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Set right after the D&D game after graduation, while the party is sitting down eating dinner at the Wheeler's. After today, they don't know how long it'll be until they see each other again. Dustin will be heading off to Massachusetts, preparing for MIT, Lucas & Max to California for UCLA, and Will moving to New York for NYU. And Mike? Staying in his home to write a book about the lifetime of trauma that took him and his friends childhoods away.
After they've all gone, Mike deals with the grief of losing all of his friends who are very much alive and the difficulties of living with his parents and not going to college like any normal young adult that just graduated high school.
He also struggles with the guilt of having feelings for his best friend. Will Byers. He didn't know how much it would ruin his life when Will left. He thought these feelings would go away, but all they did was get stronger. The more he tried to forget about it and him, it was all that was on his mind. He doesn't know what to do.
Now he just sits in his room, writing about something new. The paladin and his sorcerer. The writing helps him settle with the fact his love for a man is too strong to get rid of. He even thinks it's getting better. But on October 1st, 1990...
Will came back.
*THE ART ON THE COVER IS NOT MINE, ALL CREDITS GO TO THE ORIGINAL ARTIST*
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