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    The summer before college, Mike and Will move into a tiny studio together, ready to start their next chapter — only to discover their across-the-street neighbor has a very public, very active sex life. Their weekly “observations for research purposes” are all jokes and commentary…until one night the neighbor brings home a man, and something in Mike shifts. Suddenly the bit isn’t so funny, the spiral is very real, the lines start to get a little too blurry, and the curiosity feels a bit too personal. Unfortunately for Mike, the only thing more distracting than the view outside is his childhood best friend living three feet away.

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    11 Jul 2026

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    It's been months since the Byers moved in with the Wheelers. Months of Mike Wheeler trying to ignore strange, unsettling shift in his own heart whenever Will is near. Buried under layers of denial and unspoken fear, Mike clings to the familiar script of their friendship.

    But on a hushed winter night Will begins shattering the careful walls Mike has built and forcing him to confront a truth that could change everything between them.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    “So he is just… in my life,” Mike said with disgust as he noticed how pathetic the weight on his chest felt. “In my house. Using my face. With Will.”
    The cleric’s expression tightened. “Your friend.”
    “My best friend,” Mike corrected too sharply. The moment the words left him, the flare of jealousy turned into embarrassment. He couldn’t remember when he grew to hate how he sounded when the subject was Will.
    William’s gaze held steady. “Do you not want him there because you fear for your friend, or because you fear what your friend might feel?”
    Mike’s mouth opened, then closed. The question hit too close to the thing he’d been circling for years without touching.

    OR: Mike wakes up in a paladin’s body, face-to-face with a cleric who looks exactly like Will, except this Will speaks in oaths and shows him a kind of affection he doesn’t feel he deserves.

    Back home, someone else is wearing Mike’s skin, saying the things Mike has never dared to say out loud.

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    19 Jun 2026

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    Mike has a full on gay panic seeing Will after 3 years in a bar in full goth.
    In a desperate attempt to reconnect and confess his feelings to Will, he does everything that he asks him to do.
    Even if it means dealing with his cool new gothic friends.
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    this is as much in-character as it can be.
    plays 3 years after the epilogue/ending.
    lawless byler in the end.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    Mike Wheeler has spent years calculating distances: especially the distance between Will Byers and anyone else.

    But between the jealous bite and their shared couch, the boundaries they’ve lived by for years are finally reaching a breaking point.

    It has been years.

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    09 Mar 2026

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