𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐆，Billy Hargrove【𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐎𝐎𝐍】

⸢𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐧𝐢𝐧'.⸥

Phoebe Sinclair had a firm rule in life: No one gets to be mean to her little brother.

Sure, he was an absolute menace, a walking natural disaster when surrounded by his equally chaotic friends, and the kind of nerd who corrected your grammar mid-sentence. But only she got to bully him-everyone else? 𝘖𝘧𝘧-𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘴.

That included the new guy.

A guy who just so happened to be a bit handsome. Not in a 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦-𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘱-𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨-𝘢𝘯𝘥-𝘴𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘯 kind of way. More like a mild inconvenience to her ability to ignore him.

Actually, scratch that. He wasn't even in the top ten of the best-looking people she'd ever seen.

𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: He didn't even make the podium.

𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰: Billy Hargrove was an asshole and she was a delightful human being, so there was absolutely no reason she should be thinking about him.

At all.

𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦: WHY WAS HE SO INSANELY IRRITATING?!

And why, dear God, why, was she now assigned to tutor him?

In biology 𝘢𝘯𝘥 chemistry.

If there was any mercy in this world, maybe the actual monster lurking around Hawkins would just eat her already and put her out of her misery.

｢𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘹 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳.
𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.｣