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after prom, things were just about back to normal for mike and el. just about.
the main problem was their feelings towards one another had progressively gotten worse. neither mike or el had felt this way before, and it felt weird. love was a new concept, and neither of them liked it. it entailed pain, and lots of it. the feeling of jealousy was always reoccurring.
everyone always said great things about love, but the thing was everything anyone said about it was how it ended. no one ever talked about the ups and downs, no one talked about the pain, they only talked about the happiness they'd felt afterward. but the pain that surrounded love always had to do with someone getting in the way. and well, you probably know who that is.
meagan wasn't going to let the two off the hook for long, she had seen everything at the dance. and she didn't like it one bit. her plan on separating them only worked temporarily, and she wanted it to be permanent. meagan knew the best way to get under their skin, and the way to do that was el. el was the key, she was so gullible meagan could fool her with the snap of her fingers.
el practically stole her boyfriend, even if it was unintentional she did. so she would have to just point that out further.
make el know just how deeply that had effected her. *
even though mike and el were back to being normal friends, dustin still wanted to take el to school. well, today at least. el sat at the kitchen table as she waited for dustin, in the spare time she had left she decided to make some eggos.
just as she bit into the eggo dustin walked through the door. "eating without me?" he asked, "are you gonna share?" he questioned, holding his hand out for her to place an eggo on. "i don't share. especially not eggos."
"come on? not even a bite?"
"no." she said shoving the rest of the waffle in her mouth. "your so selfish." he muttered, el rolled her eyes and grabbed her backpack. "when we get in the car i gotta talk to you about something," dustin said as he raided the kitchen cabinet. "okay.." el said suspiciously.
el walked out to his car and waited for him to come out. when he did he had at least 5 chocolate chip cookies in his hand, "you can't eat that for breakfast," el sighed, "watch me." he mumbled, dustin set the cookies down on his glove compartment and started the car. "so what did you want to talk to me about?"
"oh! right!" he started, "so, as both of us are very aware.. your obviously in love with wheeler,"
"i'm not-"
"don't even say it. don't lie because we both know the real answer. anyway, i think you should tell him. today." dustin suggested, "dusty, no. i can't."
"why the hell not? i saw the way you two were looking at each other at prom. and if that's not love i don't know what is!"
"he... he's always been like that. he's just being friendly, there's no way he likes me back." she knew that wasn't true, but a natural reaction was to just deny it.
