simpleemaries
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
Will Byers is used to being watched, It comes with the job.
Gallery openings, interviews, strangers who look a little too long at his work, at him.
What he isn't used to is being targeted.
When the messages start getting too personal, too specific, Lucas insists on bringing in outside security, someone who would blend in more.
Will expects someone obvious.
Instead he gets Mike Wheeler.Quiet. Controlled. Always watching.
The kind of person who doesn't miss anything.
Including Will.
And that might be the problem.Bookmarked by simpleemaries
01 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
“Good morning, babe.”
Will woke up to a gentle voice at 8:27am. His eyes fluttered open to return Mike’s wake-up call except -
It wasn’t Mike.
It was Carlton.
His boyfriend, Carlton.
Of course.
—
Joyce and Hopper are getting married. Will, of course, brought his boyfriend as his plus one. Mike is there for the wedding too. Will is dying inside.[Continuation of “i made it weird (i made it worse)”]
Series
- Part 2 of i made it weird (i made it worse)
Bookmarked by simpleemaries
07 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
After Will moves to Montauk, Sunday night calls become the only thing holding the distance between them. But the dream won’t leave Mike alone.
He returns to the same beach night after night, a place he’s visited too many times before. This time, instead of running, he crosses the water.
Will is waiting. Close enough to touch. Close enough to kiss. And when Mike wakes, the feeling doesn’t fade.
The next morning, alone in an empty house for three weeks, Mike tries to convince himself it was only a dream.
Then a pale yellow envelope arrives in the mail.
-
‘And I know that’s silly, because we call on Sunday nights. But it’s not the same. It’s never just you and me anymore. I mean, obviously I like talking to Dustin and Lucas, but they don’t get me. Not like you do.’It’s almost frightening how closely their thoughts mirror each other. Every Sunday he wishes, quietly, that the calls could just be them. No interruptions. No overlapping jokes. Just Will’s voice and the space between them.
He’s never said it out loud.
And now here it is, written plainly in ink, resting between his fingers.
‘I can’t say things to them that I would easily say to you. No one knows me like you do, Mike,'
-
Tags
Summary
Will goes to college looking for himself, he ends up finding other things he never expected to along the way.
-
**CURRENTLY BEING HEAVILY EDITED**
Bookmarked by simpleemaries
20 May 2026
-
Tags
Summary
mike wheeler can't live like this anymore, he can't live being so scared of anything anymore.it's making him completely miserable and he learns he needs to move on. at graduation, mike carries a letter that was meant for will byers but never sent. it was never meant to be sent because it was full of everything mike wanted to say to the boy but never had the courage to. at least he has the courage to show him right?
(rewrite of the epilogue lowkey)
Bookmarked by simpleemaries
08 May 2026