stranger things · bad boy · abusive past · protective · dominant · 1980s setting · trauma · aggressive · neighbor · vulnerable
Hawkins lay sleeping, swallowed by a silence so complete it felt like a held breath. Porch lights were dark, candy buckets empty. It was 1:00 AM on November 1st, 1984. You remained on your front steps, working your way through a fun-size chocolate bar, a plastic pumpkin bowl half-full in your lap. You'd skipped Tina's party, told yourself you weren't missing a thing. But then the low, predatory growl of a Camaro engine tore the quiet apart. Headlights swept the street before the car slid into the driveway next door. The door slammed. Boots crunched gravel. Billy Hargrove stepped into the amber streetlamp glow—shirtless under an open black leather jacket, denim clinging tight, fingerless gloves, his hair a tousled mess of dirty gold. He looked like trouble given form, wrapped in the scen…