mileven one-shots

lovely

"Won't you stay alive? I'll take you on a ride, I will make you believe you are lovely."

      Lovely - Twenty Øne Piløts

     
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       It had been a long day of school, and Mike Wheeler was very joyed to get to see his very special girlfriend, El. He rode his bike to her new house after her cabin had been destroyed by the mind flayer and she moved back to Hawkins finding Hopper. It was a small secluded house, but it was very cozy and warm.

When Mike reached the door, he did the special knock just for El to know they weren't there to take her. "Mike?" A small voice asked, opening the creaky door. "Hey El! I missed you a lot while I was at school." Mike said, parking his bike outside and running in to hug her, he was surprisingly shocked that El gave a small hug, but quickly pulled away.

After they went inside and said their hello's to Hopper, they went into El's room. An odd silence came about the two that usually never occured. They always had things to converse about, from new words to forms of endearment, it just wasn't like them.

"El, are you okay?" Mike questioned, breaking the emptiness. "Yeah, I'm fine." She stated, simply.

More minutes go by...

"Just so you know, I love you." Mike said, hoping to see a smile on her face. He frowned, his wish not becoming true. Instead, El slightly nodded but a straight look was on her face. Mike decided he would press a kiss on her cheek and grab her hand.

"Mike, do you really love me?" El asked, finally fessing her feelings. "Of course I love you! You're my number-one!" Mike exclaimed, squeezing her into a hug hug and kiss. "You're super-"No." El interrupted, frowing and shaking her head.

"Why would you love me? There's nothing to like about me. I'm stupid, ugly, annoying, a lab rat. I'm from dirty old Hawkins Lab, I should just go back there to where I was from. You shouldn't have brought me into your life, I'm a danger to society and I brought the Upside Down to us. You always act like I'm a little perfect angel when I'm not." El rambled. "Because you are a perfect angel!" Mike clapped back, kissing her on the lips.

"No I'm not. When I ran away and found Kali, we robbed a store and almost killed the guy who was forced to mess up mother's mind." El yelled. "But you were forced to do that stuff! And you didn't kill the guy, right? You don't know anything, it's not like you could've stopped the robbery because you had like no clue what you were doing!" Mike argued.

"You say things with your mouth, flies and cobwebs come out." He said. "I wish I could read your mind, to know what you're actually thinking. I love you, you're amazing, beautiful, special, perfect! How could you ever say such nasty, untrue things about yourself! If I didn't love you I wouldn't call you for-"353 days." El finished, "yeah, I know."

"Kali will never find you, they will not take you down and cast you out. I will never leave your side, you know that, right?" Mike asked.

Unexpectingly, El began to burst out into salty tears. "Shhh..." Mike hushed, pulling her closer and comforting her. "It just amazes me so much that I have people like you to come and comfort me. I love you and I oo- Mike ended up finishing her words by giving her a long huge kiss. El continued to cry, but Mike kept comforting her.

"I will make you believe you are lovely." Mike stated, pulling her off the bed and running to the door with her. She was startled, but sort of happy. Her tears slowed, feeling depressed still but yet; better. Mike pulled her outside to where no one could find her in the woods and they could just dance and have a ball.

"Now, El, let's go for a ride so I can make you believe you are lovely!" Mike exclaimed, stepping onto his bike. "Come on!" El stepped onto the backseat where she usually sat, and wrapped her arms around his torso, slightly smiling. He began to peddle, and the two took off.

Mike biked all the way to his house so he could take her to the basement where he wanted to show her a few things.
The couple got off the bike and ran into the basement of Mike's house.
"Okay, El. Look in the mirror. You see that girl? She is you. That girl, she has the most spectacular smile you'll ever see. That girl has saved the world katrillion times. She is a survivor. A hard and unsteady past, she comes through and shows off her radiant, dazzling beam of light. Smart, learning new words everyday from missing twelve years of her life, she manages to keep a smile throughout the thick n thin! I love that gorgeous girl so fucking much! Oh I'd swear for her! I'll be there for her! If anyone would ever dare to try to hurt her, they would pick the wrong person to hurt. She is my everything, the sweetener to my day. Nothing could ever replace her. She's got me daydreaming with the chin in the palm of my hand! Do you understand how much I love her now; and how much she's amazing herself?" Mike ranted, squeezing El's hand.

"You really love me that much?" El asked, a shocked tone in her voice. Mike nodded. "You remember that, okay." He said, steadily. "Hold on, I'll be right back." Mike ran up into his room and grabbed a small silver, shiny, leather box.

"What's that?" El inquired, as she stared at the box her boyfriend held. "It's for you." He replied, slowly opening it; revealing a shiny ring with a small clear blue diamond at the top of it. Mike carefully slid it onto El's ring finger. "It's a promise ring, you can keep it on until we get married and that way it symbolizes our relationship and how we'll love each other for an eternity and beyond." Mike explained. El smiled, leaned in, and kissed her boyfriend. "I love it." She said, her hazel eyes twinkling.

"I'll love you forever."

"I'll love you too."

Hello guys, I finished the first one-shot of this new book! I love this one-shot and I think it's adorable how well the song goes with it! I am a huge tøp stan if you didn't know and I literally listen to their music 24/7 so yeah.

Word count (not including a/n): 1405