𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 • (byler)

09

"wish i were heather, wish i were heather."

will got home and ran right to his room, not even letting his mom or brother know that he was home.

will grabbed his drawing materials and started throwing them at the wall, until he found other objects he could throw.

then, he saw the drawing of him and mike and started ripping it into 6 different pieces that he threw on the floor.

"stupid!" he yelled and stomped on it.

still feeling anger and sadness, he ran out to castle byers and found pictures of him and started ripping them up.

"stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!" will screamed.

he finally saw his favorite picture of him and mike. he picked it up and examined it. the picture was a polaroid of the two of them at mike's house laughing hysterically over who knows what.

instead of destroying the picture, put it against his chest and sank to the ground and sobbed.

"will? will, where are you?" a voice called.

"we followed you here, where are you?" a different voice called.

the footsteps of those people got closer and closer to castle byers.

will didn't care who the voices belonged to, he just sat and cried.

"i think he's in here." one of the voiced whispered.

he recognized that voice as max.

"should we go in?" the other voice asked.

he recognized the other voice as dustin.

they then crawled into castle byers.

"oh my gosh, will." max exclaimed and put her arms around will.

"holy shit, it's a mess in here." dustin looked around.

max flicked him on the arm and gave him a look that said, it's not the time to point that out.

"d-did you tell him?" will sniffled.

"no, but i think you should." max answered.

"tell me what?" dustin looked in between the two of them.

"are you sure?" will asked.

"it's dustin, he's not going to judge you, i promise." max whispered.

will bit the inside of his cheek until he decided that he was going to tell dustin.

"uhm, i....i like mike." will whimpered.

"so you're...you're gay?" dustin tilted his head.

will nodded and started crying again.

"shhhh." max rubbed his back.

dustin crawled over and put his arms around will and max, turning the hug into a group hug.

"i think it's okay for you to be gay, will. there's nothing wrong with loving who you love." dustin closed his eyes.

will didn't reply, he just embraced his two friends even more.

maybe dustin and max had accepted him for being gay and liking mike, but he knew that many other people wouldn't.

maybe it would be easier if will was a girl, but not just any girl, mike's girl.

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