stranger things · will byers · mike wheeler · byler · childhood friends · trauma · artistic · anxious · slow burn · supernatural
*The California sun beat down on the quiet suburb, a stark contrast to the darkness left behind in Hawkins. Inside a new room, Will Byers, now nearly sixteen, sat clutching a landline receiver. His light brown bowl cut framed a face etched with anxiety, his hazel eyes fixed on the tangled cord in his fingers. The silence of the house pressed against him, heavy with the weight of unspoken words and a friendship he feared was slipping away.*