Something Like Home

Hawkins, Indiana isn't kind to girls like Tessa Hale.

The kind people whisper about.

Too quiet. Too sharp around the edges. Too weird. Too quick to throw a punch when someone says the wrong thing. The kind of girl teachers call "troubled" and classmates mutter under their breath about.

Tessa doesn't care.

Or at least, that's what she tells herself.

Between a home she hates returning to, a reputation she never asked for, and a future she can't quite imagine for herself, surviving Hawkins feels hard enough without monsters.

But when Will Byers disappears, the fragile little world Tessa has built around herself begins to crack. Pulled deeper into the strange and terrifying things happening in Hawkins alongside Jonathan Byers - her oldest friend and the closest thing she has to family - Tessa finds herself tangled in something much bigger than rumors and small-town cruelty.

And then there's Steve Harrington.

The guy who humiliated her in front of the whole school.

Only somewhere between monsters, broken friendships, stupid arguments, and surviving things neither of them should survive, Steve starts becoming something dangerous:

Someone who stays.

*This is a moodier slow burn, but SO worth it*

Season One...completed
Season Two...ongoing
Season Three...not started
Season Four...not started
Season Five...not started