It was 8 p.m., and mike had gone to Dustin's house to show him his new comic.
"hey dude"
"oh, the lover boy came! i thought you forgot me. you're with eleven the whole time!", he said sarcastically, but hiding a little blame in it
"oh, blame me now!", mike replied with a little tension
"i don't , i'm just saying..."
"i lost her and i found her after one year. ONE YEAR", he said to explain his absence from the party all this time
"chill! i was just kidding. you are in love and...in love...i get it"
"you didn't seem like that two minutes ago"
it was true. mike had neglected his friends these days, and the truth is that he didn't care. his mind was always at his girlfriend, all he thought was her.
he went to dustin's living room and showed him the comic.
"wow! it must cost a lot"
"actually, nancy bought it for me. since she and Jonathan started dating, she has become pretty awesome"
"look, mike, i didn't plan to tell you but..."
"but what?", mike replied nervously
"at the snowball, she danced with me...and she told me i'm her favourite...i think she's into me, not Jonathan"
mike started laughing hard at the thought of Nancy having a crush on Dustin. It was ridiculus.
"yeah, Dustin, she likes you!", he said, laughing more than he ever did.
"really?", he said, with a smile on his face
"of course not, you idiot", cutting his smile
"you can't see anything mike! you can't see she has a crash on me"
"yeah sure" mike started leaving dustin's house and headed towards the door
"where are you going?"
"actually, dustin, i forgot, el and i have to go somewhere"
"you fuckin' asshole told me you'll stay here to read the comic!"
"read it alone! oh, and call nancy to see if she'll come"
"i'd love to fuck your sister, wheeler"
"eww! oh god"
he left the house angry and headed for el's. she was waiting for him with Hopper outside of their house.
"Mike!", she said and hugged him.
"Hey El! Chief", in the sound of Hopper's name, everybody froze
"Wheeler, not touching, not doing mature things and not going anywhere alone"
"gotcha"
"dad, what is mature?", el said innocently
mike almost caughed.
"it means not good. not good", Jim replied, careful not to say anything "mature"
"okay, mike, today my hair is mature"
"god, el, don't tell anyone that! just don't say this word, okay?", mike told her, embarassed that they were in front of her dad
"wheeler, if she does anything stupid i'll.."
"she won't"
"el, be careful with these boys"
"i will, daddy", she said and hugged him. then, they got on mike's bike and left.
"where are we going?"
"central square"
he biked for almost five minutes, and he stopped in the square, where they found will, max and lucas.
"hey", lucas said
"hey guys! we didn't expect you here" mike said, and they trully didn't.
"hey el!", max told, with her juicy voice.
"hi"
el never really liked max. even though she knew she wasn't into mike, but Lucas, she was still suspicious.
"so, we went to the arcade and max took our asses on dig dug AGAIN, but i won her at packman" will said
"yeah and then we came here to eat some ice-cream" max added
"ice cream huh? i love chocolate!" eleven with her cute voice said
"i'll buy you later one, okay?"
"okay, Mikey"
"no Max, we WOULD eat some ice cream, instead i ATE IT ALL ALONE! CAUSE YOU LEFT ME ALONE!", will said furiously
"oh come on man, we..."
max blushed and looked at the floor. lucas was holding her hand
"why did they leave?" mike asked will
"making out of course"
"outside?", mike said almost shocked
"yeah wheeler, tell me you are scared of making out in the dark" max said and mike almost turned red from fury
"lucas, i didn't know your best option was making out with a slut", he said, wanting to hurt her
"fuck you wheeler"
"i thought lucas would do that, bitch", he said, and took el's hand and got away from them.
Oh god! eleven! he didn't pay attention to his words all this time and she heard everything! she heard all those dirty words and sayings, which basically were mentioned by them every day, but not in front of her. everyone forgot that she was there.
they sat on a bench, at the other side of the square, far away from the other guys
"mikey...I"
"i think i know what you'll ask"
"el, you should never say hopper these words", he continued
she looked at him with a suspicious look
"el, i'm serious. he won't let me see you again and he'll burry me alive"
"you have to tell me what they mean"
"they are bad words. mature"
"i want to know what they mean"...."i have heard some of them on soaps but i didn't know what they mean"
"can we do that another time?"
"no, we can't. n-o-w"
"go on. ask"
"what is ass?"
"oh, that's an easy one. it's another word for buttcocks. but it's bad"
"slut?"
"a really bad girl", he said, not even thinking the concequences
"bitch?"
"it means exactly the same"
"so you said mature things to Max? You told her she is a bad girl?", she said with a smile on her face
"i did. el seriously don't tell ANYONE these words"
"i won't"...."and what is make out?"
mike's cheeks turned red when he heard that. he wasn't ready to explain that to her, but he should do it so. she was old enough to know that
"it is.....more kisses"
"we do more kisses. every day. why did they look that nervous?"
"we do not make out.... basically max and lucas kissed for many minutes, without stopping and they actually touched each other"
"i touch you too mike. your neck...and your head"
"i don't mean that...it's like, touching more"
"i can't understand"
"they touched under their necks el"
"okay? it's not anything special. i wanna make out with you now"
"what? no, el, we're..."
"come on"
"we will not. that's exactly what Hop told us not to do"
"You are listening HOP now?"
"at least not now El. just stay in our normal kisses, okay?"
"okay"
"and what is fuck?"
mike almost jumped. he run his fingers through his curls and cold sweat run on his neck. he couldn't answer that word, he basically didn't know exactly it's meaning. and el was too innocent to hear that, she would be shocked, even terrified. yeah, she definitely would.
"i...can't answer that"
"why?"
"we are too young"
"too young?"
"it's an adult thing. please el, don't ask me about that I-"
"why?"
"i can't tell you. it is too mature"
"oh, come on.."
"i won't. please, don't say any of these words again. please!", he said tremously, cause eleven saying one of them was the end of his.
"do you promise?"
"i promise mike"
"good. let's grab you some ice-cream, before i have to turn you back home, he said, while kissing her lips slowly. he grabbed her hand and led her at the ice cream shop, and while she was taking her ice cream, he stood next to will, max and lucas and talked to them in secret.
"if you fucking tell those words in front of her again, and especially you(pointing at max) i'll kill you"
"oh, mike, tell me you had to explain her what all of these meant? i'd pay a million to see your red, nerdy face telling her that", maxine told with her sarcastic style
"no, i only explained that slut and bitch are the perfect words to describe YOU"
el came with her ice cream and mike returned her home. and he was nervous, really nervous about el's vocabulary now, knowing she can say all those dirty things to her dad. he just hoped that she won't.