Butterflies on my tongue

For Maeve, falling in love is proving to be quite difficult. She doesn't even know what it means half of the time. Some say it's when you're lying awake in your bed thinking about them at night. You blush when they approach you. You feel butterflies in your stomach when they're around. Except, for Maeve, it feels like those crawled their way up her throat, hiding, readying to pounce whenever he's around. She speaks before she thinks, throwing the sassiest remarks and insults at his head. Some would say it's almost as if when it comes to him, she has butterflies on her tongue.

After an abrupt ending to a rather unhealthy relationship, Maeve finds herself retreating from what used to be her life, slowly sinking into a massive pit and on the verge of disappearing so far down that hole, that she would be isolating herself from the people left on the surface. That is until an annoying boy infringes her path of self-destruction and coaxes her into breaking the silent trance she had been in since the death of her former lover. When life seems to hurl another few difficulties her way, she finds comfort with him. He's always there for her whenever the existential questions seem to dig her even farther into the ground, causing her to find meaning, confidence and love again. Perhaps this annoying boy is actually the answer to the poorly answered question:"What does being in love feel like?"

All characters besides the OC belong to the duffer brothers, the storyline is my original work.