El smiled twirling around in front of her mirror in a summer dress she had bought. A yellow strapless dress, the flowed out and stopped just above her knees. She put on light make up and her bright red lipstick. She had taken care to curl her hair letting it fall loose.
She heard a car honk and she smiled grabbing her bag. Will and Dustin had already left but El said she needed more time. Lucas and Max had left even earlier then that. So Mike agreed to pick up El and take her.
El smiled running out throwing her things in his trunk and hoped into his passenger seat of his car.
He smiled looking over at her.
"You look very pretty today," He said softly.
El smiled, a faint blush appearing on her face "Thank you"
"Ready for the week?"
"More then ever" she smiled as he took off.
The car ride was a few hours long. It mostly consisted of Mike and El blasting music on his radio and singing along.
"Mike... Can I ask you something?" She asked softly as she turned down the radio.
"Always" He smiled
"Can you promise me... No matter what happens senior year, we aren't gonna stop being friends. Dating, classes, prom, no matter what, we will be best friends. It could be our last year together" She whispered.
"El... I will never let anything come inbetween us again.. I promise.. I love you" He said softly and placed one hand on her leg as the other stayed on the steering wheel.
El smiled and nodded placing a hand over his "I love you too Mike" she whispered and he squeezed her leg before letting go.
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El and Mike pulled up into the driveway of the summer house as Max, Lucas, Will, and Dustin were standing outside waiting.
"El!" Max yelled running at hugging her.
"This is gonna be the best end of summer ever!" Max yelled.
Thier day was half gone because the drive was long so not much was planned for today.
"So there's only 3 bedrooms" Lucas started.
"And I assume you and Max are sharing one?" Mike smirked.
Max laughed nodding her head.
"Dustin and Will claimed the one bedroom with two seperate beds, so either El and Mike can share a king sized bed, or one takes the bed and one can take the couch"
El looked over at Mike
"I'll take the couch" he shurgged
"What?! No!" El yelled.
"I'm not letting you take the couch El, it's fine. I sleep on my basement couch enough"
"We can share the bed Mike. I don't mind" El said softly ignoring the states she knew she was getting .
"You sure?" He asked
"Positive. It's big enough. It'll be like old times and our sleepovers" she laughed.
Mike nodded and walked thier stuff up to the bedroom Lucas led them too.
~~~
The gang ordered pizza and had pizza for dinner. They wanted to get to sleep so they could have a fun filled day tomorrow. But then Max suggested a bonfire which everyone was excited for. They all gathered around the fire. There were four benches around the fire pit. One which had Lucas and Max. One had Dustin and his bag of marshmallows. One had Will and his drawling supplies. And one was where Mike and El were sitting.
The fire was nice, but still cold. El had a sweatshirt and.blanket around her but she was still shivering which Mike noticed.
"Come here" Mike said opening up his blanket for El to move closer. She had no argument. She scooted closer to him to steal some of his body heat. He smiled wrapping an arm around her to try to help warm her up.
The night consisted of them retelling stories and memories of thier childhood together. They all shared thier favorite memories and laughed about the good times.
"I think it's the that we called it a night" Lucas said standing up. Everyone nodded in agreement. El and Mike slowly walked up to thier bedroom for the week, El still shivering.
El climbed into the bed shaking. Mike smiled taking off his shirt leaving him just in sweatpants. He climbed into the opposite side on the bed and laid down. El didn't even wait for an invitation. She rolled and wrapped her as around him shaking.
"Jesus woman! Your freezing!" He yelled wrapping his arms around her.
"Warm-- warm me up" she stuttered.
He smiled rubbing his hands up and down her trying to warm her up. After a few minutes he noticed that she wasn't talking or moving so he moved moved slightly and pulled her into his chest keeping an arm wrapped around her. And that's how they fell asleep. Cuddled on a huge bed. As best friends.
El was first to wake out of the two of them, she fluttered her eyes opened being met with Mike's bare chest. She smiled not moving too content. They cuddled last night. What was the big deal. Friends could cuddle. After a few minutes she rolled out of bed without waking him and jumped into the shower.
Mike woke up to the sound of the shower running. He looked to see El gone.and could only assume it was her. He went downstairs seeing it was only them awake. He took it open his self to make Eggos and coffee.
He walked up to the bedroom seeing El brushing out her hair. "Breakfast?" He asked setting the Eggos and coffee in front of her.
El smiled looking up at him. "Your litterly the best Michael"
Mike smiled. "I try"
"I'm gonna be very upset when your not around to make me waffles and coffee" She pouted.
"I'm always just a phone call away" he laughed.
After he ate and drank his coffee he decided to go for a shower letting El finish getting ready.
El went downstairs in a red crop top, and black ripped short shorts, her hair done up in a high pony tail and her make up done as usual.
"Hey hot stuff" Max smiled looking up from her breakfast
"Hey" El smiled.
"How was the bed?" Max winked.
El rolled her eyes "Good. We slept. That's it"
Max laughed rolling her eyes.
They heard footsteps coming down the stairs and both the girls looked up.
Mike.was walking down the stairs, his jet black messy hair still damp, wearing cargo shorts and a blue Muscle top which was a sight they never thought they'd see. Even in summer Mike always just had these funky colored shirts tucked into shorts. But today he looked kinda hot.
El smiled looking up at him and Max coughed snapping out of it.
Max laughed running up the stairs to go get Lucas.
"You--you look good" El said sorta speechless.
Mike smiled walking towards her "You look pretty damn great too Hopper" he smiled and winked.
Els eyes brows shot up at the sudden flirt vibes Mike was giving off.
He took himself into the next room over leaving el leaning against the fridge feeling flustered.
No no no. She repeated in her head. You can not flirt with him. Friends. Just friends she repeated.
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~ A Complicated Love Story ~
FanfictionMike and El have been Best Friends for years. El has had a crush on Mike for years. Mike never paid much attention to it. Then they entered High School and feelings go wild.
