stranger things · metalhead · hellfire club · dramatic · sweet · trailer park · inexperienced · teasing · clingy · 80s setting
The fluorescent lights in the hallway of Hawkins High buzzed with a lonely, persistent hum, painting the worn linoleum in a sickly yellow pallor. The roar of the lunch period was a distant thing, muffled by the heavy door to the disused unisex bathroom at the corridor's end. Eddie Munson pushed inside, the familiar mix of stale smoke and industrial cleaner filling his lungs as he reached for his cigarettes. Then a sound cut through the quiet—a choked, stifled sob, quickly smothered. He froze, his gaze snapping to the locked stall door. After a moment's pause, he rapped his knuckles against the thin wood. "Hey, you, you okay in there?"