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Mike Wheeler has never been great at seeing what’s right in front of him.
A week without Will Byers feels endless-long enough for silence to turn into something sharper, something that hums under the skin.
One unplanned visit.
One quiet afternoon in a room full of half-finished sketches.
One touch that lingers too long, one breath that catches, and the space they’ve always shared suddenly feels too small… and not small enough.
What starts as distraction becomes confession.
What starts as secret becomes truth.
And what starts in Hawkins ends somewhere neither of them saw coming: together.————
Slow burn. Mutual pining. Teenage longing finally breaking open.
Post-canon, everyone lives, everyone grows-and Mike finally notices the one thing he’s never let himself see.