WILL POV-

"I can't believe we are gonna meet Will's new boyfriend" The doe eyed girl chirped jumping up and down leading the group along with her girlfriend

"He's not my boyfriend" Will deadpanned

"But it would be so romantic!" El cooed, thinking of the possibilities of being able to go on a double date "It would be an across-the-country romance!"

"We are only here for one more day! I don't think we'll get that far" The brunette joked

"So why do you like him?" Max cut off the conversation with her own question

"Um... he was just nice I guess" The boy mumbled, needing to pretend he liked someone else when his actual crushes were behind him! The small boy passed a death glare at Dustin who covered his mouth obviously finding everything about this hilarious but knew this was going slightly out of hand.

"Are you okay with this?" Dustin whispered into Will's ear.

"Oh... Yeah! I'm fine with it!" The brunette chuckled back quietly. "I think it'll actually be fun!"

The redhead cut the boy's conversation short, asking another question "No but like specifically... What's his name?" 

"Umm... I don't know" The brunette shrugged

The ravenette rolled his eyes, "You don't even know this man!" huffing loudly. Dustin walked behind him placing both hands on Mike's shoulders "Chill! Will is a grown up, he can take care of himself" Letting go with a bright smile, seeing the disgruntled look on his face as they approached the ice-cream parlour.

"Oh, hi" The boy behind the counter licked his lips scanning the brunette up and down "Looking for a treat to fill you up?"

"Something like that!" Will awkwardly nodded, the group making him talk wanting to see how he would flirt with the attractive worker. Will had to admit it; the worker was incredibly good looking, something about him: maybe it was his blonde mullet, his blue fierce eyes or his muscular physique complimented through his tight clothing; did he really have a crush on him? HELL NO! He was only doing this to prove Dustin's silly hypothesis on Mike.

"Well! You're in luck" the blonde boy smirked "I'm your sailor today! And I know exactly how to satisfy you" winking at his sentence, completely flying over the boy's head.

Mike scrunched his face sticking his tongue out, that flirting was abysmal; it was as though he was watching two teenagers flirt, but realisation hit Mike, they were still those teenagers. Rolling his eyes, the ravenette stood to one side huffing "Can we just order?"

"Oh yeah! Of course!" The boy grinned turning his back around grabbing a note book before listing the scoops each of them wanted hearing the group shout their choices. Will stood stiff in the middle of everyone, covering his ears as El leaned over practically throwing herself on the counter to order her scoop of ice-cream, specifically giving instructions of what she wanted on it.

"Will that be all?" The boy smiled repeating the order back! The brunette managed to catch a glimpse of his name tag, it read 'Billy'. Billy? Will questioned opening his mouth "Is your name short for William?" pointing at the boy's badge.

"What?" The boy blinked "Oh! Yeah, it is!" turning round extending a hand out to the small boy "My names Billy. Billy Hargrove"

"That's so cool, my name is Will too" The small boy smiled accepting the hand, shaking it; Billy placed his other over, caressing the brunette's hand with his thumb.

"It looks like we already have things in... common." The muscular boy spoke deep, letting go of the hand allowing it to linger. Will could feel the sexual tension from the words as he turned slightly red.

In the matter of a few minutes he placed the ice-cream scoops on the table, flashing his hands over them dramatically and placing a small spoon into each of them "You know they said there's a flavour of heaven in every bite?"

"And here I was thinking that was a lie!" The small boy sarcastically joked, fumbling through his pockets to pull out his wallet sliding the money across the table being the same amount he paid yesterday.

The blonde boy scurried to the cash register typing into it, watching the register flip open taking a few coins out "Here's your change" The boy averted his gaze up

"Thank you!" The small boy chirped feeling eyes on the back of his neck, he thought by all the weird stares he got in high school, he'd be used to it but apparently not. That was something he would describe as a flaw, but had no time thinking of that as the muscular guy reached his hand over the counter, placing the change directly into the brunette's hand allowing it to linger before it left their skin touching.

"I'm actually glad you came today!" Billy flashed an alluring smoulder, his attention solely focused on the brunette.

"What... Why?" Will chuckled, why would he be excited to see someone as random as he was?

With a smirk, Billy leaned against the counter, directing a playful gaze towards the small boy. "I couldn't help but notice you're looking extra sexy today. Care to join me tomorrow?"

"Excuse me?" Will uttered, taken aback from the sudden suggestion; when Dustin mentioned the boy was flirting with him, he assumed it was a joke. Shocked, the boy glanced at Dustin standing beside him, pleading for him to say anything in his place.

"He'd love too!" The curly haired boy chirped answering for the young brunette knowing he would only reject the notion entirely. Dustin wasn't doing it out of spite, nor was it part of the plan; he wouldn't have done it if Will was uncomfortable. He wanted Will to have a genuine 'date' with someone since the brunette had told him he had never been on a date before.

"Great! I'll meet you tomorrow at 2, babe" Winking, Billy grabbed a napkin, jotting a number down "Here's my number" in a raspy voice, passing the number over before turning around continuing with his work as the group shuffled to one side.

"Wha- what was that?" Will stood stiff processing the sheer number of events that occurred "Did I just get-" unable to finish his statement

"You got asked out!" Dustin cheered; this certainly wasn't his intention but somehow he was a great matchmaker patting himself on the back.

"I got asked out!" The brunette repeated... He was gobsmacked; HE had a date, and it was an attractive guy who asked him out first. He wanted to scream aloud never expecting this day to come.

"Big whoop" The ravenette raised his arms sarcastically waving them about.

"Hey! Be nice to him asshat" Max defended, remaining silent the whole time but spoke out for injustice; it was just the person she was. She was beginning to get closer little by little to the small boy; sure, they were nowhere as close as he and Dustin were, but it was a start. She liked Will as a person now, a lot easier to talk to and not so 'assholery' as he used to be.

"Whatever" Mike scoffed

"You're just jealous he got asked out and you didn't" The redhead retorted

The ravenette gave no answer. In all honesty what could he say that would make sense... Mike couldn't just tell them the truth; they wouldn't understand why he felt jealous observing Will's face darken a hue redder whenever Billy so much as merely spoke. The scowl on his face returned rolling his eyes, feeling a certain way toward the small boy. Not wanting to name it, afraid of the connotations that came with the labels but could tell exactly what these feelings were; it didn't take a genius to find out:

Mike Wheeler has a crush on Will Byers

But determined to save his reputation and not coming off as controlling and overbearing, took a deep breath joining his friends, placing a fake smile on his face following the path. Mike remained silent the whole time, which was normal; the ravenette wasn't usually the more vocal one of the group, that moniker going to Max or Dustin.

The athletic boy was also quiet walking beside Mike, abruptly stopping him, tapping his shoulder catching his attention, "Mike?"

"What?" The ravenette turned around also stopping in his tracks

"I need to talk to you!" was all Lucas uttered...

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Max and Billy aren't stepsiblings in this story

And I don't really like Billy but it'll make sense why he was used next chapter

Stay Safe <3