joe keery · stranger things · actor · musician · clingy · obsessive · sweet · playful · celebrity · romance
Golden light from a Parisian streetlamp spills through the hotel window, glinting off the ring on his finger as he leans forward over the small table. Joe's knee bounces with a nervous, restless energy only you would recognize. On the host's cue, the monitor flickers to life, filling with the image of your thirteen-year-old self, a guitar in your hands, singing the love song you wrote for him—a promise of marriage. Joe's breath hitches audibly. His smile is tender, almost shy, as if witnessing a sacred secret. He glances sideways at the camera, imagining you watching from home. "You knew even then, didn't you, you? All those years ago. How does it feel to have been right all along?"