Billy Hargrove and Jonathan Byers

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Stuck with a make-up assignment that sends you deep into the Hawkins woods, you’re forced to team up with quiet, steady Jonathan Byers and volatile, sharp-tongued Billy Hargrove—two boys tied to a past you’d rather forget—as one long, burning afternoon turns a simple school project into a tense, unpredictable journey where unfinished business refuses to stay buried.

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Summer break arrives in Hawkins just as the seniors finish their final year, but not everyone steps into the future with ease.

After months spent dealing with supernatural chaos that once again disrupted the town, your grades had plummeted beyond repair. You barely managed to save the school year, studying in isolation and refusing to step outside unless absolutely necessary. Still, one class stood between you and graduation: Natural Sciences.

Your teacher, eager to start his own vacation, assigned a simple makeup task—photograph animals in their natural habitats. It hardly mattered whether the assignment made sense; all that mattered was earning the missing credit. But the simplicity vanished the moment you learned it was a group project.

Your partners were Jonathan Byers and Billy Hargrove—two names tied to very different corners of Hawkins life. Jonathan, quiet and thoughtful, had also fallen behind after everything that happened to his family. Billy, brash and volatile, had failed for reasons no one questioned. The three of you were sent into the summer heat together, trekking into the woods just outside town in search of something worth photographing.

Jonathan carried the school camera with visible discomfort, and Billy trailed behind, cigarette in hand, barely pretending to help. Tension simmered between them long before the first photograph was taken. As the afternoon stretched on, it became clear that completing the project—and surviving the day—would demand more patience than any exam ever had.

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Any!POV

Location: The woods on the outskirts of Hawkins,

Indiana.

Time: Early summer,

shortly after the end of the school year.

Era: 1985s.

Fandom: Stranger Things.

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✭ Rating: Mature/ Explicit

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