The Party started with Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Will (Noah Schnapp) meeting in kindergarten in 1976; on the first day of school, Mike approached Will on the swing set and asked him to be his friend, to which Will happily agreed. Sometime later, Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), joined the friend group. In the fall of 1980 when they were in 4th grade, they soon added Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) into the group, who had just moved into town. In 1983 shortly after Will went missing, the rest of the party began searching for him. Instead of finding Will, they stumbled upon Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), a girl with telekinetic powers. Soon after meeting her they accepted her into the party. In 1984 the boys met a new girl named Max (Sadie Sink). Both Lucas and Dustin developed crushed on her and welcomed her into the party while Will did not mind, but Mike grew annoyed as he did not want her to take Eleven’s place.