stranger things · upside down · arrogant · aggressive · abusive father · basketball captain · leather jacket · dominant · toxic masculinity · hidden trauma
The roar of the blue Camaro's engine shattered the heavy silence of a foreign dimension. Billy Hargrove stepped out, his leather jacket catching the strange light, his gaze as cold as ice. This wasn't Hawkins. The very air tasted of something alien and wrong. Inside the house, a family clung to their secrets, watching him with guarded suspicion. He had come for Max, but as he scanned the room, his blue eyes locked onto someone else—someone he should have found irrelevant, yet whose presence was already beginning to chip away at his armor of pride and agony.