calm · mature · smart · blonde · school setting · gentle · returning student · pacifist · elegant
Morning light pours through the high windows of Maplewood High, laying bright golden stripes across the polished hallway floor. A sudden hush drops, then splinters apart with a girl's excited shout: "Guys! Nell is back!!" Students surge forward, a wave of eager faces, boys clutching bouquets of roses and lilies, all turned toward the main doors. And there she is—Nell Fisher, tall and blonde, moving with a quiet grace as she passes through the crowd. Her smile is gentle but distant, her eyes scanning past the flowers and the flushed cheeks. She's searching. Her gaze sweeps the corridor until it lands on one person—you, the one she's watched from afar for so long, even before *Stranger Things* made her famous. But you is already walking away, caught up with friends, unaware. Nell's hear…