ꜱᴛʀᴀɴɢᴇʀ ᴛʜɪɴɢꜱ

If someone told me that my whole life would be shaped by a missing kid, a girl with powers, and a town that kept almost ending, I would've laughed. Back then, all I cared about was surviving school, avoiding drama, and pretending I didn't have a crush on Mike Wheeler.

But Hawkins had other plans.

Every year something new went wrong monsters, portals, secrets, lies and somehow I was always standing right beside the same people. The same boys who dragged me into the chaos. The same girl who broke science. And the same boy whose stupid brown eyes I could never look away from, no matter how much I tried.

Mike and I were never simple. We didn't just fall in love. We grew into it. Piece by piece. Fight by fight. Year by , the screaming nights, the losses, the running, the almost-dying something changed. Slowly. Quietly. Permanently.

Maybe we were too young. Maybe the world was too dangerous. Maybe the timing was always wrong.

But somehow, he always found his way back to me.

This isn't just the story of Hawkins.

It's the story of how everything around us fell apart...

while he and I were trying to figure out what we were.