Sugar pills

Part 31

Steve woke up with a stuffy nose and a sore throat.  He found himself buried in Billy's chest in difference from the small spooning action from last night. His hair, to his dismay, was messy and stuck up everywhere. He looked up and found Billy wide awake with a small smile as he was now watching Steve. It was his turn to be awake first this time. "Good morning, pretty boy" Billy mumbled. Billy had found that having Steve in his arms was extremely comforting to him. He knew it was comforting for Steve too, but Billy was a little surprised how at peace he felt to have Steve in his arms. It was something he didn't expect to feel. Especially with Steve. 

Steve sniffled before he attempted a matching small smile "Good morning, Billy" He whispered back. Billy chuckled and nuzzled his nose into Steve's messy hair. "Stevieee your hair's messy" Billy loved teasing the other boy. Even about small cute little details. Steve huffed. "You're-" 

"Steve!" 

The bedroom door opened with panic and soon closed with a thud. "El?" Steve suddenly stood up with a panicked expression as well now. When he did sit up, he shoved Billy off of him in the process. "Steve!" Billy mumbled as he soon sat up as well. "Sorry- What's wrong?" Steve quickly looked at El again. El stayed quiet. She was about to speak when the sound of the front door opening echoed through the small cabin. Steve stayed quiet with a very confused expression when suddenly, the realization hit him. His eyes widened and he immediately jumped off of the bed, unsteadily standing up as he quickly locked the door where El stood. "Shit. shit. shit." He mumbled as he felt a panicked emotion start bubbling inside of him. El looked up at Steve and matched his panic expression with one of her own. 

"Hopper"

Steve could see that El was as panicked as he was. Maybe a little more knowing that Hopper was more than daring to take away TV privileges if he finds Billy in Steve's room. "Shit." Steve quickly turned around to Billy who now also hid wide and panicked eyes. Steve scrambled over to the bed "Hopper's here we need to get you out before he-"

"Steve?" Hopper's voice rang loud through the cabin. Steve looked behind his shoulder to find a basically terrified El pushed up against the door as if that would stop Hop from finding them. Shit. Steve's face was a scrambled mess of panicked thoughts. What would Hop think if he found a boy, much less Billy, in his room. Locked up. with El. And it had to be Billy. If it were any other of the boys, Will, Dustin, even Mike, he wouldn't have cared. He knew he could trust Steve. But Billy? That would definitely be suspicious. Especially with Billy's dirty clothes in the hamper and him wearing Steve's shirt. Billy quietly got off of the bed before he made his way to the window. 

"El?" Hop/s voice boomed in the cabin again. El was desperately pushing the door just to make sure Hop wouldn't go in even if he got through the lock. "Fucking hell-" Billy murmured as he tried to get back up the window. Steve quickly went to Billy and as well as he could, he managed to start getting Billy up to the window. He was supporting some of Billy's weight to help him up. "Why does your window have to be so fucking high Harrington?" Billy mumbled as he struggled to climb up without making sound. "Steve?" Hop called out, soon followed by various loud knocks that caused the two teens (and pre-teen) to flinch. "Fuck- Steve-" Billy said in a struggled-out voice as he reached his hand out for the edge of the window to pull himself up. (You can imagine however Steve is holding Billy up. Though I wouldn't say he's holding him up on his shoulders since I don't think Steve would be able to pick up Billy so easily- so imagine what you want) 

"Why do you have the door locked?" Hop's voice was quickly starting to grow louder by the second. Steve found himself jump a little when Hopper knocked loudly on the door again. "Steve!" Billy yelled out when he suddenly slipped causing all of his weight to go upon poor Steve. Steve might've been able to catch him with all his strength, but he was caught off guard so when the weight of Billy landed on him, he came stumbling down too. (I'm thinking that Steve's window is like, on the very edge of the room and this room is tall. yes. imagination.) A large thud was heard when the two teenagers landed on the floor. "Billy!" Steve hissed out as he pushed him away. "It's your fault! You should've caught me!" Billy matched Steve's hissed out voice. 

"What the hell is going on in there?" Hopper was now banging on the door. Steve looked at the door where El had taken a few steps back away from. "Shit- Billy! Under the bed!" Steve tapped Billy's arm urgently with his foot. Billy groaned but quickly crawled over to the bed and looked under it. He knew he didn't have another choice or enough time to hide somewhere else. At least not enough time before Hopper knocked the door off. Billy scooted into the small little area under the bed with a huff. Steve looked nervously down where the other boy hid. He could feel himself shaking by now.

Slowly, he walked to the door where Hopper was still yelling at Steve to open it. He started to unlock it and barely had the chance to move out of the way when Hopper stormed into the room. It was dead quiet for a second, Hopper looking around the room. The man's eyes landed on Steve. "Whose shirt is that?" Hopper asked in a terrifyingly calm voice. Steve felt his eyes widen again and a cold sweat start to form due to his shaking. "I-It's old. You haven't s-seen it before" Steve quickly whispered in a suspiciously shy voice. Hop only stared. 

"It's not your size. It's too big." Hopper stated again. Steve knew he was screwed now. So instead of answering, he stayed dead silent. Hopper turned to El. "Who's is it?" Hopper asked again. El felt herself shake a little too now. "It really is Steve's" She hated lying to Hop. But this was Steve. And even if Billy hadn't done anything wrong, she knew Hop would be furious if he saw Billy there, especially with him hiding. Hopper stayed quiet as he exited the room. Steve quickly peeked out of the room and wherever Hop was headed. Hop went to the bathroom and when he came out, he held something that sent a chill through Steve. 

"Steve. Who was here?" Hop mumbled as he held out Billy's clothes from yesterday to Steve. Steve knew Hop didn't have any bad intentions, especially knowing Steve was sensitive with certain things. He knew yelling could cause him to slip into one of his visions. Perhaps that's why Hop had his voice down for so long now. But Steve knew that sometimes Hop could overreact when it came to people he cared about, loved. It had happened with El and Joyce mostly. 

But now Steve was someone he cared deeply about too. "Look Steve...  Just tell me. If it's nothing bad there should be no problem with telling me" Hopper took in a deep breath to calm his nerves. "I know you're not a bad kid St-" 

Suddenly there was another large thump coming from Steve's room, cutting off Hop's sentence. In a second, Hop was already in the room. Steve caught up to him and found a sitting up Billy that was right below the window. Billy was holding his elbow with a pained expression. he must've tried to get out from the window again, Steve thought. 

"Hey Jim" Billy said with an awkward smile and a daring wave. Now, Steve was sure he was screwed. 

(Hello! I'm so sorry it's taken so long to upload this! Life had been busy, and I've just been tired generally. I'm sorry if this chapter is a little all over the place. I was a little rushed while typing this so I'm sorry if this isn't smooth or such. I'm really sorry. I hope you like it though! If you didn't understand it because, like I said, it's messy, Steve woke up with Billy. Hopper comes back and El warns the two, locking the room door to keep Hop out. Steve helps Billy out, but Billy loses his balance causing Steve to fall. Billy hides under the bed. Steve confronts Hop and Hop is sure someone is there. Then Billy tries to get out by the window again and fails. Again. And because of the thump of the fall Hop goes to Steve's room and finds Billy sitting down on the floor from the fall. I hope that helps. well.... We had picture day on Wednesday in my school. I hate picture day. Not like I dress up either way. Also, I know that I'm really behind with updates. I'm still working on this story and there's also Stubborn but... I have another Idea for a fic. So, I drew an AU version of Steve as a faun/satyr. I have drawn how I think he will look. I can post it here if you want to see the drawings. The idea is the fic would be about the hardships of Steve's new life as a mythological goat man! It could be either Harringrove or Steddie. Either we could bring in other fantasy species (As in werewolf Billy or vampire Eddie) and Steve is scared of them finding out about his goat legs but then suddenly he discovers their weird lil creatures too! And they could help him hide his features. Or we could keep that out and it could just be about how (Billy or Eddie) Helps him hide his features too. I would love your opinion on this idea! Welp, I hope you're all better than be, a whole lot better. Have a great and wondaful day/night!!!)