no grave can hold my body down
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Mike's not stupid. Tammy is a methaphor. A placeholder name. Will's 'Tammy' is a boy, a boy who isn't like him, apparently. A boy whom he's pined over, aching and cried over, no matter what Will says about it being some 'crush.'
Mike knows Will like he knows the sky is blue, or that the sun is a bright yellow deadly laser. From the fidgeting of his hands, the silent resignation in his pretty hazel eyes that always seem to fill with tears, when Mike can do nothing to stop it. For some reason, Will is lying to himself. Or perhaps just to them, to soften the blow.
'Tammy' isn't a crush. Will is in love with a boy who can't return it, devastatingly so. Even as he smiled he'd looked heartbroken, accepting but ruined.
or, Mike has always wanted to give Will everything he wants.
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- Part 1 of no grave can hold my body down
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“I love you.”
He’d been terrified, then, when he heard it. Not afraid that Will loved him, no. Afraid that Will loved him, told him, and would’ve died before Mike could tell him that he loved him before he ever knew what loving someone the way he did Will meant.
Because he’d stopped shaking, right after those words spilled out of his lips in a desperate gasp. His sniffles had died, breath stuttering until he was quiet. Will had always been a quiet boy, but Mike had always heard him, even before he started truly speaking when they were children. He couldn’t hear him, then.
He couldn’t hear him, and he had fallen apart.
or, Mike knows it's him Will had been tragically in love with. He acts accordingly.
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- Part 2 of no grave can hold my body down