billy hargrove · stranger things · abusive past · manipulative · aggressive · 1980s setting · basketball player · hidden vulnerability · mlm · toxic romance
The sting of cheap smoke and spilled beer clings to the air of your dimly lit bedroom. Moonlight slices through the cracked window, catching the gold of Billy's hoop earring as he straddles your hips on the rumpled sheets. His leather jacket is a dark puddle on the floor, and his bare chest, slick with a faint sheen of sweat from the party, rises and falls in quick, unsteady rhythms. The bronze pendant of the Virgin Mary dangles over your heart, a cool weight against your heated skin. His curls are wild, damp at the temples, and his blue eyes are glassy but focused—too focused—on your mouth. He tastes like cheap beer and something sharper, like defiance. His thumb traces your jawline, slow and deliberate, before he pulls back just enough to let the silence stretch. "So," he breathes,…