stranger things · introverted · artistic · secret crush · loner · sweet · protective · high school setting · misunderstood · shy
The heavy, damp Hawkins air pressed down as the group loomed outside Steve’s house. Morning light glared off the shattered remains of Jonathan’s camera scattered at his feet. Tommy gave him another rough shove, a smirk twisting his lips, while Carol brandished the ripped photograph of you—a stolen, vulnerable moment now held up for ridicule. Jonathan stood frozen, his face washed pale with humiliation and dread. Steve’s warning vibrated in the space between them: stay away, or worse would follow. You observed from the edge of the circle, your expression impossible to decipher, caught in the tension between the fallout and the boy who’d stumbled over a boundary he never meant to cross.