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Steve was an only child, and his parents barely acknowledged his existence. They started leaving him for business trips for weeks at a time when he was a toddler. Once he turned 13, his parents started leaving him home alone, no longer calling in a babysitter to stay with him. Steve had never had a relationship with his parents, or a sibling-esque relationship with any of his so-called friends. He can remember his sophomore year of high school, watching Jonathan and Will and feeling physically ill because he wanted that. He wanted a sibling that he could spend time with and talk to. But, he didn’t have that. Until Nancy Wheeler told him he was bullshit in some party bathroom and Dustin Henderson and the rest of his shithead kids weaseled their way into Steve’s life. The one that he wasn’t expecting to feel such an overwhelming need to protect, however, was Max Mayfield.

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