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    “Wow,” Will breathes out, just on this edge of teasing. “You sound very confident about this.”

    “Well,” Mike shrugs, swallowing hard in a desperate attempt to soothe his very, very dry mouth, “I don’t know why someone wouldn’t be interested in you.”

    “Oh?” Will says, and it’s definitely teasing now, enough for Mike to feel himself turning warm, all down his neck and to the tips of his own – sadly unpatterned – socks. “Someone?”

    “Yeah.” Mike nods. Oh, god. This is fine. “In a very arbitrary sense of the word. Just– people. Someone.”

    Mike is approximately ninety-eight percent sure that his feelings are requited. That last two percent, however, has really been throwing him for a loop.

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    07 Jan 2025

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    Mike thinks back to the painting Will gave him, rolled up and placed carefully in his dresser drawer, because for some reason it felt too wrong to hang it up on the walls with everything else. Too intimate. Like Will had made it for his eyes only. Or, apparently as everyone else thought, some mystery lover in California. And then he thinks about Will dozing off on his bed, and saying I think I’m in love with you all soft and slowed down from the inertia of sleep, and that’s right about when Mike starts to feel seriously lightheaded. He leans back against his bed and focuses very hard on taking deep, even breaths.

    Mike contemplates his feelings for Will Byers, partakes in a concerning amount of swooning, and learns to drive. Sort of.

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    16 Dec 2024

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    Mike sighs, looking down at his hands. "I always thought I would end up with someone more similar to me, you know? Someone I can talk about, like, hobbies and music and stuff with, without them visibly losing interest halfway through.”

    You have more in common with him than El, says the voice in Will’s head. He wonders, briefly, whether it would be weird to shove his face back into the pillow and scream.

    Will is definitely not qualified to be giving out any relationship advice. For one, he's never actually dated anyone before. Second, one of the people in said relationship is his sister. And third, the other person is the guy he's sort of in love with. There's no possible way this could backfire. Right?

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    14 Dec 2024

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    “Hey, hey, it’s Mike. Um, sorry, is — is Will there?”

    There is no answer for a minute, drawn out so long that Mike almost thinks the call somehow disconnected despite the lack of a dial tone. He pulls the phone away from his face, looks at it as if that’ll give him any clarity on the matter, and lifts it back to his ear. “Hel—“

    “Uh,” Jonathan finally says, somehow more awkward than Mike, “It is Will.”

    Mike nearly drops the fucking phone.

    Five times Mike and Will shared a phone call throughout the years, plus one time they didn't have to.

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    20 Nov 2024

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    Sam is not a natural father.
    Sometimes he thinks there isn't enough left of him to give away for children, scooped clean on the inside to bare, brittle bones. So what exactly is he supposed to do when the Devil's kid gets dropped in his lap with sad eyes and nowhere else to go? Well, he supposes it's time for a crash course in parenting.
    They might just end the world, but then again- maybe, just maybe, Sam can learn how to regrow.

    aka: sam, jack, and the struggles of parenting your gifted child

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    11 Aug 2023