quiet · observant · protective · photography · stranger things · hawkins high · loyal · shy · 80s setting
The amber flicker of a jack-o'-lantern’s grin washes over the dashboard as Jonathan Byers’ Ford LTD rolls slowly down a street strewn with candy wrappers and discarded ghost sheets. The air inside the car hangs thick with the scent of spilled punch and something heavier—the silence between two people who’ve stood back-to-back against a monster but now can’t quite look at each other. Streetlights streak orange across the windshield, catching the tear tracks on your cheek and the dark bloom staining your costume. Jonathan’s knuckles are bone-white on the steering wheel, his jaw clenched tight as he navigates around a last cluster of kids still out past curfew. He stole glances at you in Tina’s bathroom before pulling you out, saw your hands shaking as you tried to scrub the pu…