Don't Call Me Baby (Billy Hargrove)

-Chapter thirty two-

Emilia

'You ass wipe, that's the card right there!' I exclaim as Steve shakes his head and denies that he was holding my card underneath the table, but I could see his hand trying to shy away from my view, until I lifted my leg and kneed his hand causing the card to flutter down onto the ground. I poke my tongue at him and he shakes his head at my childish behaviour, before he lets me lean down and pick it up.

We finish up the card game and my eyes scan over the wall until I spot the clock, it's currently 7.30 pm and Billy said he was going to pick me up from Steve's at 8.00, so I had a bit of time left. I help him pack it up before we race to the kitchen to grab out the tray of cookies we had been baking.

'What the actual hell' I laugh as we pull out the hot tray, and stare down at the burnt cookies, then we look at each other and burst out laughing, the cookies look like little piles of coal and I couldn't help but feel the urge to one at Steve. But of course when I tried to pick one up, I burnt my hand and decided it wasn't a good idea.

'We're definately not as good as we used to be' Steve says as we discard the failed cookies into the bin and I agree.

We spent majority of tonight doing some homework, but since it was a Saturday, we decided to ditch that idea and just messed around and played some card games. I beat him in most of the rounds, and we decided to take a look around his parents old photo books, and just laughed at the images of us as kids.

While we lounge around in the living room, cleaning up some of the mess we created, the door bell started to ring loudly. It was constant and kept going until Steve groaned loudly and ran over to the front door, he tells the person on the front door step to hold on before pulling it open.

'Harrington' Billy says bitterly as Steve pulls the door open, and I groan internally to myself before I drop the cushion in my arms and go over to my bag to zip it up.

'Hargrove, you're early' Steve states bluntly, and I watch as Billy just rolls his eyes at Steve and looks over at me, he gives me a smile as I sling my bag onto my back.

'C'mon baby' Billy coos as he waves at me, and Steve impersonated him before I laughed and hugged Steve goodbye, and Billy's eyes burned on us as we did, but he didn't voice anything, which was a good improvement.

'Next time- uh I think Wednesday' Steve says as he takes a moment to rethink about the scheduled hang out, and I nod in agreement as I remember the date.

'I'll have to call Dustin, he wanted to join' I say and Steve confirms that he'll call him, and we say our goodbyes before Billy walks me back to his Camaro. He stayed silent as we trudged down the pathway, until we got into the car.

'He likes dangling your friendship infront of me' Billy states bitterly as he backs out of Steve's driveway and speeds down the street, I sigh heavily and drop my bag onto the ground by my legs.

'He doesn't, and I already told him to be civil' I say and Billy scoffs but doesn't say anything else, he just continues to hum to the music while his eyes focused on the road. I coughed during the silence, and decided that I wanted to break the ice.

'So....prom is coming up in a few months' I trail off, hinting gently as he drives, and I watch as his facial stays neutral. When he notices I want an answer, he looks over at me and scoffs before shrugging.

'So?' He says casually and I fold my arms at his careless tone.

'So...are you going?' I question slowly, and I watch him as he pulls out a cigarette and lights it, he takes a few drags but he doesn't answer, so I shrug it off and just press my subtle hints on him more.

'I've been dress shopping with Nancy, and I think I've found one, it's really pretty, but I'm just deciding on whether I want that dress or not...' I state as I peer over at Billy, who doesn't seem to take any mind to any of the hints I'm throwing at him, he just stares foward with a neutral look on his face, this causes me to frown momentarily.

'I've seen what they're trying to do with the hall, and I think it looks nice, and since it's going to be close to Christmas they're doing a winter theme-' I rant as I try to beat around the bush on actually asking him, but he cuts me off.

'I know what you're trying to do, and I'm not going' Billy states bluntly and I frown to his response, I couldn't deny that I was trying to convince him to go to the ball. When I open my mouth to talk he cuts me off again, causing me to furrow my eyebrows.

'Prom is fücking stupid, I'm not going' Billy says as he focuses his eyes on the road, and I sigh heavily before I turn to look at him.

'But I really want to go, and don't you want to go with me, it'll be fun!' I protest, Billy just shakes his head at me while he blows out the smoke from his lips.

'C'mon, I really want to go and who's better to go with than my boyfriend, I've spent years wanting to experiance it and I really feel like-' I rant to him but he cuts me off by slamming the car to a hard stop and I jolted from the sudden movement. Billy turns to me with an agitated look on his face.

'I already told you, I'm not fücking going to that stupid ball with you! You keep telling me all this information like I should give a fück, when I don't. So stop being a pushy bitch and drop it!' Billy shouts at me and I wince at his tone, but I press back into my seat and let him start to drive again. He cranked up the volume, and this time I was grateful, I didn't want to talk to him anymore. I couldn't hide the hurt I was feeling, his words unfortunately cut me deeper than I wanted, and all I needed right now was some alone time.

Billy sped all the way home, and we arrived to my house before 8.10, as soon as he stopped the car I slung my bag onto my arm, and pushed the passenger door open. Billy turns to look at me and he opens his mouth to speak.

'Emilia-' He says but I just ignore him and proceed out of the car, and I leave him calling out to me from my car as I stride away into my house, trying to stop the tears that were pricking at my eyes.

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Ffs Billy's an ass in this chapter jelsjd9msixnw - D ♡