
"You sure"
"I mean as fine as I can be." I said
"Will come on you know that you can talk to me friends don't lie. I know I've been a bad friend but that has nothing to do with you. Just please talk to me."
"Mike I already forgave you a long time ago I just wanna go back to sleep and I know that I can tell you things your my friend"
"Please tell me when you're ready. Promise?
"Promise" I say with a smile.

~~5 hours later~~

"Mike you need to wake up its already 8 in the morning. Mike!" I yell
"Ugh I don't wanna get up"
"You have to. Today we have to go to War Zone"
"War Zone?" Mike questions
"Yeah to go get weapons before we go to the....Upside down."
"Shit, that's today I thought we were gonna go tommorow?" Mike asks surprised immediately getting out of bed
"God you can not wake up early if your life depended on it."
I go back to the kitchen of Hops cabin and tell everyone waiting there that Mike will be ready soon.
"Okay so we're only waiting on Lucas,Erica Steve and Robin correct?" Nancy says
"Yeah" Dustin says
"Okay just it's clear at exactly 6pm Mike,El and Will are going to sneak into the Creel house to distract Vecna. When Will starts lifting you have to play the music we really don't need another person in a coma. Once Vecna is in his trance Nancy, Robin, Steve and Jonathan will go and kill him. After that, Murray,Joyce and I will go into the Creel house make sure Vecna is dead El will close every gate except one then we'll go to kill every monster there get back to out Hawkins and El will shut the gate behind us." Hopper explained,by now everyone was here
"You sure you wanna do this?" Mike whispers to me
"Yeah, I'm sure"

~~3 hours later~~
(Mike and Will are back from War Zone but the others arent)

"Will" Mike says
"Yeah" I reply
"Why did you lie about your painting being commissioned by El"
"What do you mean?"
"Well I didn't want to tell you but me and El broke up a couple says ago, she said that I don't love her and she doesn't love me back either i mean she said that she thought she did but she has the same same feelings for me as the rest of the party. After that, I asked her about the painting and she said that she didn't even know what you were painting and she thought it was for a girl you liked!"
"A girl?" I scoff
"You always do this Will"
"Do what?"
"You call me out whenever I spend  'too much time' with my girlfriend but it's not like you even have one. Your always saying that I'm treating El wrong and I should do this or do that when you don't even know what it's like to be in a relationship"
" Yeah but I've seen toxic relationships since the day I was born and I don't want you and El to end up like that and if its really that embarrassing for you to have a single friend then fine I'll go get myself a girlfriend" I say angirly
"Oh come on you know that's not what I meant" Mike says trying to grab the phone I had in my hands away from me. I dial the number of the girl I dance with at the snowball and called her.
"Hi its Will"
Mike took the phone away from me and hung up.
"Come on Will I didn't mean anything I said I was just mad you'll always be my best friend no matter what."
Ignoring him, I storm  out of the cabin and start walking into the forest. After about 2 hours, I feel a hand on my shoulder.
"Oh my god Mike Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
"I'm okay I've just been running for a while" he replied gasping for air
"No Mike you're not sit down here" I say pointing to a large rock on the ground
"I'm sorry Will I was being a bitch"
"We'll talk about this later but for now you need to rest you can't just be running around everywhere for 2 straight hours"
"It was worth it"
"worth what" I question
"Worth being here with you and knowing that you're safe" Mike said  kissing me on the cheek lightly
"I'm really sorry. I didnt mean anything I said not a single word of it a I'm really sorry for everything"
There's a moment of silence before I say "Should we go back to the cabin, if my mum finds out I'm not there then she'll literally send out a search party for me"
"Yeah she would" Mike replied with a slight chuckle
When we open the door to the cabin we are met by the faces of Dustin,Lucas and El.
"Where the hell were you,you guys said you were the first ones here"
"I mean we were but-"I say but im cut off by Mike
"Sorry guys its my fault I just wanted to check and I asked Will to come with me"
"What was it" El asked
"A bird or something it was nothing"
"So, is everyone ready for today?" Dustin asks
"I guess" Lucas replies
Soon,the rest of the extended party arrived and we were all preparing g for the final battle.

An:OMG this chapter is so long it's over 1000 words and the longest chapter before this was 600 lol. New chapter will be really soon because this chapter was really fun to write. Also sorry for having a byler argument, will nearly getting a  girlfriend and Mike kissing Will on the cheek in the same chapter