Hawkins, Indiana isn't the kind of town you escape to. It's the kind you get trapped in. At seventeen, Lily Hargrove has already learned how to survive a broken home. When her mother vanished years ago, she and her twin brother Billy were left alone with a father whose anger only grew sharper with time. Then came Susan Mayfield - and her thirteen-year-old daughter, Maxine. They've known Max since she was small. She grew up around them. Grew up watching. Listening. Learning when to stay quiet. But knowing someone doesn't mean understanding them. When Neil Hargrove decides to move the family from California to the sleepy town of Hawkins, Billy is furious. Lily is exhausted. And Max is caught in the middle - old enough now to see the cracks in their family clearly, but still young enough to hope things might get better. They won't. Hawkins feels wrong from the start. The woods stretch too far. The air feels too still. And at night, the darkness hums. Lily is the first to sense it - something watching from the tree line. Something that doesn't belong. A creature that moves like an animal but isn't one. A mouth full of teeth that opens like a nightmare unfolding. A sound that isn't a scream - but close enough. As strange disappearances shake Hawkins and rumors spread through the halls of Hawkins High, Lily and Max are pulled into a secret far bigger than their family drama - a tear in reality that threatens to swallow the town whole. Lily laughs, she cries, she smiles all because of that one specific person, Steve Harrington. In Hawkins, monsters don't just live in another dimension. Sometimes they live in your house. Sometimes they wear your father's face. And sometimes... they're waiting for you in the dark.

In Hawkins High, power was everything. Aubrey Lynn held it all, the crown, the confidence, the fearless reputation. She wasn't called Queen for nothing. And Steve Harrington? He was the King, charming, funny, and impossible not to notice. Her equal in everything, her shield in chaos, her partner in ruling the halls. Best friends since childhood. Together, they were unstoppable: the perfect duo everyone wanted to be, and secretly everyone wanted to be with. Everyone knew their names, but only a few knew the bond that ran deeper than any crown or title. They were untouchable...until cracks started to show in the perfect kingdom they'd built together.

Kelsey Wheeler, is the sixteen years old middle child of Karen and Ted Wheeler more formally known as the forgotten child. Kelsey blends into the background of her family, she's smart but not as smart as her older sister Nancy, trouble but not as chaotic as her younger brother Mike and maybe a bit too independent for her own good. While Kelce can get along with pretty much everyone there is one person she hates with the fire of a thousand suns. Her older sister's boyfriend, Steve The Hair Harrington as she calls him. Kelsey thinks Nancy could do so much better than idiot Harrington and Steve thinks Kelsey is just Nancy's insufferable younger sister. But here's the kick, Steve and Kelsey are alike in a lot of ways, even If they don't realize it. Other than hating Steve, she parties, plays dnd with mike and cheerleads at Hawkins high blissfully unaware her life is about to be turned upside down. There's a chaotic storm brewing in this small town she calls her home, and Kelsey is not prepared.

"But never have I been a blue calm sea, I have always been a storm." Steve Harrington x OC (female)

With the exception of very few people's opinions Amelia Munson is a stubborn, hot-headed, impulsive girl who can hold a grudge like no other.

✶ in which leather-jacketed becky wheeler faces small-town secrets and big-time scares. BOOK IS CURRENTLY SET IN SEASON 1!!! © kwanilha︱2025 ﹙ stranger things: s1 to s5 ﹚ please do not copy my work!

＊｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ ❛I would rather not go Back to the old house There's too many bad memories Too many memories❜ ＊*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚　˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚＊ ❃.✮:▹ Dante Hayes x Steve Harrington »»----> "I'm a fuck up." "You're talking to Dante Hayes, the biggest fuck up in whole Hawkins and probably a whole fucking country." STRANGER THINGS: [season 1 » 5] ➷Season 1, 2 & 3 ✔ ➷Season 4 • • • ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ slowburn ˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆ ©foxlover99 ╰┈➤ Cover by me 𓃦

Aurora Whitney Hopper had a pretty perfect and normal life growing up. Until she moved to Hawkins and everything turned upside down. Her sister passed away, then her parents got divorced, her dad was a disaster, and she felt everything was her fault. She didn't protect her sister. She wasn't there for her. Then years later, her friends brother, Will Byers, goes missing and she gets tangled into more trouble. Warning this book contains cursing words and blood/gore scenes. A/N: Hi everyone, I hope you like this book. I write what I would like to read and the main character is based a little of me but you are welcome to change and read this story as if it were you. I am in college so I will post at least once a week. This is my first book here so I hope its good. I accept ideas and thoughts of any kind. One last thing, I don't own the Stranger Things plot or the characters, all credits to the Duffer Brother, but I do own anything that is added or changed to the plot and the OC. Currently editing this story......

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