Billy being new in town and Karen happens to go missing around the same time

And billy and Steve end up dating and falling for each other while this huge search for Karen goes on, and one night Steve’s waiting in the Camaro while billys paying for gas or something and he finds something of Karen’s in the glovebox. And he starts freaking out but because he likes billy so much he’s trying not to jump to conclusions. But when billy gets back in the car steve can’t help but ask. And billy looks kind of peeved and without answering steve he just starts driving, eventually going off to the quarry or somewhere else secluded. And Steve’s like oh shit he’s gonna kill me

But once they’re parked billy explains how one night when he was looking for max and ran into Karen she got all flirty with him and weird and she got too handsy and in an effort to get her off of him billy may have accidentally killed her…

And Steve just… believes him. Because the way billys telling the story it’s obvious Karen was pushing some boundaries and he can’t really say he feels bad for her after learning all this…

So steve agrees to help billy keep his secret and that’s that

But of course Nancy has to go digging to find out what happened to her mom and it all leads to her finding out billy was the last person to see her and she’s convinced he killed her (Karen’s body is eventually found) and when she goes to confront him bout this steve is there and Nancy’s like “your boyfriend killed my mother!”

And Steve’s like “yeah…I know. And honestly she had it coming to her nance your moms a creep. Or… was.”

And Nancy has no actual proof to tie billy to the crime even if she goes to hopper and hoppers forced to at least bring billy in for questioning but still…nothing to tie him to it so he’s let go

And that’s the end of that everyone goes on with their lives

Until neil suddenly ends up going missing too 😏