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“You’re thinking,” Will says, skating a finger down the line of Mike’s nose, under his eye, over his cheekbone, then resting, finally, just at the corner of his lips– “about me.”
Oh, Jesus. Mike’s throat is very, very dry. “What?”
Will opens his eyes – slow, a little hesitant – and smiles. “You are,” he says, way, way too smug for Mike’s liking. “You’re turning red!”
“Shut up,” Mike mutters, and Will’s smile grows. “You– I’m just nervous!”
It should be illegal for someone to look this pleased with themselves. “Yeah?” Will says quietly, index finger still hovering at the corner of Mike’s mouth, thumb pressed gently under his chin. “I make you nervous?”
Mike thinks Will might be psychic. (Kind of.) Will is being very irritatingly vague about the whole thing.
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16 Jun 2025
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the trials and tribulations of coming out by sweetpotatoTM
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Jul 2024
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El looked around the circle, carefully scrutinising the faces of each Party member. Mike lifted his face and stared back at her, eyes wide and panicked. Hopefully she didn’t notice. “If there are two gay people…” she said, and then looked directly at Mike. Okay, no. Nope.
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in which mike's reaction to will coming out involves falling into a table and cracking his head open. and then coming out himself.Bookmarked by ilovejamespotter
16 Jun 2025
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a halfway decent friend by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 May 2023
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From somewhere in the house, floorboards creak, and Nancy freezes, grip on her water glass tightening. She holds her breath, counts to ten three times over, and then, when nothing jumps out of the (albeit limited) darkness to attack her, she relaxes, taking another steadying sip of water and shaking her head, annoyed with herself.
“Nancy?” a voice asks from the doorway, and she drops the glass.
Nancy is a little intimidated by Will, even though she has approximately zero reasons to be.
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16 Jun 2025
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devil's in the details (but you've got a friend in me) by teawan
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Dec 2022
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Mike,
Hello. I know this might be a little weird, but I just have to get this off my chest. I don’t know how to get into this at all, andI’ve never been a writer like youI’m not particularly good with words so, what I mean is, this might be a mess. I’m saying sorry in advance, I guess. And I hope you aren’t weirded out by this. Okay. I’ll just get into it, I guess.
Sixteen years is plenty of time for feelings to grow. It is also, however, plenty of time for those feelings to swell to an uncontainable mass, for them to sink long, hooked claws into your heart, twist thorny vines around your lungs, and fill them up with so much emotion that it’s hard to breathe sometimes.Will Byers knows this all too well, so when he realizes that there may be a way to lighten this force that’s slowly but surely choking him, he jumps at it. What he doesn’t account for, though, is that Mike can be very observant when he wants to be.
(Alternatively, anonymous love letters, peanut butter and potato chip sandwiches, and loopy “y”s ruin two boys’ lives and then change them for the better.)
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15 Jun 2025
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mom, i'm gay. wait, you are too? by dragons_like_smores
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Nov 2022
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“What if there are no men out there for me, Michael?”
Mike, not focused at all on his mom, said absentmindedly, “Then maybe you can just date a woman.”
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Mike unintentionally starts Karen's lesbian awakening while he simps for his boyfriend, Will, all summer long.
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15 Jun 2025