NEXT TO YOU | st, steve harrington

as a girl, she regularly visited her cousin in a small town called Hawkins, Dustin Henderson was her younger cousin. However, Jennifer herself lived miles away, so it was a couple times a year that her and her parents stayed for a while with Dustin and his mother.

Until one day, Jennifer was sat at home awaiting her parents arrival home from shopping. When she got a knock on the door, a police officer was on the other side. Her parents had died in a car accident.

Jen was left with nothing, no choice but to move into Hawkins with her aunt and cousin. she plastered on a small smile and said she was fine when she arrived, used humour and had to keep the secret of her parents death from Dustin, his mother said it was best.

when headed into school, Jen had no one, one girl.. Nancy wheeler, she knew her briefly, her brother was friends with Dustin, but she helped Jennifer, offering her a hand of friendship and helping her fit in. When Jennifer met her 'asshole' of a boyfriend, it all begins..