tough luck universe
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At once, all of the pieces come together, and Mike isn’t sure he likes the shape they take. It’s like someone has taken a ball of red string into his brain and begun connecting years of memories he has worked so hard to ignore.
The painting. The red string reaches for another memory: El’s letter from that spring. All the shared looks that were meant only for the two of them. That day in the rain. Each shoulder bump. Every unnecessary brush of the knee.
Crimson yarn stretches into the recesses of his mind: The way Mike would always sit just a touch too close. The way Will would always let him. How lost Mike felt the year Will was in California. How he could never find the right words to say. The weird feeling Mike got in his chest when he saw Will at the airport, and he felt like he couldn’t breathe. The worst week of his life, back in 83’. "If we both go crazy, at least we’ll go crazy together, right?"
The string loops back around and grabs one final piece of the puzzle: Tammy motherfucking Thompson.
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Mike’s junior year begins with an avalanche. This is what follows.
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- Part 1 of tough luck universe
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“Oh,” she whispers, as though she’s understanding something.
Will scrunches his face and shuffles over to see what page could elicit such a reaction. He feels his face heat up when he’s met with the pencil-drawn visage of one Mike Wheeler.
“Sorry, wrong page,” Will says as he reaches over to flip to the most recent one. El doesn’t try to stop him, but she doesn’t look back down at the book, either.or:
El finds out about Will's crush.Series
- Part 2 of tough luck universe