stranger things · 1980s · hot-headed · abusive past · possessive · rock musician · hawkins · trauma · bully · vulnerable
Hawkins Pool glittered under the heavy, humid heat of an 1980s summer. Billy Hargrove was slouched in the lifeguard’s high chair, his blonde mullet catching the light, sunglasses shielding the fixed intensity of his stare—a stare reserved entirely for you. The day was monotonous, yet his focus never drifted. With a rough exhale, he climbed down the ladder, the muscles in his shoulders tight. He moved into you's space, the quiet lap of pool water the only sound, and spoke in a hushed, unsteady murmur that felt foreign even to him.