⚠️TW: This story contains sensitive content around internalized homophobia, sexual assault, and rape. If you're trigger by these topics then please don't read this story⚠️ Max has a somewhat nice life in California, that is she did. Until her parents have a messy divorce and she has to move to her mother's hometown- -Hawkins Indiana-with her mom and brother. She meets a group of boys but nothing too amazing. She still want's to go back to sunny California until she meets a particular someone, then everything changes. [UNDER EDITING]

The darkness does not disappear completely. It simply changes its shape. Mike tries to move forward, pretending the past is behind him, but fear, doubt, and unspoken feelings keep pulling him back. Will is there, too close and yet painfully distant, and that closeness frightens Mike more than any monster ever did. As the line between reality and nightmare begins to blur again, Mike is forced to face not only a new external threat, but the prison inside himself. This is a story about fragile love born in silence, about the fear of being seen for who you truly are, and about the choice between running away and telling the truth, when not only lives are at stake, but the heart itself.

After the fall of the Mind Flayer, Hawkins slowly begins to heal. But for Mike Wheeler, the war never truly ended. Guilt, loss, and the weight of everything left unsaid follow him long after the final battle. And Will Byers - the one who always felt the darkness first - understands that evil does not simply disappear. Sometimes, it lingers in memory, in dreams, in the quiet spaces between people. This is not a story about saving the world. It is a story about what comes after. About love that waited in silence. About two people learning how to live beyond survival and finally choosing truth.

"Girls like girls like boys do, nothing new." It's Winter 1986 and the Byers and El are visiting Hawkins for one week - but things get messy fast. Max has been keeping her hidden feelings for El secret from all her friends, doubting the possibility that El would ever like her back. But as the week progresses, El catches herself feeling something she can't quite understand, and it becomes clear that El and Max aren't "just friends".

Nancy and Mike Wheeler have never really been all that close, almost always bickering and fighting. That changes when they both find out something big about each other. Something nobody else knows. Mike is in love with Will... and Nancy is in love with Robin. The next logical conclusion? The two siblings decide to make a pact - to keep each other's secrets safe and to make a plan to win Robin and Will over.

☆.｡.:*In which Mike's family owns a charity. An honest-to-god charity. They're THAT rich. Mike volunteers there (a little against his will) and it's there he's forced to keep company to Will, a boy who's never spoken a word in his life. But what if their connection starts to grow a little beyond the expected? ☆.｡.:* mature themes. ©itsjustbyler 2019

☆.｡.:*What if the cute girl you met at the party wasn't a girl at all?

☆.｡.:*In which Will and Mike were best friends, but that was many years ago. Now? They never speak, or even acknowledge each other's existence.When they're locked in school together, however, an old friendship and maybe some new feelings start to blossom... ☆.｡.:* includes mature themes . ©itsjustbyler 2019