After 6 years, Eleven finally appears. But not the El Mike, Dustin and Lucas knew back in '83. She can't recall many words, or remember how to read properly. She's scared of people who love her, unable to deal with the intensity of their emotions. M...
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There was Mike.
The nausea swirled unrestrained in his empty stomach. His head swam with half-formed regrets. His heart felt as if his blood had become tar as it struggled to keep a steady beat. Mike's melancholy mood hung over him like a black cloud, raining his personal sorrow down on him wherever he went.
But soon, his sadness turned into anger.
Mike reached out and went to punch Levi in the face. When his fist came in contact he fell to the ground, as Michael tried to shake the aching after taste, upon the taste buds of his hand. Much like coffee, its bitterness drew him in to take another sip knowing he would be more awake than minutes before. Mike tackled Levi and held him down so he could not fight back. He seriously doubted he could've anyway as his fists continued to hit his face. Mike felt guilty, but he couldn't stop. He knew he should've put an end to it, apologize before he made it worse, but he just didn't have it in himself to stop.
Then, a sudden gush of pain jolted throughout Mike's body. His stomach ached, his arms lost tension and his legs began to weaken. His tongue was soaked in the taste of blood. Bruised and winded, with a leg in agony, Levi grabbed Mike's foot and pulled him to the ground. His head was pounding. He brought a fist to Michael's face, snapping his nose into a grotesquerie.
"Stop!", Eleven shouted, but the two teens didn't stop.
"I said stop!", she repeated.
"Stop it!"
In her intense silence she somehow screamed with her whole body. The eyes wide with horror, the mouth rigid and open, the fists clenched with blanched knuckles and the nails digging deeply into the palms of her hands. It was the kind of scream that made your blood run cold. It pierced the brain and ignited some primeval pathway. Adrenaline surged through El's veins, fight or flight, stand or run.
In pain, the boys stopped lifted their hands to cover their ears.
At the same time, El stopped herself from screaming and Karen entered the bloody scene.
"What the fuck happened?!", she asked.
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Laughing, Tiffany and Mellisa walked into the girls' bathroom, but stopped in their tracks when they came across the abnormally skinny body of Maxine Clegg.
