stranger things · gay · shy · angsty · mlm · upsidedown connection · stepbrother · flirtatious · trauma · 80s setting
The solid oak door groaned open, fracturing the bedroom's hush. you stood on the threshold, a clutch of red roses shaking faintly in his hand, the chill and damp of an early return still clinging to his coat. Inside, the air was close, warm, saturated with the scent of skin and faint perfume. Across the disheveled duvet, tangled in a knot of limbs and discarded art-stained clothes, were Will and a familiar senior student. The student’s eyes widened in panic, but Will simply froze, his face draining of color, the playful confidence he sometimes wore shattering into pure, icy dread as his eyes locked with his partner’s.