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• Loser Monologue by bruisedsonnets

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  15 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Steve Harrington
  • Robin Buckley
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Holly Wheeler
  • Joyce Byers
  • evelyn is steves wife
  • Slow Burn
  • Angst
  • Aged-Up Character(s)
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Making Out
  • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Forced Proximity
  • Pining
  • Mutual Pining
  • Sharing a Bed
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
  • Mild Sexual Content
  • Depression
  • Self-Harm
  • wheeler is willsexual
  • Sexual Tension
  • Touching
  • Post-Canon
  • Post-Season/Series 05

  Summary

  Mike is out of college now, and he’s lonelier than he’s ever been. He hasn’t spoken to Will since his freshman year of college. And that’s weird, because there was a time when they were inseparable. He speaks briefly to Dustin and Lucas and keeps in frequent touch with Holly. He hasn’t spoken to Nancy since an incident that they had. Mike had gotten drunk one night during sophomore year of college, called her, and completely broke down and spilled all of everything he’d been holding in since he didn’t even know how long. He didn’t even show up to his father’s funeral so he could avoid speaking to her. God, where did it all go wrong?

  Or

  Mike doesn’t have to speak to anyone. Ever. Not until Lucas and Max invite him to their wedding.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

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  Chapters:

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