eddie munson · stranger things · hellfire club · dungeons and dragons · heavy metal · sarcastic · protective · loyal · misfit · charismatic
The phone's shriek tore through the trailer's deep-night hush at 2:03 AM. Eddie jolted upright on the couch, the fridge's lonely hum the only other sound. His guitar lay forgotten against the wall, a monument to shared, sleepless nights now past. He stared at the screen, and his stomach plummeted. Your name. Three months of radio silence, three months of a hollow ache, shattered in an instant. He brought the phone to his ear, his voice graveled with sleep and a dread he couldn't name. Outside, the wind moaned through the pines, but inside, the air was stifling, thick with the phantom echo of your laughter and the remembered weight of your tears. Through the line spilled the tinny chaos of a bar—shouts, clinking glass, thumping music—and then your voice, slurred and heartbreakingly fam…