kiss and tell || chapter 15

                                    

                                          
Will had woken up a couple of times during the night, and of course Mike was there to comfort him, whether it be rubbing his arm or stroking his hair.
Mike knew that Will had bad dreams here and there but he never knew they were this bad, and this consistent. 
It made him worry about the boy even more, he wished he could just go in to Wills dreams into his mind.
 So he could be the one to save him from whatever it was torturing him mentally, but he hoped that Will knew that he would always be there for him in the present world, right here and in his arms and that he would always be safe when he was with him.
Eventually the two woke up the next morning. Mike had waken up before Will, and couldn't help but to admire the sleeping brown haired boy. He smiled tiredly looking down at the boys chest, as it rose and fell.
Then his eyes were pulled to the boy's lips. He wanted to kiss him so bad, but the boy was sleeping and he had wanted Wills approval and consent.
Mikes face became all warm feeling and his heart started to beat faster hearing the males morning voice,  he's heard it plenty of times before at sleep overs with the party but this time it was..
Different...
Will tiredly rubbed his eyes and glanced up at the taller black haired boy, looking into his dark eyes. "You stayed...and this wasn't a dream.." he said warmly clearly happy that everything that happened last night was true and real.
Mike smiled through his tiredness and played with Wills hair. "Of course I stayed, what kind of person would I be if I didn't?" He said in a playful tone. 
Eventually they had gotten out of bed and ate breakfast with Jonathan and Joyce before they had to head out for work. Jonathan had noticed that Will looked awfully smiley this morning and any time Will was in a good mood or feeling any good emotion it really made Jonathan emotional in a way, he missed his little brother that was always laughing and smiling. 
But ever since the events of him getting stuck in the upside down took place Will had always seemed different. If Jonathan could take away all of Wills trauma, pain, bad dreams, he would do all of it in a matter of seconds if he could. 
He always felt bad for Will, not in a pitying overbearing constant worrying way. But, he just felt bad that Will lost a lot of his childhood and he knew Will struggled with that. 
But Jonathan was glad that Mike always made Will so happy, Jonathan of course knew the actual reason since they had a conversation before just the two brothers. Will had came out to him before but Jonathan always sort of knew, but that didn't change anything from Jonathan's point of view of his little brother. 
Jonathan had observed them the whole time during breakfast and they both seemed brighter and happier, he could have sworn he saw the two holding hands under the table but he wasn't sure. Whatever that was going on it made Jonathan happy because it made Will happy.
A few hours had passed, Mike and Will had been goofing off around Wills house ever since Joyce and Jonathan left. They played cards, watched a couple movies and overall were just enjoying each others presence. 
Will was cleaning up the kitchen after him and Mike had ate lunch, Will was scrubbing hard on one of the dishes distracted as Mike came up behind him and slowly wrapped his arms around the boy loosely.