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From the short time that El had spent with Mike the previous evening, she couldn't help but not think about it. His smile and kind eyes always appearing in her mind when she closed her eyes. Every passing thought she had was about him and he stuck inside her mind like super glue.
Her brain seemed to like reminding her quite a lot about the night before. How he offered to dance with her when Dustin was too occupied with Chloe. He didn't seem to mind at all, just two friends dancing. It didn't mean anything.
The only thing that meant something was El's growing feelings. They'd always been there, but just subconsciously in the back of her head. Now they were more vibrant and more visible to her, now she could recognize the feeling she got when he was around her. The feeling she got when he walked into the diner.
When she saw him, she felt her heart sinking and rising at the same time. She could feel the heating up of her cheeks, and the tingling sensation in her fingertips. The way she felt so happy when he would ask about her day and how he was always so caring and interested in her world and not just there for his reasons.
But when she thought about how he had a girlfriend, she felt incredibly lonely. Sometimes she would feel like crying or screaming but it would be no use because, in the end, her feelings would still be there growing inside her.
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Today El was not feeling like herself, she'd done a lot of thinking last night. Specifically from the events that occurred. When Mike and Chloe left the night before she was happy because of the things that had happened. He called her pretty and they danced around the diner without a care in the world. And when she got home she thought and thought about it and now the thinking caused her to become sad.
She couldn't stop thinking about how she could never have Mike, and even if she could it would take a long time. She entered the diner with the frown she'd woken up with and flipped all of the light switches on and started to get the diner ready for the day. She tried not to think about Mike but yet again he was stuck inside her head and refused to leave.
Listening to music wouldn't help because she would just think about the song they danced to. Everything reminded her of him.
The small bell above the door rang and El looked up to see Dustin walking in, right away he noticed her frown- which she tried to hide when she noticed him.
"What's wrong?" He asked. "Nothing."
"Yeah right. What's wrong?" He asked again, staring at her in concern. "Nothing!"
"El," He said sternly, "There's nothing wrong, I just um, got my period today so not feeling great." That was a lie, but anything for him to get off her back. He didn't question it so he changed the subject, "Need any help?"
"No."
Dustin noticed something was off, he knew she wasn't on her period because she had it a few weeks ago. Unless it came back again? He didn't understand how it worked.
