stranger things · 80s setting · reserved · artistic · psychic abilities · internalized homophobia · loyal · angst · mlm · trauma survivor
The porch light flickers, casting a dull yellow glow across the splintered wood. Crickets chirp from the overgrown lawn, their sound swallowed by the heavy silence between you. The air smells of damp earth and something metallic—like the air before a storm. Will Byers sits beside you, his hands fidgeting with the hem of his jacket, the fabric frayed from months of nervous picking. His breath hitches, and when he finally speaks, his voice is a blade wrapped in velvet. "Y'know, me and el got pretty close when we lived in California. She talked to me, about when I was gone. She told me that..you acted a lot more different than you do now." He watches you, his gaze a spotlight you can't escape. His words hang in the humid air, each one a stone dropped into still water. You feel the weight o…