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Ice Cream Kisses

Summary:
Mike realises he should probably tell Will he is kinda sorta deeply in love with and wants to spend the rest of his pathetic life playing DnD with him.

Everyone knew, everyone was waiting for this day.

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Mike didn't know what to do with himself.

He had been laid on his bed staring at the ceiling for what felt like hours. His mind had drifted from topic to topic until it landed on one important one. Will Byers.

Mike Wheeler had been in love with Will ever since he could remember - he just didn't realise it. It never occurred to him that he could have those feeling for a boy, although he knew it happened. For years and years he pushed them away, not wanting to accept them. He knew the risks and consequences of being gay. The thought scared him that much he convinced himself he loved Eleven romantically.

When El became his girlfriend, Mike felt a wash of relief over him. Thank god I'm "normal" again. He no longer held the guilt of loving another boy.

Until El broke up with him.

The girl had realised she preferred them as friends and felt more platonic love towards Mike (she had researched all this to make sure she knew what she was doing). The worst part of this? Mike knew all along. He knew he didn't feel like that about girls, he knew El didn't feel like that about boys for crying out loud!

He did it all to "protect" himself and Will.

Which, in retrospect, was quite sweet in some ways. But it wad mostly damaging to Will & Mike's already rocky relationship. The latter began to unintentionally cut Will out of the loop, stopping his calls, letters and contact at all. Only Eleven ever heard from him. This entire situation crushed Will. And he blamed himself for the whole thing.

Back to the present, where Mike has come to a solid conclusion - he must admit his feelings for Will as soon as possible. With all the upside down shit going on at the moment, who knew when one of them could be brutally murdered? Life was to short to worry about what other people think.

Therefore, Michael came up with a plan.

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The end of day bell rang, releasing Will Byers from gym class. Thank fucking hell. He couldn't have darted out of that class quicker, making a beeline to his locker then biking home. Lucas and Dustin were "ill" today (they were skiving to avoid the hell that was gym dodgeball - fair enough in Will's opinion) so it was just him and Mike that day.
As the boy opened his locker, a small pink piece of card fell out. It had been folded into a cute little love heart, and appeared to have a note scrawled onto the inside. Will bent down and picked it up off the floor, taking a good look at it and his surroundings to make sure it wasn't a stupid prank. When he was sure it was safe, he gently unfolded the paper, making sure not to rip any of it. To his surprise (and joy) the note was from Mike.

Meet me at the ice cream parlour after school (3:30pm to be exact). Don't be late!!

- love, Mike W <3

Will felt his face flush as he read the note, the butterflies in his stomach getting more and more vigorous as he went on. God, he was so down bad for this boy.

Who probably didn't even like him back.

His high went straight to a low when he realised it was probably all just platonic love, joking affection - Mike probably wanted to meet up and play DnD or something. Not a big deal.

But Byers couldn't help but hold hope that his dearest friend was going to confess his deep and aching love for the latter. It couldn't hurt to hope, right?