"Dustin truth or dare, my son?" Lucas questioned, rolling over in his blanket so that he could wrap himself like a burrito.
"Dare, daddy." He answered in a high pitched, kid-like voice. Of course he said it to be funny, that would've been pretty awkward if he had actually meant it.
"Shut up, my moms on the phone." Mike whisper yelled, holding the telephone to his chest as his friends choked on pizza and bursted into fits of laughter.
"Oh like that's actually your mom, I bet it's El." Max responded, rolling her eyes at all the complaining he has been doing in the past hour.
"Give him a break, he's just stressed out because he misses his girlfriend and she's finally coming back after what...one week of camping?" Lucas said, grabbing another slice of pizza.
Mike hung up after whispering something, "What, that's a pretty long amount of time, if any of my friends in general were gone for that long I'd miss them." He tried to defend himself but ended up failing as max reminded him that Will went as well.
"Okay fine, yeah I miss her a lot." Mike admitted, taking a seat next to the group.
"Take a break from her." Lucas suggested, being completely shut down by him.
"Ha funny." He laughed, "oh that wasn't a joke?"
"No mike. Whenever she's with us you aren't mentally here, and then when she isn't you aren't physically here. It's stupid."
"What's stupid, having a girlfriend?" Mike pouted hearing a few snickers from Max and and a few muffled 'noises' from Dustin.
Lucas furrowed his eyebrows saltily, "I have max-
"As if loser." She sang, grabbing a few dropped cheeto's off the carpet.
"Who's stupid now?"
"Shut up."
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"Okay, so I have a game." Lucas suggested. It was currently 12:38 am and the 4 of them were doing dumb stuff. Anything but sleeping of course. Who sleeps at a sleepover?
"What?" They questioned simultaneously, looking to each other with completely different expressions.
"Truth or dare, boys-and girl."
"We played that earlier but whatever."
"Mike." They all called out as he came stumbling down the hallway, "uh, I spilt grape juice on the carpet-so.. I'll play yeah, okay."
"So mike, truth or dare."
"Dare." He muttered.
"I dare you to pretend you're mad at el tomorrow. If you don't I'm telling your mom you broke her vase while attempting to show el how to roll out stuff with a rolling pin."
Mike gasped dramatically before dropping it back into a unamused face, "no."
"I will tell her Mike."
"You have no proof."
"Yes I do, I'll just show her the part where those black flower prints were supposed to be."
"Shit."
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"mike." el smiled. She was finally home along with Will and he was the only thing on her mind since the trip.
He smiled weakly before turning away from her, looking out his window.
"what are you looking at?" She asked, approaching the windowsill that mike was leaning on.
"Nothing, why are you being so nosy. Jeez El." He snapped, walking out of his room, leaving El a confused mess.
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"Hey El, what are you up to?" Nancy smiled. it was currently 8 am and she was about to attend a part before noticing the young girl in the kitchen.
"Making Mikey breakfast." She shrugged as Nancy nodded and waved.
As soon as the door shut and eleven heard the lock click, mike came down the stairs almost on cue.
'Perfect timing' she thought looking over at the toaster.
The eggos inside were dark brown, almost black. She knew that was not how they were supposed to look like.
"El, what are you doing. You're gonna burn the damn house down." Mike coughed, taking the eggos out and throwing them away.
Then he ran back up the stairs, feeling guilty as ever.
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"Hey mike, I uh- I made you a card. I'm sorry."
Hearing her words made him want to kick himself in the face. She didn't even do anything wrong and is still saying sorry.
"El..
Mike trailed off. He couldn't bring himself to say anything else, so he grabbed the card and tore it.
Eleven ran away shortly after.
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"He's probably just tired of me." Eleven sniffled, laying down on Nancys bed and staring at the wall.
"He's probably thinking about whether or not to send me back to the lab." She hugged her stuffed bear closer to her chest.
"I'll miss him. I'll miss him a lot, I wish I could just hug him all day. Even though he probably won't miss me. Who would miss me anyway? He probably likes that Jennifer Hayes girl that was crying at Wills funeral. She's so much prettier than me, and mike doesn't have to explain things to her." Eleven wiped the tears off her face, the ones she didn't even know were falling.
"El." Mike walked into the room, feeling terrible about everything.
"I know I'm so-
"No I'm sorry El, you have nothing to be sorry about. You should be the mad one."
Eleven furrowed her eyebrows.
"Lucas gave me this stupid dare. I knew I shouldn't have taken it, even if I would get in trouble.
Everything you said just know is wrong, just so you know. I'd never send you back, when you went camping for 2 weeks I couldn't stop thinking about you.
And how could you think I'd like Jennifer Hayes more than you? She's nothing, just a tiny little pedal, while you're a whole garden.
(I'm sorry that last line was cheesy I couldn't think of anything OK 😂)
I'm sorry, you should be mad. It's okay if you wo-"
Eleven cut him off with a tight hug which surprised him but also relieved him.
"It's okay Mike, just don't do it again ok?"
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"Hey, I made you a card." Mike smiled, placing it next to elevens plate of waffles, which he also made.
"I didn't deserve the card you made me anyway."
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Well I did it, sorry it took so long School is being a pain:(
hope you guys liked this anyway:)