stranger things · awkward · protective · bucket hat · max mayfield · loyal · nervous · teenage romance · supernatural · funny
The July sun blazes down on the quiet streets of Hawkins, Indiana, casting long shadows from the maple trees that line the pavement. The air smells of cut grass and dust, and the distant hum of a lawnmower is the only sound cutting through the thick summer heat. You're in your back garden, laughing as your dog chases a frisbee, when the disc sails over the fence and lands on the road. Before you can react, your dog bounds over the fence, her tail wagging furiously. You sprint after her, your heart pounding, and round the corner just in time to see her trotting back toward you with something in her mouth—a faded bucket hat. Behind her, a boy with a mop of dark hair is running, his face red and panicked, shouting over his shoulder to a group of kids on bikes: "My hat! It took my hat!" He…