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    Mike and Will get summer jobs as lifeguards at the Hawkins Community Pool during college break. Will just wants to forget about his first failed relationship. Mike wants to make it an unforgettable summer.

    CPR training gets complicated when you're hot for your "straight" best friend and he keeps wanting to practice his mouth-to-mouth technique.

    "Should we… practice again?" Mike said finally. "Now?"

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    17 Feb 2026

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    “I guess we could try to spice things up a little…” he concedes, leaning over so he can grab his phone on the nightstand.

    Baabin perks up at that, before tilting his head to the side with a confused frown. He’s so puppy like! Bua has to strongly fight the urge to squish him until he can’t breathe.

    “What are you doing?”

    “Making a list, duh!

    Baabin groans, shoulders slumped in defeat.

    “You’re such a nerd! Why can’t we try to be spontaneous?”

    Or, the fic where Bua and Baabin decide to make a sex list.

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    20 Jan 2026

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    Mike barks a laugh. “I’m, unfortunately, requesting your companionship Thursday night to see Child’s Play 2 with Will and I.”

    She sends him a look of bewilderment. “How did I get dragged into your date with Will?”

    “Y’know, it’s really great that I can count on such discretion from you and Lucas. Super awesome that you don’t tell each other everything.” Max ignores him and he continues on. “Well, I tried my best, but he kind of looked at me all-dumbfounded and wasn’t saying anything, so I panicked.”

    “Well, duh. He’s liked you since, like, birth. Did you even give him enough time to answer?”

    “Of course I gave him enough time to answer.” Mike grits out, voice tight. “I know how to have a fucking conversation with someone, Maxine.”

    Mike Wheeler can’t pick a major to save his life, is fighting for said life in the worst class ever (Astronomy 101), and is desperately trying to romance the best person in his life.

    Enter: Will Byers, his advanced concepts in painting final project, and his pretty eyelashes.

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    14 Jan 2026

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    “... Will.”

    “Okay, sure, yeah. What about him?”

    “I’m a bad friend.” Mike admitted, breathing it out like a vomited confession, like something he was desperate to be rid of.

    “Did something happen?” Steve asked.

    “Yes.” He paused. “Well, no. It’s— it’s more like… more like… he got a boyfriend.” Mike huffed out a breath.

    “I know.” Steve agreed slowly, brows raised. “Carlton. Will, Robin and I met up a while back and he introduced us. Seems like a good kid. What about him?”

    Mike felt like a fucking idiot.

    Of course Steve didn’t get it. Why would Steve get it?

    “I… I just…” How was Mike even meant to begin to talk about this? “It’s driving me crazy, man. I hate the guy.”

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    Mike spirals about his feelings, gets in his car, and somehow ends up going to Steve Harrington for help. He gets a much-needed pep talk and finally goes after what he wants.

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    13 Jan 2026

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    Now that Will’s sitting and Mike’s the one that’s standing, he looks impossibly tall. Tall and lanky, and huge. He should sit back down, Will thinks, lay back down next to Will and stay in their own secluded little bubble.

    “I really want to kiss you,” Mike says, and Will’s eyes snap back up to his so violently he thinks he hears his own neck crack with the force of it.

    “Don’t,” Will croaks, before his brain has even processed the words. “Don’t say that.”

    “Okay,” Mike says easily, still staring. And what the actual fuck is going on? Is Will hallucinating? Is the weed making him hallucinate? “So sausage and pepperoni?”

    Will stares dumbly at him. “Um - yeah. Yes.”

    “Cool,” Mike replies and then just turns around and leaves Will sitting dumbly in his own room.

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    Mike and Will get high on Jonathan’s weed and Mike has an amazing idea.

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    04 Jan 2026