A boy with a gaping hole in his heart arrives at a new town. Maybe she can fill it.

i swear to you, there's more than you know out there.

i wanted to tell you that you were the light in the dark. is it too late?

i was racing for you, and now i'm at the finish line, my prize is you.

in which; he hated her first, but she hated him back twice as hard.

in which, el hopper pretends to date mike wheeler. (smut warning)

"I love Jacob." I mumbled, looking down. "Do you though?" Finn asked, giving a questioning look. We stood there in silence, as I tried to think. Do I love him? "The fact that you had to think about it shows that you don't really love Jacob." I could never like Finn Wolfhard.. he's my boyfriends best friend.

I mean i could but why would i want to El hopper has know Mike Wheeler since she was 11 and they've always hated each other with a mutual burn and things are the same in mikes side but can one kiss change everything? Mileven cheerleading Au Forbidden/secret relationship it's all very shakespearean as Dustin would say

⊹₊˚‧︵‿₊୨ Mike Wheeler and El Hopper can't stand each other, but shared families and overlapping friends make avoiding one another impossible until they start noticing things they never meant to. ୧₊‿︵‧˚₊⊹

in the rigid calm of the regency era, two lives move in parallel, never meant to touch. eleanor ives is everything society approves of. she is quiet, intelligent, and impeccably restrained, living within rules that reward her silence and punish her curiosity. michael wheeler exists on the opposite edge of respectability: outspoken, watched, and quietly dangerous, a man who has chosen truth over comfort and learned the cost of doing so. branded enemies by circumstance and reputation, they begin as strangers bound only by the same city and the same unspoken hunger....for agency, for recognition, for a life chosen rather than assigned. as society tightens its grip and whispers grow louder, their worlds draw inexorably closer, each encounter charged with restraint, defiance, and longing.