Six kids. One rental van. One very secret boyfriend. Driving the Party to California for a science trip sounded bad enough before Steve Harrington started acting like keeping your relationship hidden was a personal challenge. Now you’re stuck on a cross-country road trip with six nosy thirteen-year-olds, too many motel rooms, zero privacy, and a boyfriend who keeps looking at you like he wants to get caught.
Steve Harrington shows up at your door drunk enough to ruin both of your lives—in the most honest way possible. He came to confess, not realizing you’re babysitting the Party, and now his messy, explicit truth is spilling out in front of an audience that will never let you forget it. One night, one doorstep, and the secret you’ve both been choking down finally snaps into the open.
You ran from Hawkins without a word. Three years after defeating Vecna, you come back to the town you still hate to face the people you never stopped loving—including Steve Harrington, the boyfriend you left behind. But apologies don’t erase abandonment, and some wounds don’t heal just because you finally came home.
You’re Hopper’s kid. Steve Harrington is your secret. The Upside Down is unforgiving. After a fight with your dad, you split from the group with Dustin and Mike—and take a life-threatening hit protecting them. While Hopper is trapped elsewhere with El, Steve breaks every rule to find you. Saving you changes everything… especially for the man who never wanted him near you in the first place.
You almost die in the Upside Down—because you didn’t listen. When Steve drags you back from the brink, the relief in his eyes turns sharp, ugly, and loud. What starts as a fight about rules and recklessness becomes something rawer: fear, guilt, and the kind of truth neither of you can afford to say down there. The monsters aren’t the only thing hunting you… because Steve’s terrified he’s already losing you.
You’re a famous singer. He’s a rock star. The world sees the lights, the crowds, the chaos. They don’t see you at the side of the stage, heart in your throat, watching him fall apart beautifully under the spotlight. You and Joe have been in love for three years. Quietly. Carefully. Rare posts. Rarer glimpses. And now you’re on tour with him, living in dressing rooms, tour buses, and stolen moments in the dark. The fans are watching. The cameras are always on. And he still runs to you like nothin
Dating Steve Harrington should not require a schedule, a code word, and emergency evacuation routes. But Dustin Henderson keeps treating your boyfriend like his boyfriend—interrupting dates, hijacking movie nights, and showing up the second you and Steve get within kissing distance. Steve tries to set boundaries (he fails), you try to be patient (you fail), and Dustin remains loudly, lovingly unstoppable. Welcome to the most ridiculous love triangle in Hawkins.
Joe Keery and Y/N have been dating since Stranger Things season three, and the internet knows… even if they pretend it doesn’t. During a group interview with Charlie Heaton, Natalia Dyer and Maya Hawke, their carefully maintained “low-key” relationship immediately unravels into soft smiles, inside jokes, and painfully obvious heart eyes.
He’s sweet like sugar—until he’s not. Working Scoops Ahoy with Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley is supposed to be the safest kind of chaos: bad uniforms, worse customers, endless sugar. But your relationship with Billy Hargrove is a different kind of storm—when it’s good, it’s dizzyingly sweet, and when it’s bad, it leaves you making excuses you don’t fully believe anymore. Steve hates it. Robin hates it. And the longer you insist Billy’s “just struggling,” the more Steve becomes the stea
Billy Hargrove didn’t die at Starcourt—and that’s where the real trouble starts. You helped him survive, helped him heal, and somewhere in the wreckage you fell into a secret relationship you’re not sure Hawkins would forgive. Now Billy wants to change, but wanting is the easy part. The hard part is facing the people he hurt—your friends, the Party—and saying the apologies he’s spent his whole life swallowing. Redemption isn’t instant. It’s messy, humiliating, and painfully slow… especially when
Steve Harrington swore it was “just a month”—which is the first lie California ever heard from him. After the Upside Down is finally over, Hawkins feels too small, too haunted, too full of places that remember what happened. So you say yes when Steve suggests an escape: a road trip to California and a tiny beach house by the ocean for the summer. No monsters. No emergencies. No babysitting. Just sleep, salt air, and a break you both earned the hard way. You’re not dating. You keep telling yourse
When a stranger named Joe texts you by accident, you expect a quick apology and a dead conversation. Instead, you get late-night jokes, unexpected honesty, and a connection that starts feeling dangerously real. There’s just one catch: Joe isn’t telling you who he is… and when you finally meet, you realise the name he gave you was only the safest part of the truth.
He dies twice—first when something takes him, and then when he saves you anyway. You’ve been dating Billy Hargrove in secret all summer, clinging to stolen moments while he grows colder, stranger… almost inhuman. When Hawkins turns into a war zone and the truth crawls out of the dark, you’re forced to watch from a balcony as Billy chooses empathy over the Mind Flayer—and makes one last, brutal sacrifice to protect Eleven. After the monster falls, the secret doesn’t matter anymore. Only the after
You can’t hate someone this much without it turning into something else. Years of on-set tension with Joe Keery should’ve stayed professional—until one drunken night breaks the rules and neither of you bothers to fix them. Secret hookups. Sharper fights. Softer moments you don’t know what to do with. And a slow, terrifying realisation: the feelings are real… and you might be the first one to blink.
Steve Harrington was your first best friend, your first almost-love, and the first person to leave you behind. Now he’s Hawkins High golden boy, dating Nancy Wheeler, and acting like the two of you were never once everything to each other. You hate this town for a lot of reasons, but mostly, you hate Steve Harrington for becoming someone who could forget you.
You finally find out why Steve keeps dodging “meeting his friends”—because his friends are a pack of 13-year-olds who just broke into his house like they pay rent. When Dustin Henderson and the Party storm Steve’s bedroom and catch you there, it’s not a hello… it’s an interrogation. Steve panics, the kids judge, and you realise dating Steve Harrington means getting approved by the world’s most feral middle-school council.
Hopper is dead, and suddenly Eleven is yours. When El refuses to leave with Joyce after Starcourt and chooses to stay with you instead, grief becomes responsibility overnight. You’re still just a kid trying to survive the loss of your dad, but now you have to become something more — sibling , guardian, safe place. With Steve at your side and El depending on you, you’re left trying to build a family out of heartbreak.
You told yourself letting Steve go was the mature choice. Now you have to survive watching him every day like it didn’t ruin you. In the middle of the Crawls, with Vecna still out there and Hawkins balanced on a knife-edge, breaking up with Steve doesn’t mean escaping him. It just means seeing him bloodied, exhausted, and heartbreakingly familiar from across every room—close to Robin, close to Nancy, and further from you than ever.
Time loop au - You break Steve Harrington’s heart—and then the day starts over. Breaking up with him was supposed to be the right thing to do, even if it shattered you too. But when the universe traps you in a time loop and forces you to live the same day again and again, you have to relive losing Steve over and over until grief, guilt, and love become impossible to separate.
You wake up in Steve Harrington’s bed—and your hatred has a hangover. One blackout night leaves you with missing memories, bruised pride, and the worst possible witness: the former King of Hawkins High himself. You call it a mistake. Steve calls it… nothing. But in a town this small (and with Steve this persistent), “nothing” starts looking a lot like unfinished business.
Everyone in Hawkins thinks you and Steve Harrington can’t stand each other. Which is perfect—because if Dustin Henderson finds out you’re secretly dating his best friend, he’ll end you both in a single, furious monologue. So you and Steve commit to the act: public enemies, private everything… until the “hate” starts getting a little too convincing, and Dustin starts paying attention.
He used to feel like home. Then college happens, and for the first time since the Upside Down, you and Steve Harrington are building lives that don’t revolve around each other. Visiting him is supposed to be easy—just a weekend, just your boyfriend, just the two of you like always. Except it’s not. Because somewhere between distance, new routines, and all the little parts of his life you weren’t there for, you’re forced to face the fact that loving someone isn’t the same as knowing them.
College finally hands you the attention you never got in Hawkins, and somehow it comes with Steve Harrington attached. It starts as a messy, unspoken thing that only exists at parties—hands on hips, mouths in dark hallways, no texts the next day. But King Steve doesn’t keep choosing the same person unless it’s already more than casual… and you’re about to find out what happens when the campus player catches feelings for the one “loser” he can’t stop looking for.
He was just a boy at your bar before he became the reason your whole life changed. Six months after meeting him at the bar where you work, your quiet, new relationship is dragged into the spotlight when the internet discovers you exist. Suddenly, strangers have opinions, the media won’t let go, and the life you knew starts slipping out of your hands. But when it’s just you and Joe, it still feels worth it—right up until love starts asking for more than you know how to give.