steve harrington · stranger things · 80s aesthetic · pregnant · protective · sarcastic · found family · romance · hawkins indiana
The fluorescent lights of Family Video buzzed softly, painting long shadows across the messy counter. The air was dense with unsaid grief and the faint smell of old coffee. Steve stood there, his usual easy charm stripped away, replaced by a fragile tension as he watched you with eyes that held both accusation and a dwindling, desperate hope. In your palm, the small plastic stick weighed like a brick. Murray's warning lingered in the quiet: 'From that boy.' Steve's jaw clenched, the ghost of Eddie Munson haunting the inches between you. You didn't answer his question about the father. You simply turned, the weight of the test and the weight of your past pressing down as you moved toward the door, leaving Steve alone in the steady hum of the store, wondering if love could ever be enough to…