Some people become so intertwined with your life that losing them feels like losing a part of yourself. For Sofía Carter, Joe Keery was never just her best friend's older brother. He was summers spent at the Keery house when her own home felt too quiet. Late-night drives, shared secrets, almost-kisses, and years of feelings buried beneath friendship and bad timing. The boy she loved without ever really admitting it. The one person who always felt a little too much like home. For years, Sofía convinced herself whatever existed between them had faded into history. Until Joe comes home. Suddenly, old feelings begin surfacing with terrifying ease, pulling them back into the kind of intimacy that once ruined them both. What begins as lingering looks and stolen touches quickly spirals into a secret neither of them can seem to stop choosing. But falling for Joe again means risking far more than heartbreak. Because their lives have always been deeply entangled, threaded through shared friends, family dinners, inside jokes, and years of history too complicated to untangle cleanly. And this time, losing each other might cost them everything that ever felt like home.

Joe Keery achieved much of what he had dreamed of as a student in Chicago. Thanks to his role in a globally beloved Netflix series, he became a familiar face around the world. He began working with acclaimed directors, and during long journeys and breaks between filming, he wrote songs whose lyrics resonated with listeners. Yet even after gaining success, recognition, and a devoted audience, he kept searching for something more. For the person who would light up his world. For someone he could care for. ₊✩‧₊ {i'll try all of my life just to find someone who leaves on the light for me} djo-potion (Guys, English is not my native language, so I apologize for possible mistakes and inaccuracies)

Superstar Joe Keery gets sent to a small costal village by his management team to work on the album he is struggling to complete, no distractions, no parties and no girls. Joe finds himself befriending an elderly woman from next door who makes him homemade meals, fills her lonely days with talks about her late husband, her life and most of all her granddaughter y/n. He enjoys being in a place where no one really knows his story, his life and his fame, for once he feels like a human being. Y/n comes to visit her grandmother for the summer season, wanting to take care of her after her grandfather passed away, and her grandmother can't wait for her to meet her new friend, Joe. Y/n, well, she isn't easily impressed.

One random night out in London never meant anything to anyone. But a year later, after finally getting accepted onto a dating app, you come across a familiar face who remembers you. What starts as easy conversations and late night phone calls, turns into months of growing closer from opposite sides of the world. You soon begin to wonder if a chance meeting from last summer was actually the start of something bigger.

⊹˚₊‧ ENDGAME ‧₊˚⊹ ✦ a lila wren x joe keery fanfic lila wren keeps her life polished: sold-out shows, carefully curated romances, and clean exits. joe keery keeps nothing tidy. he's honest, unpredictable, and makes her feel a way she thought she'd forgotten. what starts as a single night slowly turns into something warmer, something harder to ignore, and suddenly lila isn't sure she wants to keep her life as perfectly arranged as she always has. ✧༚ a story about two people who weren't looking for each other, but somehow found a rhythm that doesn't fit on any schedule. slow-burn ⋆ nyc ⋆ love at first sight ⋆ soft intimacy ⋆ soulmate lowercase intended lilawren x joekeery # 1 - djo 04/17 #3 - joekeery 04/19

Joe was hyper aware that everyone knew him as "Steve Harrington", and as much as that character had given him absolutely everything, he felt a pang of regret whenever he heard someone call his name from across the street, reaching for their phone before they had even said hello. He wanted to be "Just Joe". She, Iva Wilder, was anything but "known". A friend who would do absolutely anything for the people she cares about, a ride at 2am, a couch to crash on when things were tough. Iva always felt she was stuck in time, frozen still. Coming from a family with people who were very successful, she felt she didn't have the courage to do what she truly wanted, what her life calling was. When the two find each other in wraths of all the unknown, they find that sometimes things are just, that simple.

She grew up across the street from him. Joe was first crushes, porch lights, family parties, and everything Victoria never quite got over. Even when he left for college. Even when New York claimed him. Even when the world did too. Years later, Victoria is building a life through photography, art, and carefully controlled distance when she's invited on tour with Joe and his friends, but proximity has a way of exposing what time never erased. As old feelings collide with new realities, Victoria is forced to confront the hardest truth of all: loving someone for years doesn't mean they were ever yours.

It was just a contract. A fix for bad press. A perfectly staged relationship for the public eye. But somewhere between fake smiles and real conversations, the line blurred and feelings got involved. Now, with the world watching your every move, you're left wondering what happens when something that started as a lie becomes the most real thing you've ever had?

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Julie García built her career on control. As one of the most sought-after tour managers in the industry, she's known for running flawless shows, fixing problems before they happen, and never, ever, losing her composure. Her reputation isn't just important, it's everything. But control is a fragile thing, especially when it comes to Joe Keery. Because no matter how perfectly she runs his tour, there's one thing she can't seem to manage; the way he looks at her like she's something worth breaking the rules for. And in an industry that destroys women for far less, one mistake is all it takes to lose everything.