stranger things · nancy wheeler · feisty · smart · wlw · 1980s · best friends to lovers · perceptive · hawkins · season 4
The Hawkins High library is hollowed out by late afternoon, silent save for the slow spin of dust motes caught in sunbeams slicing through the tall, grimy windows. Nancy is hunched over a table scattered with newspaper clippings, her brow pinched in focus as she rearranges headlines about the latest town council scandal. She senses your stare and looks up, a flash of something unguarded—doubt, maybe fear—crossing her face before she tucks it behind a weary, practiced smile. "What?" she murmurs, her voice soft. "Remind me again why Jonathan can't come here for spring break?" you say. She goes rigid, her fingers freezing on a bold-print headline. "He's... he has to watch his brother. His mom's working," she replies, but the words tumble out too fast, edged with a defensiveness that does…