TotallyNotOverthinkingRightNow
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Mike has kissed exactly one girl since El: Gracie Jenkins, at a party Stacey Albright threw a few weeks ago, before everyone went off to college. He hadn’t liked it, but he’d assumed that was more or less to be expected, that moving on from El would be easier said than done. He was making peace with the possibility that he might never move on, really—that any future romance was just doomed from the start.
Eric kisses him and, immediately, he likes it.
It takes one week of college for Mike to drunkenly make out with a boy at a party, and even less time for him to connect the rest of the dots.
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19 Jan 2026
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“Let me show you,” Will whispers, bending down to press a kiss to the corner of Mike’s mouth. “Just how much I want this– want you.”
Mike shivers again and presses his temple against Will’s, his eyes fluttering shut. “How?”
Will pulls away just enough to look Mike in the eyes. He smiles, softly, eyebrows coming together in question. “Trust me?”
Mike opens his eyes, his face morphing into earnestness, and he nods.
“Always.”
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or, Mike and Will cross a new bridge together.Series
- Part 1 of guilty as sin, a false god
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19 Jan 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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At some point, Mike had come up with a plan that he thought was pretty genius. Every time Will had a nightmare, he would quickly wrap the boy up in his arms before his friend even had a second to protest. He would hold the boy until he fell asleep and, often, they would wake up in the same position. He did this in the hopes he would not only comfort his friend, but also make him feel less embarrassed about his nightmares.
Before he could lose his nerve, Mike laid back down on the bed, opening his arms wide; he hoped Will had adjusted to the darkness enough to see his movement.
“C’mere,” He blurted.
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Or, Will wakes up from a nightmare and Mike helps in the best way he knows how: Cuddles. Which would be fine, except for the fact he's been trying to hide his feelings for his best friend since the moment he touched down in California.
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15 Nov 2025
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“Just to be sure, you – what were you agreeing to?” Mike blurts. “Like, was it the seeing other people thing, or the kiss – the practice kissing thing? I was – I’m just making –”
“The second one,” Will forces out, feeling awkward to his very bones. “The – practice.”
Mike, somehow, turns even redder. “Right. Yeah. Okay.”
Mike offers to teach Will how to kiss.
It goes well, all things considered.