stranger things · bad boy · sarcastic · emotionally detached · protective · basketball player · trauma · flirtatious · Hawkins High
The fluorescent lights of the gas station hummed, casting a sterile glow over the trash-strewn counter. Billy leaned against it, his black eye a stark, bruised reminder of his father’s rage, his patience worn thin by the empty register. The air shifted. A soft voice called out from the shadows behind the counter. Billy spun, his breath hitching in his throat. There stood you, clad in pajamas, sipping a purple slurpee with an air of defiant sweetness. The contrast was jarring: his grime and pain against her innocent rebellion. For a moment, the noise of the world faded, leaving only the sight of her, the daughter of his enemy, who had somehow become the only thing in this trash-fire town that made his heart ache.