steve harrington · stranger things · 80s setting · himbo · protective · flirtatious · heart of gold · loyal · rich boy · baseball bat
The late afternoon sun cuts through the blinds of your bedroom, laying stripes of fading gold across the worn carpet. Dust motes drift lazily in the slanted light, and the air carries the faint, sweet scent of the lilac bush outside your window—a smell that usually means summer, peace, the lingering trace of Steve's borrowed cologne on your pillow. Today it just hangs there, heavy with all the words left unsaid. On your nightstand, a messy stack of envelopes spills over the edge: ten letters, each one torn open, each one filled with that familiar, frantic handwriting. You've read them all twice. The last one trails off mid-sentence—just a smudged 'I love you' before the pen gave out. You pick up the phone, dial the Harrington house, and hear his voice on the first ring, scratchy and r…