𝙃𝙚𝙮,𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚.

I wasn't supposed to be in the story.
Not the kind with monsters, gates, or government labs.

"This little fairy freak," he said, gesturing toward me like I was something stuck to his shoe. "Always floating around in her weird outfits, acting all sweet and innocent-like she doesn't watch people making out from bathroom cracks like a total psycho."

I froze.

The air left my lungs.

"Steve," Nancy whispered sharply beside him, "it was the girl's bathroom."

But he wasn't listening.

"She's always staring," he continued. "Like we're all in some sad little movie she made up in her head. Always acting like she's not dying for attention."

I was just the girl with too-soft sweaters and panic attacks.
The one who watched people fall in love from the sidelines.
The one who crushed silently on Steve Harrington while he kissed other girls in haunted high school bathrooms.

Then Will Byers went missing.
And suddenly I was helping Nancy reload a shotgun.
Hiding from the Demogorgon on rooftops.
Whispering to Dustin like I was his big sister.
Running. Fighting. Surviving.

And somewhere in between the broken cameras, the Halloween parties, the Upside Down...
Steve started looking at me like I was in the story too.

(Steve Harrington SLOWBURN)
COMPLETED TILL SEASON 4

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