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Will byers favorite color was yellow. Everyone knew that by now, his most favorite outfit was a yellow plaid shirt combined with sand color
trousers and white socks with yellow stripes.
Of course Mike had noticed this first, he always observed and stored every little detail about his best friend which allowed him to even notice small changes in his behavior.
Mike Wheelers favorite color was blue, his shirts and hoodies all had various shades of the color & his favorite combination were simple black jeans to this.
When he noticed Will's socks which still were a new addition to the ongoing color palette.
He went to the mall on the next day and scored himself white socks with blue stripes.
When Will saw a new blue shade in Mike's ongoing collection, he made sure to buy himself soon enough a new hoodie or shirt that complemented his best friends outfit in a way that made them both always fit together.
Hidden, but yet so obvious both tried to keep the true meaning behind this to themselves.
Thinking the other one didn't feel the same and well it didn't help that Hawkins is a small town and people loved using slurs.
But that didnt stop either of the boys feelings, as well as caring deeply about one another and showing that with gestures.
Everytime people dared to throw another slur against Will, Mike was already there in front of him and protecting him at every cost, even if it meant getting bullied as well.
Everytime they went to a movie, Will reserved the seat next to him long enough until Mike finally showed up because he was always historically 15mins late to everything.
They shared popcorn and snacks, always sat together when the party watched a movie at home, always scooted closer together than neccessary on every couch or surface they sat on & sometimes they were bickering forth and back when it came to their Dnd campaigns.
Which usually involved Lucas & Dustin, two of their best friends, who rambled just as much when it came to their favorite activity.
Max and Eleven who also were part of the gang, occasionally showed up for birthdays, movie nights, dance parties and sleepovers.
They were best friends with each other, but still loved hanging out with everyone and well you can imagine how chaotic it sometimes was when all of them were in one room.
The four friends were used to Will and Mike being extremely close with each other, so yes this movie night was just another normal day of all of them lounging around while trying to watch Ghostbusters.
Max and El were sitting together on a chair even tho it was actually just for one person, but neither of them minded.
They occasionally giggled about trying to fit both their limbs in a comfortable setting, only to give up and eleven letting max sit on her lap sideways.
Dustin & Lucas sat on a mattress that was placed in front of the couch, well sitting is probably not the right word.
Dustin lazily laid against the couch, his knees drawn up eating popcorn and rambled about some very specific fan knowledge towards the movie plot every 15mins. Lucas kinda leaned half against him and against the couch, arguing with Dustin about said facts and then presenting his own.
Will and Mike had gotten the luck of the draw this time ending up on the two seated couch behind them.
They didn't sit on opposite ends tho, no actually in this moment they were kinda cuddling.
While it was not the first time this happened, Max and Eleven still suddenly found it very interesting that Will laid his head on Mike's chest and the other boy in response let out a happy sigh putting his arms firmly around Will.
Max pointed at them and whispered something to Jane, who as response giggled loudly which catched everyone's attention for a short while.
"What's so funny up there?", asked Lucas and then they both got involved by wordless communication, exchanged looks and a bet in mind that all four of them had made a while ago about Mike and Will getting together.
Or more specifically each one of them had laid down their best guess as to when those two would finally see how obviously they were into each other.
Dustin guessed not until college, Lucas guessed 1 year from now before college, Eleven guessed before new years.
Max was the most pessimistic by guessing not until after college was over, declaiming that those two were the combination of oblivious and blind when it came to this. She wasn't completely wrong, given the circumstance that Will seemed completely unaware of the way Mike blushed everytime they got close.
Or missed the several lip glances as well as blatant obvious staring at his hands and face.
Meanwhile Mike was completely oblivious to the way that Will stared with a dreamy look at him, whenever he wasn't looking as well as blushing everytime his best friend got protective over him.
Meanwhile back to the current Couch situation and the gang still grinning as well as exchanging looks and whispering to each other, Will had lifted his head in confusion to see what's going on. But he was met with immediate protest from Mike who just murmured "don't move" and pulled his best friend back in.
That made Will blush heavily for no reason...well actually it was a fairly easy one: he loved Mike.
What had started out as best friends against the world, slowly became more for Will as he realized his own feelings during Halloween 3 years ago.
Quickly he shoved his head further into Mike's comfy hoodie trying to hide the blush that had made its way across his entire face.
Will was used to Mike being clingy, but this was quite unexpected even for him and so he held his breath wondering if his best friend noticed his own heart bumping loudly and fast, while cuddling against him.
Mike in the meantime had his eyes peacefully closed, a happy smile on his face only to realize a second later what he had just done.
An immediate red color spred across his entire face, eyes blinking rapidly and he forgot how his owns hands functioned or how to breathe.
For some reason that he tried hard not to see as sign, Will didn't seem to mind that Mike had just literally pulled him back in for cuddling.
His heart stuttered upon that and his thoughts raced all at once, but regardless he didn't let go of Will.
Hell the house could have been on fire at this point and he still would refuse to let go, because his best friend smelled intoxicatingly good and he loved the way their bodies rested against each other and how Will's hair felt like the most soft thing ever.
Apparently at some point between 5mins ago and now Mike's hand had found his way there and started mindlessly playing with it.
Will let out a soft sigh nudging slightly against Mike's hand, which made Mike's brain short circuit over the possibility of his crush loving him back.
He didn't dare yet to hope though, everything felt still too fragile, every touch and every moment his best friend let him be close like that, felt special.
Time always somehow slowed down and sped up at the same time, when he got close to Will and he dreadded the moment he had to let go.
It always felt so empty after, the warmth being gone and the craving of more drove Mike crazy sometimes while hoping for another opportunity to be close to Will.
Mike really didn't want to but since there was no excuse he could say as to why they should stay cuddled up like this for the next several hours, he eventually let go.
He blushed upon the sight of Will's hair looking messy as well as his face being slightly crunched by the hoodie.
So pretty, Mike really wanted to kiss him right now. His heart stuttered again upon his own thoughts and he quickly tried to shove them away, by busying himself with cleaning up after Dustin and Lucas had started a small popcorn fight.
Mike's birthday was on the 20th October which happened to be in 3 days, of course Will knew that.
It was engraved in his brain like the most crucial information on earth and well for him it was.
Because it was the one day where he didn't have to hide his own feelings that much, where Will could shower Mike with compliments and pay all his attention to him.
It was his 16th birthday and Will had gotten Mike some very specific things over the years, that somehow surprised the other boy everytime in the cutest way because they just fit so perfectly.
For this year Will had been working for months now on something special.
He loved to draw and his art was always something he was good at, so Will started painting their DND classes and Mike as the protector he always was.
He was quite nervous showing this though, did the amount of brushstrokes give away how much time he had spent perfecting this?
Was the heart on Mike's shield too obvious? Probably, but he couldn't pass up the opportunity and now he had a finished painting for Mike that screamed all his emotions he had tried to hide for a while now.
So yes to say the least Will was nervous in the next 3 days, fidgeting and restless which immediately got him more attention from Mike who asked him multiple times if he was really ok.
Not only that, he pulled him in close everytime as well, gently caressing his back until the other boy felt actually more calm just because their breathing was in sync.
Mike didn't want to admit it but he liked taking care of Will, he wanted to protect him at any cost even though he actually wasn't sure why his best friend was so anxiously lately.
Mike didn't spend too much time thinking about it though, since Will's hair smelt incredibly good and felt just as soft in his hands, that somehow had found their way there again.
They sat alone in Mike's room on his bed and Will didn't pull away, actually he nudged happily against Mike's hand and put his head on the other boys chest.
Yep so they were cuddling again and Mike's brain completely stopped working while his whole body tingled and sent goosebumps down as a response.
His face was probably as red as a tomato right now, while he tried calming down his own heartbeat since Will literally laid on top of it with his head.
For some reason the boy he was in love with didn't seem to notice, as he started rambling about some comic they had read together.
Mike nodded at the right times and eventually he started talking too, which distracted his brain almost enough from the fact that they were laying down with Will laying half on top of him.
"And so then he used his powers and...are you really listening?, asked Will suddenly looking up at him now.
Mike looked down & answered "Yeah...I am!". He hadn't been listening at all, his mind was only full with "Will, will, will", caressing his back gently.
In this moment specifically his gaze fixated on Will's lips and all he could think about was how much he wanted to kiss him.
Will couldn't look away as Mikes Gaze met his own, loosing himself in those beautiful dark eyes and the small freckles on Mike's face.
He only then noticed how close they actually were, since he could count every one of them.
His breath hitchhiked but he still was unable to move or look away and Mike seemed frozen too, his gaze switching nervously between Will's eyes and lips moving slowly closer and closer until there were only inches between their lips.
"Boys, time for Dinner!", Joyce called them from the kitchen and both boys jumped in response.
Their lips had barely touched but it was still almost a kiss and it rendered them both completely flustered stuttering awkwardly.
"Will..I uhm...sorry", whispered Mike finally & Will did his best to answer quickly "no no... I'm uh the one who...sorry"
"No no...its ok, its.....lets just get dinner before we starve huh?", said Mike with an akward smile and Will nodded relieved.
Whatever just had happened they would have to deal with it later, because Joyce had called yet again since they still stood in Mike's room both blushing very much aware now that the other one was blushing as well.
They finally went down and sat both on the dinner table, Joyce looked a little confused between both boys silently sitting and still having slightly flushed cheeks but decided to not ask any questions.
Will ate quietly and tried glancing multiple times at Mike but everytime the other boy was already looking at him which ended in them both quickly looking away.
Well this was certainly akward and Will's brain still raced with trying to process what just had happened because he was sure he was dreaming and this couldn't be real. Had Mike really wanted to kiss him, did he feel the same? It drove him insane and in the end he felt more unsure than before, but Will had to know.
Even if it meant possibly destroying the thin line they had danced around minutes earlier, Will wanted to be back in Mike's Arms.
Back at staring at his beautiful face, feeling his breath on his skin and most of all he wanted to kiss him badly.
It was everything Will actually could think about again risking a glance at Mike's lips only to look up and be met with an intense stare.
While Mike had questioned his entire sanity upon whether Will really had wanted to kiss him or just didn't move away, he now was met with brown hazel eyes and his breath hitchhiking while all his questions vanished away seeing the amount of emotions in Wills eyes.
They had a silent conversation between each other which let Mike swallow multiple times grabbing his spoon tightly and biting his lip.
Yep this was real ok be cool, but he was not cool at all.
His whole body trembled with the force it took him to sit until it was socially acceptable to leave the table, which actually more looked like Mike jumping up in a matter of seconds letting everything fall while he made sure to go his room as fast as possible.
Will who was left with a slightly confused Joyce, stuttered some reason that sounded like "uh hes just... excited for tomorrow. His birthday and stuff. I'll go check on him" and then finally went up the stairs towards Mike's room.
Each second he felt more anxious and excited, was this all just a dream?
He even pinched himself but nope, he still was on the stairs and Mike was really waiting for him on the other side of the door to finish what they started.
Will exhaled one last time before opening the door and closing it behind him, carefully sitting next to Mike who fidgeted anxiosly with his hands and smiled nervously at him.
Neither of the boys spoke a word for a while, but Mike carefully and trembling placed his hand on top of Will's, then finally with a shaky voice he said
"Will...um. If you dont want to. I mean...if I got everything wrong and you didn't want to kiss me you can just sa-"
The rest was cut off by Will finally finding courage surging forward and pressing his lips onto Mike, who froze at the action blinking rapidly.
As quickly as he had moved, Will pulled back since Mike still just sat there frozen and stuttered "S.Sorry...I thought you wanted. Um we can just forget it if y-"
This time Will was cut off by Mike finally reacting pulling on the other boys shirt and pressing their lips back together.
Their kiss was soft and both trembled under the amount of feelings that felt like a fire under the skin setting off.
Mike clinging into Will's back, while he clinged onto his neck now slowly moving his lips.
He hadn't kissed anyone yet, so he wasn't sure what to do exactly but Mike gasped and immediately moved his lips against him now slightly leading.
Still clinging onto each other kissing more passionately now, but ultimately breaking apart breathlessly.
"Wow", whispered Mike licking his lips and then smiling widely and Will just grinned at him happily.
They both quickly found each other cuddling again, embracing that they could now be like this forever if they wanted to.
"You know... tomorrow is still your birthday right and all of our friends will come, right?", said Will slightly giggling and Mike groaned in realization upon that but couldn't hide a smile as well.
"I guess we'll have to hide it for now, because I can't deal with this on my birthday.
But not too long because I want everyone to know that you're my boyfriend now", kissing his forehead.
Will's eyes lit up looking up at him hopefully, asking "Boyfriend?"
"Yeah, I..i mean if you want to", said Mike unsure now stuttering again but was met with a short kiss from Will who pulled him down slightly.
"I've been wanting that for a while Mike, I'd love to", he then answered grinning and Mike sighed relieved only tightening his hands around Will, giving him more forehead kisses.
They knew that they had to try and keep their distance tomorrow, so they enjoyed every minute of just laying like this cuddling, sharing short kisses here and there and eventually falling asleep together.
Mike was sure this was a dream, when he finally woke up but nope it wasn't.
Will was laying happily sleeping in his arms and he couldn't stop staring at the beauty of his boyfriend who now seemed to wake up slowly as well.
Blinking at him a few times before the most beautiful smile appeared on his face and Will pulled him into a kiss, which Mike immediately reciprocated happily sighing and sinking his hands into his hair.
Wills hands found their way into his hair as well, which made Mike slightly gasp again and their kiss grew more passionately, with open mouths and no inch left between them.
Will finally pulled away which earned him protest from Mike.
"Mike we have to get up before my mom catches us and our friends are here in like 30mins. Also happy Birthday" and with another short kiss he finally got up.
Mike still pretended to mope for a bit but he couldn't stop grinning happily and so they got ready for his birthday.
Mike had to stay in his room alone for a while, which he protested heavily against but finally gave up sighing and the gang decorated everything with the help of Joyce.
Lucas and Max had bought Popsicles for everyone as another treat, one with blueberry taste and the other one was mango since that was Will's favorite taste and they knew that Mike always wanted to make sure that Will had his favorite flavor.
Finally Mike was allowed to go down and sat awkwardly through all his friends singing happy birthday to him, thanking Joyce for the chocolate cake which looked delicious.
After they all ate cake & they played a bunch of silly games.
One of them involved Mike being blindfolded trying to find his friends and well it wasn't hard since Eleven couldn't stop giggling and Dustin couldn't stop saying "Psst", all in all it was really fun tho.
Then it finally was present time, Lucas and Dustin had bought him another set of Minifigures together since he loved using those for DnD & he smiled thankfully at them.
Eleven and Max also had made something together, a cute photo montage of all of them in various settings.
Then it was time for Will's present, Mike had noticed that his boyfriend seemed slightly nervous and took his hand shortly under the table slightly squeezing it, giving him an encouraging smile and so Will finally handed him a rolled up canvas.
Mike took it and carefully unrolled the painting, then was left completely flabbergasted because this was the most beautiful painting he had ever seen.
He started grinning widely, eyes glowing and said "Wow will, this is so amazing! You're incredible!
Quickly he tried to hide his small slip up "I mean..this is incredible, wow", but luckily the gang didn't seem to catch on and were just as amazed by Will's art skills paired with multiple "Wow" "Holy shit Will, incredible".
and Will? He sat there blushing furiously upon the compliments grinning to Mike.
Who wanted nothing more right now than kissing his boyfriend, so he did the next best thing embracing him in a tight hug which neither of them let go for a bit.
Both their eyes still fixated on each other after, an obvious craving displayed on both of their eyes.
But they had no time to get what they wanted because in the next moment Eleven had pulled all of them in yet another silly party game play.
Afterwards they all ate popsicles, which was probably not the most clever idea since Dustin started accidentally covering multiple things with ice cream and everyone either had blue or yellow tongues after eating.
Meanwhile Mike couldn't stop staring at Wills lips eating the popsicle and innocently looking up at him, but smirking slightly.
Oh Will knew exactly what he was doing and it drove Mike insane being unable to pull him in right here and there and kiss his stupid grin off his face, craving nothing more then Will's lips on his own.
Mike in response ate his own popsicle slowly making sure Will had his gaze fixated on him and then licked entirely across it which earned him a slight gasp from his boyfriend and a blush forming.
They both had another one of their conversations with simple eye contact and Mike again stood up a bit too quickly, going up to his room to "go get some equipment for the next game" and Will suddenly had to go to the toilet.
All of that was met with Lucas and Dustin both shooting them questioning looks, raising their eyebrows but not commenting on anything yet and Eleven and Max just giggled again whispering something.
But Will couldn't care less right now actually, all he wanted was to kiss Mike and so he quickly went up the stairs trying to be quiet.
The moment he entered the room and closed the door behind him he was pressed against it, Mike putting his hands on his waist and passionately kissing him.
Will groaning and kissing him back with just as much force, his hands immediately finding his way to Mike's hair and slowly pushing him to his bed.
Then he pushed his boyfriend down on the bed and Mike made a surprised sound looking up at him confused. Will smirked down on him hovering over him now and said "I know a way to make green" and without further explanation he pushed his lips onto Mike and his tongue into his mouth.
It took a few seconds for his boyfriend to adjust but then he was finally met with their tongues intertwining, gasping into the kiss, Mikes hands roaming over Will's back and into his hair pulling at it.
A slight moan escaped Will and he pulled slightly back, biting Mikes lips and then pressing down firm kisses along his neck. Now sucking slightly at his skin, which made Mike moan as quietly as possible and his hands clinged into Will's hair, but then he pulled him away gasping.
"Will...I..shit. i love this but you're making me crazy for you and we still have to go back down to our friends and...shit youre so hot"
Will licked his lips breathlessly, biting them and then nodding, since he knew Mike was right and even though he really didn't want to stop at all he carefully retreated and said "I'll go down first".
When Mike came down the stairs, Joyce had just left for a work emergency and so it was just the gang.
Dustin started his sentence with "Dude what exactly to- holy shit!", and he stared with an open mouth at Mike, who frowned confused back.
Lucas, El and Max also now stared at him in the same way and Will? He had buried his head in his hands blushing furiously.
"Ok what is going on?", asked Mike finally and Max started laughing. "Dude youre neck! Its all green and your tongue too!", Mike looked down at his neck.
He only now noticed the pattern of green smears that Will had apparently left when they had made out in his dark room, so thats what Will had meant, oh gosh.
His entire face went as red as a tomato and he froze in the spot.
How did you..wait a second" and then before he could stop it his friends all turned to Will who was still blushing.
"OMFG! You two made out! Finally!! Shit now we all owe Eleven money" shouted both Lucas and Dustin overlapping and Mike still stood there blinking in confusion as to what just had happened.
Will finally looked up in confusion as well "Wait what money? What do you mean?"
"We had a bet on when you two were finally gonna get together and Eleven guessed this year...you two are together right?
And didn't just had a full make out session for fun?", answered Lucas questioning.
"I uh..yeah were together since yesterday. So wait all of you are ok with this? All of you guessed this?", asked Will blinking and processing as to what just happened.
"Duuh you two are so obvious omg", answered Max and with that the room filled with chatter moving on from the topic like nothing happened.
Mike finally had found his ability to breathe between the last 10mins and went to the bathroom to wash his neck still blushing upon the embarrassment that had settled, but also mixed with relief because his friends knew and they all accepted them.
So with a last look into the mirror, he nodded to himself, made his way back to the table, sat next to Will and simply pulled him in for a short but sweet kiss.
Will kissed him back smiling, while the others cheered and Max said laughing "go get a room you two".
The rest of party Will didn't pull away his hand from Mike both smiling happily at each other.
Even when Joyce got back, they still held hands, squeezing each others sharing a slight nod.
They didn't want to stay hiding for one more second and Joyce looked questioning at Will who said
"Mom...I..we. Me and mike are together and I hope your ok with this", that made Joyce smile.
"Of course my boy, I want you to be happy and I can see how happy Mike makes you",
with that she pulled both of them into a hug and then Lucas, Dustin, Max and Eleven joined them forming a group hug.
All giggling, smiling and enjoying this moment.
And Mike and Will? Both couldn't stop smiling or holding hands for the rest of the day.
Until it was finally time for all their friends to go home and they fell into Mike's bed cuddling up immediately.
Happily sighing, soft kisses exchanged and then Will looked up at him with glowing eyes "Next time we shouldn't make out with ice cream", both starting to giggle over themselves.
Comfortable silence entered in which both boys lost themselves in each others eyes.
"I love you", said Mike smiling like an idiot and Will's eyes glowed up in pure Joy.
"I love you too" and Mike giggled happily, pulling him in and kissing him softly.
Neither of them wanted to stop this, they rather wanted to stop time and live in this moment because it was just perfect.
Everything else vanished in a blur as both boys sighed happily, hands tangled in hair, bodies tightly against each other and lips meeting effortlessly.
Mike in a blue shirt, Will in a yellow shirt both so entangled that it mixed beautifully into green like it was always meant to be.