Bad for You (Billy x OC)

The Drive Home

"Let me take you home"

I almost choke on my drink, and let out a cough. "Excuse me?" I say, extremely flustered. He looks down and laughs, "calm down Julie, I only meant you should let me give you a ride to your place." I feel my face go red, he's being nice and offering a ride, not asking me to go home with him. "My NAME is Julia," I correct him, "but yeah um, if you could drive me home um.." I trail off a bit. He gives me another smile and takes my now empty cup from my hands. His fingers brush against mine and my hand tingles. Why am I feeling like this? He sets the cup down and says, "alright lets go."

He leads me out of the house and we walk out to his car. I'm surprised when he opens the door for me, "A gentleman," I say with a giggle, "why thank you sir." I say. He smiles and closes the door. When we're both inside he turns the key and the car comes alive with a loud roaring sound. "Where are we headed?" He asks. I give him the directions and we start towards my house.

The car ride is quiet, so I ask, "So where did you live before Hawkins?" Cheesy. He looks at me and says, "we moved from California." Before I can ask he starts, "I don't really like talking about how we ended up here, if you don't mind." I nod my head awkwardly, "Okay, um no problem." Its quiet again. "Thanks for driving me, but why did you?" I ask, and he looks at me confused. "Um, why did you offer to take me home? I wasn't exactly welcoming this week." I say, highlighting my attitude towards him. He thinks before he answers, "A pretty girl with no way home? I didn't wanna leave you to walk in the cold." He gives me another smile before adding, "Plus this is a good way to makeup for the first time we met." I smile at him, "you've got a good point, but I don't think this makes us even quite yet." He lets out a light laugh and nods his head, "Alright, that's fair. Let me know when I've officially cleared my name?" He asks. "Sure, I can do that." I say back and turn on the radio. We listen to music and talk on the way back to my house.

As we get closer to my neighborhood he tells me he doesn't live too far from me. "So you are stalking me?" I say jokingly. He gives me a smile and says, "we're here." I look at the empty driveway, Dad's out working and of course, Amelia probably won't be home tonight. "Thank you, I'll see you monday in class." I say as I get out. I take about five steps from the car and stop. My house key is in my bag. My bag is at Nancy's house. I'm locked out of my house, in the middle of the night, and I'm dressed as Wonder Woman.

I stand for a minute trying to think of what to do. "Everything okay?" Billy asks me. I turn around and look at him, I don't know what to say and I don't want to look stupid by saying I don't have keys. "No, everything is fine!" I lie through a smile. He looks at me, looks at my clothes and asks, "You can't get in can you?" My eyes widen and I lie again, "Uh yeah I can, no worries, everything is A-Okay." Did I say A-Okay? I'm such a bad liar. Billy can tell I'm lying so he says, "I'm pretty sure you don't have pockets in that costume, so I'm guessing you don't have your keys?" I lower my head, "yeah..." I say quietly. He's quiet for a second and then he leans over in his seat and opens the car door. "Get in."

I get into the car, and he says, "Lets go find your keys, where do you think they are?" I look at him and say, "Oh I know where they are, they're in Nancy's bedroom. I'm not getting in to the house tonight." I put my head in my hands and let out a groan. I should've asked my sister where she'd be tonight so I could get her to come home and let me in. Billy lets out a sigh, "so do you have anywhere to go?" I think for a second and shake my head. Nancy is definitely asleep and its way to late to ask to stay at anyone's house. "Alright." Billy says as he steps on the gas. "What are you doing?" I ask and try to see where he's driving us. "I'm making us even." He says and continues driving.

We pull into a driveway and he turns off the car. "Alright, you gotta be quiet alright?" He says to me as we get out of the car. Ohmygod this is his house. He is sneaking me into his house. He sees the look on my face and stops, "Don't worry, you can crash here and I'll take you home in the morning. Your sister should be home around then, right?" I nod and follow him in. I quietly follow him into the house and to his room. He turns on the light and I see he still has a few boxes that he hasn't unpacked. "Here let me get you something," he says as he starts opening a box. He hands me an old T-shirt and a pair of sweatpants, I guess these are from his last school? "I'll let you change, I'm gonna go grab some blankets." He leaves me alone in the bedroom so I can take off the costume.

When I'm done I stand awkwardly in the room waiting for him to come back. His shirt swallows me up and looks more like a dress, and the pants could fall off of me if it weren't for the sad, worn out draw string holding them up. I look at the dresser and see a picture. Its a little boy next to a really pretty woman, is that Billy when he was young? He's kind of cute. Billy comes back in with a pillow and some blankets, "You can take the bed, I'm gonna be here," he motions to the floor. "Are you sure, you really don't need to." I try to protest but he's already laid down the blanket and getting comfortable. "Don't worry about it," he pauses and jokingly asks, "Unless you want to share the bed?" He smirks and my eyes widen. "N- no th- thats not what I-" he laughes at me as I stutter, "I'm kidding," Billy chuckles again, "That's not how I'd do it." he says crypticly. "Now get some sleep, you're gonna have to sneak back out of here pretty early tomorrow." He says before turning the lamp off. I crawl into the bed.

His sheets smell clean, but they still smell like him. I curl up in the bed and start to think about what Billy said. 'Thats not how I'd do it' what does that mean? How he'd get me into bed with him? How would he? My mind starts to wander. I noticed his hands felt rough when he took my cup earlier, I wonder how they would feel on my skin, or around my waist... STOP. What am I thinking? I should go to sleep. I roll over and try to clear my mind, but all I can think about is how I'm in his bed right now and how nice it feels. I shift again to get comfortable, and eventually I fall asleep.