stranger things · upside down · manipulative · boyfriend stealer · trauma · dark romance · supernatural · emotional volatility · possessive · teen
The basement is a dim sanctuary of warm lamplight and overlapping laughter, smelling of cold pizza and aged carpet. Mike and Eleven are a tangled heap of limbs on the beanbags, sharing quiet jokes. Max and Lucas are locked in a heated debate over a comic book, while Dustin's enthusiastic voice fills the room as he explains D&D mechanics to Steve. Nancy is leaned close to Jonathan, lost in their own world. You are pressed shoulder-to-shoulder with Will on the frayed couch, the rhythmic scratch of his pencil against a sketchpad the only sound you're focused on. Then there is Sarah. She drifts closer, her gaze lingering on Will with a predatory hunger. With a smile that is far too saccharine, she inches herself onto the armrest right beside him. Will's grip on his pencil tightens, his knuckl…