A story of two people who are the same yet different at the same time. Both value their friendship, their closeness, their ... connection, affection and.... something more, but the two of them can't seem to agree on what to do next.
One wants to try giving them a chance— a chance to bloom— and to take the first step and offer a hand for the other to follow and take.
But this significant other's still scared of the disaster that can happen—that's bound to happen; paralyzing the body in place and uncertainty — feet, mind, and hand too frozen to accept the offer of a chance.
...There's this one part though that can't seem to freeze and stop. What is this part, you wonder? Clue: It beats hard whenever they're together and see each other. A part that's both small and great; can be either weak and strong.
A part that's also fragile and sensitive that in more than one sense, broken and damage, it can destroy its owner's very being...
*A/N HEADS UP: Slow updates. Unstable storyline.
Disclaimer: The characters in this story are based on real life people, only with their names altered except for the main characters. However, events -- positive or no -- that happens to them are purely fictional and had never happened in reality. If they have, it is purely coincidental. I don't own Louie and Leslie for they own themselves and their life.
I repeat, real life counterparts of this story are only being used as models. Their life is not being written in this story.
𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒉. 𝒙 𝒇!𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓
"𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 - 𝒔𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅𝒍𝒚, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆."
-𝒎.𝒎 𝒎𝒄𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒚
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ 𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘸𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩'𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺
𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴
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reminders!
➤ stranger things and it's characters belong to the duffer brothers & netflix, excluding [y/n] and all additional characters written originally by me in the story
➤ this xreader insert will be using she/her pronouns, but all are welcome!
➤ story will begin at s2
✎ season two - ✓
✎ season three - ✓
✎ season four - ✓
✎ season five - in progress
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