Don't Call Me Baby (Billy Hargrove)

-Chapter forty six-

Emilia

'Just so you know, I think he's a jerk for doing that to your face...again' Dustin comments to Steve as he looks up from the cards sprawled on the table top, and Steve rolls his eyes that are still slightly bruised, but are healing and getting better as the days go by. I let out a laugh as I shake my head as the two of them bicker over it, and I just place down my cards and take time out.

These last few days have just been hectic, with the fight between Steve and Billy, and my relationship with Billy ending, while he seemed to be happy to parade around with Anna down the halls, and rub the fact that he'd moved on pretty quickly in my face. I hated the fact that I had to be around them, she always always at his hip and he always had his arm draped over her shoulders.

She'd be wearing this smug smirk while she got more popular over the fact that she was now dating Billy Hargrove. I hated the title she has now, the one I had barely two weeks ago, and it killed me knowing that Billy didn't regret anything he did or said, he just continued on with his life like he didn't just flip mine around.

'Question purely out of curiosity, but is there something going on between the two of you?' Dustin asks as he shuffles the cards on the table, and I snap out of my daydream to glance at Steve who looks like he's blushing, and I cough before sitting up straight and shaking my head.

'No, why would you think that?' I say defensively, and I see Steve wince at the corner of my eye, but I try to ignore that and continue denying.

'Well I don't know, the two of you have been hanging out alot more, and you've invited me over for game night twice this week' Dustin says and I nod in agreement as I see his point, but I just let out a laugh before shaking my head.

'Believe me Dustin, you don't want to know about relationships, just lay out the cards now' I say as I change the subject and move on to something more light hearted.

'You sounded pretty defensive when Dustin questioned our relationship' Steve says as we watch Dustin walk up to his front door, and I feel tense at him mentioning my defensive behaviour earlier at his house. It was true, I did seem a bit off over him questioning Steve and I.

'I know, it's just a bit strange...no hard feelings right? I was just trying to get him off of my case' I say and Steve lets out a chuckle before nodding, then he starts up the car and begins to drive me back to my house. We park up after the twenty minute drive, and we just sit in the car for a good ten minutes, just enjoying the silence while our hands were interlocked.

It was the most peace I've gotten all week, at night I didn't get much sleep over the fact that Billy wasn't going to be around much, and I didn't seem to function properly. At school, things just made it worse when I'd see Billy and Anna around, plus I've been hiding this thing Steve and I have going on from Nancy.

I'm surprised she hasn't heard what had caused the fight the other day, it was talk of the school, and fortunately Nancy has skipped a few days and barely noticed the news when she returned to school, which was what I was grateful for. I doubt she'd be happy knowing I'm kissing her ex-boyfriend, it didn't feel right to me. But I couldn't find a way to explain to her, I wasn't ready yet.

'We could be happy together you know' Steve says as he breaks the silence, and I face him to elaborate on his statement.

'We could' I mumble out, and Steve carries on.

'I forget about everything else when you're with me, and I love that' Steve sighs out as he traces patterns on my hand, and a small smile grows on my face at the feeling. It felt nice, Steve's skin touching mine while he expressed his feelings, it was something I felt comfortable doing with Steve.

'I love that too' I whisper out and Steve smiles warmly before his hands reach out and he pulls my face in for a kiss. His hands press hard against my cheeks as he passionately kisses me, and instantly my hands snake around his neck.

Steve and I kissed for a few minutes before I decided it was already late enough and bid my goodbyes before I let him drive off. When I entered my house, it was warm and quite and the only sound was the hum of the television that was playing the news chanel in the living room. My parents were both watching it while I quickly greeted them before jogging up to my bedroom.

I undress and get ready for bed, washing my face and brushing my teeth before I sort out my books for school and tried to clean up some of the clothes I left sprawled around my room from when I raced around this morning trying to look for my outfit, I've been such a mess lately, I keep losing things and I keep glancing outside my window, gazing at Billy's house and his Camaro, wondering if he was thinking about me too.

I was snapped out of my daze when my telephone started to ring loudly, causing me to shake my head and exhale heavily before I reach over to my nightstand and answer the phone.

'Hello?' I say.

'Emilia, we need to talk' An upset sounding Nancy says into the phone, and I curse lowly as I prepare my explanation and try to calm down.

'Nancy...' I say as I trail off and she sighs heavily into the phone.

'You kissed Steve, I had to find that information out by a stranger walking down the hallway this morning. Emilia, I don't know what to think about this' Nancy says, her voice breaking at the end of her sentence, and I feel my throat tighten.

'I-I'm sorry Nancy, it just happened it was just one mess of a night, I just went through some things with Billy' I ramble out anxiously.

'There's a sister code, and I'm sure one of them is not to make out with your best friend's ex-boyfriend, I just feel betrayed right now Emilia, and I don't know if I can talk to you at the moment-' Nancy says into the phone and I feel my stomach drop before I cut her off mid sentence.

'Wait no Nancy, I promise I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, Steve was just there to help me and I-' I plead but she cuts me off.

'I doubt you'd like it if I went and made out with Billy right now, knowing that my best friend loved him at one point and had the same lips touch theirs- god I should've seen this as a sign when the two of you started to hang out' Nancy says angrily and I wince at her words, but she is right, I broke the sister code.

'Nancy I'm sorry' I say into the phone but she just exhales heavily.

'I need time to think, bye Emilia' She says before the line goes dead, and I slam my phone back down before I collapse back onto my bed and grip the sheets beneath me.

First I lost my boyfriend, now I've lost my best friend too, my life was just becoming a constant downward spiral and it was spinning out of control. I have no clue as to what I'm going to do, Billy isn't an option and now Nancy's pissed at me, I can't be open about Steve because it'll just make Nancy more angry at me. I can't make anybody happy in this situation, not even myself.

I was so lost, and all I wanted right now was was a time machine.

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Drammaaaa, and yeah sorry it's like 3:08 AM and I didn't feel tired, so I wrote this chapter lol -D ♡