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    “You know exactly what I mean, Mike.” Will snaps, turning back around. He continues walking away from the front door—away from Mike—his pace increasing as he tugs his creaky old bike along with him.

    “No, actually, apparently I don’t know anything anymore!” Mike jolts forwards, following Will—who has now left the cover of the porch and is being soaked in rainfall—and grabbing him by the shoulder. Will stops walking and turns around, but he flinches back as if Mike’s touch has burned him. Mike removes his hand. “I thought I knew that we were a team now; I thought I knew that things were good,” Mike continues, shivering and brushing his now wet hair from his forehead. “But here you are, telling me I’d like it if you were dead, trying to run away without even saying a word to me—do you know how that fucking feels?”

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    Will tries to leave in the middle of the night. Mike stops him.

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    20 Feb 2025

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    On Monday, Will shows up to school wearing glasses.

    After a lifetime of getting bullied for being a nerd, he’d rather show up to school covered in live ants, but it actually goes fine. Weirdly well, even. Jennifer Hayes asks him to carry her books to Geometry, and Denise King enthusiastically volunteers to be his lab partner in Chem. Will is all too aware of the attraction he somehow poses to the school’s most sought-after girls, but this feels like another level. Maybe it’s a charity case thing now, because of the glasses.

    “It’s not,” Max tells him frankly at lunch. “You just look really hot with glasses.”

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    25 Dec 2024

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    “We’re dating,” Mike says, and it takes every ounce of composure Will has not to choke on his next lungful of crisp, spring air.

    The girl guarding the door to the party glances at their clasped hands, then back at Mike. “You’re…”

    “Yup,” Mike cuts her off flatly, as if daring her to say anything else.

    “Mike…” Will says his name under his breath, but he still says it like a warning.

    “We don’t like to be so public about it but, well.” Mike lifts their clasped hands, shaking them at the door girl like they’re one giant fist. “You drive a hard bargain.”

    Will raises his voice. “Michael.

    Mike turns to roll his eyes at him. “William, baby,” he scoffs, squeezing Will’s hand in his. “It's Valentine’s Day. Don’t be such a buzzkill.”

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    25 Dec 2024

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    “Right? So anyways, she suggested some guy for a date to her party, and I really didn’t want to, so I panicked, and told her I already had a date. This made her really excited, and she wanted to know everything about them.” Mike can hear him swallow heavily over the phone. “I, uh… I panicked again, since I don’t actually have a date, and just blurted out the first name that came to mind.”

    Dead silence. Mike frowns. What exactly does this have to do with-

    “I told her you were my date, Mike.”

     

    Or, fake dating byler style: where everything that can go wrong goes wrong.

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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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    01 Dec 2024