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1. But I know what you're like (when the party ends) by UnsupervisedQueer

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   08 May 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Gay Will Byers
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • First Kiss
   • The Party Goes to Stacey Albright's Graduation Party
   • Underage Drinking
   • Fluff
   • Sleepy Cuddles
   • Sleepy Kisses
   • Canon Compliant
   • Slow Burn
   • Drunk Dancing
   • Eventual Romance
   • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
   • The Cure (Band) References
   • Will Byers is a The Cure Fan
   • Song: Just Like Heaven (The Cure)
   • Party
   • Partying
   • Post-Vecna (Stranger Things)
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale
   • I Will Go Down with This Ship
   • Making Out
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler-centric
   • Mike Wheeler-centric
   • Mike Wheeler is Down Bad
   • Mike Wheeler is Not Will Byers's Tammy Thompson
   • Mike Wheeler is Obsessed with Will Byers
   • Out of the Closet Will Byers
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler Fluff
   • Will Byers Has a Crush on Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Has a Crush on Will Byers
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Best Friends to Lovers
   • Morning Cuddles
   • Swearing
   • Explicit Language

   Summary

   Max was right, Mike couldn’t dance. Or maybe he was dancing poorly on purpose, so that every time he missed a step he could bump Will’s hip, or his chest, or let their fingers graze gently over each other; small enough to go unnoticed, but long enough to let Mike’s body buzz.

   Spinning on that dizzy edge
   Kissed her face and kissed her head
   Dreamed of all the different ways
   I had to make her glow
   "Why are you so far away?" she said
   "Why won't you ever know
   That I'm in love with you?
   That I'm in love with you?

   Will looked up at him, with a different sort of glow in his eyes; a desperate needy glow that made Mike’s stomach fill with butterflies. It was just like when they were kids and Will would kiss him on the check, sending butterflies fluttering straight out of Mike’s throat.

   Maybe it was a good idea to come to this party. Mike was starting to see the appeal.

   -

   Mike and Will go to Stacy's party after graduation, and Mike can't hold back his feelings anymore.

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