Short animatic of my Canon!AU Michael and Jeremy. For context, this is post bite of '83, so everyone already hates Michael by now. At this point, people just say whatever they want to Michael, and just start whatever rumors to bully him, since everyone already hates him and feels vindicated in that, they just say whatever they want to bully him even more. This time, people just thought it'd be funny to call him gay, especially since he's been hanging out with Jeremy more. On Jeremy's side, he's always been a bit outcasted and seen as weird, but hanging out with Mike has made it worse, made him look more desperate to the people around him. People think that he's so desperate and lonely that he'd even be friends with a vile murderer. Today, someone just decided to be mean and push them together while chanting for them to kiss, treating them like entertainment, Jeremy saw it for what it was, mindless bullying, but it got to Mike, it made him realize that he might be feeling things, things he didn't want to feel, and because of that he let slip how he felt. Everyone, including Mike was stunned, frankly, but after the whole event, people felt even more vindicated to be rude to them, saying things like "I knew he was one of those queers" or even taking pity on Jeremy for being liked by the likes of Michael. To be fair, they do get together later, so the rumors aren't false, but at the very least, in the moment, Michael does the thing he's best at, running away when it gets hard.