Jason Carver

It was 1986 and Jason was the poster boy rich kid. 5 foot 6, short blonde hair, bright blue eyes, a slightly muscular build. He was a senior, 18 years old and the captain of the Hawkins High basketball team. He was always wearing jeans and a white polo and usually his green and white Hawkins High letterman jacket. For most of Jason's life he'd pushed down and ignored his sexuality, denied it. His parents had always taught him that queers were bad. They were freaks. They always taught him that metal music was the devils music and D&D wasn't just a game, it was a cult for worshipping Satan. He grew up with those ideals. So when his eyes lingered on a man for too long, he pushed it down. When he had unholy thoughts about a man, he pushed them down. He denied that he liked men. He dated a pretty cheerleader, Chrissy Cunningham, but he didn't love her. He pretended he did, but he didn't. And then there was Eddie Munson. A man who was everything he stood against

Eddie was by far the most gorgeous man Jason had ever seen. But he was everything Jason was taught to hate. Eddie was openly queer, a bisexual man and he was a metalhead and played D&D. Everything that Jason's parents had taught him to hate. And so he hated Eddie. But that didn't stop his eyes from lingering. It didn't stop him from finding Eddie incredibly attractive. It didn't stop him from growing curious about Eddie. Because Eddie was the reason Jason finally acknowledged that he was gay. And once he acknowledged he was gay, he didn't think it was a bad thing. He didn't want it to be a bad thing. And if it wasn't a bad thing then maybe Eddie wasn't bad. He wanted to know Eddie, truly know him. Of course he knew Eddie was a drug dealer, he knew Eddie had an arrest record, he knew Eddie's family, the Munson's, were troublemakers. But Jason wanted to know Eddie. The real Eddie, not the Eddie that he pretended to hate and was always bullying