After '85

Chapter one The

September 5th, 1986
Illinois

It's been a year since the Byers moved to Illinois. It's been different, El and Mike do talk for hours a day, not able to see each other but they are still the same old Mike and El. Will does talk with Mike and Dustin every now and then, but not as often anymore because El ALWAYS loses the super-com so they spend lots of time looking for it.
   
    "Guys! Dinner!" Joyce called, "coming!" Will replied as he put away his coloring pencils. "Come on El, dinner," Jonathan said as he peeked in the door of her room, "coming," she said quietly -she still doesn't talk much, but she talks way more than she did, Joyce teaches her new words every day- El puts away the super-com remembering where she put it so she won't lose it again and she walks downstairs to the dining room and sits beside Will as always.
Their house is big, I mean 2 teenagers and 2 adults, it's always chaotic in the Byers house, the house is very beautiful though, the outside of it is a light gray, the walls on the inside are a very pretty wallpaper, it's home... for now at least.
   
I few times a day El, uncontrollably, makes something fly across the room, sometimes breaks stuff, one time it was a flower pot and it shattered once it hit the ground, water and flowers were everywhere, and that didn't only happen once, everyone's just gotten used to things flying around the house, El is trying to control her powers and is slowly getting better at it.
    "So El," Joyce began "I was thinking, maybe you can start school with Will."
"But the bad men" El pointed out
"The bad men are gone and they have been since '83," Will told El
"And I'm sure it'll be best if you start school with Will, I have more work days now, Jonathan does too, so Hopper's routine won't work out anymore, so maybe wanna give it a try?" El slightly nodded.
"Hey, mom...." Jonathan said, "I was thinking maybe I could go to this party, I mean everyone's going."
"Sorry Jonathan, but you said you'd help with the dishes tonight," Joyce replied
"Well how about I help tomorrow instead"
"Tonight would be better, plus you have work tomorrow, so no."
"Fine," Jonathan said before he took a bite of his food.
    El and Will were sitting quietly, El was playing with her food not hungry, and Will was stuffing his face with the delicious meal.
"You miss him don't you," Joyce said to El
"A little..." El said quietly
"Well he did what he did for you"
"I know, but wasn't there another way? One where he wouldn't have died?"
"There wasn't, but he saved everyone"
El sighed and nodded.
   
    After dinner, Will and El got ready for bed, El gets changed into a nightgown and Will gets changed into his favorite pair of PJ's which have a few of his favorite DND characters on them. Joyce came and said goodnight to Will and El, Jonathan barely slept that for whatever reason, well the two 15-year-olds slept well.
    It was the next morning, Will woke up El and they both got ready, El got dressed into one of her oversized button-up shirts and a pair of white jeans. Will got dressed into a gray long sleeve shirt and put on a black short-sleeved shirt on top, and for his pants, he wore a pair of sweatpants. Nothing special. El and Will got on the bus, Will made sure he sat with El so she would be less scared, Will was talking to El well she was either nodding or shaking her head, or quietly saying yes, no, or saying nothing at all not even shaking or nodding her head, it was obvious she was scared about her first day.

    Once they got to school, they both got off the bus, El was walking slowly, close to Will, there were many kids staring at El since she's new, this made her a bit uncomfortable. As soon as they got inside the principal came up to El,
"Hi, I'm Miss. White, you must be El," she said, El, not saying anything, nodded.
"I'll show you where your locker is, and I'll help you get a bit more organized" Miss. White said. El still said nothing.
"You're a shy one aren't you," The friendly principal said giggling.
"She's never around many people so it's gonna take a while for her to warm up to everyone" Will mentioned.
Miss. White nodded "I'll keep that in mind, well Will go ahead and go to your locker, I'll try to help out your sister here." Will nodded and walked away, still not a word has come from El's mouth.
    Miss. White walked with El to her locker and gave her a little lecture about the school's history like when it was built, how many teachers are there, that kind of stuff. I'm sure you already know, El has not yet said a word to Miss. White.
They soon arrive at El's locker, her locker says "El -grade 10" El opens her locker and puts her stuff inside, "You'll need your science binder" Miss. White said so El grabbed her science binder. Miss. White then shows El where her class is and shows her, her desk and everyone is staring at El once again since the class had started.
El sits at her desk which is right beside Will,
"This is your guys' new student, her name is El Hopper, she was adopted by the Byers, which means she's Will's sister, please be nice and don't pressure El to speak. Thank you." Miss. White said.
"Welcome to our class El, I'm Mr. Willson your teacher," Mr. Willson said kindly, smiling. You guessed it, El said nothing, she just slightly nodded.
"Is El short for something?" The teacher asked
"Elev--"
"No, her name isn't short for anything!" Will said interrupting El.
"Oh, it just seems like El is short for something. But El what were you about to say?"
"Nothing..." She said quietly
"Ok, well get out your textbook and turn to page 365." Mr. Willson said
That moment, El had many flashbacks from running away to Kali, saving that man, then the night...
"I called you every night, every night for--"
"365 days... I heard.." El interrupted Mike that night.
"El?" she heard faintly
Will then nudges her arm and she snaps out of it.
"El are you with us?" Mr. Willson said. She nodded and took out her textbook and turned to page 365.

So this is my first story, theirs 1141 words and I worked really hard on this hope you enjoyed it Chapter 2 is coming soon