Eleven's POV
I honestly can't believe what Mike did. I don't even understand it. Why would you do that to yourself? Feel pain on purpose? Isn't the pain of being away from each other enough?
Eleven: do you know about mike?
Nancy: wym el
Eleven: what he did to...his arms..
Nancy: oh..um. yeah. ik about it.
Eleven: me too. obviously
Nancy: did he tell you?
Eleven: no, the night of the Snowball, when Hop told us we couldn't date. i visited him and saw him doing it. later i asked him about it,
Nancy: and now you know.
Eleven: now i know.
Mike's POV
I'm still waiting for an apology from El. She doesn't understand. The level of depression that causes a person to do that to themselves, it's impossible to explain. She knew i was alive the whole time we were kept apart. She could see me. She could check up on me.
I was afforded no such luxury. I worried about her every day for 353 days. That is worse pain than anyone should ever endure. If she can't understand why that drove me to self harm, I don't know what to say.
I'm not proud of it. But it's not exactly something I can just turn off. My phone dinged, pulling me out of my thoughts.
Nancy: el knows?!
Mike: about???
Nancy: you know..
Mike: oh. yeah. she found out. long story.
Nancy: she told me
Mike: oh..when hopper took her on that trip...i didn't mean too. and when she came back, in her cabin, i promised her i wouldn't do it again. it scared her and i told her i would stop.
Nancy: lemme guess. you didn't?
Mike: i didn't mean to. it was after she got back. idk, i just needed to. she saw it at school friday. that's how i got a black eye.
Nancy: ELEVEN DID THAT?!
Mike: yeah..she was really pissed
Nancy: holy shit. dang, el.
Mike: i get why she was mad. i broke a promise. but she hasn't apologized.
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forbidden mileven // mileven
Fanfiction{completed} in which mike loves eleven, but they can't be together bc of an overprotective dad
