CHAPTER 15

                                    

                                          
Joyce

                          
7:41pm
                          


                          
Joyce was in bits, She really didnt know what to do, Will's outburst at the hospital the previous day had frightened her to the core, She had never seen him in such a state and as a mother it broke her heart seeing her child in such a state, She just wanted to hold him and tell him everything would be alright but she remembered Will's words from the previous day.
                          
"IVE HAD ENOUGH OF PEOPLE TREATING ME LIKE A LITTLE KID!"
                          
Will's words keep ringing in her head and she knew maybe being overly motherly to him might set him off again, It hurt her that she could just hold him like she usually does but he was obviously in a very bad place and she just didnt know how to help him, Was it him coming out that set this off? She thought or is there something else that might have happended, Had he been bullied again at school? Had he had a falling out with one of his friends? She just didnt know, Joyce wanted him to be the happy smiling Will that he could be.
                          
Joyce was sat at the table in the kitchen, She was sat with a cup of coffee in front of her, It was the cheap coffee she could afford but it tasted ok to her, She was sat in thought wondering on what she should do next about her youngest.
                          
"He could just be going through a phase?" The familiar voice of Hopper told her as he sat next to her sipping his own coffee, Joyce looked at him with a frown on her face, Joyce and Hopper were now dating and had been since early in the year, She felt safe with Hopper, He had been so good to her through the hard times.
                          
"A phase? Thats what you think it is?" Joyce spoke as her voice was more mocking of Hopper's suggestion of it being a 'phase' Joyce didnt think it was a phase she knew something else was wrong but she just couldnt work out what, Since she had brought Will back from the Hopsital early that afternoon, Will had gone to his room, shut the door and only came out the one time for a glass of water, He hadnt come out since, She had tried to talk to him but he just ignored her and it hurt her, That he couldnt talk to her, Thats why she called Hopper, However Hopper is yet to know about Will's coming out.
                          
"Teenage Hormones, I bet actually, He is 14 Joyce, Look he doesnt have a father to talk to about any of this sort of stuff, If this is even the course of why he is so angry" Hopper told her as he put his cup of coffee down onto the table in front of him.
                          
Joyce sighed as she looked back to him. "I never really thought about it like that.." Joyce admitted as she glanced in the direction of Will's bedroom for a moment in thought, 'Could that be it?' She thought, She hoped it might be so she could rest easy about what was bothering him.
                          
"I'm only guessing, Dont take my word" Hopper reminded her as he playfully lifted his hands up.
                          
"Noted" Joyce replied with a wink towards her man, Hopper then raised his eyebrow as if he had thought of something, He tapped his finger on the table in a annoying manner.
                          
"Has he got eyes on a girl? Maybe he has got his first real crush? I remember how it was when i was his age" Hopper smirked to himself as he tried to remember in his head of when he was 14 but Joyce was quick to click her fingers to snap him out of his day dreaming.
                          
"If i tell you this, please please swear to secretecy ok?" Joyce told him as she made the most seirous face she could possibly make, What she was about to tell him was something that really Will should do himself as it was his news and not hers to tell but she needed to be truthful with Hopper now.
                          
Hopper put his hand over his heart playfully. "I Cross my heart" Hopper said, He meant it even if it came off as a joke, Joyce glanced again in the direction of Will's bedroom hoping he wasnt there or going to walk out of his room into their conversation, She sighed loudly wondering if this was a good idea to tell Hopper, She ran her hand through her hair before she felt Hopper take her hand into his, She felt a tiny smile come to her lips for the first time in a few days.
                          
"Will..Came out to me a few days ago" She told Hopper slowly so he could take it in and she didnt want to repeat herself as she then once again checked Will hadnt appeared and luckily he had not as she looked back to Hopper for his reaction, Hopper didnt seem phased by her news about her son as he then took another sip from his coffee before placing the cup back onto the table.
                          
"You should be proud of him for having the courage to do that, He is very brave" Hopper told her as he kept her hand in his.
                          
"Of course im proud of him, I just hope he tells the right people, I just dont want him to get hurt, You know Will gets bullied by them two kids at school" Joyce reminded him as Hopper nodded as she spoke.
                          
"Yes i know, Jane told me, She is quite protective of Will, I think they all are, Thats why he has a great group of friends Joyce, They all look out for one and another" Hopper was proud of Jane and what she was becoming even if she was growing up quite fast, His words did help Joyce feel a bit better though, Joyce took another sip of her own coffee which she had now finished.
                          
"They are great kids, They all feel like my own kids to be honest, They are here so much a lot of the time" Joyce said with a small laugh as Hopper laughed with him, he agreed.
                          
"I know what you mean, They have all been through so much, We all have" Hopper said, They had been through a lot over the years, Will's dissapperance, El's arrival, Will getting possesed by the Mind Flayer the previous year, Hopper was always on edge as he expected something else to be around the corner.
                          
Hopper finished his own coffee and stood up, glancing at the clock on the wall. "Well i better get back out there" Hopper told her as he picked up his hat from the table, walking around the table, Joyce was quick to give him a hug, a tight one, She looked up and gently pressed her lips against his, but she was quick to pull away only giving him a quick kiss not to hold him up, Joyce walked him over to the main door. "I'm guessing Jane is spending more time with Mike?" Joyce asked trying to change their subject of conversation before he left, Hopper looked back at her as he stepped out of the house.
                          
"When isnt she spending time with Mike" Hopper said sarcasticly as he rolled his eyes playfully, he pulled out his pack of cigarettes, he quickly offered Joyce one but for once she turned it down, He placed the cigarette into his mouth and lit it. "And when she isnt with him, He comes to her" Hopper added as he laughed, walking over to his truck, he unlocked the door, looking back at Joyce again. "With everything they have been through, I'm glad both of them are happy together though" Hopper finished.
                          
Joyce nodded in agreement as she gave Hopper a wave which he gave her back as he got into his truck, He started it up and began to turn the truck around before putting his window down to speak again. "If you need me, You know where i am and im just a phonecall away" Hopper reminded her as Joyce blew him a kiss and he then drove away from the house, Joyce sighed watching him drive away but she didnt realise that standing back in the house with a glass of water in his hand was Will, Who had come out to getting himself some more water. 

                          
Will held onto the glass but he wanted it to shatter in his hand as he felt anger inside him building. "I've been through a lot too!" Will muttered angrily to himself, Will had heard them but how much had he heard..
                          


                          


                          
Dun dun dum
                          
Hope you still have your seat belt on, its going to be
                          
a wild ride people.