i lied || mileven

| 5 |

the rest of the day went by extremely quickly. once the dismissal bell rang, the kids all walked out to the front of the school by the bikerack.

"is dan coming to pick you up, el?" mike asked.

"yes." she replied. "i think."

"you think?" lucas asked. "what do you mean?"

el looked at the ground and didn't say anything.

"are you okay?" will asked.

"yes." eleven quickly replied.

"not for long," troy and his gang appeared from behind them.

"go away troy." dustin rolled his eyes. he wasn't even scared of him anymore.

"or what? your little weirdo friend will make me piss myself again?" he took a step closer.

"don't call her that." mike stood up for her.

troy laughed. "look. frogface is in love."

eleven looked up at him. "leave."

troy pushed everyone out of the way and stood right in front of eleven. "make me." he smirked.

"el." mike whispered. "don't do it."

"leave." she repeated herself.

"you're too scared to do anything, aren't you?" troy laughed again. "you're a freak. you're a shaved headed freak, and no one could ever love a freak like you."

eleven thought about that. a freak? nobody could love her? he was right...

"shut the hell up or you'll be sorry." max yelled

"that's probably what your older brother said to all of the girls he got pregnant."

max glared at him before quickly riding off on her skateboard, holding back tears.

"max! wait!" lucas hopped on his bike and followed her. will and dustin also gave troy a glare before grabbing their bikes and riding off with lucas.

eleven couldn't hold herself back anymore. she quickly used her powers and flung troy backwards, making him smash into a tree. she wiped her bleeding nose as troy's friends quickly ran away.

"leave us alone. understand?" eleven said.

troy quickly got up and dusted himself off. "FREAK." he yelled before running away.

"el, you okay?" mike quickly hugged her.

she squeezed him back. "i think."

but troy's words still remained in her head. freak. nobody could ever love her. was it true?

right then, a car quickly swerved into the parking lot. the window rolled down revealing dan. "lets go." he said emotionlessly.

"bye, el!" mike said.

el looked at the car and then back at mike. "mike i-"

"i'll miss you too, but i'll see you at school tomorrow, okay?" he reassured her.

eleven bit her lip and nodded. "bye, mike." she slowly walked to the parking lot and into the backseat of the car.

mike took off his bag and took out his walkee talkee.

"lucas are you there? over."

"can't talk right now. max is really upset. over."

"where are you guys? over." mike asked.

"near mirkwood. see you soon. over and out." lucas finished the conversation.

mike put his walkee talkee back in his bag and sat on his bike. he noticed that dan's car was still in the parking lot. he could hear some angry whispering, and he wondered why. dan noticed that mike was listening, so he glared at mike and rolled up the car window.

weird.

mike quickly rode his bike to mirkwood, where everyone was sitting on the grass near max, who wasn't crying, but was clearly upset.

"max are you okay?" mike parked his bike and sat down with everyone.

"my brother really screwed up, and it's affecting me. this was supposed to be a fresh start, you know?" she said.

"i'm sorry, max." lucas hesitantly put his hand on top of hers, and was pleasantly surprised when she held his hand back. dustin noticed and quickly nudged mike and will to look. the guys all looked and tried to contain their laughter.

"what's so funny?" max asked.

"nothing. sorry, max." will replied.

"why don't we all go and play dungeons and dragons?" lucas suggested.

"dungeons and what?" max asked.

"i'm gonna pass. i wanna go home. see you guys tomorrow." mike waved goodbye as he hopped on his bike and rode home. nancy was sitting on the couch drinking tea.

"hey, mike." she said.

"hi. what's up?"

"nothing really. i started to-." nancy was interrupted by a tapping on the window. mike turned around to see an angry steve outside their house.

"oh god." nancy said.

"should i tell him to leave?" mike asked.

"just close the blinds."

mike walked over by the window and closed the blinds on steve, who had both of his middle fingers in the air.

"he's ridiculous." mike rolled his eyes.

"i know right." she replied. "how was eleven?"

"she came to school in an ugly brown wig. i gave her the blonde one though. she seemed happy to see me and the boys. i also met a girl named max. she's cool."

"wait." nancy started. "is her brother billy?"

"uh i don't know. she has a mean brother apparently though."

"stay away from that girl. her brother is a horrible person and i don't want you around him or his sister. his whole family could be insane for all we know."

"what the hell? you don't even know her!" mike told her.

"whatever. i'm going upstairs to talk to barb on the phone." and just like that nancy was upstairs in her bedroom.

mike walked into the kitchen to see a picture of him and el on a school field trip to a bird kingdom. eleven was smiling and pointing at a bird while mike was ducked down and covering his head. mike had a pretty bad fear of birds, so he didn't enjoy it too much. el on the other hand loved it. peacocks were her favourite.

mike hoped that tomorrow he could get her to be just as happy as that night. he loved seeing eleven happy.

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A.N sorry peoples for the slow updatessssss