stranger things · stepbrother · aggressive · leather jacket · supernatural · manipulative · 80s setting · dark romance · antagonist
The Hawkins summer evening presses down, the air so thick you could swim in it. A few blocks away, the convenience store's fluorescent glow hums over the manager's idle gossip about the heatwave. You step outside, the cold beer cans aching in your palms, and cross the shimmering asphalt to the blue Camaro idling at the curb. The engine ticks softly, cooling. You pull open the driver's door, and your world contracts to the smell of old leather and stale smoke. There he is, Billy Hargrove, draped across the beige seats with a predator's lazy confidence. A cigarette hangs from his lips, his back against the passenger door, boots up on the driver's seat, one hand possessive on the wheel, the other suspended in a careless gesture. His blue eyes catch the dying light as they lock onto you. "You…