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    “Nah, man,” Lucas shakes his head, leaning back as he snacks on an apple, “he got, like, buff. Do you see his arms?”
    Mike does, in fact, see Will’s arms. He has not stopped seeing his arms.
    “She definitely sees his arms,” Dustin very unhelpfully points out, waggling his eyebrows, and Mike gets the overwhelming urge to bash his own head in.

    While volunteering at the Hawkins' help center, it seems like every girl around has a newfound interest in Will Byers, and Mike doesn't know why he feels the way he does.
    (Based on this tweet.)

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    24 Mar 2026

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    Where is Karen when you need her? Holly? A Demogorgon? Anyone?

    Will looks around, searching for an escape route, but there’s no excuse for him to run away now. It wouldn’t be polite.

    “Yeah,” Will says, when the silence becomes as uncomfortable as wearing tight jeans without underwear.

    “What I mean is that he always apologizes. He was educated that way.” Ted is looking directly at Will now, as if he’s managed to gather all the courage he needs and now can’t waste it. “Whatever he did, he’ll fix it.”

    Will feels a tightness in his chest, a lump in his throat, and it's overwhelming. He thought he'd already humiliated himself enough in his life, but apparently not, because he starts crying in front of Ted Wheeler.

    Ted was not planning to give relationship advice today.
    Will was definitely not planning to receive it.

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    14 Mar 2026

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    “What?”, Will huffs, shaking his head in disbelief. “You know blue does not only equate sadness, right? It is one of the blatantly obvious meanings, sure, but it can also imply tranquility, loyalty, trust, peace, and—"

    Shut up, shut up, shut up, the voice in his head screams by now, but one cannot interrupt Will in the middle of one of his art rants. Impossible. No chance. “And with the vastness of the sky or sea, blue is also often associated with distance, longing, yearning, and— stuff.”

    “Distance”, Mike echoes, and only then does Will truly understand what he has just admitted into the air freely, completely unprovoked and voluntarily. “Longing. Yearning.”

    Obviously, this is the exact moment Robert Smith decides to sing about the fact that it is Friday, and that he is very much in love.

    Five times Mike distracts Will from his art assignments with his stupidly flirtatious ways, and one time Will actually needs his help to complete a coursework.

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    06 Jan 2026

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    “You should go back to sleep”, Mike mutters, but Will’s eyes are already flying over his face, and he is probably taking in the embarrassing number of tears, and the sweaty hair sticking onto his forehead and—

    “You’re bleeding”, Will whispers, and then, as if the realization strikes just now as he says it out loud, his voice increases in volume, but shakes harder all the more, “Mike, there’s— there’s blood pouring from your mouth.”

    Mike would have been perfectly content with never exploring the depth of his repressed feelings, if it wasn't for the deadly flowers blooming in his lungs.

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    05 Jan 2026

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    Mike shakes his head a little too vehemently, flustered under Will’s stare, at their closeness, at everything about him. ‘No! I don’t – of course people change, I just . . .’ He shakes his head again. ‘It’s stupid.’

    ‘No, it’s not stupid.’ Will’s hands trail down Mike’s arms, and it takes everything in him not to shiver. Will takes his hands and swings them slightly, back and forth. ‘You’re right. People do change. It’s just how we deal with it that matters.’

    ‘And . . . how do we deal with it?’ Mike whispers, hating the way his voice comes out all rough and scared. Will’s eyes slide up to meet his, and the corners of his mouth tug upwards in a tentative smile.

    ‘I want to hear your story.’

     

    // or, Mike actually doesn't hate Spiderman. He just hates everything about him.
    He also doesn't know that Spiderman is Will. But that's a totally different story.

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    03 Jan 2026