Steve kept meeting her with an easy warmth she didn't know what to do with. STEVE HARRINGTON -- Seasons 4 and 5.

✶ 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!

| Some stories don't begin with monsters, they begin with the quiet kind of fear that lives in the dark long before anyone sees it. | Arwen Henderson has spent years trying to outgrow the shadows of her childhood, the strange visions and cold dread she once swore were only nightmares. Returning to Hawkins should have meant a fresh start, but the town feels suspended in the same uneasy quiet she remembers watchful, waiting, wrong. She tries to blend back into normal life school, old streets, and looking after her little brother Dustin. But Hawkins refuses to stay ordinary. Something stirs in the woods, people vanish without explanation, and that familiar chill, the one she thought she'd buried begins creeping back into her bones. Then she crosses paths with Steve Harrington. He's infuriatingly confident, effortlessly charming, and everything she doesn't have time for. Yet beneath the perfect hair and cocky smile, there's something unexpectedly steady about him, something that pulls her in despite every instinct telling her to stay away. As the town's mysteries deepen, so does their reluctant connection, built on danger, stubborn loyalty, and the realization that they might need each other more than either wants to admit. But as Hawkins falls further into silence, Ari's past starts clawing its way back, reminding her that some shadows don't fade... they wait. Together, she and the Hawkins Group must face the rising darkness surrounding the town, unaware just how close it already is to finding her again.