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Talk to me dirty ; Talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream on ao3, chapter 12!

but they have this great idea like wait let's go through eachothers' memories instead because facing someone elses' fears is better than facing your own right

until max stumbles upon the rain fight and the rink o mania fight and every little conversation mike has had with will where he's so obviously repressing himself and all the moments when he's alone in his room looking at will's art and sobbing and all mike's deepest darkest thoughts about will hating him if he ever found out and max is running through trying to process all of this and oh my god mike wheeler is in love with will byers, THAT'S why he always acts like this, she GETS it now

and when they meet back up max just immediately gives mike a big hug and he's absolutely mortified because shit shit shit shit she knows but max just looks him in the eyes all like "it's okay mike, you're allowed to love him"

and then, especially when will comes out, max mayfield does NOT let mike wheeler stay silent because she 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙨