STRANGER THINGS

Boyfriend

She waited for about ten seconds befits she gave up and opened her eyes to see Mike looking away with a red face and biting his nails.

Mike had to look away. She was using those puppy eyes and being so close to him he knew he couldn't take it any longer. His heart beat was increasing and he was blushing, knowing fully that he'd never get over her. But he won't believe that.

Plus, why was she being so touchy anyways? What would her boyfriend think if she caught her like this?

El frowned and scooted farther away from Mike, but not too far that their knees weren't touching. She looked down at her nails wondering why Mike is being so distant.

It was an uncomfortable silence.

Mike cleared his throat awkwardly and stuttered, "um... so do you want to study o-or..."

"Um," El brushed a hair behind her ear, not knowing why Mike would suggest studying when he was almost always the one interrupting their study sessions with kisses, "Y-yeah sure."

Mike got out some textbooks he had in his bag that he brought, and El's mood decreased. When she invited him over she was hoping he could read her a story or make eggos or take a walk in the forest, not do school things.

Mike was talking about some science thing when El decided to try again, and leaned her head on his shoulder. But to her surprise he moved away causing her head to fall off his shoulder.

El was surprised and looked down at her feet.

It was a minute later when Mike finally looked over to El, only to notice she was crying, biting her lip to make sure it wasn't too noticeable.

"El?" Mike questioned bringing her face up with his finger. This would be going against his rule of trying not mto care so much about her but she was crying. It's too painful to see.

"W-why," El sniffed, "Why don't you like being close with me anymore?"

Mike sighed, "Your boyfriend wouldn't like it."

El furrowed her eyebrows, "You're my boyfriend."

Mike turned red, "W-what? Um, well I- N-no James is, right?"

El remembered a James slightly, "Oh yeah, he asked me to be his boyfriend. I said sure. But you are my boyfriend too."

Mike rubbed his forehead, "Do you know what a boyfriend is?"

El nodded, "A friend that is a boy."

Mike face-palmed himself. That was it all along.

"Elllllll," Mike groaned, "James meant something different."

"He did?"

"He meant that he wanted to do things like kiss and hold hands with you."

El made a disgusted face which Mike couldn't help but to laugh at.

"But I only want to kiss you," El said, and Mike smiled and blushed.

"Then you need to go up to him and tell him you want to break up."

"Break up?"

"Yeah. Breaking the boyfriend-girlfriend thing. Boyfriend means something more than friend."

"More than friend," El repeated and grinned, "Like you."

"Like me," Mike chuckled.

The next day El broke up with James and all his friends made fun of him because his girlfriend broke only after one day.

But that didn't matter, because El had Mike as her one and only.