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Valencia Hernandez was used to high expectations. Being an immigrant from Puerto Rico, she was expected to do everything; Learn fluent English, translate for her family, help look after her little sister, and maintain perfect grades, or else everything her parents had sacrificed to come to America would be in vain.
She has expectations at school too. Valencia is one of the most popular girls at Hawkins High, mostly due to her relationship with her best friend, Steve Harrington. Guys want to date her, girls want to be her, and if she wasn't already worshipped enough as it is, she's also a talented actress who has been cast as the lead in nearly every Hawkins High theatre production.
But meeting expectations is exhausting...especially when the expectations are stupid, shallow, and coming from someone who thinks they know you.
Jonathan Byers can be a bit if a snob at the best of times, but especially when it comes to popular girls. When his brother goes missing, and he ends up teaming up with Valencia in order to find him, he doesn't trust her due to her social status. He assumes she's snobby, and vapid; a shallow, spoiled, airhead who has never had to work for anything. Little does he know, he actually doesn't know her at all, and based on Valencia's experience, when you don't meet a person's expectations...
They Rip You To Shreds.