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Mike Wheeler didn't stop loving Will Byers.
He just stopped letting himself show it.
As they grow older, the world gets louder about who they're supposed to be. What's normal. What's safe. What won't get you stared at, whispered about, or quietly left behind. And somewhere along the way, Mike understands something he was never prepared for..
He's in love with his best friend
So he does what fear teaches you to do.
He pulls back.
He creates space.
He calls it growing up.
Will feels it immediately - the distance, the silence, the way Mike looks away first now. He doesn't know why it's happening. He just knows it hurts. That the person who once chose him without hesitation is slowly becoming someone he can't reach anymore.
This is a story about loving someone and being ashamed of it.
About choosing distance instead of honesty.
About the quiet damage caused when fear is mistaken for maturity.
Told through Mike's guilt, longing, and self-denial, this story follows what happens when running away feels safer than staying - and what it costs to finally stop running.
Because growing apart was never the plan.
And sometimes, the bravest thing you can do
is admit you wanted to love someone all along.