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    The Wheelers and the Byers have been living together for eight months. Mike and Will have been dating for two of them.

    Will figures keeping their relationship quiet should be simple enough. After all, he kept his feelings for Mike hidden for years on end—with Jonathan the only person to realize something was going on. But in the Wheeler household, as it turns out, secrets aren’t so easy to keep.

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    28 Jan 2026

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    His eyes widen as he takes him in. Mike. He almost couldn’t believe it was him at all.

    “Stare a little harder, would you?” Mike said hoarsely, breaking the silence.

    “Sorry,” Will breathed, and then shook himself out of… whatever he was doing; ogling, oh god. He was ogling Mike. “I didn’t mean to—you’re just, you look different.”

    When Will Byers' powers come to light, Will and Mike are sent on a world-shifting adventure across universes that slowly serve to answer for that yawning chasm of lies and uncertainties between them. It may also, simulataneously, lead them straight to the salvation that they've all been waiting for, for far too long:

    Purging their lives of the Upside Down, finally, once and for all.

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    27 Jan 2026

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    “I don’t think that it has to mean that you’re into guys,” Lucas says. His words are accompanied by a casual shrug, and said in the tone of someone who has clearly already given this subject some thought. Will doesn’t know what to do with that information. Jump from a building, maybe. “I mean, we’d all get flustered if Spider-Man carried us in his arms.”

    Mike points to him enthusiastically. “Thank you, Lucas.”

    Dustin looks between the two of them, his eyes narrowed.

    “...Would we?”

    “Sure,” Mike concludes. “He’s attractive. That’s not a weird thing to think.”

    Will just barely resists the urge to bang his head against the table. He feels Dustin’s eyes glued to his burning face, and sinks even further down his chair.

    In which Mike tells Spider-Man that he has a crush on his best friend, and Will jumps to some very wrong conclusions.

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    26 Jan 2026

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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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    21 Jan 2026

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    “Shut up!” Mike says with a scowl. “I meant, like…I was just thinking…why don’t we just do it? Why don’t Will and I kiss?”

    It’s as if you could hear a pin drop.

    Lucas stares at Mike like he’s grown an extra head. Dustin and El exchange a meaningful look. Even Max, who just a moment ago had been happily poking fun at Mike, is seemingly at a loss for words.

    Will is silent too, color rising to his cheeks. It’s one thing for Max to suggest it; it’s another entirely for Mike to double down. Mike, his best friend for as long as he can remember. Mike, who regardless of any newfound warmth could barely touch Will for an entire year. Mike, who is oblivious to the fact that Will is desperately in love with him.

    Mike, who despite all that said Why don’t Will and I kiss as if it were the simplest thing in the world.

    After his first semester of college ends, Will is more than happy to spend a relaxing New Year's Eve in Mike's basement with the rest of the Party. Things go off the rails, however, when Max and El ask everyone to join in on an interesting new tradition—a tradition which may or may not involve him and Mike sharing a kiss.

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    11 Jan 2026