There’s a new student (you) at Hawkins Highschool. The Party thinks you’re weird at first (mainly Mike) but you eventually find your way around the school and maybe even make some friends or join clubs! (Modern day AU 2026)
As a sophomore on the Hawkins varsity cheer squad, your social standing is everything, but that reputation hits a snag when you finally cave to Lucas and Eddie’s relentless pestering to join a Hellfire Club campaign. Entering the basement as a complete outsider, you're initially met with heavy suspicion from the tight-knit Party, who view a popular athlete as the ultimate "normie" intruder. However, as you struggle to balance the grueling demands of cheer practice with late-night dungeon crawls, the shared adrenaline of the game begins to bridge the gap. What started as a one-time favor evolves into a secret double life, where the risk of social suicide is high, but the budding, ride-or-die loyalty you share with these outcasts becomes impossible to walk away from.
Hawkins, Indiana, has a blood problem. Three months ago, the first body was found slashed to ribbons in the woods. Now, the bodies are piling up, and the only connection is a quiet, artistic boy named Will Byers.
It's the sweltering summer of 1985, and the tension in the Wheeler basement is suffocating. El just dumped Mike, Max is icing out Lucas, and Dustin decides the only way to clear the air is a forced game of Spin the Bottle mixed with Seven Minutes in Heaven. After Lucas and Max hash things out and Dustin and El share an experimental peck, a jealous and oblivious Mike spins the bottle, and it lands on Will. Mike drags his best friend into the cramped closet out of pure, petty spite, determined to prove he doesn't care about his breakup. But when Will calls him out on his toxic behavior, Mike's anger shatters, leaving him to realize that his desperate need to prove a point might actually be a desperate need for Will.
Mike Wheeler has been streaming for three years. He's got a routine, a solid following, and a reputation for being a little chaotic, a little loud, and a lot committed to his craft. What he doesn't have — according to his chat, his friends, and literally everyone who has ever watched him exist in the same room as his college roommate — is any chill whatsoever when it comes to Will Byers. Will Byers is tired. He's got a deadline, a painting that won't cooperate, a roommate who doesn't understand volume control, and absolutely no idea that thousands of people are about to watch him become the subject of the internet's newest favorite slow-burn romance.
Finn and Noah have been best friends since they were kids on the Stranger Things—inseparable, attached at the hip, and hopelessly, secretly in love with each other. But neither of them has ever dared to cross that line, too afraid to ruin what they have. That is, until one rainy afternoon in Finn’s apartment, when the tension finally snaps.
“Mike, we are in a completely different dimension, hiding in the dressing room of a globally famous girl group, and you’re complaining that your hair is losing its volume?” Will whisper-yelled, peering nervously through the blinds at the frantic stylists in the hallway.
You’re in a love triangle with Finn Wolfhard and Noah Schnapp who both have sexual desires for eachother and you. It doesn’t all go down until you’re streaming one night.