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    “I didn’t want to lie to you.” Will’s voice is quiet and breakable, so different from the defensive, factual tone it should be. He should be meaner. Harsher. Crueler. “I just – I didn’t think it’d matter.”

    It feels like Mike’s entire body trembles, shakes like it’s about to burst. “You didn’t think it’d matter if you lied to me?” He hisses, and his voice cracks, just the littlest bit. 

    Mike Wheeler tries his best to navigate his way through the end of the world, with lots of maybes and misplaced anger.

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    18 Jan 2026

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    “I’m trying not to make it about me.”

    The words seem to stop Eddie in his tracks—but only for a fleeting moment. Then, “Okay, then let me.”

    Buck blinks, ignoring the feeling of a single tear fighting past the edge of his lashline. Instantly, he swipes it away. “What?”

    “Let me make it about you. Talk to me. I want to know what’s going on with you. I’m not gonna be able to focus on this god awful dinner if I’m worried that you’re alone, and upset, and—”

    “I miss you,” Buck confesses, abruptly, because anything else he wants to say right now is too raw, too real.

    Eddie exhales into the microphone of his phone. “Yeah. Yeah, I—I know. I miss you, too.”

    “No, I miss you. More than I’m supposed to, I think.”

    “I’m your best friend, bud,” Eddie tells him. “I think you’re supposed to miss me. We’re eight hundred miles apart.”

    Miserably, Buck shakes his head. “Not like this.”

    Or: Buck finally unpacks and stumbles across a box Eddie left behind, full of sketchbooks that Buck didn’t know he owned. He’s confronted, suddenly, with the fact that his best friend has been drawing him for years.

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    13 Jan 2026

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    It’s at that very moment that, for reasons completely and utterly unknown to anyone at all, every single possible word he has ever learned from any language ever has suddenly disappeared from his brain, and his throat feels relevant to the Sahara Desert.

    None of this, of course, has to do with the fact that Will is very, very, very – shirtless.

    Will blinks at him. “Are you okay?”

    “Shoulders,” Mike says, sounding vaguely chipmunk-like, and he hears Max barely choke down a snicker.

    Will comes back for the summer, and Mike deals with it.
    Kind of. Not really.

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    12 Jan 2026

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    “I think I’m in love with Will,” Mike says the moment he hears the lines connect, and his heart is knocking so fast against his ribs that it feels like it's going to break free any moment now.

    “Hello to you too, Mike,” she says.

    “Nancy,” he whines, because how can she be so calm about this? He’s just realized that he might be in love with his best friend, might have been in love with his best friend for a long fucking time.

    It takes Will moving away to college for Mike Wheeler to finally, finally realize some things.

    All he has to do now is wait for Will to get back.

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    11 Jan 2026

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    “Everything's going to be fine, please don't freak out.” Nancy starts to say, which causes Will’s eyes to widen.

    “That’s…not really reassuring, you know that right?”

    Nancy huffs a laugh, “Yeah, it isn’t, sorry.” He hears shifting through the receiver, and he thinks maybe that's all she's planned to say.

    “Mike’s in the hospital.”

    Will sucks in an involuntary breath, letting the air back out, shaky. He nods repetitively, a little numb as he tries to process, before realizing Nancy can’t see him.

    “Okay.” He aims for level but his voice cracks mid-way. He’s almost whispering, “Is- he okay?”

    Mike's in the hospital, which kickstarts a drive to Boston and a worried Will as he thinks about Mike, the past, and love, all while conveniently held up by New York traffic.

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    08 Jan 2026