***Modern Day AU*** Social Anxiety and High School don't mix. Will Byers just has to push through one more year, but a certain boy makes it so much harder, and Will can't help but wonder if he's been going about this all wrong. Maybe Mike Wheeler is just the person he needed to meet. And Maybe Will means more to Mike than he thought. Maybe that makes this terrifying. And maybe, just maybe, they both kind of love it.

˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚In which Will returns from a long, sun-soaked summer in California looking... different. Taller, tanner, maybe even hotter. Mike almost doesn't recognize his childhood best friend - not just because of the way Will looks now, but because of how he feels around him. Things with El haven't been right for a while, and Mike's starting to question everything - including who he really is, and who he really wants. As the school year starts and old friendships are reignited, Mike has to face the truth: maybe what he felt for Will wasn't just friendship. And maybe it still isn't. ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ Started: 07/06/2025 Ended: ongoing Includes mature themes I'll try to post atleast 2-3 chapters every day! Pre-apologising if I don't!

Will is and always has been extremely curious about mermaids, no matter how many times the adults in his life tell him that they are dangerous. he loves going to different parts of the world to see if he can catch a glimpse of one. Mike is the same but with humans, even though he doesn't know pretty much anything about them. Mermaids don't know much about humans, although humans know quite a lot about mermaids. When they're paths collide, how will things change? |TW: Blood, possible gore, GAY BITCHES| Started: August 26th, 2023 Ended: September 1st, 2023 Status: Completed

╔══ ❀•°❀°•❀ ══╗ Sometimes I don't understand people, or myself for that matter. I love Eleven. Even though I barely call her by the nickname I gave her three years ago. Do I love her? Hell no. Can she know that? Fuck no! ╚══ ❀•°❀°•❀ ══╝ ╔══ ❀•°❀°•❀ ══╗ This story is on the side of Mike Wheeler. This takes place in Stranger Things 4. This was made in the work of fiction. Everything said and written is made only for entertainment. ╚══ ❀•°❀°•❀ ══╝ ︵‿︵‿୨♡୧‿︵‿︵ Warnings in this book . . . 𖧷 Stranger Things 4 Theories 𖧷 Stranger Things 5 Theories 𖧷 Byler content 𖧷 Vile language 𖧷 Platonic Mileven 𖧷 (Some) Sexual content ︵‿︵‿୨♡୧‿︵‿︵ If you don't like what you're reading, please click off, hate is not tolerated! Thank you, have a lovely day! ALL CHARACTERS AND SCRIPTS GO TO THE DUFFER BROTHERS. I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THIS, THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION.