*TRIGGER WARNING* *ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP*
When El is about to ditch school, she finds someone beat her to it. They brush it off and move on to go to there destinations. Little do they know that this would not be the last time they would see each othe...
"Bye El! Love you!" El heard her BFF yelled across the field
"Oh I know, you tell me every day!" She yells back turning to face the group, walking backwards
"YES, I do. And you rarely SAY IT BACK!" Max complains
"Oh ok," El clears her throat and breaths in deeply, "IT!"
"EL!!!" Max whines and rolls her eyes
"Fine! I love you. Happy?!" El says mumbling the three word in between
"VERY! BYE!" Max had to holler at this point
El rolls eyes waving her bestfriend off
~~~ *After El Leaves*
"Why does she rarely say it back?" Mike asked right after El left
"Well...It's complicated, why don't you ask Max?" Lucas inquired
"LUCAS! Whimp, well it's long story, and not mine to tell. But long story short, in her childhood...um she had a...let's say rough time." Max said holing back tears remembering everything El told them
"So now she has trust issues and has hard time saying things like, um, I like you and, well, I love you." Max tried to explain
"Oh, that's really sad, and horrible! But Hopper and Joyce don't seem like those type of people." Mike stated
"Oh, NOT THEM! She was adopted by Hop, then soon Hop ran into my mom and the started to talk. But she's a real sister to me." Will explained
"That sounds really good for you both, I'm glad she has a safe family now. She deserves the best." He said
He made sure to mumble the last bit and thinking no one heard him
Little did he know, they had really strong ears because of the fact that El barely talked in the first year when they met
And only after a year after did she starting to formulate sentences, she would whisper her thoughts to the people she was closest to
Being only Max and Will, for years
She still did that with the group members she really trusted when she was nervous or at parties
I still made the group overjoyed when they remembered how far she has gotten with her trust and everything else
~~~ *Back at the Hopper/Byers residence*
"Mom! I'm home. Are you ready?" El yelled, putting her stuff down and going upstairs to get ready
"Yes sweetie, Let me know when your done changing!" Joyce yelled from the kitchen
"OK! I'll be down soon." El said picking out her outfit
She settled for a cute grey sweater dress and a cute beige Gucci belt and long black boot heels:
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"Cute outfit." Joyce said seeing El walk down stairs staring at her phone
"Really? Thanks." The brunet teen said putting her phone in her hidden pocket
"Of course! Oh we have to leave now. Your dad wants you to help him crack someone again." Joyce said casually
El's eyes widened
"CRACK!?" El repeated
"Yeah...Wait! Not actually, like help him get someone to give him information like last time." Joyce explained
"OH!" El exclaimed, "Okay, can we get me a suit. I wanna look like I mean business." El said putting on a serious face as they got to the car
Joyce looked at her and the both broke out in delightful laughter
"Yea of course, what colour?" Joyce asked
"Brown!" El stated excitedly
a/n: Hi, hope ur all OK on this...day! Next chap will be starting on Elinterrogating someone! Bye.
