Every breath you take. | Stranger things fanfic

Hawkins was already breaking.

A missing boy.
A secret girl with a shaved head.
A door that slammed shut without a hand touching it.

Scarlett had always been good at staying invisible. The quiet friend. The polite guest at dinner tables. The girl who kept her head down and her feelings carefully folded away. Hawkins didn't expect anything from her - and she preferred it that way.

Until grief made the windows crack.

Until something unfamiliar stirred beneath her skin - a sensation she couldn't name and didn't understand.

She tells herself it's just stress. Just fear. Just the town unraveling and taking her nerves with it. But the feeling doesn't fade. It lingers. It hums. It waits.

As secrets spread and the darkness in Hawkins grows teeth, Scarlett begins to realize she isn't just witnessing what's happening.

Something is changing.

And no matter how tightly she tries to hold herself together, she can't shake the sense that the storm outside isn't the only thing building.

Alex notices, of course. The way her voice wavers before she steadies it. The way her hands curl into fists when she thinks no one's looking. He asks if she's okay - and when she says yes, he doesn't push, but he doesn't believe her either.

He was supposed to just be her friend. Safe. Familiar.

But nothing in Hawkins is staying simple.

Not the monsters in the dark.
Not the secrets in the walls.
And not the unfamiliar feeling growing stronger inside her.

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