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wherever you are, that's where i'll be by aelinsforce
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Mar 2026
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Summary
Will doesn't want to break the silence between them. Doesn't want to give up the chance to properly look at Mike without fearing he'll get caught.
He wants to tell Mike that he got the letter. From NYU. Will doesn't want to share this news with the rest of the party yet. He just wants it to be known between the two of them.
Selfishly, Will wants to make it theirs before it becomes the party's.
It's just that whenever Will brings up NYU, Mike gets all distant. It's like a chord is cut. A glass breaks. Something shifts in Mike.
Mike retreats somewhere Will cannot follow.
Or, the party makes a pact to open college acceptance letters together, but Will isn't sure where he stands among them. Mike's aloofness only spurs Will's worries about their future: as a party, and as Will and Mike.