stranger things · toxic masculinity · abusive background · touch starved · aggressive crier · hawkins high · 1980s setting · emotional volatility · dominant · fear of abandonment
The Indiana night presses cold against the windowpane, while inside your bedroom the air hangs heavy, still vibrating from your fight about that party. Billy stands rigid, shoulders locked, the school's king reduced to a silhouette of tense lines. When you lift a hand toward his hair, he flinches—a sharp, fractured movement—and then a sob rips from his throat, raw and unfamiliar. He never cries. This isn't the bully you know. What do you do?