what if William is just Billy's middle name and his first name is some hippie shit like "River" or "Leaf"
yes omg BSJSHSJH river is such a pretty name and like it kinda suits billy?
i feel like his mother would be really connected to nature and stuff so she’d give him a really cool outdoors-y name lol. but then neil would kinda insist on giving him a “proper” middle name. so neil just starts calling him ‘william’ and ‘billy’ and then it just sticks.
steve accidentally finds out. maybe billy has a box of his mother’s belongings in his car and he’s just going through it with steve. and steve finds those hospital bracelets that they give to newborns and it says “river william hargrove” in blue ink.
steves just like ??? who’s river? are you river???? and billy suddenly gets shy and he’s blushing and shrugging. but steve doesn’t let it go until billy tells him that his mother actually named him river.
so steve becomes obsessed with that name. just thinking of the name ‘river’ makes him smile a little because it’s so perfect for billy. and he starts calling billy “riv” sometimes. or maybe “rio” when they’re being really playful with each other and it always makes billy chuckle.
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