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1. when your arms are around me (i’d swear that i’m holding the sun) by thousgay

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M, M/M
   • Complete Work

   10 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers & Will Byers
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper (Mentioned)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Stranger Things 2
   • First Kiss
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Getting Together
   • Essentially a ‘what if mike and will danced together at the Snowball?’
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Baby byler
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • Will Byers-centric
   • preliminary oneshot to a season 3 rewrite byler instead of mileven au i wrote in 2022
   • i wrote this in early 2023 as an obsessed gay fourteen year old boy

   Summary

   “Are you sure?” He presses, and it drives Will crazy.  

   “Yeah.” His voice comes out unsteady, shaken and cracking, but Mike only nods, and while casting him one last concerned glance, throws an arm around his shoulders, leading him over to a seat.  

   It- he drives Will crazy. He slips onto the terribly uncomfortable plastic chair and tugs off his coat, the thought echoing in his brain, eyes shifting from place to place. The table, Mike, the floor, Mike, his hands as they fiddle to unwrap his scarf, Mike as he huffs out a laugh and reaches to help him with the woolly accessory. Mike’s smiling face. Mike’s deep brown eyes. Mike, Mike, Mike.

   December 15th, 1984. The Snowball. Will thinks that there's nothing worse that he could be doing tonight, and he'd rather shrivel up and die than stare at Mike dancing with Eleven for hours on end. Turns out he's the one dancing with Mike, and that school dances aren't so bad after all.

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