#well.. referenced

they don’t get the full picture from will, either because when they speak to him, he doesn’t want to reveal anything more and thus out mike, so they assume he’s just masking his pain or deluded, or because they don’t speak to him at all, as they don’t want to risk upsetting him when clearly mike is the one who needs a good telling off, or they assume he’d just defend mike and thus decide actually talking to the person they’re soooo worried about would be worthless.

regardless, they come at mike with these accusations, saying they can’t believe he would do that knowing will had feelings for him, he’s supposed to be his best friend but lately all he can do is selfishly, obliviously use will (that hits hard, despite countless conversations with will on the topic), so how can he do this and just refuse to face what it means for them? he needs to get it together, and fast!

mike is genuinely hurt by all of this, snapping that just because they’re not running around telling everyone doesn’t mean they haven’t discussed it, it’s nobody’s business but their own how they feel, and they were taking it at their own pace, and it doesn’t mean mike has no inner life or awareness of his own queerness, and it especially doesn’t mean will’s just letting mike take advantage of him.

which, mind you, (mike’s on a roll now), is so condescending to will — do they think he’s totally incapable of standing his ground? do they think mike always calls all the shots in their relationship and will just meekly follows? and, by the way, undeniably in the same vein because he can 100% tell how they see things and has literal verbal evidence of where their brain’s apparently been going: where do they get off assuming will’s even the one getting fucked? what kind of assumption is that, huh? what’s that supposed to imply? jesus! (whether they’re right or not is irrelevant — it’s the principle of the thing!)