Love Like That

Chapter Six

Chapter Six: The body pt. 1
Third Person POV
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"You three, let's move," Natalie ordered the kids, motioning for them to grab their stuff before Hopper finds them. Natalie moved the kids deeper into the forest before stopping at a good enough distance. "Henderson, Sinclair, you two little shitheads better explain who she is and where she came from right now, do you hear me?" Natalie sternly spoke as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"She's new to our class," Dustin exclaimed, lying about how they met Eleven. "Her name is El."

"Bullshit," Natalie shook her head. "You have one more try before I tell Hopper."

"It's not bullshit!" Dustin tried to argue with the older teen, but Natalie knew him better than he knew himself. She knew he was lying to her because he rushed to answer her. Whenever Dustin lied to her, he just spilled random lies out his mouth before thinking and processing what she asked him.

"That's it," Natalie scoffed in annoyance. "I'm telling." Natalie turned and took a few steps forward as Lucas and Dustin whispered back and forth.

"We can't tell her!" Lucas whispered yelled at Dustin in frustration .

"We need her help!" Dustin argued. "She's gonna snitch on us if we don't tell her."

"She's bluffing!"

"She's not!" Dustin shouted back, knowing that Natalie would never bluff. If she makes a threat, she keeps to her word.

"Ugh! Fine!" Lucas groaned out, not wanting to argue anymore tonight.

"Natalie! Wait, please!" Dustin begged as he stopped the girl from walking away from them and towards Hopper and the rest of the police.

"Spill, now." Natalie ordered as she returned to her same spot.

"This is Eleven," Dustin started off as the random girl with a buzz cut showed her wrist with the tattoo of "011" on her wrist.

"Bad people," Eleven spoke up as she felt like she could trust Natalie with her secret for some reason.

"Bad people?" Natalie questioned confused on what that meant exactly.

"She's got superpowers," Lucas gushed in excitement before his demeanour changed. "They don't work the best but she has them."

"Superpowers?" Natalie raised an eyebrow, not believing the boys.

"Watch," Eleven muttered before reaching her hand out and snapping a tree branch in half, sending it crashing to the ground into two pieces.

"Sick," Natalie replied in shock with a smile on her lips. Natalie watched Eleven brush off the blood that was underneath her nose.

"Every time she uses her powers, her nose bleeds," Dustin explained as he noticed Natalie looking at Eleven confused. Natalie bent down to Eleven's level and gave her a hug.

"I'm sorry this happened to you," Natalie apologized as she hugged the young girl, not knowing how much pain and suffering she has been through in her short life. "Can I ask you something?"

"Hm?" Eleven questioned, tilting her head to the side.

"Do you know what happened to Benny?" Natalie asked with a sense that Eleven can help solve what happened to Benny.

"What happened to Benny?" Dustin questioned confused before Eleven could respond.

"He's dead," Natalie frowned. "Hop was told by the corner that it was suicide but I don't buy it. Neither does Hop really, but he's got a lot on his plate right now."