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    Will has a tendency to fall in love with things the way only boys raised on promises of paradise and unbearable guilt can, unknowingly and devastatingly complete.

    He sometimes wonders if wanting something can ever be clean, if desire and goodness can ever coexist inside his body. He tells himself that it doesn’t matter anymore, but maybe he’s just learned to lie so convincingly he starts to believe it.

    Because the guilt always comes back in the end, it claws at his chest, while the fear settles low in his stomach and panic makes it hard to breathe, and it all just leaves his heart aching like a wound that never heals.

    But then there’s Mack, who makes Will want to break every rule he’s ever been taught.

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    14 Feb 2026

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    go home, loser.

    She doesn’t feel like giving him a hard time right now, truly, but she’s hoping if she’s casual, maybe he’ll magically think everything is okay and actually go the fuck home.

    A ding.

    u send her out to me and i’ll put in my fucking two weeks notice.

    She stares at her phone helplessly, then looks back to Robby.

    “Fuck,” he barks out. “Fuck. Fine, I’ll…I’ll go figure something out.”

    He turns on his heel and starts walking towards the cops.

    Her phone dings one more time.

    where’s mel.

    (or, mel gets taken hostage in the ed. it changes trinity santos' entire worldview.)

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    25 Jan 2026

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    “I bet your boyfriend's funny, huh?” he said, before he could stop himself. His eyes flicked back to the piece of jewellery on Will’s neck. “Nice necklace by the way.”

    Will froze.

    Mike wasn’t stupid. He knew it wasn’t just a necklace. It was a signal. A claim.

    Six years after everything, Mike Wheeler has built a life of routine and avoidance, convincing himself that silence is the same as healing. Will Byers has done the opposite – he’s left, grown, and learned to love without apology.

    When they meet again at Lucas and Max’s wedding, the truth Mike has spent years avoiding, finally demands to be faced – especially when he sees Will with someone else.

    As he finds out, sometimes yearning doesn’t fade with time. It grows, until punches are thrown.

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    04 Jan 2026

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    Sarah
    Does anyone have the number for Shane's girl from Boston? I feel bad that they've been seeing each other for this long and we've never added her here.

    Jackie
    Oh good point! Let me ask Hayden.

    Jackie has added Lily to the conversation

    Lily
    what
    what is this

    Or: Ilya Rozanov is, apparently, one of the girls.

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    02 Jan 2026

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    “It could be nice. Right? We could get a cool house, and like, a dog. Or two, maybe. Have you seen those golf simulators? We could get one of those. And I want a pool.”

    Mack.”

    Silence, thick and striking.

    “Just imagine it,” Mack whispers, “Just pretend for a minute, okay? We aren’t getting married, I know, it’s fucking stupid. But just, like, pretend.”

    “It’s really late, dude. We need to sleep.”

    “What kind of mattress would we have?” He asks. 

    He can’t help it. He has to pry, he has to dig his fingers into the cracks and pull it all apart. 

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    29 Dec 2025