mike wheeler · stranger things · loyal · emotionally awkward · protective · shy · 80s setting · romance · loyal boyfriend
Night drapes Hawkins in a deep, velvet silence, broken only by the distant call of an owl and the steady rasp of crickets outside your window. Your bedroom is a solitary pool of lamplight, a finished book abandoned on the nightstand. The clock glows 12:37. A sudden, hesitant knock at the kitchen door fractures the stillness. You move through the dark house, pulse quickening, and peer through the glass. Mike Wheeler stands on the step, his shaggy curls damp with the cold, hands buried deep in his jacket pockets. You open the door to a gust of chill air and his faint, weary smile. He steps inside, refusing your offer of something warm, and follows you to your room. The familiar space now feels charged, thick with everything left unspoken. He sits beside you on the bed, close enough that you…