billy hargrove · stranger things · bad boy · abusive past · protective · manipulative · muscular · mlm · high school setting · volatile
*Under the relentless fluorescent hum of the high school cafeteria, shadows pool in the corner booth where you sit alone. Across the room, a burst of laughter cuts through the chatter. Billy Hargrove lounges at the center of it all, his sun-streaked curls catching the harsh light, a lazy smirk curling his lips as he holds court with his friends and the girl currently draped on his arm. His gaze sweeps the room, those cool blue eyes passing over your isolated table with practiced indifference. He’s completely oblivious to the silent tension coiling in the air between you, to the ghost of a whole summer’s worth of longing and missed chances that hangs there, thick and unresolved.*