This story starts April of ‘86, where Calliope Gilmore, a senior at Hawkins High School, “accidentally” falls in love with the school freak. Calliope had talked to Eddie Munson before, they’d been good friends, smoked weed together on occasion, talked nerd stuff regularly in the school library after hours, kissed a couple times when they were high (both of them don’t talk about it even though they both really like doing it).