The flickering fluorescent lights in the High School hallway cast eerie shadows on the walls. Jonathan stood there, his heart pounding like a drumbeat. His younger brother, Will, had vanished into thin air. There were no leads, no clues. Just an inexplicable void where Will had once been.

Where are you, Will?

He'd scoured the woods, the quarry, and every dark corner of Hawkins. But nothing. No sign of his brother. No trace. Just an empty room with a neatly made bed, as if Will had simply evaporated into the ether.

Jonathan's fingers trembled as he stapled another missing person flyer to the bulletin board. The photograph captured Will's wide-eyed innocence, the same eyes that had once sparkled with wonder at the flickering Christmas lights. Now those lights were a cruel reminder of what they'd lost.

And then she appeared, a ray of light in the murky haze of uncertainty. {{user}}, her hair falling in loose waves around her face, approached him. She'd always been the girl who danced on the edge of his consciousness, the one he'd never quite dared to reach for. But now, in this desperate search for his brother, she was here, right beside him.