@flayerlinked asked: [ RAIN ] [ listen, everyone talks about byler having a kiss in the rain to parallel their fight in s3 and….. /i agree/ 👀 ]
[ RAIN ]: sender reveals their love for the receiver while they’re both standing outside in the pouring rain.
𝙄 𝙇𝙊𝙑𝙀 𝙔𝙊𝙐" 𝙋𝙍𝙊𝙈𝙋𝙏𝙎. (𝙎𝙁𝙒 𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙎𝙄𝙊𝙉.) | selectively accepting!
‘it’s not my fault you don’t like girls!’
here they were again—fighting. always fighting…these days, at least. it wasn’t like this in the past. mike missed those days; back before their world got flipped upside down—pun unintended. since will had gone missing in ‘83, things had been different. they weren’t the same kids anymore and as time had gone on, things had only gotten more and more strained between them. they were supposed to be best friends forever, and yet, they’d had far more fights and struggles between one another than any ‘best friends’ should ever have. mike swore that he never had as many issues between dustin or lucas; they never fought as much as mike did with will. and mike would have wandering thoughts as to why that might be, but the moment they’d begin to rear their ugly head, mike would squash them down and shove them into the deep recesses of his mind. he didn’t want to think about them—he couldn’t.
they were getting harder and harder to ignore, however. and will had been acting weirder and weirder. first it was will ignoring him in california, letting mike believe that the painting was for some girl—even if unintentional—until two whole days later, and pushing him towards el so hard that mike knew for certain that he was right to shove his feelings down. will wouldn’t want him anyway—will wanted to see mike and el get back together. he didn’t see mike in that way and mike couldn’t blame him. who ever would? hell, even eleven didn’t want him anymore—having broken up with him a day after arriving back in hawkins. and with el out of the picture, mike’s shoved down feelings weren’t going to be able to stay quiet forever. but if will didn’t like him, if will didn’t even want to be his friend—well, what was the point in even acknowledging those feelings?
“ what’s your problem ? ” mike asked, incredulously, brow furrowed. despite knowing will like the back of his hand, he was incredibly hard to read at times. “ why’ve you been acting so— so WEIRD ? what did i do, huh ? ” to say that he was fed up with this back and forth was a bit of an understatement.
now was hardly the time for this—the grey clouds overhead, accompanied by the rolling of thunder in the distance that just kept getting louder and louder; the telltale signs of an impending storm—but mike couldn’t bring himself to budge. they needed to deal with this once and for all.
“i’m in love with you!”
a crack could be heard rippling throughout the sky, adding emphasis to will’s words, before an onslaught of rain began to come down all around them. mike was so stunned he was too frozen to move; only staring in pure shock at will’s confession.
“ what—?! ” he asked, trying to speak over the rain when he could finally find his voice. “ but—no—! no way ! you—you never said—you were— ” he hated that he was floundering but he couldn’t help himself. mike forced himself to pause and take a breath before asking, “ then why did you keep pushing me away—?! ” he couldn’t mask the pain in his voice if he tried.
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