Soft boy// Billy Hargrove

Ch12

***a few months later***

Billy had just got a job as a lifeguard at the local pool. Today was his first shift. As billy was already pretty well known by all the people in Hawkins, it wasn't hard for him to settle in fast.

When it was time for his shift he walked out of the offices and immediately a few of the mums sitting there started hitting on him. I rolled my eyes and kept walking along with Billy. He climbed up onto his lifeguard chair and I went for a swim.

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We got back to my house and dad had prepared lunch for us already. We all sat down at the table to eat. We started talking about how our days had been going, ect, ect.

We talked for a while before me and billy decided to go upstairs to his room. We sat on his bed for a while hand in hand and just talked about what's been going on. A while after Billy sighed, I asked him if he was ok and and he looked at me and, I thought he was about to cry "hey, are you ok? You can tell me anything" I said softly and smiled. He took a deep breath in and started explaining something about his mum, about why whenever we where on the beach he started getting flashbacks. "Awe bubba" I said after he finished talking. We layed down and billy rolled over so I was facing his back. I could hear him crying so I wrapped one arm around him and moved as close as I could to his side.

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We must of fallen asleep cause when I woke up it was early morning, as usual billy was already downstairs making some toast. "Good morning sleepyhead" he laughed as I walked downstairs, "morning" I said quietly and sat down at the table. "How are you going?" I asked "pretty good, I- I think I just needed to get some of that stuff off my chest" "sorry if I get annoying" he whispered.

It was Saturday so we just sat on the lounge and watched tv most of the day. I layed my head on Billy's lap and he played with my hair. In these moments I felt like the luckiest girl alive.

***a week later***

We where sitting in the car on the way to pick up max, we were gonna spend a day with her since we havn't seen her in a while.

We got to Billy's house and as usual I went to and get Max, I knocked on the door and Neil opened it, looked at me, then called Max to come to the door, max ran down the stairs with her bag and skateboard. She got to the door looked at me and smiled, as we were walking off Neil yelled out to Billy, who was still sitting in the car "HEY! BILLY! Look after your sister!" Billy nodded. Me and Max hopped in the car and we sped off down the road.

We were planning to go to the skatepark then the pool then just back to my house to have dinner and watch some tv.

"That was a great day!" Max said excitedly. I laughed "yeah, it was pretty good".

***Later that night***

Dad got home later than usual. He cane and sat next to us, whilst we were watching tv. He asked why Max was still here "Hi Max! Why are you still doing here? It's getting late" we looked at the clock "OH! I didn't even realise! C'mon Max we better get going" I said "let me take her" day replied "you two can get ready for bed and I'll take her home" he said. "Ok, thanks dad, bye" I said softly, as he shut the door he gave me a soft smile and drove off.

Me and Billy walked upstairs and got ready for bed. He got in bed and I came in afterwards. "Goodnight babe" he said "goodnight, I love you"
"Love you too" he replied
"Your such a soft boy" I smiled, then fell asleep.