Keep me Closer - Billy Hargrove - Stranger Things

1: Strange

My name is Quinn Byers, last year I was driving my brother will home, we saw this skinny and scary creature and we got scared and I crashed the car into a tree, we both ran home. I told Will to hide in the shed while I called 911. The phone wasn't working so I went to hide with Will,  and he was gone. I was running to town to find literally anyone to help and that's when the people from Hawkins lab kidnapped me and tested me with powers and tortured me.

Now me and will are both back and everyone calls me and Will the Zombie twins. We aren't twins. It just sounds better then Zombie siblings I guess.

School has been a disaster. Now that I have these powers my anxiety has tripled. School has been difficult. I try not to have friends, which I know is a weird thing to say. But the more people that know about my powers the bigger danger I'm in. Some people were sympathetically nice to me. Some were rude. But Nancy Wheeler was my friend. She knew everything that happened to me. And she was the only one I could talk to about it. Other people knew, for God's sake Steve freaking Harrington knew, but I couldn't go up to Steve Harrington and confess all my problems. So yes, Nancy was my best friend.

When I got to school today I was fixing my locker and straightening it when I heard and unfamiliar voice in the halls.

I saw girls around me basically mentally undress as they stared at who I assume was a new guy.

I didn't care enough to look behind me, but then my curiosity got the best of me. I turned around and saw him and then turned back to my locker trying not to make eye contact with anyone. I shut my locker and walked to 1st period. We still had 5 minutes before class started but I had no interest in standing in the hall way staring at an already clean locker pretending I'm doing something for 5 more minutes.

" Hey Quinn." Nancy smiled and sat next to me. I sat up straight and put my pencil down from drawing
and I looked at her.

" Hey Nanc." I smiled.

"Did you see the new guy?" She asked.

I picked my pencil back up and started to draw again. "Yeah, just a second ago before I came in here."

"He looks like a douchebag." She scoffed.

" Most guys here are." I said not looking up from my paper.

" You okay? You seem a little, off. "

" Hm? Oh yeah no I'm fine, it's just.." I put my pencil down and looked at her. " Will.. keeps.. Will keeps getting worse. My flashbacks keep getting worse. A lot worse. He keeps having these.. what they call episodes and well, ever since..." I looked around me and whispered. "Ever since last year, nothing had been the same. For either of us. But it's worse for Will. He's quieter. So am I but, I don't know. It's just.. it's getting worse. I feel bad for him. He's so young." I said and started drawing again.

I saw her sympathetically frown in the corner of my eye which I wanted to gag at. I had to constantly 20 times a day remind her not to give my sympathy or pity. I get enough of it from everyone else and I don't need it from her. But she continues to give it to me anyways.

* ring *

As soon as the bell rang, instantly a crowd of people swarmed into the class and took their seats.

**

After school I was walking to make my way home and I saw the new guy smoking and leaning against his car. He looked at his watch and the the middle school door and rolled his eyes. He glanced at me and we made eye contact for a split second then I looked away and back at the ground and walked forward clearing my throat.

" Hey," He said. I lifted my head looked at him and then behind myself to see no one else around me.

" Me?" I asked

" Yeah." He said.

" Why me?" I asked.

" What do you mean?" He asked inhaling a puff of smoke.

" Why do you wanna talk to me?" I asked nervously.

He exhaled. "Is this how you usually start conversations?" He asked looking at me annoyed and I looked at the ground.

"Sorry." I said.

" Billy. " He said.

"What?"

" My name is Billy, now this is the part of the conversation where you tell me yours."

I cleared my throat and walked over to him.

" Quinn."

" Ohh, So you're Quinn Byers huh?"

"Uhh.. Yeah.. someone talking about me?"

" People told me your kind of the school freak. You and Uh Jonathan Byers. And for middle school it would be Will Byers. That's what I've heard anyways. What makes your family a freak?"

" Excuse me?"

" There's gotta be a reason they think your family is freakish.. right? They don't just make all that up." He said.

" What did you hear?"

" You and your brother got lost in the woods last year. Why does getting lost in the woods make you a freak?"

" They thought we died. "

" After 1 week?"

"Not that it's any of your business, but yeah.. after one week. " I said.

"Sheesh," He said and stood up straight getting off of leaning on his car. "What happened?"

"Why are you so interested in my life?"

"I'm not allowed to ask a question?" He asked putting his hand up in defence with a cigarette in between his index fingers.

"Why are you so interested in me?"

" So you can ask me questions but I can't ask you any?"

" You got your turns, now it's mine. Why are you so interested in me.

"i don't know curiosity? Does it matter?"

"I didn't see you as a guy that cared about a girls life story's or whether she's claimed interesting or not."

"Judging me on my looks Byers?"

"You just called me a freak like 5 times so I think I get a pass for assuming you have stereotype. "

"I didn't call you anything. I told you what other people are saying. "

" Why aren't you talking to one of the more attractive girls?" I scoffed.

" Have you seen the girls here?" He asked pointing his head down and looking at me over his sun glasses. Then he took his sun glasses off. " Look if you don't wanna talk to me fine, I was just making conversation. "

"I'm just saying, you wouldn't like me. "

"Why don't you let me decide that for myself?" He asked walking closer.

"Cause I'm a "freak". Do you wanna be seen around school hanging out with a freak, do you?"

" Do you actually think I give a crap what these idiots think of me?" He laughed.

" I'm just saying, you wouldn't like me."

"How would you know?"

" Trust me."

"You stalking me?"

" No, I'm just saying.. I- forget it. I'm just saying don't waist your time talking to me. I'm a nobody. You wouldn't like me. I don't like me. Why would you?" I asked and started to walk home. I preferred to walk home. It gave me time to be alone and to just think. And it a was good exercise.

A/N: thanks for reading!! it's been like 3 years since i originally wrote this, s4 just finished and i'm writing an Eddie ff now if anyones interested. thanks again i love you all <33