BlueYellowFlowerchild



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    “I bet your boyfriend's funny, huh?” he said, before he could stop himself. His eyes flicked back to the piece of jewellery on Will’s neck. “Nice necklace by the way.”

    Will froze.

    Mike wasn’t stupid. He knew it wasn’t just a necklace. It was a signal. A claim.

    Six years after everything, Mike Wheeler has built a life of routine and avoidance, convincing himself that silence is the same as healing. Will Byers has done the opposite – he’s left, grown, and learned to love without apology.

    When they meet again at Lucas and Max’s wedding, the truth Mike has spent years avoiding, finally demands to be faced – especially when he sees Will with someone else.

    As he finds out, sometimes yearning doesn’t fade with time. It grows, until punches are thrown.

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    Mike has kissed exactly one girl since El: Gracie Jenkins, at a party Stacey Albright threw a few weeks ago, before everyone went off to college. He hadn’t liked it, but he’d assumed that was more or less to be expected, that moving on from El would be easier said than done. He was making peace with the possibility that he might never move on, really—that any future romance was just doomed from the start.

    Eric kisses him and, immediately, he likes it.

    It takes one week of college for Mike to drunkenly make out with a boy at a party, and even less time for him to connect the rest of the dots.

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    “When I saw you… there. From the Demo’s perspective. You were gonna –” Will’s voice breaks, and Mike’s fingers twitch where they rest on the fabric of Will’s jeans. There’s no conscious thought process, but he gently rubs back and forth. “I thought of you,” Will whispers, breath catching slightly.

    “Of us. When… um, when we first met, and you asked me to be your friend. I thought of that and… you know. It happened."

    Mike’s eyebrows lift. Me. I did it. “Oh.”

    Will glances and seems to realise all at once how much he just revealed.

    aka after their graduation dnd game, will and dustin persuades everyone to go to stacy's house party. mike is not exactly in the mood, and wonders if drinking will help everything that he's feeling right now. what could go wrong? what could go right?

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    Dustin hums in agreement while he swallows his bite. “It’s like, against his factory settings to say no to you. What do you need him to do, model for you or something?”

    Will shoves his face back into his hands. “I’m going to fail.”

    Max rolls her eyes. “You’re not going to fail, you’re going to paint Mike.”

    Will lifts his head up from his hands, eyes wide, and shakes his head. “You don’t understand.” He pleads with his awful, awful friends, voice low. “He’s been, he’s using my-he came out of my bathroom in just a towel last night.”

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    Studio art major Will Byers has a study of the human body due before the semester ends, is in desperate need for a model, and has a huge, life-altering, heart wrenching crush on his best friend.

    Enter: Mike Wheeler, his broken shower, and his collection of plaid-print boxers.

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    15 Jan 2026

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    “There was a boy,” Izzy’s dad murmurs. “He… he was my first friend—my best friend. And I…”

    His voice trails off. Tears well in her dad’s eyes, and Izzy reaches across the space between them, taking his free hand. She gives it an encouraging squeeze, and her dad laughs, soft and broken and free

    “I loved him, Izzy,” her dad whispers, meeting her eyes. “I loved him. I really, really did.”

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    The one in which Mike Wheeler has a crash out of epic proportions when listening to ’Good Luck, Babe!’ and his daughter, Izzy, decides to do something about it.

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