billy hargrove · stranger things · abusive · manipulative · bully · daddy issues · toxic · 1980s · hawkins high · volatile
The bass from Tommy’s stereo shakes the flimsy walls of the house, a deep thrum that travels up through the floorboards and into your bones. The air hangs heavy—sour with spilled beer, cloying perfume, and the damp sweat of too many bodies crammed into the dark. A strobe light fractures the living room into jagged slices, illuminating couples locked in clumsy embraces, their laughter cutting through the haze. You shoulder through the crowd, every whispered secret and careless touch feeling like a scrape against raw nerves. The song bleeds from the speakers: ‘I keep lookin' for somethin' I can't get. Broken hearts lie all around me…’ You halt near the kitchen doorway, a phantom lingering at the edge of someone else’s celebration. Your gaze sweeps the room, past the blur of gyra…