down hill; billy hargrove

11.2

ANNABELLE WATCHED the way nancy and jonathan looked at each other. love. or the closest thing she'd ever seen to love. she found love as a blank metaphor. not really a meaning.

realistically, it was thrown around by people, kind of like profanities, which meant since a young age annabelle had always wondered what it was and how it felt. she saw it in both jonathan and nancy's eyes. something steve and nancy never shared. she still had no idea what it was, but she wanted it aswell, with someone.

"i've seen the way you look at him" she spoke to nancy who jumped. "if it is what i think it is, please end things with steve. for your sake, his sake, jonathan's sake and mine" she told her, giving her a slight smile before walking off, leaving nancy taken aback by what the usual raging, full of hated, girl had just told her.

annabelle watched with a smile while the gang reunited, as a slow song began to play, but the smile faltered when she saw lucas take kac to dance. "oh damn" she muttered, taking a sip of punch. she walked over to mike and dustin who were watching their friends dance.

"hey losers" she greeted them, throwing dustin a sympathetic look.

"lovers" mike corrected as annabelle rolled her eyes.

"wish me luck guys. im going in" dustin told her as annabelle sighed as he walked away.

"two dollars says he's gonna get rejected" she muttered to mike, who nodded.

"bet". she watched in pitty as her brother was rejected time after time, mike handing her a total of 10bucks.

"this is a hard watch" she muttered, before watching nancy walk towards her brother and walking away hand in hand, dustin looking star struck.

"hey freak" jonathan's familiar voice greeted. "seeing as we practiced earlier on in the week, how bout we cut in" he asked as she followed him onto the dance-floor. he placed his hands on her lower back and her hands around his neck as they swayed.

"this is nice" she muttered as he raised a brow.
"we dont hang out as much anymore, so its nice to do something. just you and me" she smiled, leaning closer to him.

"that's because your always with billy" he told her playfully as she nodded. "what happened that night anyway, between you and him, i mean" he questioned as annabelle shrugged.

[Flashback]
annabelle woke up, billy's arms tangled around her petit body. "hey" he mumbled into her hair as she gave him a smile.

"hey. want something to eat?" she questioned, getting up.

"you" he mumbled, tracing kissed along her neck.

"you really are something" annabelle chuckled, getting up.

"i get that a lot".

"of course you do" she rolled her eyes, remembering his fuckboy origins.

"pancakes?" she asked, walking out of the room as billt followed, pulling his jeans on on the way. "hey dust" annabelle greeted before her eyes widened at the realistation. "fuck" she muttered, grabbing billy's hand and dragging him into her room.

"pretty eager to take me to bed, aren't you" he chuckled as she threw his on the bed, locking the door.

"my brother's home" she exclaimed, pacing slightly.

"so?".

"so, he'll still be mad at you for last night. guess pancakes'll have to wait pretty boy" she told him, handing him his shirt and practically pushing him through the window.

billy chuckled, pulling her in for a kiss as she reciprocated it, before pulling away and shoving his face away with her hand. "you can borrow my car if you want, here" she handed him the keys, smiling as he nodded.

"see you soon?" he questioned as she nodded.
[End of flashback]

"i couldn't be bothered to drive him home so he stayed at mine" she shrugged, covering up some of the incidents. "oh, look" she smiled in awe as she saw mike and eleven dance. they watched the two dance for a moment before annabelle turned back to face him.

"you should talk to nancy about your feelings".

"what?".

"i see the way you look at each other. it's the same way mike and el looks at each other. i hope that says enough" annabelle told him plainly, looking into his eyes who were now on the curly haired girl dancing with dustin.

"what about steve?".

"you cant argue with love" she shrugged, pulling away from jonathan's grip. "i'm gonna go get some air" she excused herself, walking outside and lit up a cigarette.

"woah" a familiar voice muttered from behind her. she shot around to be face to face with billy. "you look- shit. you look beautiful" he stuttered, still taking her appearance in. his compliments effected her in a way no-one else could.

"thanks" she blushed looking down sheepishly as billy snaked an arm around her waist.

"damn" he breathed again, looking her up and down. "like, really beautiful" he mumbled once more, kissing her. "i've missed you".

"awe, look at billy hargrove being all cute" she chuckled "it's only been like two hours".

"that's too long" he whined, kissing her gently, once more.

she couldn't deny her lovey-dovey feelings for billy and neither could he, but none of them had wanted to admit it in case the other didn't reciprocate it.

"i have something to ask you" he told her nervously. annabelle stepped back, raising a brow. "do you maybe... want to be my girlfriend?" he asked her, a serious look on his face. he shuffled uncomfortably as he saw no change in annabelle's expression. she couldn't help but snicker at how he was acting.

"took you long enough" she chuckled, leaning in and within seconds their lips connected in a passionate kiss. annabelle pulled away after a moment, connecting their foreheads.

"im taking that as a yes by the way" billy informed her as she rolled her eyes playfully, pulling him in for another kiss. "i'll never get used to how good of a kisser my girlfriend is" he muttered as annabelle laughed, pushing his face away with her hand.

"dork" she spoke in a soothing voice, feeling ecstatic. billy noticed her shivering and sighed, before reluctantly taking off his brown leather jacket and placing it on her shoulders.

"give it back next time i see you okay?". rolling her eyes at him, annabelle nodded, before billy kissed her forehead and left.

A/n

sooooo not to be that bitch but i lowkey wrote this chapter in an hour and am impressed with how it turned out. dont get me wrong, i dont necessarily like it and i will deffo re-write some aspects of it in the future, but i was really bored so; have two chapters in the space of two days lmao.
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