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When Jonathan Byers goes missing, Hawkins turns fear into rumors and grief into gossip. Steve Harrington is trying not to be the kind of person who feeds it. He’s also trying to get Nancy Wheeler to look at him like he’s changed.
So when Nancy mentions Jonathan, Steve makes a choice he can’t take back: he tells her they were friends.
It should’ve been a harmless lie—something vague, something that would fade the moment Jonathan came home.But Joyce Byers finds a stack of photographs Jonathan took of Steve, and suddenly the lie stops being a crush-driven flex and turns into a lifeline Joyce clings to with both hands. With Robin Buckley helping Steve keep his story straight and Nancy pulling them into a frantic investigation, the three of them become an unlikely detective team chasing leads the police ignore.
The deeper Steve digs, the less he cares about impressing Nancy… and the more he can’t stop thinking about Jonathan—about the boy behind the camera, the quiet moments Steve never noticed, and the dangerous person Jonathan might be hiding from.
A Stonathan fic inspired by Dear Evan Hansen.