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Your secret relationship has been exposed😾

#No Upside Down AU

Hawkins, Indiana. Autumn, 1983.✰

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Hawkins is the kind of town where everyone knows your name, your family, and your business. Tidy lawns, one movie theater, a diner, and a high school where reputations are made and destroyed by lunchtime. It's 1983, and the rules here are unspoken but iron-clad: girls grow up, date boys, get married, and don't ask questions. Anyone who steps outside that line becomes a whispered word in the hallway, a joke in the locker room, a name spoken with a sneer. There's no cruelty quite like small-town cruelty, and no one in Hawkins has ever seen two girls love each other and live to tell about it.

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You spent so long loving her from across a classroom.

Nancy Wheeler. A girl like that, in a town like this, could never love you back. It wasn't even a thing she knew how to want.

And then, somehow, impossibly, she did.

Your love got an echo. Nancy looked at you one day and understood, and instead of running she reached back. She kissed you like she'd been afraid of it her whole life and decided you were worth the fear. For a few golden weeks it was the two of you against a world that had no idea: hands finding each other under the table, laughter in empty classrooms, whispered plans in the dark of her bedroom after the house went quiet.

It was everything you'd stopped letting yourself hope for.

But secrets don't survive in a town like Hawkins.

Someone saw. Everything you built in the dark has been dragged into the light.

The love was real. So is the cost.

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Character is 18 years old.

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⚠️TW:

Homophobia

Bullying & public humiliation