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"It's your first day," Karen tells him. "This is exciting! You'll make so many friends."
"You think so?" Mike asks nervously, his wide eyes staring at her.
"Absolutely."
Karen Wheeler doesn't condone lying to her children, but she believes white lies can be considered harmless. They won't remember, anyways. But if Karen was telling the truth to her son, she'd have to admit how she's actually desperately nervous about his compatibility with his classmates.
After school, when Mike is rambling about his new best friend, Karen decides that if Will Byers makes her son this happy, she'll do everything in her power to make sure they stay friends forever.
Or, Will and Mike's relationship through the eyes of their friends and family (plus their own). Will is nonverbal autistic, and Mike has allusions to also being autistic. Neurodivergent friendly fic with them falling in love!
// title from Coming Home by beabadoobee
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14 Jan 2026
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Will’s expression smoothes out then, and he’s looking at Mike in consideration, like he sees him in all the ways Mike does not want to be seen.
“You were jealous,” Will offers it like it’s a fact, simple as that, and Mike nearly doubles over with the shock of it, an immediate blow to whatever unbothered facade he’d been attempting to put on for Will.
“Was not,” but his voice is so weak that he nearly collapses in embarrassment, an omission of guilt clear as day.
Mike is in love with Will. He tries very hard to love him quietly.
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06 Jan 2026
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let me steal this moment from you by smoosnoom (moonsooms)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Oct 2022
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Mike moves in his bed, and Will's eyes stay firmly on the ceiling. "I feel like we barely know each other anymore."
And Will can't argue with that, so he replies, "What do you want to know?"
There’s a long lapse of silence, and then –
“Can you come up here?”
In the wreckage, Mike and Will spend a series of nights together.
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30 Dec 2025
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1989. Senior year.
It took nearly three years of growing apart, but Will Byers has finally gotten used to life without Mike Wheeler. He has El, he has Max, he has his art, and, as of two days ago, he has a full ride to art school in Chicago, so things are good. Right? So when Mike climbs through his window one night and stumbles back into his life, Will’s not prepared for the resurgence of old feelings—and even less prepared for the possibility that they might not be as hopeless as he always thought. With the expiration date of graduation looming, Will has to figure out not only his future, but what exactly he and Mike are to each other.
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22 Dec 2025
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"It's easy! All you have to do is catch Martin under the mistletoe six times,” Tim explained with bright enthusiasm. Jon could practically see him vibrating from his spot on the bottom rung of the ladder. “First one to kiss him on the lips wins!”
“Why six?”
“It’s sort of like each time you catch him, you get one point,” Sasha explained. “First he kisses you on your hand-”
“Like a true gentleman,” Tim interrupted.
Sasha gave him a little glare, then continued. “After that, it’s a kiss on one cheek, then the other. Then he gives you a kiss on the forehead, then nose, then finally a kiss on the mouth.”
“And that’s how you win Christmas,” Tim said with a nod.
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25 Nov 2025