Private Eyes- Billy Hargrove {Stranger Things}

9

"I can't believe he said that about you, I'm so sorry baby," Billy says before leaning over me to kiss my ear. He made me feel a little bit better.

"Hey MAD," Nancy calls me by my initials and waves me over there. I look at Billy knowing he'd never let me leave his side because Steve is over there with Nancy. And knowing Mr. King of Hawkins, Harrington doesn't deserve to live.

"Scram beautiful." He winks at me and then flashes a smile. I look over at Nancy and Steve and they motion me more. I walk over to them, both giving me a look.

"What?" I ask in a defensive voice. Nancy taps her foot aggravatingly.

"You very well know what we are talking about," Steve says huffing.

"Oh, that? It's not new if that's what you think."I say, placing my hand on my hip.

"How long, Marlowe?" Nancy raises her eyebrows high.

"For a while. We never planned for this to happen. It just-" Nancy cuts me off.

"It just happened, right."

"We knew something was up Mar," Steve says rubbing my shoulder.
"How?" I look at both of them looking for an explanation.

"It shouldn't matter how," Nancy says.

"As long as he doesn't hurt you, we won't ask." Steve gives a supportive look to both me and Nancy.

"Well, he doesn't so," I say.

"So I guess we won't ask," Nancy says, eyeing Steve. I smile at the both of them. I hear a whistle coming from across the parking lot from Billy. I look over at him and nod. I say goodbye to Nancy and Steve and trot over to my boyfriend.

"We were just talking about you," I say in a sing-song voice.

"I heard." He says mimicking me in the voice. We walk into school with Billy holding me by the waist and smiling into my ear. We walk into our first class and everyone stares. I get why, but does everyone have to stare? Even our Anatomy teacher is staring at us. I like the attention, I must say, but things are only about to go down from here.

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I sit at the lunch table talking with Nancy about what happened in Anatomy when I hear a shrill of voices coming from the other table across the room. I see two people get up from the table and start throwing punches. A group of people start yelling "Fight, fight, fight" and it continues and I'm enjoying it until I realize who the people are. Jeffery and Billy, the jock and the jerk. Jeffery being the jock and you know what comes after that. Nancy looks at me with wild eyes and jerks her head in the direction twice and I move so quickly, that I have a dizzy flash. I recover and rush over to the two of them. "Okay shitheads, get away from each other, move, move, move," I say as I get between them, pushing them both.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing Dallas?" Billy yells at me, wiping the blood off his lip.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing Hargrove?" I yell louder.

"Well, would you look at that, Marlowe got you whipped," Jeffery said. Billy takes a step forward. I push him back even more and there's a tear that streams down my face. He knows what he has done and feels sorry, so with that, he leaves the cafeteria.

"Thanks for that London," I say, almost in full tears. I hold back as I try to get the statement out so no one in the room hears or sees me cry.

"Anytime Dallas, anytime." I rush out of the room to find Billy, who has three cuts on his lips and many bruises near his eye. I find him in the empty study hall room, trying to clean up his lip and face. I walk in slowly and he just looks at me with dark eyes. What have I gotten myself into?