vanilla skin // harringrove

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this wasnt just a one time thing.

billy had gotten plenty of letters in his locker before from girls and, occasionally, dudes telling him how much they looked up to him or wanted him to bone them.

as flattering as it was, he wasnt really interested.

despite what his reputation said about him, billy wasnt really that bad of a person. steve knew this, of course, but only because of-

certain reasons.

it was never talked about outside of the locker room or steves bedroom or the back of billys camaro. billy wasnt gay. steve was, of course he was. he was out to the entire school, hed dated a few guys here and there, but they were never anyone he really wanted to be with.

but billy wasnt a fag.

steve completely understood this, took it as a, "youre just a secret that ive managed to keep quiet about for a long time, and i plan to keep it that way." he was fine with it, so long as he was close to billy.

he wasnt a liar when he said he knew billys favorite thing about having sex - if that was even what it was - was getting to rip steves scoops uniform off of him and mark him up real nice.

and he wasnt a liar when he said that was his favorite, too.

he loved standing in the shower at home to admire each little mark billyd left on him, and he loved standing in the locker room at school, showing off every hickey to everyone who wanted to look, billy included.

as much as he wanted to blurt it out that billy was the best fuck hed ever had, he managed to keep quiet about it. not because he was embarrassed, but because he didnt want to lose him.

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the next time they had sex was in the bed of steves truck on the little cliff right on the edge of hawkins. billy invited him out, joked about it being a date, and it kind of was. they had snacks and blankets and they spent most of the time cuddling, honestly, and it was fine because they werent in love, just fuck buddies.

the title was a little bit painful to steve, but he didnt let it show. he didnt mind being billys little secret, not entirely anyways, but he wanted more.

romance, in particular.

steve sat up after a bit, billys arms flopping back behind his head as he stared up at his partner - his fuck buddy - cocking a brow.

"what are you up to, harrington?"

he thought for a moment, before exhaling, leaning down to give him a quick kiss.

"i wanna have sex. right now."

this admittedly caught billy pretty off guard, as embarrassing as that was, but he shook his head and sat up as well.

"okay."

and they did. they had sex, and billy said he loved steve, and steve would be a fucking liar to say that he never said it bad.

billy loved him, and that was just fine.