Time Sensitive ~Eddie Munson~

010

I woke up when we finally arrived. I'm not sure how I slept but I did. I look out at the beautiful light sky. It wasn't like it changed at all. I stand up, grab my bag of luggage I brought, which was all I brought. I exit the plane, looking for Mike. I see him and wave, "I thought I fucking lost you."

He laughs and points at El, Will, Jonathan and Argyle, which at the time I didn't know what their names were but I do now. I see Mike hug El, Will and then Johnathan and Argyle tell him that Mike's shirt is fake. I laugh, "Who is this Mike?" El asks, giving me an evil look.

"El, I called you yesterday about her. Maddy, show her," He says looking at my arm.

I pulled my arm up and showed her my number 009. I looked her in the eyes, "Mike said you could help me understand why I have this. My mom does drugs so I can't ask her for an honest answer."

She pulled her arm up and showed me her number 011. I smiled and so did she, "You seem to know a lot more than I do," I say.

She nods, "I remember everything."

I shake my head, "Peter, my dad, helped me escape when I was young."

She looks confused, "I don't remember Peter, did he work there?"

I shrugged, "My mom said he worked there. I was stolen away by an older man-."
El cut me off, "Papa."

I looked at her confused, "Papa? I recognize that."

Mike looks at me, "Can we finish this later?"

We all nod and go to Argyles pizza van. He drove us to Will's house which was really nice, I must say. We all go in, "Oh, I wasn't expecting you to bring someone else Mike," Will's mom said, "I'm Joyce, nice to meet you."

I smiled, "I'm Maddy."

We all mingle for a bit before El brings me upstairs, "You can sleep in here with me. We don't have another spare room. We can be friends."

I smiled, "I'd like to be friends."

She looked at me, "He's dead, I killed him," El said.

"Who's dead?" I asked

"Papa, I watched him die," She said with a straight face.

I thought she was crazy, I really did. But when I remembered everything, I realized she was right. "You have powers?" I asked.

"I did. I lost them."
I looked at her confused, "How? I don't have mine either."

Mike knocks on the door and we both look, "We're leaving to go to Rink-O-Mania."

We both get ready and we leave. We arrived at Rink-O-Mania. When we walked in Mike and El were talking while Will and I both walked behind, "You're Will right?" I ask.

He smiles, "Yeah, And you're Maddy."

I nod, "Looks like we are great third wheels today huh."

He nods and laughs. We all get our skates on and go to the rink. Will and I just skate around while Mike and El go off to do their own thing. I look over my shoulder to see a blonde girl walk in with a bunch of others.

We sit down at a booth and we all talk about how Hawkins and California are different. I see the blonde girl and her posse walk over. I look up at her to see her looking at El weird. El kept saying that she had a friend named "Angela" but I expected more. "Where, oh where have you been hiding this handsome thing?" Angela asks.

I could see the blunt fear on El's face as she said, "Oh, Angela, thi- This is Mike... My boyfriend."

I sat back and crossed my arms sighing. Angela gives me a look and puts her gaze back to El and Mike. Angela sticks her hand out to Mike, "Angela. Pleasure."

Mike looks at her smiling, oblivious to the situation, "Heard a lot about you. It's really cool to finally meet some of El- Jane's friends."

I was so confused why he called her Jane and not El but I didn't say anything. Angela went on again, "Friends? Yeah, super cool. Come on, friend," And her posse started laughing.

I sighed louder and harder than before, which got her and the rest attention. Angela grabbed El's hand and brought her to the rink with them. Angelas minion grabbed El's drink from her while they walked away. Will stood up and I turned back confused. I saw Angela holding El's hand and skating with her. A camera was pointed at El and I tapped Will to see if he noticed it too. Mike and Will start to get into an argument while I skate to the rink and try to save her. The guy playing music plays Wipe Out and all I could say was "Oh shit."

Everyone started circling El while all I could do was stand back and watch. El started to slip and I didn't know what to do. I see Mike trying to get the music turned off but that just makes it worse. The music stopped when I saw some guy throw El's drink at her. I started to run toward her but she was gone before I reached her.