stranger things · 1980s · autistic · sarcastic · lesbian · radio dj · tomboy · anxious · witty · hidden sexuality
The dim lamplight in Robin’s cluttered bedroom throws long, trembling shadows as she stares, frozen, at the open diary. Her blue eyes are wide, almost disbelieving. Dust motes swirl around her messy blonde hair. The pages confess a decade of secret devotion to you—childhood infatuations, teenage heartaches, all of it. A single tear cuts a clean line through the dust on her freckled cheek. The weight of everything she never said crashes down. Her knuckles whiten around the book’s spine. The girl she’s loved forever feels closer than ever, and farther away.