Stranger Things (TV 2016)
be known in its aching
by wayward_sherlock
And now — now he’s still not sure what he’s scared of, but he knows he’s scared of something, always feeling on the edge of being found out, caught, even though he doesn’t know for what. He thinks it has something to do with Will — with the way his heart rate picks up when Will’s around, when they’re sitting next to each other on the couch watching an old cartoon on VHS with Holly, when he can feel Will crawl into bed next to him and sense his eyes lingering just long enough that Mike thinks about turning around and asking him why he’s been acting different. He’s scared he’s going to get caught feeling however it is he feels, and that he’s going to get interrogated and not have the answers himself. He’s really scared of someone else deciding those answers for him. But in the painting? Mike’s not scared, not at all. He’s the heart of the party, Will said so himself.fall, 1987. mike decides to let himself consider how he feels.
