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Chapter Twenty | The Plan

Chapter Twenty | The Plan 

Eleven continues to scream and sob as everyone basically hovers her, trying to calm her down. I looked down at her leg again. Something was definitely squirming inside.

"What is that?" Erica asked in disgust. 

"There's something in there." Mike pointed out the obvious. 

Thanks, Captian Obvious. 

"No!" El whimpered, letting out an uncomfortable scream. 

"Jesus Christ." Dustin comments beside me. 

"Keep her talking," Jonathan instructs. "Keep her awake, okay?" Jonathan then sprinted off somewhere. 

Obviously, hopefully, he was going to get something for El's pain. Maybe. I looked around awkwardly at everyone. "So, how's your day been?" 

No one replied. Yeah, no, I get it; it's a stressful time. 

"Hey, hey, hey," Mike then tells El. "Stay awake, stay awake. Let's get her on his side, on this side." 

Steve, Nancy, and Mike put her on the side. "You know, it's uh... it's not actually that bad." Robin tried her best talking to El. "There was a... the goalie on my soccer team, Beth Wildfire, this other girl slid into her leg and the bone came out of her knee, six inches or something, it was insane."

"Robin." Steve cuts her off. 

"Yeah?" Robin looked over at Steve. 

"You're not helping." He replied. 

"Yeah and thanks for that image," I replied sarcastically and she gave all of us a sheepish smile. 

"I'm sorry," Robin apolisged. 

Jonathan then comes back to our sides. "Okay. All right, El?" Jonathan asked. El was leaning on Mike, lying down. "This is gonna hurt like hell, okay?" 

El lets out a sob. "Okay,"

"Need you to stay real still," Jonathan instructs us. "Here, you're wanna gonna bite down this on this, okay?" 

"Jesus Christ." 

Mike was given a spoon and he puts it to El's mouth and she bites down on it, letting out a few more sobs. I watched Jonathan pull out a knife. 

He hovers the knife over the wound and where the moving thing was in her leg. "Do it." Mike said, noticing Jonathan's hesitation. 

"Okay," Jonathan murmured before cutting into her leg slowly, making me cringe. I looked away because I couldn't handle it. 

I buried my head into Will's shoulder, closing my eyes. I could hear everyone's discomfort and El's screams. 

El lets out another painful scream and it sent chills throughout my body. I couldn't watch. I felt Will cringe beside me. 

"No!" El cries out and I looked over at her, Jonathan's hand was in her leg where he had cut. I felt like throwing up. 

"I think I'm going to be sick." I murmur to Will.

"Stop it! Stop!" El screamed out. 

"No," Mike commanded Jonathan who stopped doing it. 

"I can do it." El whimpered, sobbing some more. "I can do it." She slowly sits up. She then uses her powers to lift out whatever thing she had in her leg. As she was doing this; she lets out painful screams. 

That's when the glass behinds us smash into pieces, making all off us jump in fright. I clutched onto Will's hand, moving closer to him, my heart pounding. 

Since we were closest to the glass; Will covers me as much as possible, we were so incredibly close to each other.  

I then saw what was coming out El's leg as she had pulled it out, continuing to scream. She then throws thing towards the other end of the Starcourt Mall. 

I watch it crawl away, but it was soon stomped on by someone. And the someone was Hopper, Joyce, and a random old bald guy standing next to them.