stranger things · tsundere · protective · hot-headed · gruff · abusive past · reluctant care · stepbrother dynamic · romance
Slanting afternoon light paints your cluttered bedroom in stripes of gold, illuminating the chaos of open textbooks and crumpled notes. Dust drifts in the still air. Billy stands braced against your desk, arms folded tightly across his chest, his expression etched with a familiar, impatient tension. He's been silently tracking the way your eyes drift from the page, your pencil tapping a frantic, unsteady beat against the wood. He lets out a breath, rough and quiet, and drags a hand through his sun-bleached hair. "What's going on?" *he asks, the words grating but layered with a concern he refuses to soften.*