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    One month ago, if you had asked Will Byers what he’d do if Mike Wheeler threaded his fingers through his hair, looked him dead in the eyes, and started leaning in for a kiss, he wouldn’t have said this.

    He wouldn’t have said he’d be staring right back into those yawning dark eyes, one hand on Mike’s waist, the other against his cheek. There wouldn’t have been any lightning in his veins or blood rushing in his ears.

    He wouldn’t have said that Mike Wheeler would be tilting his head in the opposite direction, eyes widening just the slightest as if asking permission, his mouth slightly parted.

    He wouldn’t have imagined it at all.

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    02 Mar 2026

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    30k for a single kiss, seems right

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    “I feel like you used to tell me things,” Mike says.

    Will looks away from his Walkman, back to Mike. It’s almost startling, finding him already looking back. “I – tell you things,” he replies, a little awkwardly. He barely gets through the sentence before Mike is already shaking his head.

    "No,” he frowns, “you – you used to tell me things. Like, stuff you wouldn’t tell everyone else.” He seems conflicted, and he looks away. “Stuff just between us.”

    Will doesn’t know where to begin.

    Will tries to navigate a conversation with a freshly-broken-up-with Mike.

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    01 Mar 2026

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    yes will having self respect and boundaries

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    Mike keeps losing Will, time and time again. Time and time again, he always gets him back.

    Or, alternatively: “Mike and Will’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Night in the Upside Down: and Other Tales” by Mike Wheeler

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    01 Mar 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    lovely poetic writing style

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    “Shut the fuck up.”, Will whispers because he can’t, he just can’t deal with Mike’s confusing ass right now. The soft light is illuminating Mike’s features, jaw carved out so perfectly, cheekbones high, eyes so dark Will feels like they’re swallowing him. “You are, too.”, he adds.

    “Prettier than your lame boyfriend?”, Mike ask, voice somehow careful and urgent at the same time.

    “Mike…” Will shivers a little, not sure what to do with himself. It’s ridiculous for Mike to actually believe Will has a boyfriend; if that were the case, he would’ve never stepped a foot into this bed. But somehow, Mike’s need to come out on top compared to the guy he is supposedly dating makes Will break out in goosebumps all over.

    “That’s not a no.”, Mike remarks.
    “That’s not a no.”, Will whispers, scared to move at all and break the moment.
    A soft grin plays at the corner of Mike’s mouth, “Oh, yeah?”
    “Yeah.”, Will nods, “But you knew that already.”
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    College AU where Will pretends to date a guy named Carlton to set a boundary with Mike and stop him from flirting when he keeps insisting they're just 'best friends'. It backfires and Mike sends him more mixed signals than ever.

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    28 Feb 2026

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    byler ft. carlton but there's no cheating

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    He’d stared at Will without really seeing him, so caught up in his own thoughts—a constant, monotonous beat of oh my God, I’m alive. Oh my God, Will has powers. Oh my God, he saved me.

    And then—

    Oh my God, he’s beautiful.

    The thought had stopped him short, had landed with a soft and devastating clarity.

    Beautiful.

    That single word had broken something open within him, something he’d spent years reinforcing with lock and chain and prayer and denial.

    After Will saves Mike from the demogorgon at the MAC-Z, Mike finally lets himself acknowledge a truth he's been running from for years:

    He is in love with Will Byers.

    Now all Mike has to do is come to terms with that truth—especially when Joyce sees it too.

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    28 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    mike thinking that his feelings are thhe cause of everything wrong in will's life