#Tommy and Carol have been having sex since 7th grade

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At least s4 didn't try to convince us that Hawkins has an airport

[rybonucleic-ket]

I think the st fandom has some really, really weird purity, moral high horse culture happening. like. I mean, every steddie fic is either soft parenting of the party or the kinkiest sex anyone has ever had in Hawkins, Indiana. but if you so much as metion that underage sex is in fact, a thing, you're about to get cancelled, you're disgusting and morally violating. and yes! absolutely, don't be creepy or fetishizing about minors. that does not make denying any impure thought in the minds of teenagers an expression of morality. but there are people who think it's immoral to mention any desire between characters, there are some who think characters making out is morally condemnable. the weird part isn't that in itself, I've seen plenty of fandoms with a hyperfixation on insisting teenagers in high school are all the purest of virgins because underage isn't even plausible or whatever. the weird thing is that st literally references characters having underage sex in the show on multiple occasions. stancy, jancy, barb said tommy n carol had been having sex since 7th grade, steve talks about how much he got laid in high school relatively frequently...it's genuinely bizarre how adamant people are that underage is implausible and immoral. like obv fetishizing kids is bad. I'm not encouraging writing smut about minors or smth. but people are seriously on some weird moral high horse where any mention of underage makes you a monster. which, first off, have you ever been to a high school? but even if you were honestly unaware that most people lose their virginity in high school, it's in the show????? it's fine for you to be uncomfortable with desire between characters! it's not fine for you to play god and decide that because that makes you uncomfortable, any mention of it is immoral and fetishizing! before you throw around the word fetishizing, know what it means! to fetishize a person is to sexually objectify them on account of a particular trait. therefore, acknowledging that teenagers are not pure entities is not fetishizing unless someone's getting off on the fact that they're minors. underage characters making out and being less than pure is not fetishizing. don't fetishize minors, don't accuse people of fetishizing minors for mentioning a non-fetishizing real world phenomenon that's also in the show. thank you.

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A Stranger Things Fanfic

Chapter Two- Part Two

   Phina sits awkwardly in the back seat of Barb's car. Not wanting to be there at all. They drove towards Steve's house, the houses in the area becoming bigger and more separated. They were in the rich side of Hawkins, where people like the oh so lovely Harrington's lived.

   "Barb, pull over," Nancy suddenly says.

   "What?" Barb asks.

   "Pull over," Nancy repeats.

   Barb does what she's told and parks the car on the side of the road, "What are we doing here, his house it three blocks away."

   Phina sits forward so she's apart of the conversation, "Yeah, if I'm gonna be dragged here, I at least want to drive all the way there."

   "We can't park in the driveway," Nancy says.

   Phina rolls her eyes as Barb says, "are you serious?"

   "This is so stupid, I'm just gonna drop you off," Barb says.

   "Barb, come on. You promised that you'd go, you're coming, we're gonna have a great time," Nancy said.

   "He just wants to get in your pants," Barb exclaimed.

   "No he doesn't," Nancy smiled.

   "Yeah he does Nance," Phina piped in, "that's literally all he wants. Like, legitimately all he wants."

   "He invited you to his house, his parents are not home, come on you are not this stupid," Barb adds.

   "Tommy H and Carol are going to be there," Nancy tries to reason.

   "Tommy and Carol have been having sex since 7th grade," Barb says.

   "Yeah, it'll probably be like a big orgy, which I do not want to be a part or even a witness of," Phina agrees with Barb, adding in a little gag for emphasis.

   Nancy scoffs, "gross."

   "I'm serious," Barb says.

   "All right well, you guys can be like my guardians," Nancy smiles at them, starting to take her shirt off, "all right. Make sure I don't get drunk and do anything stupid."

   Nancy completely takes her shirt off and Barb looks at her, "is that a new bra?"

   Nancy looks at Barb, then Phina, before looking back down, "no."

   "Liar," Phina laughs, she knew for a fact it was, because Phina had been there when she bought it.

   "Shut up," Nancy laughs back and turns around to playfully hit her sister.

   The three girls stand at Steve's doorway and Nancy rings the bell. Barb shuffles nervously for a few seconds which causes Nancy to look at her.

   "Barb, chill."

   "I'm chill," Barb says quietly.

   "I'm not, I don't want to be here," Phina snorts.

   The doors open at that moment, and Steve looks at all of them, his eyes meeting Phina's. Her eyes were already lit with up like fire, and he didn't know why that made him want to squirm.

   "Hello ladies," he smirks, trying to put on his I don't care attitude.

   "Hello asshole," Phina smirks back before pushing past him and into his house.

   "Phina!" Nancy shrieks.

   "No no Nance. I probably deserved that," Steve laughs.

   "Damn straight," Phina mumbles.

   Steve leads the girls out to his backyard, which has a steaming pool in it. Phina quickly finds a chair and sits in it trying to avoid Tommy and Carol. Barb copies her, looking extremely uncomfortable. Tommy grabs Carol and pretends he was going to throw her into the pool. She lets out a high pitched scream.

   Tommy lifts her up and counts, "one, two three!"

   "You're such an asshole!" Carol shrieks at Tommy.

   Steve suddenly stands up with a beer, shotgunning the entire thing. Phina glared at the back of his head the whole time, silently calling him every nasty word she could think of. He pretends like he doesn't feel the heat of her gaze on him and smirks.

   He falls down into a lounging chair and Nancy smiles at him, "is that supposed to impress me?"

   "You're not," he asks, as cocky as ever.

   Nancy smiles, "you are a cliche, you do realize that?"

   "You are a cliche, with what. Your grades, and your band practice," he fires back, lightning a cigarette.

   Nancy laughs, "so not in band."

   "Ok, party girl, why don't you just show us how it's done then," he says, handing her the knife.

   Phina rolls her eyes as Nancy agrees. She knew her sister wanted to impress Steve, and that clouded any and all reason that she had. Her sister had only ever had a glass of champagne on New Years, if she thought she could keep up with Steve, and his little cronies, she was way out of her league.

   "You gotta make a little hole, right at the bottom," Steve said.

   "I got it," Nancy said, proud of herself.

   "Yeah, she's smart, you douche," Tommy laughed and crushed a beer can on his forehead, and throwing it at the ground.

And you're definitely not, Phina thought to herself in answer.

   Nancy made the hole and started to drink, Steve started chanting, "chug, chug, chug."

   Tommy and Carol joined in, their voice growing louder and louder, making Phina glare at them. She had been glaring a lot that night, she wouldn't be surprised if she got stuck like that.

   Nancy finished drinking and dropped the can, taking a bow. Phina, for the tenth time since she got here, rolled her eyes, again, she thought she'd get stuck like that. Steve saw her do this and got an idea, one that he surely thought would put her in her place.

   "What, think you can do better, red?"

   Phina glared at him, "I know I could."

   "Then do it," Steve challenged her, the tone of his voice striking her ego.

   Phina's eyes were an emerald fire, burning Steve as they searched his own eyes. Phina stood up quickly and grabbed the beer and knife, she'd done this before, multiple times actually, the first time being at a party she snuck away to a few summers ago. Her and Jonathan had gotten into a fight that night, so she wanted to take her anger out. She went to the party to get wasted and get in a fight, both of which she'd exceeded in doing.

   She made the hole in the can and started to drink, the bitter liquid sliding across her tongue. Everyone was silent as she drank, tension building in the air. She finished faster the both Nancy and Steve.

   Everyone was quiet as she threw the beer down, and bowed to Steve mockingly, a vicious smirk on her lips, "told you."

   Steve watched her closely, almost as if he was trying to read her. He couldn't, no, she surrounded her self in a shield of vicious confidence that irked Steve. Her ego matched his and they were a nuclear bomb just waiting to go off whenever they were near each other.

   Phina scowled at him, not liking the way he tried to see past her walls. She had spent years building them up, and she was not about to let some stupid jock get past them.

   Nancy then stepped in, trying to diffuse the tension in the air, "Barb do you want to try."

   "No, no I don't want to, thanks," Barb tried to say.

   Phina broke eye contact with Steve when she heard the uncomfortable tone in Barb's voice. Her eyes softened, the fire dying out.

   "Come on," Nancy said.

   "Nance, I didn't want to," Barb pleaded.

   Phina shook her head at Nancy, "she doesn't want to Nance, leave her alone."

   "Come on, its fun," Nancy ignored Phina, grabbing the knife from her sister's hand.

   "Nance," Barb pleaded again.

   Nancy bent over, grabbing a beer from and put the beer and knife in Barb's hand, "just give it a shot."

   Barb stood up reluctantly, "ok."

   Phina silently cursed Nancy and looked at Barb worriedly. Barb was definitely not the type of girl to do things like this, and Phina was angry at her sister for not caring about her best friends feelings.

   Barb put the knife to the beer, mumbling slightly. She pressed the knife down and it slid, cutting her thumb.

   "Are you ok," Nancy asked.

   Phina walked over to help, "Barb!"

   "I'm fine."

   "You're bleeding," Nancy said, trying to grab Barb's hand.

   "I'm fine," Barb said sternly, she turns towards Steve, "where's your bathroom?"

   He stands up and awkwardly gives her directions to the bathroom, Barb leaves and disappears into the house. It's quiet for a moment, before Tommy decides to push Carol into the pool. She starts yelling at him, but he dives in after her, silencing her with the giant splash of water.

   Steve pushes Nancy in and turns towards Phina. She scowls at him, which he answers with an infuriating smirk.

   "You push me in, I'll cut off all your hair," is all she says.

   "It'll grow back," he shrugs and hauls her over his shoulder, jumping into the pool.

   Phina's head comes out of the water and she gasps for air. She turns around to yell at Steve, but he tackles her back underwater. He holds her around her waist, keeping her below the water. Her skin grows hot beneath his touch, her anger like a fire in her veins. The heat radiating off of her was actually uncomfortably warm, unnatural. He loosens his arms, just enough for her to escape.

   Phina pushes him away and resurfaces, finding her sister laughing at her. Steve comes out up and she turns to him, absolutely livid.

   "I'm going to kill you," she shouts.

   "Come at me then red," he jokes, already pushing the feel of her warm skin beneath his hands from his mind.

   He goes over to Nancy, still smirking at Phina until he pulls Nancy into his arms. They turn away from Phina and she angerly gets out of the pool. No one chooses to care.

   "Nancy, I'm going home, don't worry I'll still cover for you," Phina says, even though Nancy doesn't even notice. She grabs a towel and Storms towards the gate, again, no one chooses to notice.

   Steve does notice though. He watches as she leaves through the back gate, glancing behind her one last time. Their eyes meet and she glares at him before walking through the gate and slamming it harshly.

   Steve winces a little. He was used to her anger, he had been a victim of it ever since their sixth grade year when Carol had gone a little to far while bullying Phina, but this was different. His heart actually stuttered slightly when she glared at him, feeling guilty for making her upset. Why? He had no clue, none whatsoever.

   Phina walks down the road, kicking a rock as she goes. She shivers as the cold sets in, her entire body shaking. She glances down at her tattoo and shakes her head, not here, she thinks to herself. Phina lets her eyes travel, looking for somewhere secure.

   Her eyes find an opening into the thick trees of the forest, where she knew a shortcut to her house was at, where she knew no one would see her. Once she'd walked far into the dense forest, she closed her eyes and focused.

   Jonathan walked back to his car, his camera hanging from his neck, as he looked back into the forest one last time, hoping to see Will, he saw a golden light shining deep in the heart of the forest. It shinned brightly for a few moments, before disappearing all together.

   Jonathan turned towards his car, and convinced himself it wasn't real.

   On the other side of her short cut, Phina emerged from the forest, completely dry.

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