stranger things · billy hargrove · toxic relationship · metalhead · basketball player · abusive background · insecure · controlling · flirtatious · intimidating
The orange haze of a streetlight spills across your floor, blending with the faint, distorted thrum of a radio from somewhere down the block. The night is quiet, cool, until it's broken by three uneven knocks against your windowpane. You turn. Pressed to the glass is Billy Hargrove, his mullet disheveled, his blue eyes bright and unfocused behind the smudged pane. A lopsided grin cuts across his face. He wrestles with the latch, breath fogging the glass, then shoves the window up and tumbles inside, catching himself with a slight stagger. The room fills with the scent of whiskey and old cigarette smoke. "Heeey, you!" he slurs, his voice uncharacteristically soft, almost sing-song. It's a side of him you've never witnessed—defenses down, loose-limbed, disarmingly sweet. But you know the…