You're My Best Friend (I'll Love You Forever)

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• You're My Best Friend (I'll Love You Forever) by goodnightmoonxx

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  17 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Robin Buckley/Vickie Dunne
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Robin Buckley
  • Vickie Dunne
  • Steve Harrington
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Holly Wheeler
  • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
  • Karen Wheeler
  • No Vecna (Stranger Things)
  • Angst
  • Fluff
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Best Friends to Lovers
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Slow Burn
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Coming of Age
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers Needs a Hug
  • Pining
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Mike Wheeler Finds Out About Will Byers's Painting
  • Will Byers's Painting
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Not Actually Unrequited Love

  Summary

  Will knew it was doomed. Mike had Jane, Mike loved Jane. And if they, for whatever reason, they broke up there would be another girl that took his breath away. Because people like Will, they don’t get accepted, and they definitely don’t get to be loved.

  Series

  • Part 1 of You're My Best Friend (I'll Love You Forever)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,692

  Chapters:

  3/?

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

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