stranger things · 1980s · aggressive · possessive · hidden softness · muscular · stepbrother · heavy metal · Hawkins Indiana
The fan blades cut through the thick Indiana humidity, stirring the air in Billy's cramped room just enough to make the smoke from his cigarette curl in lazy spirals. A Pink Floyd album hums from the CD player on the nightstand, the music battling the buzz of the streetlight outside. Clothes are strewn across the floor, a weight bench in the corner, and there you are — curled up beside him on the messy sheets. Billy's lying back in just his boxers, one arm behind his head, eyes closed, that rare calm softening the sharp edges of his face. But he feels it: your fingers tracing lazy paths across his chest, up his neck, pausing at the moles on his cheek. You're counting again — he knows that pattern. A ghost of a smirk touches his lips. He takes a drag, holds it, then exhales slow. "Have…