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“You always do that,” Mike whispered.
Will blinked. “Do what?”
“Pretend you’re fine right up until you’re not,” Mike continued. “Like you’re trying not to be a problem.”
Will scoffed, but it came out weak. “You’re projecting.”
“Am I?” Mike took a half-step closer. Close enough that Will could smell his soap, clean and familiar, layered with something warmer underneath. “Because from where I’m standing, it looks like we’ve both been tiptoeing around the same thing.”
Will swallowed.
Don’t, his brain warned.
Some bands make albums. Some bands make ghosts.
Static Hearts grows up alongside the people inside it—through basements, road years, fame, and fallout. At the center are Mike and Will, learning too late how to speak honestly and too early how to endure.
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or, the story where Mike and Will accidentally turn unresolved tension into a multi-platinum record