Robin being a little weirded out because Mike is extremely interested in her love life. Like, it’s all he wants to talk about, “Are you dating someone? Who are they? How long? What’s their name? Oh, you broke up? When?”
Obviously at first, she’s super vague, attempting not to out herself. But after a while (and after Steve puts a worry in her head that Mike may have a crush on her), she finally tells him she’s gay.
Mike doesn’t even seem shocked or disappointed. If anything, he seems even more excited than he had before, constantly asking her about her dates or if she has a crush on anyone and other similar questions, even getting Holly to start asking her instead whenever she starts to ignore his questions, all of which is highly concerning from Robin’s perspective, but she kind of pushes it to the back of her mind and just gives him the bare minimum in hopes that’ll be enough to make him leave her alone.
She finally mentions it to Nancy one night at a sleepover, both of them lounging on Nancy’s bed doing their own thing. Mike was being weird and quiet earlier at dinner, staring at Robin nearly the entire time unless she glanced over at him, and when that situation is brought up, Robin decides to open up to Nancy about the entirety of it.
“Yeah, he’s been acting weird as hell around me. Steve is convinced he has a crush on me but, god, I really hope he’s wrong.”
Surprisingly, Nancy freezes, face pale, so Robin rushes to add that she thinks Mike is a good kid— a shithead, but a good kid— but, obviously, it’s a little uncomfortable to discuss her love life with him, especially now that Steve has her so worried that Mike may have an ulterior motive.
Nancy is silent for a long moment, then buries her face in her hands.
“Oh, I’m gonna kill him.”
Turns out, the only reason Mike was asking all those questions was because Nancy had opened up to him about her own crush on Robin and he was trying to give her ‘updates’ on Robin’s love life in order to convince her to go for it. She had just thought he was getting those updates subtly, or through gossip, not that he was just straight up asking Robin all these questions.
It works out, anyway, but Nancy still glares at Mike every time he haughtily insists that him being her wingman is the reason she and Robin got together in the first place.
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