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1. Waiting Drives You Crazy by unscratchable_itch

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   02 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Will Byers/Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend
   • Mike Wheeler/Original Female Character(s)
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • "Carlton"
   • Original Characters
   • Alternate Universe - College/University
   • Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Cheating
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • it's 1995
   • music-heavy
   • grunge mike
   • Artsy Will
   • they go to nyu
   • Yearning
   • Angst
   • Fluff
   • Unresolved Sexual Tension
   • Unresolved Romantic Tension
   • so much drug usage
   • slur usage (plot relevant)
   • Not Beta Read
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Dry Humping
   • Choking
   • Sexual Repression
   • Fingers in Mouth
   • Avoidant Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Clingy Will Byers
   • Praise Kink
   • Public Sex
   • Needy Mike Wheeler
   • Bottom Will Byers/Top Mike Wheeler

   Summary

   It's his junior year of college, and somehow Will is still deeply in love with Mike Wheeler. He thought he had moved on when he started dating Carlton, but that deep want in Will's chest never went away. Not even when Mike got what felt like the perfect 'cool' girlfriend. Not even when Mike kept pushing Will away and telling him he wasn't gay.

   And it certainly wasn't helping that Will kept finding himself ending up in Mike's bed.

   Or; another cheating, toxic byler in college AU

   Timeline adjusted

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   116,547

   Chapters:

   22/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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