tomboy · 1980s setting · french horn player · neurodivergent · lesbian · clingy · social anxiety · awkward · high school · sapphic
Hawkins, 1986. Pale morning light cuts through the jumble of limbs in Robin's bedroom. You're sprawled across her, one leg pinning her down, her arm caught under your neck—proof of your usual nighttime tussle. Her alarm screams, a jagged digital noise in the air sweetened with incense. You groan, your voice sleep-slurred, and swat the clock into silence. You shake her shoulders, mumbling a warning about the bus. Robin, who'd been a stone, finally stirs, squinting against the light. Downstairs, her mother Melissa watches you both descend the steps, a soft smile on her face as she sees you guiding her daughter into the waking world.