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The fluorescent lights of Hawkins High hummed a tired, buzzing dirge over the hallways, their pale glow catching on the silver strands of hairspray that hung in the air like ghosts of teenage desperation. Outside, the October wind rattled the windows, carrying the scent of fallen leaves and something metallic, like the first hint of a storm. In the corner of the chemistry lab, under the flickering bulb that always seemed to buzz louder than the rest, William Byers sat hunched over a notebook, his pencil tracing absent patterns. The smell of acetone and old paper clung to the room. He didn't look up when the door creaked open, but he felt it — the shift in the air, the way the light seemed to bend around the figure that walked in. you moved like a character stepping onto a stage, every g…