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After everything he survived in the Upside Down, Will Byers was already different. According to Dr. Owens, the trauma twisted more than just his memories — it disrupted his hormones, forcing him to present far earlier than anyone else in his grade. And not just early
He presented as an omega.
As if that wasn’t overwhelming enough, Will has been in love with his best friend, Mike Wheeler, since they were thirteen. A secret he’s carried quietly, painfully — especially now that Mike is dating his sister, Will knows how wrong it feels. He knows Mike doesn’t feel the same way. He knows he should let it go.
He just… can’t.
Meanwhile, Dustin is stuck in his own hopeless situation — head over heels for someone he can’t have. Two best friends, both in love with people who are already taken, both terrified of ruining the only friendships that matter most.
So they make a deal.
If they can’t have the ones they love, they’ll fake date each other instead. A harmless distraction. A temporary solution. A way to convince everyone — and maybe themselves — that they’re moving on.
The plan is simple: pretend until the feelings fade.
The problem?
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02 Jul 2026
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Two years of being mated to Mike Wheeler should be an absolute dream. And for a long time, it was.
But somewhere between the sudden launch of a media company and the late midnight arrivals, the flowers stop coming. The shared dinners fade away. Will goes from being entirely consumed by his alpha's warmth to learning exactly how to live without his alpha in his own apartment.
As the missed connections turn into a suffocating week, Will stops complaining. He stops asking Mike to come home early. If he can just learn to be quieter and entirely not be a burden , maybe Mike will look at him again.
but what happens when Mike finds out how his mate has been feeling?
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02 Jul 2026
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In the summer after their graduation, Mike and Will move into a tiny apartment above Hawkins Video Store to prepare for sharing a dorm room at NYU in the fall.
What starts as an attempt to adjust to college life quickly becomes something more dangerous: months of unbearable proximity, possessiveness, tension and jealousy. The constant fight against instincts neither of them can ignore.
Mike is terrified of what his prime alpha nature could do to Will. Will is tired of waiting for Mike to stop running from what they both want.
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02 Jul 2026
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Mike turns around and sees Will standing in the middle of the hallway and stops.
"Hey," he says. "Can I help you find something?"
His voice in person is slightly different from the radio. This is the version before the edit. Louder, and a little breathless from arguing, and entirely unaware of how often Will had listened to him.
"I'm here about a logo commission," Will says. He sounds, he thinks, almost normal. Even with his brain operating at half-capacity.
Mike's eyebrows go up in surprise. "We're getting a new logo?"
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college radio dj mike x art student will
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30 Jun 2026
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When Will took a job at infamous nightclub CBD he wasn't expecting to like it.
He also wasn't expecting to meet someone who could rearrange his soul with a simple look.
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Towards the end of his third year at college, Will takes a part time job at a busy alternative nightclub and meets Mike Wheeler. Tattooed, pierced, confident, breathtakingly gorgeous - and taken. However Mike is also throwing more mixed signals Will's way than a railway crossing on the fritz, flirting and teasing Will in a way that makes him think there might be more to Mike than he first suspected.
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28 Jun 2026