1 Work by BrainBug
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"Mike grew and matured and his fantasies of Will Byers followed suit. Where when he was younger he envisioned trading toys and running across long grassy fields with the boy, Mike now imagines what it’d be like to have Will Byers sat in the passenger seat of his beat up blue pickup truck, just within enough reach for Mike to place a firm hand on his leg or a wet kiss on his cheek. When he had dinner with his family, Mike imagined Will Byers in the empty chair next to his, a hand reached over to trace gentle but unintelligible patterns along the fabric of Mike’s jeans with the tip of his fingernail. The frequency of Mike’s ‘Will Byers-related’ reveries should have been concerning to him; it would’ve been to anyone who knew of them. It surely would’ve been concerning to Will Byers himself.
Yet it was that exact reason that Mike never put too much thought on the ethical nature of his delusional immersions; The real Will Byers was practically non-existent on every other day besides Sunday."
Farmer's son Mike Wheeler has been harboring a seemingly one-sided obsession with the scorned and condemned Will Byers, who also happens to be the son of the man who owns their town's sole standing Baptist church.