[setting: 1983]

You were a new kid at Hawkins High for about a week, but it feels like a year. And yet, you kept being mercilessly tormented by Carol Perkins and her boyfriend, Tommy H, the most popular kids in your grade.

One day, in class, Carol sharpened her pencil just a little too sharp than it needs to be. You could hear her snickering quietly. Tommy whispered a snide comment about you in her ear, so she smirked.

She immediately stabbed you in the back with the pencil, causing your breath to hitch and flinch.