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“You know, Max said that you might be jealous or something. And I didn’t wanna believe her, because why on earth would you be, but now I’m thinking she’s not that far off. Are you jealous? Is that what this is?”
There’s something familiar in his tone, or in the quick escalation of a situation out of Mike’s control, that strikes him right in the chest. Will looks as furious as ever, and he’s thrown back to almost a decade ago, fighting in the humid summer rain and all the fights they had after. Will always had a way of laying things bare, and while he didn’t do it often, it never failed to act as a quick smack upside the head for Mike, because it was only Will who could find the right thread to pull and untangle things.
Of course he’s jealous. Will’s the only thing that’s ever made the world make any sense for Mike. How could he ever find a way to put the enormity of that into words?
or, Mike and Will get stuck in an elevator after a night out, right in the middle of their first big fight as roommates. They talk it out.
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But the feelings that come up when they think of Susie and Noelle are like an annoying, stubborn bug, buzzing around their head despite being swatted away so many times before—they’re the conclusion they came to when they were leaning against the kitchen counter in Noelle’s house, finally fully themselves for a few measly moments of relief, and yet still feeling (though not for the first time) that their life was entirely out of their control.
or after the events of chapter four, Kris reflects