Don't Call Me Baby (Billy Hargrove)

-Chapter fifty one-

Emilia

'Watch me take us to the promise land!' Dustin exclaims as his fingers rapidly press down on the buttons while his eyes are glued onto the screen, I shake my head and sip on my chocolate milkshake before turning away from him and making eye contact with Steve, he's currently standing next to Max and Lucas who are basically doing the same thing as Dustin, and we both laugh before shaking our heads and turning to the kids.

I had a turn on a few games with Dustin, before we all decided that we were finished with the arcade and decided to make our way home. How ever Max was getting picked up by Billy, and we could hear his camaro roaring from down the road as we waited outside with her.

'Same time next week?' Max questions as she picked up her skateboard and made her way to Billy's car, and I nod slowly as I make eye contact with Billy who just waits in the car. He blinks at me with an unreadable look on his face, and I turn away before it carried on for too long.

True enough Billy had kept his word and left me and my friends alone, he let me hang out with Steve and didn't talk to me at all at school and at home, we were like strangers, except everytime we'd make eye contact with each other we both had a sense of longing, but we concealed it and just carried on with what Billy promised and what I thought I wanted.

I catch myself staring at Max hopping into Billy's car for too long, my eyes caught onto his again and for some reason I couldn't break the stare, he didn't either until he gave me a small smile and started up his car and my drove out of the parking lot. But even when the space was empty, I was still staring at the spot.

'Emilia, let's go' Steve coughs and I snap out of my daze, and blink in confusion as Steve furrows his eyebrows at me. I shake my head and brush my hand through my hair before making my way toward Steve's car.

'Don't rip it please' I warn Steve as he gently places one of the pictures down on the delicate page, and he chuckles as he places it neatly on the place and smooths over the top of it to secure it down. I sigh in relief when he pulls away from it and I grab my ink pen and start to write under the image.

'Don't worry I've done this millions of times' Steve says as he reassures me about the card I'm making for Nancy's birthday, and I roll my eyes at his cockiness before finishing up my message and grabbing more pictures from beside me. But before I could get ready to plaster them on the page, Steve's hand come up and grasp ahold of mine, and he gently forces me to drop the pictures and faces me toward him.

'Quick break, please' Steve sighs out and I open my mouth to decline, and immediately he pouts and gives me sad eyes.

'Pretty please, just a few minutes' Steve begs and I groan before obliging and I agree to take a quick break with him. Steve shifts so he's sitting with his back straight against the headboard, and he pulls me onto his lap so I'm straddling him while his hands rest on my waist, and my hands rest on his shoulders.

'So...' Steve starts as one of his hands comes up and he plays with my necklace, and I chuckle before placing my hand over his that fiddles with the little gem at the end of the thin chain.

'Yes Steve Harrington, what is it you so desperately needed to tell me, while disturbing my gift wrapping time and goal to finish this before midnight' I say jokingly and he drops his hand from my necklace before he plants his hands back on my waist, and he coughs before talking.

'You know for the last month we've been doing great, and some of the great things we've been doing are relationship things... like girlfriend and boyfriend things'

'..And basically I've come to the conclusion, why bother doing these things and being intimate and close, if we aren't official' Steve trails off and immediately I catch onto what he's trying to suggest, and before he carries on his hand drops down to mine and he grasps ahold of it, and shyly looks down as he continues.

'So Emilia I was wondering...if you'd like to make this official and be my girlfriend' Steve questions as he looks up and I feel my breath hitch for a moment, and right now I could see the worry in Steve's eyes as I stay quiet for a few moments, but I wondered what was stopping me.

What the hell, Steve's been wanting this for a while and I've been sure I'm wanting this as of late, plus Nancy and Jonothan had no problem with this, so I plaster a wide smile on my face and watch the relief wash over Steve's as I nod.

'I'd like that alot' I mumble out before Steve nods and lets out a sigh of relief before his hands press against my cheeks and he pulls my face toward his. I could feel him smile through the kisses as we talked during the small intervals we took, but Steve mostly just wanted to kiss for majority of the night. So I let him, and in exchange of taking up the rest of my night, he offered me a car ride to school tomorrow morning.

'C'mon doll, off to class we go' Steve says as he holds out his hand and I'm reluctant before I grasp ahold of his hand, I took a few breaths nervously before I got out of the car and made my way toward the school building, with Steve beside me with our fingers interlocked, I felt more self concious than ever.

But I tried to ignore the stares and bicker with Steve over whether his sentence rhymed or not, I argue saying that it doesn't really and Steve sounded so sure that it did. So I decided to question Nancy and Jonothan on that statement.

'Are you two finally a thing now?' Nancy says as she pulls out her books from her locker, and she glances down at our hands before she gives me a small smile.

'Sort of yeah- basically' I stutter out and she congratulates us before turning to Jonothan and scolding him for not printing out the pictures she wanted, and I laughed before focusing on Steve who had his arm slung over my shoulder.

'What're you doing Harrington?' I question as I feel his arm shift and it coils around my waist before he lifts me up and places me infront of the closed lockers before pressing me against them, and he chuckles lowly before opening my locker beside my head to block our faces.

'I like being able to do this' Steve sighs out as he hungrily kisses my lips and I press my hands on his shoulders and laugh into the kiss as he refuses to pull away.

'Oh Steve, quite the romantic you are' I joke as I slap his shoulder causing him to laugh before he picks me up and closes the locker door before grasping me back under his arm and pressing me against his body.

I sigh out as I see Billy a few lockers down from us, he has a look of disbelief on his face and I see him tense before he blinks at the two of us and turns on his heel to go the other way. He gave me permission but I knew he didn't want to see me with Steve, and unfortunately for him it wasn't his place to have a say in this relationship.

So I tried to ignore the hurt look on Billy's face and carried on with my day.

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Damnnn Stevilia is well on its way- D ♡