STRANGER THINGS

Future Plan

Mike had never been more happy than right now, laying under the warm sun on a hot July evening with El snuggled into the crook of his neck, their hands intertwined.

The two teenagers had decided to go for a walk. No real reason except to just, well to be their own, away from the teasing of their friends and the interruptions of Hopper. It was at this hill where both Mike and El could just be alone, together.

After a couple of minutes of just basking in the warm heat Mike looked down, to where El was playing with his fingers. He always found it cute when she did stuff like that. She would either attempt to braid his hair some days or draw shapes on his chest when they were laying, or like today play with his fingers. He didnt really get what was so interesting about his fingers but never brought it up, instead just watch on in wonder and adoration.

El, who had now stopped playing with his fingers, looked up to meet his eyes smiling her 'special Mike smile' which was only reserved for her boyfriend as she knew he loved it.

"Hi" she said.

"Hi" he answered, chuckling under his breath. Just her voice was enough to make him giddy.

"I've been thinking" she said after a while.

"Uh huh, bout what"

"Oh you know, the future, us, and what will happen"

He frowned slightly. He had never really thought about the future, thought he was too young to be thinking about that stuff but now that El brought it up it came clear to him that she was thinking about their future and a family and that made him feel... happy, no more than that, complete maybe would be the right word. He smiled thinking about a future that had his El, his beautiful El. He didn't care what happened to them in the future as long as they were happy and they were together he would always feel complete.

"And I was thinking, continued El hesitantly, about whether or not we would have... well kids, I mean... when were adults would you maybe...ur maybe want to"

"Of course"

She looked at him, her eyes wide, caught off guard by his answer. She hadn't expected him to even know what to say, let along say yes. She beamed at him and burried her head deeper into the crook of his neck, flinging a leg over his chest, practically on top of him. Mike pulled her closer leaning his head on hers and chuckled. She could be so cute sometimes. Of course he wanted a future with her and a family. Even though he had never really thought about it before, he knew that El was and always would be the only person he would ever want a future with.

"Well if we did have kids what would be there names?" El asked, breaking the silence.

"Hmm, well I've always liked the name Daniel for a boy, i mean its better than Michael"

El laughed hugging him tighter.

"Nonsense I love your name, I think it's great"

"Sure but you can't call our kid Michael, no matter how much you love the name, it would be too confusing" said Mike which made El laugh more.

"Well obviously we won't call him Mike, so yeah Daniel does sound good"

"And for a girl?" asked Mike.

"What about Chloe, that sounds pretty" said El.

Mike nodded.

"Yeah Daniel and Chloe, sounds nice".

"Yeah" agreed El. "But wouldn't we have to get married first?"

"Yeah,of course"

"Oh" said El. "So when would you want to get married?"

Mike laughed.

"I don't know we will have to wait and see,  but whatever happens I'll be happy because I'll get to do it with you" said Mike nudging El's arm lightly making you giggle.

"I think we would make great parents" she said.

"Yeah me too but lets hope they dont have my huge ass nose"

El snorted with laughter and propped herself up on her elbows to look at him.

"I don't know what your talking about, I absolutely love your nose, it's cute, it has all those face stars on it" she giggled, prodding his nose.

"Face stars?" he asked, laughing.

"Yeah, you know the ones that are on your cheek and arms, they look pretty"

Mike blushed. He didn't know El had ever noticed before.

"You mean freckles El, these are called freckles"

"Oh well there pretty, I like them" she said cutely, falling back into Mike's chest where he caught her and held her close, kissing her neck making her giggle uncontrollably. The two teens just stayed like that for a minute, rocking back and forth as the sun set in the distance.

El then let out a long yawn, signaling that they should probably get back soon before it got any later as the last thing Mike needed was Hopper restricting their time limits together.

"Cmon you we should probably get back, its getting late" said Mike trying to untangle himself from El and stand up.

"Noooooo, stay like that it was comfortable" whined a dreary El.

Mike checked his watch which read 8:30, he guessed they could stay out for another fifteen minutes seeing as it was summer break. So he reluctantly sat back down, to which El immediately crawled over him and sat between his legs, nestling her head in his neck and sighing contentedly.

Mike smiled and looped an arm around her, burying his head into her honey curls and closed his eyes. He returned yet again to rocking them back and forth slowly as the setting sun slowly became near to nothing apon the horizon.