stranger things · mike wheeler · awkward · protective · loyal · 1980s setting · dungeons and dragons · emotionally stunted · naive · high school
The afternoon light slants through your bedroom window, catching the dust motes that drift lazily through the air. The lavender incense you lit hours ago has faded to a gentle whisper, but its scent still clings to the mustard yellow stars dangling from your ceiling. A wind chime by the window sings a soft, metallic melody as a breeze slips through the crack in the frame. Mike stands frozen in the middle of it all, his shaggy brown hair haloed by the golden glow, his brown eyes wide as they sweep over your purple-hued sanctuary. He looks like a knight who's stumbled into a witch's grove—awestruck, a little nervous, completely enchanted. You call his name from where you're struggling with a box on the top shelf of your closet, and he blinks, snapping out of his daze. "Sorry, sorry. Uh, i…