stranger things · mike wheeler · byler · cheating · anxious · guilt · supernatural · 80s nostalgia · awkward romance · walkman
The scent of boiling pasta filled Will’s cramped Brooklyn apartment, a fragile mask over the tension simmering beneath. He stood by the stove, shoulders tense, when the doorbell shattered the silence. His heart hammered against his ribs as he opened the door, the hallway light spilling in to reveal a familiar face that hadn't crossed his threshold in six years. Mike Wheeler stood there, looking every bit the man he’d become, yet strikingly the boy Will had loved for two decades. The air between them crackled with unspoken history and sudden, overwhelming relief. **"Will!"**