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    Mike pushes into his hands, but Will keeps him still.

    "Ask again," he says. Because he's greedy, and he wants Mike to want him.

    He stares at Will's mouth. "Please."

    "Again."

    El is gone.

    Will tries to figure out how to move on in New York, and Mike follows him. Their apartment is haunted not by ghosts, but by the two of them.

    Or: Catastrophically traumatized boys cling to each other and accidentally figure out how to be close—too close—while moving through their grief.

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    06 Jul 2026

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    “So,” Dustin announced as he brought back drinks for the whole table and very pointedly tipped his head in the direction of Mike and Will, who were mid-heated discussion where they’d left them. “Is anybody going to tell me what happened there?”

    Max rolled her eyes and said, “Will had a real ‘don’t meet your heroes’ moment,” at the same time as Lucas said, “Mike got his feelings hurt.”

    Miscommunication kings Will and Mike have a falling out in the aftermath of their first kiss. Three years later, Jane & Dustin are getting married in the Florida Keys, and they want the whole party there. Sometimes it's easier to pretend to kiss and make up than to face your problems.

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    06 Jul 2026

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    What happens when you accidentally overhear your best friend getting banged left and right? Naturally, if you're Mike Wheeler, you jerk off to it.

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    Mike Wheeler realizes he's mega-attracted to William Byers, his best friend of fifteen years. They live in a shoebox apartment in NYC, where he can hear every thrust and moan through the cardboard walls. Mike runs to Max, who helps him to devise a plan to get into Will's pants. If he doesn't manage to do it by the end of a ten-day period, he forfeits his love, pride, and a lump sum of money. Mike is incredibly awkward, but he's a stubborn man with a journal and a dream. Will he secure Will's affection, or will he be relegated to the cuck chair for all of time and eternity? Only time will tell.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    “You do like it,” Mike teases. “I can tell.”

    “Obviously,” Will huffs. “You know what I like.”

    Mike does. What a surreal feeling it is, to be the one who knows what Will likes. What makes him blush, or shy away. What turns him on. To be the only one who knows these things.

    “Yeah,” Mike says softly. “I know.”

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    Will becomes the patron saint of pretending to sleep with guys to help them come out of the closet. Mike isn’t exactly thrilled with the situation.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    One arm propped up against the door frame as he leaned forward, messy black curls haloed in the warm light from the hallway, Mike drug his glassy eyes over Will’s body, taking in his rumpled hair, his favorite too-big The Cure t-shirt (the one with holes around the collar), and baggy grey sweatpants, before giving him a cocky grin.

    Will was always enraptured by Mike’s beauty. He was like the perfect fusion of a Renaissance painting and a marble statue: simultaneously sharp angles and soft edges. Dark ringlets spiraling to caress the stark line of his jaw. Thin hooked nose nestled between gentle umber eyes. Prominent high cheekbones contrasting with plush downturned lips. Pale porcelain skin smattered with freckled constellations. He was an artist’s wet dream.

    “Hey.”

    Will scoffed and crossed his arms. “Hey, yourself.”

    They stood in silence for a moment, Mike leering as Will attempted to fix him with a fierce glare.

    “Aren’t you going to invite me in?”

    “You’re drunk, Mike.”

     

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    Follow along through three “periods” of Will’s art style post-college graduation and the encounters with a certain “best friend” that inspired them.

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    30 Jun 2026