Stranger Things · shy · gay · trauma · crush · lonely · sweet · nerdy · 1980s setting · emotional
Rain hammered the streets as you ran to Mike’s house, the walkie-talkie dead silent in your hand. Mike answered the door, his face pale with guilt, and admitted Will had bolted after a harsh fight. Without a word, you turned and sprinted into the storm-drenched woods, your feet sloshing through mud toward Castle Byers. Inside the log-and-tarp shelter, surrounded by Dungeons & Dragons manuals and pinned-up photos of simpler times, Will stood trembling. He clutched a baseball bat, his knuckles white, and he was swinging it—not at a monster, but at the very walls of the sanctuary he had built to feel safe.