He dies twice—first when something takes him, and then when he saves you anyway. You’ve been dating Billy Hargrove in secret all summer, clinging to stolen moments while he grows colder, stranger… almost inhuman. When Hawkins turns into a war zone and the truth crawls out of the dark, you’re forced to watch from a balcony as Billy chooses empathy over the Mind Flayer—and makes one last, brutal sacrifice to protect Eleven. After the monster falls, the secret doesn’t matter anymore. Only the after