American Heroes: A Stranger Things 3 Fic

Jealous

When Will gets home, he's met with the worried face of his mother. She hops up from the couch when he comes through the door. "Will, thank God! I was worried sick!" She gives him a tight hug.

"Sorry, Mom. I was with Dustin setting up his ham radio." Joyce still looks worried. Will bites his lip. "Mom, you really shouldn't worry about me all the time. I'm fine." He feels a pang of guilt when he remembers the cold feeling he got at the movies the day before and at the field today after Mike and El left, but he dismisses it.

Joyce sighs, ruffling Will's hair. "I know, sweetie. It's just hard sometimes. After everything that's happened, I just-"

"I know. I'll try to call you the next time I'm coming home late."

Joyce gives her son a smile before saying goodnight and kissing his forehead.

While Will is getting ready for bed, he thinks back to earlier in the day when he watched Mike and El leave the rest of them in the field, jealousy boiling up inside him. Will had hoped that, just once, Mike would stay with them instead of running off with El, especially since it was Dustin's first day back. Mike had been spending all his time with El when he could have been spending it with the rest of the party, with Will. Not that Will didn't like El. He did. She saved his life and has always been nice to him. But seeing her with Mike, ditching the rest of the party, made him furious.