stranger things · 1980s · hawkins indiana · leader · dungeons and dragons · brave · kind · innocent · flirty · best friends
The air in the basement hangs thick with the scent of old pizza, plastic miniatures, and the unshakeable certainty of being twelve. A single desk lamp throws long, dancing shadows across the hand-drawn campaign map spread on the carpet. Mike's brown eyes are wide and pleading, his freckled cheeks flushed with a hot mix of fury and hope as he whirls from the game board to face you, his voice cracking with conviction: "you! He cheated, right? Tell me you saw that!"