electric // mike wheeler

EL AND TEE

"No, no, no!" The black haired kid shouts, stopping her, 012 looks at them confused and then over to 011, seeing what was wrong. The black haired kid stood up and put the clothes on the floor by 012's head.

"Oh, my God. Oh, my God." The two other boys say turning around.

"See over there?" The black haired boy stammers whole pointing to a door, "That's the bathroom. Privacy. Get it?"

011 grabs the clothes and walks off with The black Haired boy as 012 stays in place, looking around from her little hiding place.

"What do we do?" The dark skinned kid whispers to the curly haired kid, watching 012 look around.

"I don't know, talk to her?" The curly haired kid replies before turning around to talk to 012.

"So where did you come from?" He asks her casually, she doesn't reply as she she sits up and groans a little. She stands up and starts to walk past, only to lose her balance from dizziness. The curly haired boy caught her and balanced her again before she was off, it was like looking at a toddler. She walked over to a board with little figurines on it.

"That's dungeons and dragons," The dark skinned kid says following her.

"D-Dragons?" She asks quietly, The curly haired kid smiles.

"See! I knew she could talk," He says to Lucas as the girl looks over to where the black haired kid is walking over. He grabs the clothes he placed on the floor and looked at her. Her eyes were already looking at him so he nodded his head for her to follow him.

He leads her to a little room that isn't a bathroom, but more of a storage area. She walks inside and he leaves the door a little bit open, like he did for 011.

"That okay?" He asks her. She nods before walking in and beginning to change, not hearing the conversation going on outside.

A couple minutes later, she walks back out and sees the three talking intently. She guessed it's about her and 011, but doesn't bother to listen in as she begins to look around the room again.

She sees a little area with pillows and a little machine called a walkie-talkie, she sits down with it and starts messing with the buttons.

011 walks over and sits down next to her and 012 smiles at the girl. 011 looks at the little machine that 012 was holding and takes it, inspecting it as the black haired kid walked over.

"Here you guys go. This is my sleeping bag. I hope you guys don't mind sharing," he says giving them the yellow sleeping bag.

011 starts setting it up as 012's eyes catch the dark haired boys. He smiles slightly and she smiles back before looking over at 011. The two other boys had left, leaving Mike with the two girls.

"Hey, um, I never asked your names," The black haired boy says to the two who are now sitting next to each-other on top of the blanket.

011 looks over to 012 for approval and she nods. The two roll up their sleeves, revealing the two numbers.

"Is that real?" The boy asks, reaching forward to touch 012's. 012 flinches back, "Sorry, I've just never seen a kid with a tattoo before." He apologises.

"I-it's o-o-okay," 012 says putting her wrist forward again, letting him trace his fingers over it. Something about the girl seemed familiar to him, but he didn't know what.

"What's it mean? Twelve? Eleven?" He asks the two, 011 points to herself and 012, "That's your names? Eleven and Twelve?"

012 nods at him as she pulls her sleeve back down.

"Okay. Um, well, my name's Mike. Short for Michael. Maybe we can call you 'El' Short for Eleven and 'Tee' short for Twelve," Mike says with a little smile. The two girls nod, "Um, well, okay. Night, El and Tee."

"Night, M-Mike," Tee whispers, the boy smiles and gets up and puts a blanket down, covering the two up before turning off the light and heading upstairs.

But two minutes later Mike returned, he walked over to the Den.

"Tee?" Mike whispers, Tee looks over at him to see he's holding a small pack of green balls, "cold peas for your bruise on you head, it'll help with the swelling," He tells her passing her the bag.

She nods with a small smile of appreciation as she puts it to her bruise, wincing at first at the coldness in contrast to her skin, but gets used to it as Mike bids her farewell, heading up the steps once again.

El and Tee lie down under the blanket and sleep back to back, both falling asleep quickly.

Luck was on their side that night.