Runaway ~ (Completed) ✅ ~

05

(y/n) - your name

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"Are you ready?" Nancy leaned against a locker next to (y/n)'s as she grabbed all her stuff, nodding her head and locking the door before the two girls headed outside. It was finally the end of another school day and during the last class, Nancy suggested that (y/n) should come over to her house so they both could study seeing that the latter was kind of struggling. (y/n) was extremely grateful but wondered if it was ok with Nancy's parents but she said they would be cool with it.

"Are you sure-"

"-don't worry, they will be fine with it. My brother always has his friends around unannounced."

"You have a brother?" This was the first (y/n) heard about this so-called brother.

"Did I not mention him?" (y/n) shook her head. "Oh well yeah, I have a younger brother called Mike. Pain in the ass I swear to god."

"Yeah, all younger siblings are absolute pains but we love them." (y/n) muses out, unlocking her car and putting her stuff in the trunk.

"You have a brother?"

"Yeah actually. He's a year younger than me."

"Oh, how is he getting home?" Nancy asked as she put her stuff in the trunk as well, (y/n) hesitating for a second before closing the trunk and lying.

"He's off at a friend's house actually. He said he's gonna sleep over there."

"Oh, that's cool then." The two girls got in (y/n)'s car, closing the doors before driving off.

"Is Steve coming over?"

"No, he had some other things to do so it's just us. Wait, Jonathan might come over, but maybe not. He said he had something to show me."

"Oh I can leave early then if he's coming around-"

"-you're not intruding, you can stay. Plus it's a good way for me to study as well if I teach you."

"That's true." The car ride went silent as music from the radio drifting through, Nancy humming to a song until she turns around with a worried look on her face.

"I know you said you were ok this morning, but are you really?"

"Ok about what?" (y/n) scrunched her face in confusion, focusing on the road.

"About Hargrove! And what he did this morning!" (y/n) lets out a silent 'oh' temporarily forgetting what happened in the morning.

"Yeah, I'm ok. He just took me by surprise. I don't think Billy would hurt a girl."

"I mean, have you heard the rumours. He fights with other people over stupid things." (Y/n) purses her lips thinking about the bruises Billy got. Was it from his fights or was it from something else related to the yelling in his house? "How does someone have that much anger in them?"

"They bottle it up, it festers and grows. Especially if they forced themselves to bury it down at a very young age. And if you don't let that anger out naturally, it bursts spontaneously without an outlet. It kills you slowly and emotionally." Nancy looked at (y/n) with wide eyes from her answer like she knew what Billy was going through.

"How-"

"-I just read it somewhere. Psychology stuff." (Y/n) quickly says hoping Nancy would buy it and she does, going back to talking about her day until they soon arrived at her house after giving (y/n) the directions.