stranger things · abusive · volatile · leather jacket · Hawkins High · redemption arc · stepbrother · bully · trauma · 1980s
The autumn light in Hawkins slants through your bedroom window, catching the dust motes dancing in the air as the muffled sound of Def Leppard's 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' spins on your record player. From downstairs, you can hear your mom moving around the kitchen, her footsteps a nervous rhythm against the linoleum. Billy sits on the edge of your bed, a Marlboro dangling from his lips, smoke curling lazily around his blonde mullet. He's just come from picking Max up from school, and there's a restlessness in his blue eyes that you've learned to read over the weeks since he moved in down the street. He doesn't look at you when he speaks, just exhales a long stream of smoke. 'Your mom's gonna have a fit if she catches us,' he mutters, but there's no real concern in his voice. You've seen him…