ps happy pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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will byers never knew what dnd was until he moved to hawkins freshman year of highschool. his new friend dustin suggested that he should try it out after school at this guys house. will agreeed, hoping he would meet some new friends.
he rode his bike over to this mystery boys house. will was excited to play this new game he never had heard of before. soon, he arrived. nervously, he rang the doorbell after putting his bike on the porch. a tall, ravenette boy answered.
"uh, your the new kid... will?" mike said. will nodded before he was let in the house by mike and directed to the basement.
mike didn't like new people in the party. he had lucas and dustin that's all he wanted even though they probably should have more people for dnd.
will introduced himself to lucas as mike slumped down on the couch. he stared at will. just stared. why did we need more? what was dustin thinking? we can't let this cute- wait what the hell. mike was not checking out will at all. nope. he was judging staring as like a.. death stare?
will felt the blazing gaze of mike and looked over, waving. mike just rolled his eyes.
"are we actually going to play or not?"
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a few months went by, will came over to mikes to play dnd with the others almost everyday but he still couldn't get mike to open up to him. will was convinced mike hated him. he honestly found it attractive but he also just wanted to spend time with him when he was happy and enjoyed wills company.
mike wanted to warm up to will. he really did. but he just couldn't. what if adding a new person made the party break apart? what if he was replaced by will? he just couldn't get over these thoughts as he sat next to will on the couch. he looked at will and sighed.
"i like your shirt, it's a nice color on you" he mumbled but will still heard him. will smiled. mike spoke a real sentence and it was nice!
mike rolled his eyes but he smiled a small little smile. it was one of the first times will saw mike smile and it was because of him. god mike made will crazy.
as the night went on, dustin and lucas had to leave which left only mike and will.
"uhm i can leave if you want.. since everyone else is gone" will said quietly as he looked up at the boy next to him. will was about to get up before mike grabbed his arm.
"no i want you to stay.. please." mike asked. will nodded.
he sat back down and the two sat in silence for a bit before mike decided to speak.
"you know i don't hate you or anything... it's just hard for me to adjust to new people. but you've grown on me.. really. it's hard for me to pretend to hate you now." he laughed and will blush.
"it's okay.. i understand that." he grabbed mikes hand.
"you know.. i think your my favorite out of the party now.."
will laughed "oh really?~"
the two just smiled at eachother, fingers intertwined.