Max came to my house today and tried to apologise to me.

Earlier that day:

"Will! Hey.." Max says. She gives an awkward smile and flips her wavy, fiery hair.

"Hey Max.." I give her a slight glare and stand in the doorway.

"I came to apologise. What Mike and I did..it wasn't right. I don't love him or even have a crush on him. I guess I thought I did but I truly don't. You don't have to forgive me but you have been my best friend for so long and I don't wanna throw that away."

I glare at her with cold eyes. She frowns slightly. "I don't wanna be friends with you, Max." I try to shut the door but she pushes it slightly open to prevent me and I roll my eyes.

"Please Will.. why won't you give me another chance? I called Mike yesterday and he told me you gave him another chance. Why can't you give me one?" She looks at me with pleasing eyes.

"I don't want to be friends with you because I know that you secretly don't accept me for who I am and you never did. You think my sexuality is disgusting and I don't want someone like that in my life. El accepts me and is always there for me, whereas you're not. Oh, and you lied about me being your friend? You said you had none according to what Lucas told me. Why would you lie about that?"

"I do accept you, Will!" She sounds desperate.

"No you don't, you always looked disgusted when I was with Mike and when I told you I was gay you looked shocked and horrified."

She looks down and sighs sadly.

"And once again, why did you lie about not having any friends? I've been your best friend since kindergarten." ( ew American lol ).

She decided not to answer my question so she instead turns around, her fiery hair whipping behind her and walking away. I shut the door and roll my eyes. El has been a way better friend in the past few days than she has been for years.

El and I are hanging out and cycling around town. We go into a shop and then when we walk out we see two guys making out. Kinda gross since it's in the middle of the street. I look again and squint because I see a mop of black hair that looks strangely like...Mikes?

I nudge El and point to them a little.

"That looks like Mike." She squints just like I did a few minutes beforehand.

"Thats why I pointed." I laugh and look at her.

"Maybe we should ask?" She says eagerly and smiles widely.

"I want to but.. it seems they're preoccupied with their.. kissing.." I look at them and quickly look away. I don't want to look like a creep.

"Whatever!" She walks over confidently and I trail behind her.

She taps the guy who looks like Mike from behind and he pulls away from his "friend" and turns around.

He has dark brown eyes and a mop of black hair. He has some faint freckles covering his cheeks and nose like paint. He's wearing coke bottle glasses that look huge over his eyes. He's wearing a gray t-shirt with a Hawaiian shirt over it and gray shorts.

His "friend" has neatly styled light brown hair atop his head and hazelnut doe like eyes. He too has freckles and they're also very faint. He's wearing a fanny pack on his waist that looks packed with many things. He's also wearing red shorts and a light blue polo shirt.

I smile awkwardly and give a small wave. "Hi.. sorry to interrupt your uh..make out session. We just want to ask you a question." I look directly at "Mike" whilst saying this and he nods.

"Fire away." He replies.

"Are you related to anyone named Mike Wheeler?" El asks and looks at him.

"Uh.. no? I don't think I've ever heard of him, sorry." He looks confused and ponders this question for a few seconds before he replies.

"Oh! You look a lot like him. He's our friend." El replied and smiles. "Oh! Sorry for being so rude by not introducing myself. I'm El and" she gestures to me, "this is Will." I smile again.

"Mike" and his "friend" return the smile.

"I'm Richie" the guy with black hair says, "and this is my boyfriend, Eddie." Eddie waves and looks down shyly.

"Nice to meet you!" I exclaim.

"Can we maybe meet this Mike guy? I want to see how much he looks like Rich." Eddie looks around at all of us after saying this and I nod at him.

"Sure. Do you two have bikes or does one of you have one?" I ask them and look between them.

"Nah, Ed's usually rides with me." He winks and Eddie glares at him.

I grin and Richie gets on the front and Eddie gets on the back of Richie's bike.

El and I both get on our bikes and I lead the way since I know it best. They all cycle behind me and we arrive outside.

We drop our bikes out in the front yard and they all follow me up to the front door. I raise a hand and knock and we all wait for an answer.

We are welcomed by the smiling face of Mike.

"Hi Will and El! Who are these two?" He looks at Richie and Eddie, obviously confused. Then, he stares at Richie with a confused face and Richie stares back with the same expression. They really do look alike.

"That's what we came here to talk to you about, Mike." I reply.

He lets us all in and leads us to the basement. Richie makes himself at home right away and sits down the couch, wrapping an arm around Eddie's shoulders as he sits down beside him on the couch.

"So, what's going on?" Mike looks super confused and looks around.

"Well, Will and I were just exploring? I guess. We were in town and then we turned around and saw Richie" she gestures to Richie "and Eddie" she gestures to Eddie. "Will pointed them out and said Richie looks very like you so we went over and introduced ourselves and talked about you, Mike. We asked if he was related to a guy called Mike Wheeler and he said no. Then Eddie asked could they meet you so...here we are." El explains the whole story.

"Wow.." Mike replies. "It's crazy how alike we look." Mike stares at Richie then looks around again.

"Yeah, except I'm the hotter one." Richie replies and shrugs. We laugh and Mike doesn't look happy with this remark.

"You wish." He replies.

Before Richie can reply, Karen comes down holding cookies on a tray and stops in her tracks when she sees Richie.

"Mom! Look! We look exactly alike!" He exclaims and points to Richie. Richie smiles and gives a small awkward wave. Karen goes over and begins asking Richie questions about his life.

"Boys.. there's something I have to tell you both." She stares between Mike and Richie. Mike already has an idea of what she's about to tell them and so does Richie.