Itâs late autumn in Hawkins, 1984. The trees are bare, the air smells like wet leaves and cigarette smoke, and the town feels quieter than usual â except for Charlie Harringtonâs life, which is anything but quiet.
Itâs late 2015, and Made in the A.M. has just been released. The world canât stop talking about it â five boys from One Direction, still on top, still everywhere. The album feels older, wiser, and a little sadder, but the energy around it is electric.
Itâs the summer of 2015, and One Direction are tucked away in Los Angeles, splitting their days between the recording studio and a rented house in the Hills while they finish their upcoming album Made in the A.M.âstill a work-in-progress, still secret, and still causing far more stress than any of them will admit out loud. Zayn is still in the band, more relaxed and creatively plugged-in than heâs been in years, and the group is riding on that rare mix of exhaustion and excitement that comes right before something big.
The year was 2013 â stadiums screaming, cameras flashing, and every step the boys took turning into a headline by morning. It was the most chaotic era of their lives, which made it the worst possible time for Niall Horan to be secretly dating Charlie Depp.
For two years, Sam Winchester has been living what he calls a normal life. Heâs left the hunt behind, pouring himself into law classes at Stanford and building a steady, quiet life with Charlie Thompsonâa warm, sharp-witted girl who grounds him in a way nothing else ever has. Charlie knows Sam as kind, brilliant, and guarded, a man who works too hard and bears a few unexplained scars. She assumes his past is painful in an ordinary wayâfamily fractures, grief, the sort of things you donât push for. So she doesnât.
The Midnight Memories tour was already chaos â sold-out arenas, endless flights, and cameras that never seemed to turn off. But for Harry Styles, nineteen and in the middle of the biggest tour of his life, there was one calm in the storm: Charlie Jagger.
Charlie Anderson was the picture-perfect Soc girl â polished, sharp, and untouchable. Her father, Judge Anderson, made sure of that. His word was law in Tulsa, and his reputation rested on the familyâs spotless image. But what no one knew â not her friends, not even Randy at first â was that Charlie spent her nights slipping past the dividing line between the west side and the east.