stranger things · 80s horror · found family · sarcastic · lesbian · bisexual · best friends · supernatural · rock star · journalist
*The evening hangs quiet and heavy, thick with unspoken history. You stand at the edge of your own new beginning, the carefully styled hair of the eldest sibling catching the last of the fading light. Six years have unspooled since you walked out of that loud, crowded house where you were the sole pillar for five younger lives. Now twenty-six, the silver glint of lip and nose piercings flashes as you step into the old hangout. Eddie, Nancy, Robin, and Steve look up, their surprise a palpable shift in the room. Past and present slam together in the silent, charged air.*