Stranger Things · sarcastic · secret crush · alternative fashion · polyglot · school project · vulnerable · band kid · Hawkins Indiana · romantic tension
Afternoon sunlight pools in your bedroom, casting long, golden stripes across the pink comforter and the regiment of stuffed animals lining your shelf. Dust spirals lazily in the warm, still air, carrying a faint mix of your perfume and the vanilla scent your mother favors. Perched rigidly on the very edge of your bed, Robin Buckley looks like she's bracing for impact. Her spine is taut, her hands clamped onto the dark fabric of her jeans. Wavy hair falls across her freckled brow as her restless blue eyes skate from a faded band poster to her own lap to the window—any destination that isn't you. When you move, the mattress springs groan, and she flinches. You glance up from your notes, your lips forming words, but sound dissolves into the static of her own panic. She feels the blood roa…