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1. everybody’s falling in love (and I’m falling behind) by pressurewasher5000

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   25 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • College AU
   • Will Byers is a Sweetheart
   • Confident Will Byers
   • Buff Will Byers
   • Artist Will Byers
   • Writer Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
   • Will Byers Has PTSD
   • Will Byers has a crush on Carlton
   • Carlton is Will Byers’s Tammy
   • Mike Wheeler is Not Will Byers's Tammy Thompson
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale
   • Mike Wheeler-centric
   • Angst
   • Internalized Homophobia

   Summary

   It’s 1993 and mid April of their freshman year, Will Byers and Mike Wheeler share a college dorm. Will has a crush on Carlton, and Mike isn’t happy about it.
   Mike clenches his fists as Will mentions Carlton for the 50th time this week.

   Will is getting ready for his and Carlton’s first date when Mike Wheeler makes an attempt to convince Will to stay.

   Language:

   English

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   2,445

   Chapters:

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