100 Ways to Say 'I Love You' | Mileven 💕✅

16. It's okay. I couldn't sleep anyway

16. It's okay. I couldn't sleep anyway.

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El woke up suddenly, sweat rolling down her forehead in large droplets, panting and crying. She instantly reached for the phone on her bedside table and dialled the Wheelers.

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The phone alerted Mike, who was working on his latest campaign, he quickly reached for the blue phone in his room before Nancy or his parents answered.

"Hello?" He whispered, not wanting to awaken his father further.

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El smiled when Mike answered, she let out a slightly audible sigh. The images from her nightmare had shaken her so much that she rung Mike. Usually, she's crawl into bed at Joyce's side.

"Mike," she said, gripping the phone in her hand making her knuckles go white.

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Mike's eyebrows scrunched when he heard his girlfriend's voice at the other end of the line. He wondered why she was awake at this time in the morning. But instantly guessed she had had a nightmare and instead of seeking comfort from Joyce, she rang him. It must have been a nightmare.

"El? Are you okay, baby?" He asked, pushing his dungeon masters book away.

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El could hear the worry in Mike's voice and instantly wondered if she woke him up. She had sworn to his parents that she wouldn't interfere with his school work. It slightly questioned whether the Wheelers were happy with her dating their son...

"Yeah, just a bad nightmare. I didn't wake you, did I?" El asked, fiddling with the phone cord.

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Mike smiled as El worried over him. He was the one to usually worry about her. It made his heart flutter when she worried over him. He knew El didn't like the idea of Mike not getting the amount of sleep he should be getting.

"You sure you're ok, El?" He asked, then remembered the second part of her question. "It's okay. I couldn't sleep anyway." Mike knew it was a little lie, but sometimes little lies are ok.

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El sighed and instantly knew Mike was lying. She knew sometimes lying was ok, but she just didn't like the idea of Mike lying to her.

"Mike, boyfriend's don't lie," she had tweaked it a bit from 'friends don't lie'.

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Mike looked at the notebook and his dungeon masters book sat on his bed and smiled down at his lap.

"I was working on the campaign," Mike said, El didn't play Dungeons and Dragons with the boys, thinking she would be interfering.

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El smiled and propped herself up in bed. Jonathan's head came around her bedroom door and instantly saw his little sister on the phone - most likely to Michael Wheeler. He waved at her, and she waved back. Jonathan shut the door behind him and went back to bed.

"Tell me what you got so far," El said, Mike instantly launched into the campaign he was planning for the boys.