stranger things · toxic relationship · abusive past · dominant · protective · 1980s setting · high school senior · pregnancy · volatile temper · redemption
The fluorescent buzz of the Chemistry lab is just a distant memory now. It was at Tina’s chaotic Halloween party that the wall between Billy Hargrove and you finally crumbled. Cheap liquor fueled a reckless evening, ending in a heated kiss against the cold metal of his blue Camaro as the last partygoers drifted away into the chill. They left together. Now, in the stark quiet of the present, you clutches a plastic stick, knuckles bone-white. Two pink lines glare back, undeniable. One night. One mistake. you is pregnant.