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    Two weeks into summer break, Mike finds Will's diary.

    And steals it.

    And from one day to another the line between Will and Diary-Will starts to blur. With one thing in common: they are both madly, deeply in love with Mike. But only one of them hides it.

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    23 Jul 2026

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    It would be something sweet and bright. Something that reminded him of sunrises and freckles. Painted fingers, pink lips and messy hair. Something yellow.

    So much beautiful lines found in this fic 💞

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    "Are you guys dating?" Dustin blurts out. Mike and Will's heads snap to him, shared panicked expressions on their faces.

    "Um, I—we, uh—"

    "Why—why do you think that?" Will chokes out.

    "Well, let's look at the evidence," Lucas holds up his hand and points to a finger when he says each Thing. "You kiss each other all the time, Will's been sitting on your lap every single time we hang out—"

    "Wh—I—It's not every time." Mike argues weakly.

    "We heard you call Will 'baby'," Will squeaks and avoids eye contact when Mike looks over at him. "And now you guys are going to sleep together. In the same bed. And you say it's normal."

    "You gotta see it from our perspective, dude." Dustin adds once Lucas puts his hand down. Mike opens and closes his mouth a few times, looking like a fucking fish out of water. He kinda feels like one, too. Beside him, Will isn't much better. His face is fully red now, and he's just standing there, mouth open, like he'd just been busted for a crime.
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    OR: Mike and Will are childhood friends turned college roommates. Somehow, they unknowingly fall into a relationship.

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    23 Jul 2026

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    didn't know they were dating — i loveeee themmmm these idiots 😭😭

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    "He plugs the projector into the wall with gusto, and the beam of light jets out of the lens and clears the white wall next to their broken TV. In large Times New Roman, Mike’s words flash at them. Why I Should Be Your Boyfriend, and in tinier font below, A Briefing by Mike Wheeler."

    (or) the one where Mike makes a presentation to convince Will to be his boyfriend.

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    21 Jul 2026

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    KAYOOOOOOOT 🥰

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    “You’re not coming this summer. I haven’t seen you in a year and a half and I know it’s-it’s pathetic—“

    “It’s not pathetic,” Will interjects quickly, shaking his head, “It’s not—“

    “It is, Will,” he hears Mike’s voice break over another hitched breath, “I know you’re… I just want you to be happy. I never want you to come back to Hawkins, but I’m fucking selfish. I’m so selfish, and I’m sorry.”

    Will lets the tears spill over and he lets that want that’s always itching under his skin show itself.

    “My whole life I’ve missed you every second you’ve been away from me,” Will confesses quietly into the receiver.

    If you’re pathetic, I’m wretched.

     

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    Not long after the final battle, Mike and Will were inseparable– until Will moved out to New York.

    Despite the weekly calls and the freedom of living their lives without terror, there’s no world in which they could last so long apart without it feeling like torture.

    Will gets a call, and three days later, Mike is at his doorstep.

    It only takes a day for them to fall back together again.

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    08 Jul 2026

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    maybe the most beautiful and tender byler i have ever read <3

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    “Am I hard to read?” Mike asks, his tone harsh and his grip on Will’s wrist harsher, “I’m hard to read?”

    How can you tell if someone has a crush on you when they're hard to read? Will had claimed. And it ticked Mike off because who else could he possibly be referring to? How many other hard to read people has he been in love with? No, scratch that, how many people has Will been in love with at all?

    Mike has known him all his life.

    And he has some nerve trying to paint Mike as the villain; as if he hasn't been sitting here with his chest open and his heart hanging on display for the better half of the past hour, begging Will to reciprocate even a fraction of how he feels for him.

     

    or the one where byler finally talk without being interrupted. things get off to a rocky start, but between mike's candour and will's patience, i think they'll work this out just fine

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    24 Jun 2026

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    As if Mike’s heart doesn’t skip where it sits: melded with the skin of Will’s open palms.