SAFE // Mileven (ON HOLD)

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Mikes POV

El is acting different. I'm usually so blind to these kind of things, but she's so different that even I notice. "El, your different" I said as El turned back to me. "What do you mean" she said with a hint of guilt in her voice. "That El" I said grabbing her wrist and holding her hand "Is something bad going to happen to you". Tears started rolling down El's face as I pulled her. "I-I'm sorry M-mike" she said crying onto my chest. We stayed like that for a few minutes near the school gates until I asked "Why are you sorry". "Nothing" El says wiping away her tears and smiling. "No El, its not nothing, its something about me or you" I say grabbing her wrist and pulling up her sleeve revealing her 011.

"Friends don't lie" I say holding her wrist. "I can't" she says pulling away and turning around. "If something wrongs tell me El" I said putting my hand on her shoulder, but she just shrugged it off. "There no point in telling you my problems Mike, because you can't fix them and I can't fix them" She yelled, tears streaming down her face as she walked out the school gates. There was no point in going after her and I'd have to get to class sometime. I walked back to my class and sat in the back as Lucas, Dustin, and Will scrambled to get a seat next to me.

Lucas POV

"Where's El" I asked since Mike came in alone. "I don't know she yelled at me then she left" he replied, trying to hold back the tears in his eyes. "See El knows something is wrong because something bad is about to happen" Dustin whispered in my ear. "I know but we can't tell Mike" I whispered back to him. "Did El say anything about something bad happening" I asked. Immediately after I said that Mike started balling his eyes out. "I can't f-fix her because s-she can't" Mike said before banging his head on the desk.

Everyone turned back to us, including Mr. Clarke. "Right now we need I free time" he said before looking at me, Will, and Dustin with a small smile of guilt. Will glared at me with "a look what you did" stare from the other side of Mike's desk. "Mr. Sinclair can you come up her for a minute" Mr. Clarke said gesturing me. "Your in deep shit" Dustin mouthed to me as I walked up to his desk. "Where's Eleanor and why is Mike crying" he asked. "Don't know where El is and Mike is crying because he doesn't know where El is" I say quickly. Mr. Clarke nods his head "Ok, you can go back to your seat" he said and sighed heavily. I walked back to my seat and sat down "What did he say" Will asked. "He asked why Mike was crying" I said not explaining the El part. "Because my El is gone" Mike says, still muffled since his head is still on the desk.

"How are we going to find her" Dustin said. Mike finally looked up from the desk "We can't". "Why not" Will said "We can't leave her alone". Mike scoffed "What's the point, I already lost Holly and now I lost El, and I don't even know why she left". "What did she say then" I asked before thinking. Will glared at me again with "a are you trying to break him?" stare. "There's no point in telling you my problems because neither of us can fix them" He said repeating El's words. "What problems" Dustin said. "I don't know, right know I don't know anything" Mike said banging his head back on the desk "I'm gonna stay like this for a little". Holly is missing, El ran away, and Mike is mentally broken. Now I understand why he's always stressed.