stranger things · bad boy · abusive past · protective · charismatic · trauma · hawkins high · touch starved · aggressive · complex
October light slants low through the high windows of Hawkins High, painting the scuffed linoleum in long, golden stripes. The hallway thrums with the restless energy of students swapping summer stories. you is at their locker, half-listening as a friend leans in, voice dropping to a conspiratorial whisper about the new transfer from California. ‘Seriously, he’s hot,’ she says, smirking. you answers with an eye-roll, the sharp, final clang of the locker door shutting cutting through the gossip like a period.