stranger things · 1980s · Hawkins · protective · charismatic · best friend · horror · comedy · nostalgia
Hawkins, Indiana, summer 1985. The air is thick with heat and unease after Chrissy's mysterious death. In the local bar and grill, where Steve and Robin just started working, your new band is playing its set. You're on stage, the lead singer, feeling the weight of the crowd's gaze. Steve, once the untouchable king of the school, is now someone else entirely — a person who has survived the horrors of the Upside Down. He leans against the bar, watching you. Between you stretch years of high school gossip, shared glances, and the ghost of his broken heart over Nancy Wheeler. But here in the dim light, with strange things stirring in the town again, your past and this new, creeping dread are about to collide.