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[deadboywalking]

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[micycle]

i am
i'm really, really happy
happier than i've been in years

[Aside from the crushing knowledge that his whole hopeful rallying speech to Will back in the monster's head won't come true. But this isn't about that.]

and no not at all
i mean i guess she didn't grow up hearing it was bad, you know?

[deadboywalking]

you are?

[Mike can't see it, but Will's sitting on the shoe rental counter with the dumb neon of the bowling alley flickering around him and the stupid stained weird carpets and the clattery sound of the pins and he's just. Beaming.] you mean that?



huh.
guess that's ONE good thing about how she grew up. one. versus seven billion bad things.

[micycle]

i absolutely positively mean it
like i mean
you've always made me happier than pretty much anything else
and now it's just that times a hundred
basic math





also steve sort of knows i think
idk if he remembers
i had the death flu

[deadboywalking]

you make me happy too, mike.
happier than anything
and i don't care if everyone knows
i'm proud of it


but i want you to be ready too
i mean, i've had like 8 years to get used to it and you've only had a little while

[micycle]

i'm ready
i don't think i was ever not ready

[Sure, bullies and their bullshit can get under his skin, but it's never been himself that he's scared for, and he can't imagine that changing. People can say whatever the fuck they want about him.]

and maybe that's stupid of me or something but
my parents aren't here
no one's gonna beat us up for it

as long as we're ready
there's no reason to keep it secret

[deadboywalking]

it's not stupid
it's wonderful
YOU'RE wonderful

and i wanna tell everyone that
i mean, that i think that
you know?

[micycle]

you're WONDERFULLER

[they are sO DUMB]

and you're welcome to tell everyone
but i don't think it's gonna get steve to unground me for putting bubble bath in the dishwasher

[deadboywalking]

nuh UH thats YOU.
DUH.

he will if i ask him and look really sad
like almost cry but not quite
he doesn't know what to do when that happens

[micycle]

will everyone in this town loves you
i look like a scarecrow and argue with people
i think we know who's the wonderfullest

[Checkmate atheists.]

oh yeah he gets really weird when i do that too
or like
he got weird the one time i did

[Spoiler: Mike was really crying.]

[deadboywalking]

well you're my favorite person
and if everyone loves me, i must have impeccable taste and be always right
so, logic.

yeah there's usually a lot of stressed talking really fast and then he agrees to whatever
i think its residual toxic masculinity

[micycle]

well you're mine
so
there

man i'm so glad we learned about that
it really explains so much

[deadboywalking]

yeah. i'm yours.

[And then Will has to put the fluid down and cover his face for a moment because sometimes he's such a sap he embarrasses himself.]

right??
people just are it without even knowing its even a thing
and thats why all our dads are unhappy

[micycle]

😍

[Did he use that correctly? He's blushing too hard to see straight

..... Ha. Straight.]

i don't know i think my dad's pretty happy
but only bc he ignores literally everything going on around him

[deadboywalking]

💖

[He picked the sparkly heart cause sparkles are neat. Also how do people just??? Text stuff???? Will thinks he's gonna spontaneously combust from blushing so hard.]

that's called avoidance
I read it in this book I found.

[micycle]

😘

[RIP, they're both gonna have heart attacks. It was fun while it lasted.]

oh shit
maybe he and my mom should go to you for counseling

[deadboywalking]

you're such a dork haha
these emoji things are kinda dumb but i like them

well they can find someone else
i'm not learning it for them

[micycle]

👨🏻‍🏭❤️🧙🏻‍♂️

the blowtorch is my flamethrower
ignore all the facial hair

[deadboywalking]

why does he have a blowtorch is he a welder??
but still cool
i understood the feelings of it

[micycle]

no it's not a welder it's me with a flamethrower and a mustache

[deadboywalking]

it LOOKS like a welder.
if you really grow a mustache, that's definitely a fire hazard.
can't have both mustache and flamethrower, gotta pick one.

[micycle]

[Mike sends a picture of himself with part of the Twizzler he's eating balanced over his upper lip.]

aw man
and i took all this time to grow one just for you

[deadboywalking]

[Regrettably, this is the young man Will is smitten with. So of course he laughs for like 7 minutes.]

wow
you've totally changed my mind
you can't give that up
how can i stand firm in the face of such style?
impossible.

[micycle]

[Mike doesn't even notice the seven minutes because of course someone walks into the kitchen and he has to chew them out and then flee.]

man just wait til you see my beard
coincidentally i need to go buy some cotton candy before i can show it to you though

[deadboywalking]

[Out there being a professional, yelling at people, being bossy. Will is so proud.]

totally unrelated cotton-candy-buying, got it
my face is gonna get all sticky when i see you
cause i'm gonna
kiss your beard
or
something [Master of romance, right here.]

[micycle]

[Oh, wow. That's high-key the flirtiest thing anyone's ever said to Mike. Consider him flustered!]

just don't get it to spitty or anything
it might dissolve
which is a totally normal thing for a beard to do