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Mike sat in the basement not knowing what to do, his feelings where clawing thier way out his chest and he couldn't stop himself from thinking of Will. He thought of him and Elevens breakup and how Will was there for him, however he wasn't sad, he was glad, glad that Will was there for him. Mike had finally realised that everything he'd ever felt for Eleven was a reflection of what he felt for Will.
"Mike?" He snapped out of his trans and looked up to see Wills face standing over him, his eyes were sore and cheeks bright pink but Mike was only focused on the bottom half of his face. "We've all been looking for you? What's going on?" Will sat close beside Mike. Too close.
"I just, needed some air." He blurted out, his tone was sharp without meaning, sending Will the wrong idea. "Sorry, i was just trying to help." Will rolled his eyes and tried to stand by Mike grabbed his hand, "Sorry, I- I didn't mean for it sound rude."
"Really Mike, you've been nothing but rude." Will's angered tone confused Mike as he refused to let go of Will's hand. "What's wrong, what did I do?" Mike stood beside Will, reducing the space between to a couple of centimeters.
"I don't know, maybe because you've been out of it for weeks. What's wrong with you Mike? You seem to be an entirely diffrent person, what's going on?" Will pushed Mike's shoulder with his left hand to increase the space between them, Mike didn't budge and stood closer to him. "Will what are you talking about-"
"I'm talking about how you've been acting off- 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕, not towards everyone but to me." Will's vision began to blur as he turned his back to Mike, the other boy stood in regret not wanting to tell Will the truth. "Mike," Will's tone was barley a whisper but Mike still heard, Mike reached his hand to Will back when he was stopped by Will's gaze looking back at him. "Are we even friends?"
Mike's gaze was fixed on Will's damp eyes when everything went black, Mike's hand grabbed onto Will subconsciously and he held him closer. "Whats going on?" Will sniffled trying to hide the fact that he was about to cry, Mike stayed close to Will not wanting to be without him. "I'm guessing there's a power outage? I'll go find Hopper-"
"No, Mike stay.."Will held Mike's hand tighter, "please?" The two couldn't see anything but could feel the other looking back at one another.
"IS ANYONE DOWN HERE?" Lucas's voice filled the emptiness of the darkness, Mike let go of Wills hand quickly, as if Lucas could see them. "ME AND WILL ARE," Mike responded. The two could make out the sound of Lucas walking down the stairs, a small dim light was ahead of him. Lucas held a small torch in his right hand and a slightly larger one in his left, "you two need one?" He stood at thd distance from the two shining his smaller tourch onto them. "Yea," the two said in unison. Lucas threw the larger tourch to Mike and quickly spun around, "Dustin and Steve are trying to get the power back, your two look around and see what you can do down here-"
"What are you going to do?" Will asked taking a few steps towards Lucas who was already at the stairs, "I'm going to try and find others, no one is around this area so I'm guessing there outside." Lucas ran up the stairs and the boys heard the door shut behind him, Mike switched on the tourch and put it straight onto Will, "what now?" Will asked, still not facing Mike.
"We should see if we can help out I guess?" Mike responded, Will nodded and began to search with Mike close behind, shinning a light onto everything he was looking at. "Are you going to help?" Will asked, Mike stopped staying at the back of Will's head and looked down at the touch before waving it slightly. "Of course. You can't do anything anymore."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Light Mike!" Mike had accidentally let the tourch slip out of his hand for a second, he strengthen his grip and made sure that Will couldn't see what he was doing. "Will, can we just talk?" Mike turned off the light and stood closer to Will.
Will quickly turned around and tried to grab the light from Mike's hand but didn't realise he was standing closer to him, and he ended up hitting his stomach. Mike hunched over his pain and his head collided with Will's and the two collapsed onto the floor. Mike fell with Will ontop of him, Will moved his hand around trying to find the dropped tourch, after a few seconds of rummaging around he found it a quickly turned it on. The light was facing the two of them and Will looked down to see Mike below him, one of his hands were on his head and the other on Will's arm. "Sorry," Will mutterd trying to stand up, but his legs were intertwined with Mikes meaning he couldn't move.
Mike looked up and Will and felt his face blush, he tried to hide his cheeks behind his hands but it was no use, he tried to pull himself up but he just dragged Will closer to him. The two sat tangled up together, neither moved and only looked at the other, Mike moved his hand from Will's arm to his hair- pushing away any lose strands he'd messed up when they fell. Will let Mike fix his hair as he tried not to say anything, he felt his cheeks go red as Mike's hand got closer to his skin. They both stopped moving and looked into eachothers eyes before Mike grabbed the side of Will's neck and pulled him down into a kiss.