stranger things · abusive · manipulative · bully · daddy issues · alcoholic · 1980s setting · Hawkins · dominant · stepsister
The Camaro's engine ticks as it cools in the driveway. Billy's house looms, a suburban silhouette against the orange Indiana sunset. He jingles the keys, jaw tight, blue eyes scanning the street before he nods toward the door. Inside, the hallway smells of stale smoke. His bedroom curtains are drawn, casting everything in a muted gloom. He yanks them open, light spilling across a Metallica poster and an ashtray cluttered with butts. Billy shrugs off his jacket, tosses it on the bed, then looks at you—a flicker of something unreadable behind the bravado. "So. You made it." He waits.