Dustin catches Steve kissing someone he definitely wasn’t supposed to see and, naturally, sends the proof straight to the group chat. The problem? It takes everyone a minute to realise the other person in the photo is you — wearing Steve’s shirt, in Steve’s house, and very much not acting like someone who supposedly can’t stand him. What follows is chaos, accusations, terrible detective work, and a secret relationship falling apart in real time through texts.
Nancy Wheeler wants Steve Harrington back. And maybe the worst part is that no one thinks that’s a problem—not when she’s Nancy, and you’re just you. She’s soft where you’re sharp, easy where you’re difficult, and she already has all the history you can’t compete with. If Steve loved her first, how are you supposed to believe he won’t choose her again?
Steve Harrington climbed through the wrong window and ruined your life. He was drunk, pathetic, and absolutely convinced you were Nancy as he climbed into your bed and refused to leave. It should’ve been one humiliating mistake. Instead, it becomes the start of something much messier.
You came back from summer looking like trouble. After months away, You return to Hawkins hotter, and suddenly impossible for the whole school to ignore. Popular kids want your attention, people keep flirting, and everyone seems to forget one very important thing: you already have a boyfriend. Mike Wheeler loved you before the glow up. Now he just has to believe you still loves him after it.
You came back to Hawkins with no apology, no explanation, and one little brother who hates you for leaving. Dustin Henderson thinks you ruined his life. The Party thinks he’s right. But Steve Harrington keeps looking at you like maybe the worst thing you ever did wasn’t the whole story.
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.
Steve Harrington was once your best friend—until popularity convinced him to leave you behind. Years later, you has reinvented yourself into someone Hawkins cannot ignore, and Steve cannot stop watching. When the horrors beneath their small town force them back together, old resentment, buried feelings and broken childhood promises become impossible to avoid.
Mike Wheeler only meant to send the homework. Unfortunately, the Party notices the photobooth strip in the background — the one where he’s kissing you, Hawkins High’s popular kid and his supposed enemy. Now the group chat is exploding, Dustin is investigating, Max is making it worse on purpose, and Mike is one text away from changing his name and fleeing the state.
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.
When Will Byers disappears, your perfect life disappears with him. Your friends abandon you, Hawkins turns your family into a joke, and grief makes you push away everyone who tries to help. Everyone except Steve Harrington—the one person stubborn enough to stay.
Your twin Billy Hargrove has always been the only person you could trust. Then Steve Harrington starts melting the ice around your heart—and loving your brother’s enemy begins to feel dangerously close to betrayal.
As far as everyone knew, you hated him. Loudly. Publicly. Frequently. But when you get hurt and Steve comes running in like his whole world is bleeding out on the floor, the truth comes out fast. Turns out hatred looks a lot like love when nobody’s paying attention.
Nancy likes Steve, so you decide to help her get closer to him. But every party, class project, and carefully planned moment only makes one thing clearer: Steve Harrington is already looking at you.
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.
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 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.
Steve Harrington has been keeping monsters from you. You knew he was hiding something — the bruises, the disappearances, the whispered conversations with kids who looked way too serious for their age. But when the thing he’s been running from heads straight for your house, you’re dragged into the truth at the worst possible moment. Now the secrets are out, the monsters are real, and loving Steve might be the most dangerous part of all.
Steve Harrington was not built for matchmaking, but unfortunately, neither were you. When you and Steve team up to push Will Byers and Mike Wheeler into finally admitting they’re in love, the plan is simple: meddle, manipulate a few seating arrangements, and survive the awkwardness. The problem? Somewhere between fake-casual movie nights and suspiciously convenient double dates, you and Steve start becoming a little too good at playing couple yourselves.
Steve Harrington needs your help getting a girlfriend. More specifically, he needs your help getting your best friend, Nancy Wheeler. At least, that’s what he tells you. Because apparently asking you to spend time with him like a normal person was far too embarrassing.
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.
You overhear Nancy Wheeler accusing Steve of being in love with you. Now every look, every touch, every stupid little excuse he makes to be near you feels impossible to ignore. The worst part? Nancy might be right. And Steve might be the last person brave enough to admit it.
Robin secretly adds you to the Party’s group chat right before everyone starts roasting Steve for being painfully obsessed with you. Steve doesn’t know you’re there. So he keeps texting. Steve Harrington is down bad, and unfortunately, the group chat has receipts.
Hiding Eddie Munson in your basement was supposed to be temporary. You know about the Upside Down, so when Hawkins decides Eddie is a murderer, you know better than to believe it. The problem is, the Party chooses your house as his hiding place — and Eddie Munson is loud, dramatic, terrified, and apparently incapable of not flirting with you. He calls you royalty. You call him annoying. But the longer he stays, the harder it becomes to pretend he is just a problem you got stuck with.
Billy cheated. So you kissed his worst enemy. Steve Harrington was supposed to be revenge — nothing more. But now Billy wants you back, Steve keeps acting like he cares, and the fake relationship is starting to feel dangerously real.
