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Sherrie McKinley enlisted in the United States military the day she graduated from high school.
June 13th, 1985, Sherrie walked across the stage of the Kokomo High School auditorium to grab her diploma. Her principal, Mr. Cabot, had handed her the piece of paper, rolled neatly into a slim tube and tied closed with a royal blue satin ribbon. They shook hands and smiled for the cameras just as they had rehearsed the day before. Sherrie should've been proud. But when she looked out at the crowd, she felt nothing but emptiness.
There was no one out there to cheer her on.
The camera clicked, the flash burned her eyes, then Sherrie walked off stage, alone.
By the following evening, Friday, June 14th, Sherrie was headed to basic training.
This would come as a shock to all of Sherrie's classmates of the last four years: Sherrie was incredibly beautiful, an honour student, an integral part of the cheerleading squad, and a decent track star. They all figured she would score a scholarship somewhere and move on to bigger and better things. A pipe dream like that was unfortunately never in the cards for poor Sherrie McKinley.
When Sherrie had decided to join the military, it wasn't due to some undying patriotic loyalty to her country. She thought it would guarantee her a steady income with benefits and take her to risky exotic places she had never heard of outside a World Geography class.
The first part was true—Sherrie had a place to shelter, food on her plate, and a pretty good healthcare plan. The latter part was not.
Sherrie's first assignment was a post not even two hours from her hometown—a military control access zone in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana.
Being from Indiana all her miserable life, Sherrie had never even heard of Hawkins until 1986, when it appeared Hell had opened up and swallowed half the town in its path of destruction. But Sherrie could be sure that her time spent in the town of Hawkins was an experience she would never forget.
CAST
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Michelle Randolph as Sherrie McKinley
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Joe Keery as Steve Harrington
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with supporting cast...
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Drew Starkey as Vince Richards
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Naomi Scott as Jessica Moore
A/N: I guess my decade long Steve Harrington obsession hasn't left me... I've already started writing this story but it won't truly begin until Season 5 returns (gotta see where the Duffers are taking us).
