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1. the taste of bittersweet (love will survive somehow, someway) by weezerwheeler

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   08 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • lake house
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Misunderstandings
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Hurt Will Byers
   • Jane Hopper my love
   • Platonic Will Byers & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Possessive Mike Wheeler
   • Pathetic Mike Wheeler
   • Making Out
   • byclair crumbs
   • Conflict
   • Found Family
   • Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Unresolved Tension
   • Angst
   • Fluff
   • Eventual Lumax
   • Eventual Henderhop
   • Pining
   • Oblivious Will Byers
   • Oblivious Mike Wheeler
   • Summer
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Unreliable Narrator Will Byers
   • Denial of Feelings
   • byler vs. the interruption trope
   • tags to be updated
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Communicating
   • Will Byers is Bad at Communicating
   • Will Byers is a Mess
   • Angst with a Happy Ending

   Summary

   Every summer, the party gathers at the Byers’ lake house in California. They’ve been doing it since they were kids: the sound of buzzing insects, the smell of lake water and bug spray, the feeling of the sun on tanned skin. Its senior year, this is the last summer the party has in it—Will realizes he might not be able to run from his feelings forever. Not when Jane looks at Mike like that, and not when he could never take that from her.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   86,718

   Chapters:

   11/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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