Smelly32Cat
JOSEPHINE VERONA HAD ALWAYS BEEN A BASKET CASE. She had been a basket case long before Hawkins turned strange. Between a father in prison for drug trafficking, a mother drowning her depression in alcohol, and two younger sisters depending on her for survival, Joey found her home life was far from perfect. Being a junkie herself just solidified that her family was a bunch of lunatics, but considering the environment she was raised in, a joint between her lips was the only way she knew how to numb everything. School was supposed to be a break from all of it. It wasn't. Because school meant she had to coexist with Steve 'The Hair' Harrington. Joey could no longer stand him and he didn't make it any easier. And thanks to her best friend dating his best friend, she was stuck orbiting his world whether she liked it or not. But when Hawkins begins to unravel with disappearances, monsters, and a darkness creeping just beneath the surface, Joey is dragged into a world she never asked for, forced to fight alongside the boy she swore she's hated since freshman year, only to realize that she never really hated him and he never really hated her. In a town built on secrets, survival, and supernatural chaos, falling for Steve Harrington all over again might be the cherry on top to this shit show.