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• Tear In My Heart by levitheweiner

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M, M/M, Multi
  • Work in Progress

  01 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler/Original Female Character(s)
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Holly Wheeler
  • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Original Characters
  • Slow Burn
  • Mike Wheeler may be with a girl
  • but hes VERY gay.
  • Will Byers is a lifeguard
  • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
  • Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things)
  • Will Byers is hardcore crushing
  • i cant write
  • I saw a Chad and Ryan edit and wrote this you will not see the connection ever tho
  • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
  • Oblivious Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Gay Will Byers
  • Gay Mike Wheeler
  • He Just Doesn't Know It Yet
  • Twenty One Pilots title cause why not
  • internalized homophobia?
  • MIKE WHEELER IS 6'3
  • who ever wrote their fic with 6'3 mike wheeler I see you
  • Ted Wheeler is a decent dad
  • still not the best but yuh

  Summary

  Michael Wheeler had never in his life felt what it was like to struggle. He had everything he ever wanted handed to him. He had two parents and two sisters. He wasn't popular, but he was liked. He had a girlfriend who he wasn't sure how to feel about.

  Michael was handed everything he wanted.

  William Byers was different. He knew what it was like to struggle. He didn't have everything he ever wanted, he had a select few items that he adored and took care of. He had two parents and two siblings. He wasn't popular and he wasn't liked. He didn't have a girlfriend, he didn't even like girls.

  William worked for everything he wanted.

   

  Or.

  On a summer long vacation to California to see family, Michael meets a lifeguard who changes his perspective on life.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  8,919

  Chapters:

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