Moon5549
After everything, Will Byers thought staying in Hawkins would make things easier. Familiar town, familiar people. But when his family moves to California without him and he's left living with Dustin and his mom, nothing feels the same anymore.
Especially not Mike.
As freshman year begins, Mike Wheeler is suddenly someone else;popular, distant, and standing beside the same people who make Will feel like the "Zombie Boy". What used to be easy between them turns complicated, messy, and harder to hold onto.
Then Finney Blake shows up. New in town, unafraid to speak up, and somehow the only person who really sees Will.
What starts as something simple quickly turns into something deeper;and a whole lot more complicated. Because the more Will starts to move on, the more Mike starts to care.
And what follows isn't simple. It's messy, emotional, and toxic in all the ways that make it impossible to look away; it's a roller coaster of jealousy, hurt, and feelings that refuse to stay buried.
And by the time any of them realize what they really want...
it might already be too late.