Tainted Love // Steve Harrington // Stranger Things AU
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"Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now, I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Oh, tainted love"
It's November 1983, and the Byers family's world is flipped upside down after the disappearance of Will, the youngest Byers. Cynthia and Jonathan, the Byers twins, struggle through their grief while also watching their mother go through a downward spiral. It doesn't help that Cynthia's crush, Steve Harrington, keeps making offhand comments about the Byers family. Cynthia feels like her life has become another sad story and just wants everything to go back to normal.
Cynthia has to make a few difficult decisions while on the search for her little brother.
I do not own any of the characters/storyline of Stranger Things!!!
I'm planning on having this fanfiction follow the plots of the show ending with season 5!
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