Other Friends

11

"Found it! I knew she was hoarding it." Dustin calls out as he and Lucas were in the cafeteria kitchen looking for their treats, much to the older teens' annoyance of them wandering away from the group. "Mike, I found the chocolate pudding!" Dusitn screams out, causing Lizzie and Mike to eye roll.

"Okay!" Mike shouts back, before going back to talking with Eleven.

Lizzie was sitting by herself twisting her ring out of worry as she thought about Windy going into the horrible place to look for Bella. She was brought out of her thoughts by headlights shining in the window and tires on gravel.

"Nancy. Hold on, I'll be right back." Mike says, causing the teen to get up and follow him. "Stay here."

"Hold up dude, you can't go alone." she scolds him.

"I'm not alone, you're here." he says, making her bite her tongue as they open the door only to see multiple cars and vans pulling up and parking all around the school.

"Shit. Go, go, go." she ushers him inside, and they race back to the cafeteria.

Mike enters first wasting no time, "Guys! Guys!"

"What is it?" Lucas questions.

"They found us." Lizzie answers, making everyone's eyes go wide. "We gotta move, and fast."

They listen to the teen, grabbing their stuff, leaving the pile of pudding and rushing to an empty hall. "How did they find us?" Lucas questions once they get distance from the cafeteria.

"I don't know but they knew we were in the gym." Mike answers as he checks for if they were being followed.

"Lando." Dustin replies.

"This is no time for nerd talk." Lizzie tells the boy, causing him to sigh.

Before he could reply the doors in front of them opened to reveal guards. "Got'em!" one of them says.

"Go, go, go, go, go!" Mike shouts making them all turn around, Lizzie now at the front of the group and they run back up the stairs and down the hall as the guards shout at them to stop.

Turning a corner they see more flashlights up ahead, "Come on." she tells the pre-teens, turning around to rush down another hall but stops when they become blocked on all sides. Guns were trained on them all as they looked around.

The lights suddenly begin to flicker making the group look towards Eleven who was glaring at an older woman who had her gun pointed at her. Slowly, blood began to drip from the woman's eyes, and then from the guards until finally they all dropped. And then, so did Eleven.

"El, are you okay?" Mike asks as they all kneel beside her. "El!"

"Stop shaking her!" Lizzie tells the boy, moving to check her pulse. "She's alive."

"Something's wrong." Mike argues.

"She's just drained." Dustin rationalizes.

"No, no, no, she won't wake up. El! El! El!" Mike continues to shout.

"We have to move Mike." Lizzie tells the kid, "I got her." She goes to pick up the fallen girl.

"Leave her." a man says, making them all look down the hall as an older man and a few guards follow him and approach the group. "Step away from the child."

"No!" Mike shouts, "You want her, you have to kill us first."

"Mike, they have guns." Lizzie whispers to him.

"Then go, I'm not leaving." he whispers back before glaring at the man.

Seeing as no one else was moving to leave, Lizzie stayed with them. "That's right! "Eat shit!" the other two shouted before suddenly all four of them were grabbed from behind and dragged away from El.