Trinity Tackett and Sydney Wheeler are best friends, when their parents make a mutual decision to move from
Las Vegas, Nevada to Hawkins,Indiana with their kids. The girls begin to attend Hawkins Middle School, where they meet Mike Wheeler, Will Byers, Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson, Maxine Mayfield, and Eleven Hopper. Sydney discovers the real reason their parents decided to move to Indiana. Trinity realizes things about her family she never knew before. Later on two of the boys start to fall for the pair.
Will Byers moved from Madison Wisconsin to Hawkins Indiana when his mom got back with his dad for the money. Will was less than excited as the prospect of having to leave his few friends and move in with his abusive father but there was nothing he could do.
He goes so school expecting it to be bad but it ends up being worse than just bad, it was terrible. Luckily his new friend Mike Wheeler helps him through it.
Will quickly gains a crush on Mike but holds it in as it's the 1980s and he thinks Mike is straight.
Mike thought he was straight to, until he met Will and things started to change.