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“Huh,” Mike says.
Huh.
Kissing your friends. For practice.
He’s just never considered it before, is all. He didn't know something like that was allowed.
And yes, Max said it's a thing girls do sometimes, but maybe—
Maybe two friends who just also happen to be boys—
Two best friends—
It's the Party's final summer together before college, and Mike Wheeler is prepared for exactly nothing to change.
Throw in a nursing home nemesis, a grandmother's deified childhood pet, and an escalating series of 'practice' sexual encounters with a best friend who makes his head spin, and there's a very tiny chance he may be getting in over his head.
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Most days he's hollowed out, a boy on the edges of his own body.
He wishes he could feel the claw marks that did it—press his fingers into the bruise of them, find some kind of proof in the pain.
Sometimes, Will feels like he's going crazy.
Sometimes, he feels like he's still trying to make his way back home.
Will Byers, growing pains, & learning how to stop making himself small.
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Better Than None by stanielthemaniel
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Fantastic Four
06 Jun 2025
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Peter Parker comes back after the events of Infinity War. Spider-man doesn't.
It's good, it's okay, Peter's doing fine.
Until, that is, the formation of brand new heroes known as the Fantastic Four; until the day Johnny Storm comes blazing into Peter's life and is entirely too stubborn to leave.
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As they reach out and blindly clasp the hands beside them, one thought is running through everybody's mind.
The Loser's Club.
It feels like something bigger than themselves.
It feels like a future.
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left better behind (I'll be fine) by stanielthemaniel
Fandoms: IT (2017), IT - Stephen King
03 Feb 2020
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Eddie is an overworked, underpaid employee at a coffee shop on his campus. Richie is a valued customer.
To say they get off on the wrong foot is a bit of an understatement — thank god they never have to see each other again.
Right?
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I Came Here For Love by discomedley
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Love Island (US TV) RPF
08 Jul 2026
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“Can I pull you for a chat?” Mike speaks confidently into Will’s ear.
Will pulls back in shock, glancing behind his back to make sure that it’s him that Mike is talking to.
“Me?” Will clarifies. “Like, a… chat?”
“Yes, Will. You,” Mike smiles and reaches his hand out to help Will down.
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Will signs up for Love Island with a carefully curated plan to boost his art career. What he doesn't expect to find is a complete stranger that threatens to derail it all.
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09 Jul 2026
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“Will, how is it possible that you cool things off for Mike without even being there?”
“What? I don’t—” he starts.
“Yeah, you’re like his cooler,” Dustin adds. “When you don’t come out with us, Mike just sits at the bar and mopes.”
“I do not!” Mike shouts.
“And when you do come out with us,” he continues. “Mike spends half the night checking on you. And he’ll tell whatever girl he’s talking to that he needs to go ‘check on his roommate,’ and he ditches her.”
“Will, don’t take this the wrong way, but you’ve totally been cockblocking Mike without even doing anything,” Lucas teases.
“Come on, don’t be a dick, Lucas,” Mike grumbles.
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After a months-long dry spell, the party agrees to help each other get laid, and a misguided Will dedicates himself to being Mike's anti-cooler. Then, a drinking game gone wrong puts Mike and Will in a precarious situation where they must kiss or risk losing the game, and a panicked Mike accidentally says something a little too revealing about his feelings, much to Will's surprise.
loosely based on the events of New Girl 2x15, Cooler
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07 Jun 2026
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"I wanna test something."
"Test something," Will repeats. Mike perks up a little sitting up on an elbow, like he thinks Will is finally getting it. Which he's not, for the record.
Mike's words come quick. "Yeah, just to see. Nothing too crazy. Not even like last night necessarily. Or not not like last night. Just smaller. Simple. Like earlier today, in the living room. You know wh—"
"Like your kiss with Jane," Will interrupts.
"Yes. Exactly."
Or: It's January 1992, and Mike and Will are college roommates, teetering on the edge of becoming something more. Mike drunkenly kisses Will at a bar, the night before Jane returns after five years of being presumed dead. Will convinces himself everything is fine, this is life returning to the way it was supposed to be. But Mike won’t stop kissing him.
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26 May 2026
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Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.
Or, ‘Funny how there’s a face underneath my face.’
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25 May 2026
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“Will it get better?” Will asked her, voice scratchy, emotions leaking out. The nightmares. The monsters. The deaths. Mike.
“I don’t know,” she whispered back, her own voice breaking.
“It has to,” he said, more to himself than her. “This – this can’t just be it.”The Byers have moved to California; Hopper is gone, Billy flayed, Bob dead, and Will is now 2,274 miles away from everything and everyone he has ever known. And he’s Fine. Nightmares stalk his sleep, his chest aches with the life he left behind, the childhood that had never really felt like his. The boy back home with the freckles and the words left out in the rain. Will is Fine. And he’ll keep telling himself that until the dreams drag him under.
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Will gets to Cali and accidentally hot girl summers; cue meeting new cute boys and sneaking out to parties and spray painting the back ends of Lenora to feel some semblance of control.- Language:
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18 May 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
This fic is officially canon To Me. I think Will Byers himself ghostwrote this story how is it SO good