So Um… Yeah….

Day 35 in the woods with the daughter I adopted (the son went missing)

no one will know which one it is.

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they match each other's freak

I'm so embarrassed I can't believe these two idiots occupy my brain.

this made me giggle

he cried over nothing

"Would you stop it?" Steve asks, making a face.

Billy lifts his finger - and boops his nose again. For like the fourth time.

"Nope," he says, popping the P. There's a toothy grin on his lips, eyes sparkling with mischievous joy.

Steve swats his hand away, trying to ignore the fluttering feeling in his chest. "Stop. It."

Billy purses his lips. "You're no fun, Harrington."

"You enjoy annoying me way too much." Steve rolls his eyes. He must admit, Billy is better company than he expected. They've been hanging out for a while now, sharing quiet smokes and a few beers.

Billy shrugs. "I like it when you scrunch your nose."

Steve frowns.

Billy's finger is on his nose again. "Boop."

There are dimples on Billy's face when he smiles. Steve's heart stumbles a little. Billy snorts.

Steve puts his finger against Billy's nose. "Boop yourself," he says.

Billy cackles. "I like it more when you do it."

Shit, Steve thinks. Billy is hot when he laughs.

Sometimes i think about Steve first finding out about the upside down, and how since that night his only wish had been for everything to come back to normal, as we see in season 2: he wanted to go to parties, act “like stupid teenagers”, didn’t want to see barb’s parents etc. and about how everyone in his life prevented him from doing so, starting from Nancy who, rightfully so, could not live in denial anymore; and then Tommy and Carol, who even tho were not involved in the upside down shit, still reminded him painfully of a person he no longer was nor could be. And also the kids, who drag him into the mess once again.

And then, in the midst of all these painful changes, here comes Billy Hargrove. A new, shiny thing. Completely unaware of the horrors hidden inside Hawkins. Imagine the thrill Steve must have felt in meeting someone so untouched from both him and the little scary town he had lived in for his whole life, and whose only thought was only that of finding a rival - and maybe a friend - in Steve.

If the duffers had been good writers, the reason why steve did not tell Billy about the upside down that night at the Byers would have been because Billy was his last shot at normalcy: familiar enough to comfort him with all the bickering and the thrill of the fight and the stupid teenager attitude, yet new and exciting in a completely different way.