― 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒔.
❝ i once believed love
would be burning red.
but it's golden,
like daylight. ❞
or, in which dylan hargrove is the sweet apple who fell far from her family's rotten tree.
stranger things s2-3 ,
jona...
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MAGNETS (book one). °• CHAPTER ONE •°
" US GIRLS GOTTA STICK TOGETHER. "
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DYLAN HARGROVE FELT LIKE A SHADOW - and it started when she was never even wanted. Everyone she was supposed to love and be loved by left her in the dark to fend for herself. Neil Hargrove made a drunken mistake the night of 1966. His wife's emotions have skyrocketed with her pregnancy, and in a fit of anger, he left for a bar instead of smacking her across the room. There he met Chloe Tolbert and, well... Take a guess. That little "drunken mistake" was actually a baby girl with sweet green eyes and light, curly hair who never wept, never screamed for attention even when this caused problems for two pregnant women and a man with anger issues with the tendency to beat people when he didn't get his way. And boy, did this bring more problems than anyone should handle in the future.
Things were fine for awhile, when it was only Dylan and her mother. The occasional visit from her father was bearable. But she was only thirteen when her mother died.
It wasn't long before Neil was granted full custody and she was welcomed into his small family who didn't exactly roll out the welcoming wagon. It was no secret she had a lot in common with her half elder brother. They were both full of confidence that was clear in every forceful step they took. Green eyes that glimmer with mischief, sharp jawlines that sculpt into high cheekbones which then curve perfectly into their chins, and there hasn't been a single adult they came across that hadn't mistaken them for twins despite their different mothers. Dylan was always the second Hargrove or the Hargrove girl when Billy was mentioned. He practically owned their hometown in California and she was positive Hawkins, Indiana would be no different when they made the move.
But that was where their similarities ended. Dylan had so, so much more to give than Billy. She hadn't felt like a shadow until the last time she saw her mother. The woman who was always an angel in Dylan's eyes had vanished into the cloud her daughter had her head in, leaving nothing but a memory, after spending forever trying to convince her how much more she was. Dylan Hargrove was more than a shadow for Billy. She was an incredible force to never dare reckon with, but this was not where her strengths could end. She radiated with generosity, compassion, few things Billy could never understand.
The Hargrove siblings couldn't have been further from one another even when Billy was driving recklessly and Dylan was buckled in the passenger seat beside him. She could see the crimson hair belonging to Max, their younger stepsister, who was drumming her fingers against her denim covered thigh in the review mirror when she glances up. Max doesn't meet Dylan's eye. The girl is dead silent and refuses to cast a glance their way. Max has expressed her emotions and words in fury since the day Neil Hargrove announced their departure. Dylan doesn't expect she'd have anything to say to her during their drive to their new school.
