" are you gonna help me clean it up or not ? "
when mike wheeler got out of bed this morning, cleaning up the body of his best friend's asshole of a step - brother was not on his to - do list. neither was murder, contrary to popular belief by the permanent scowl that paints the picture he'd rather see everyone dead. the smell of iron is heavy in the air. mike's heart is pounding hard enough to blend into the heavy bass of the music still blaring from billy's bedroom. blood soaks into the rug his body collapsed onto, splatters across mike's face, clings to his shirt, & stains his hands.
he has the feeling that he'll watch this blood mix with soap & water & spiral down the drain, but his hands will never really be clean. there's some sort of twisted pride that settles with it.
that does very little to calm the sudden rush of panic that surges through him when the smell of iron & the scene at his feet catch up to him. " HOLY SHIT, he's like, actually ...... he's dead— " blood - stained knife clatters to the ground from shaky hands & mike's eyes go wide, stepping back to put distance between himself & the corpse.
" this — this is not — oh my god — holy shit — holy shit! " this is nothing like the movies — it's a billion times worse. the smell of blood is nauseating. mike forces his eyes off of lifeless billy to look at max, who's finally snapped out of her initial shock & right into clean - up mode with her question of : " are you gonna help me clean it up or not ? "
" what the hell are we supposed to do?! we can't just — walk out of here with a body and — and how do we even clean — " a brief pause, his hands waving as if to draw a giant circle around the whole area. " ALL of this?! jesus christ. " hands press against jeans to aggressively wipe off what blood he can before he's exhaling a breath & moving closer again, kneeling to shove billy's body more onto the rug. the corners of it are taken hold of & mike begins to push it inward, head motions toward the furniture that holds it in place. " can you push those out of the way? "
