In a perfect world, after Will and El's little 'rendezvous' in his bed, things go back to normal. They never speak of it again, pretend like it never happened, and things go back to just as they were before.
This is not a perfect world.
He saw all of El laid bare before him like it was her birthday, and she saw him in much of the same state. Despite his deepest wishes, things were not going to go back to normal. At least, not on his end.
Because while Will was now in a constant state of Red Alert induced by quite possibly betraying his oldest and deepest friend, El somehow was not bothered in the slightest.
In fact, El seemed to be deliberately taking things up a notch now. Wearing clothes that deliberately showed off skin, licking lollipops and popsicles in purposefully risqué ways, angling herself around Will so he caught glimpses down her shirt…
At that point, Will knew that El knew good and damn well what she was doing. Oh, she liked to act and play all innocent, but she knew about sex.
It wouldn't be that bad, but for most days, it was just the two of them at the house. El was still having to be homeschooled even though she had a great deal more personal freedom than she ever did in Hawkins, and to make sure El wouldn't be cooped up all by herself and go stir crazy, and to help her out in case things went wrong while she was home alone, Will chose to go with the homeschooling as well.
A situation that was backfiring horribly upon him now. In fairness, it's not like he considered something like this would happen, and even if he had at the time, Will still probably would've determined that keeping El from falling into a repeat situation similar to her 353-day isolation in Hopper's cabin was better than things getting a bit complicated.
But things got complicated. Really complicated now. It'd be complicated enough without adding a boyfriend into the equation, and to make matters worse, said boyfriend was Will's best friend.
Some days, he wondered when his life got so fucked up.
All this had to be fixed. And it had to get fixed now before it could snowball any further. Before a one-time simple fucking like rabbits could turn into making love (Yes, there was a distinction in Will's mind. Fucking was something to satisfy urges, making love was something you did because you loved someone and couldn't imagine doing it with anyone else.). If it changed, he was going to be in even deeper shit than he already was.
He could maybe, just maybe salvage the situation now, before it went any further. Before that one-time thing turned into a weekly thing, before it turned into a bi-weekly thing, then an every-other day thing, then a nightly thing, to whenever they just felt like it.
And God FORBID El got pregnant because of Will. He's sixteen and survived living at the center of a cosmic horror story, but that would be TOO MUCH.
So, while El went to the shower and he desperately tried to push away the vanilla-bean scent of her body wash Will began anxiously pacing around.
El already knew some things about sex. That's… good. It means that she'd probably done it with Mike already.
That was a massive weight off his chest, even if the thought made Will inordinately angry for some reason. Mike was El's first and not Will, at least.
But if that's the case, why in the HELL did El decide it was a good idea to seduce Will like that? Mike had to have been smart enough to tell her that it was only something you did with boyfriends-
No, no. Mike was not that smart.
He's the clever one, yes, thinking up solutions and formulating plans like no one else, but clever and smart are not the same thing.
Yeah, Will could see it now. Mike being all like "This is only something you do with a boy you really like, like me." Without considering how El might misinterpret that statement. Interpreting it instead to mean that it was fine to do with whoever if you really liked them, instead of something you saved for just one person.
Goddamn Mike. It's all his fault.
No, no. Will had to remind himself it wasn't Mike's fault it was his own. Things probably wouldn't have gotten this complicated if Will had just
Then again… He couldn't really remember if Mike and El actually got back together. She'd kissed him like a lost lover during moving day, but as for making it official… well, it was all a bit of a blur.
Maybe Will didn't have anything to worry about.
The boy smacked himself in the head. He couldn't assume anything about anything. You know what they say about assuming. It makes an ass out of you and me.
The water in the bathroom cut out, and Will inhaled. Speaking of asses…
Will smacked himself again. He had to get his mind outta the gutter else this wasn't going to stop. He had to stop thinking about El in that way. Stop thinking about her legs… her perfectly sculpted behind…
Dammit, didn't he just say he had to stop.
Will forced himself to focus on the television, the screen currently playing some cartoon thing from Japan, as the smell of vanilla and oranges got stronger.
El smiled as she sat down next to Will.
Still not wearing anything but that damn towel.
"I-Isn't that cold?" Will stuttered, hoping that she'd take the hint.
"It is." El conceded, pressing into Will. "Better now."
She took the hint alright. The exact wrong hint.
Will anxiously bounced his leg, stopping in his tracks as El began to run a finger up and down his thigh.
"What are you watching?" She inquired.
Well, right now he was trying not to watch her.
"It's…" Will gulped, as the one finger became her entire hand. "It's… Mobile Suit Gundam. It's an anime." The Byers had moved in next to a guy named Matt, a dude who loved television programs from abroad. As a housewarming gift he'd given them a VCR and some stuff to watch on it.
"Anime." El repeated, placing her head on Will's shoulder as she continued. "It's a cartoon."
"It's supposed to be for older people, not kids." Will hoarsely defended as El's hand inched closer to his crotch.
El sarcastically grinned. "Is that what they told you?"
"It's a fact." Will gulped.
"Hm." El nodded, as she slipped her hand down the front of Will's sweatpants, under the band of his underwear.
El's hand wrapped around the shaft of Will's stiffening cock, and the boy himself went as stiff as a board.
El smiled again, as she noticed she got a reaction out of Will. Slowly, she began to move her hand up and down.
Will sat there, unmoving. He didn't want to move, not with her soft hand wrapped securely around his member.
But he'd told himself it would stop.
"El…" Will groaned. "Stop."
The girl tilted her head but kept moving. "Why?"
"Because!" He grabbed her arm, pulling her hand out of his trousers. "Mike's your boyfriend! You should be doing stuff like this with him, not me!"
El tilted her head. "I don't understand."
Will spluttered. "What is there to not understand!? I'm not your boyfriend, he is!"
"You are my boyfriend." El stated with resolve.
"El…" Will began slowly, raising an eyebrow. "What do you think a boyfriend is?"
El drew her lips into a frustrated line, not pleased about being interrupted. "Boyfriend is a special friend you spend a lot of time with and do special things with." She explained. "Mike said he may have been my friend but because we kissed and spent time together that made him a boyfriend. I spend time with you, you kissed me, that makes you boyfriend." She insisted, placing her hand back.
"El!" Will squeaked as she continued jerking him off. "S-"
"Shh." El ordered, pressing her lips to his.
Will squirmed as El's tongue danced around his and the pumping of her hand sent tickles throughout his frame.
Perhaps unconsciously, his hand slipped under her towel, and he began rubbing circles into the still slightly damp skin on her back.
Like a dam about to break, he could feel it coming, before the floodgates opened, and he sent spurts of sticky goo flying in his pants.
El removed her hand and broke the kiss, looking at her fingers which had been slightly coated in some of Will's come.
The girl looked Will dead in the eyes as she licked each one of her fingers clean, releasing each one with an exaggerated, wet pop. El smiled again, letting out a happy sigh as she cuddled up to Will.
Will, meanwhile, while feeling the relief of release, was also freaking out. Leave it to Mike, in his self-proclaimed job of being El's teacher of the outside world, to leave out vital context about something.
El probably thought boyfriend was just like regular friends except more important, like best friends. In all likelihood, Mike probably hadn't had the foresight to explain that when he wanted to be El's boyfriend, there could only be one, not many, unlike regular friends. And God knows Hopper wasn't a fan about the whole dating thing to begin with, so he probably didn't even bother trying to explain to El the details of it.
…So, instead of Mike killing Will, the situation was now reversed. Will was going to kill Mike for giving a half-assed explanation to El and leaving Will to pick up the pieces.
That is, if Will could muster the strength to get her to stop.