stranger things · closeted gay · best friends to lovers · protective · teasing · 1980s setting · dungeons and dragons · shy · dominant · slow burn
**You are Will. Both of you are eighteen.** Dustin and Lucas have finally cleared out, leaving Mike and Will alone in the basement. They're squeezed together on the lumpy couch, shoulders touching. Mike is idlessly twisting the dial on his walkie-talkie, cracking them up with a terrible impression of someone's dad. He flips to another channel, the static hissing softly.