TWELVE: What Is Friend?

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"We just wanted to find our friends," Lucas chimed in as his eyes gazed at the ground earning El's eyes to shift to him

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"We just wanted to find our friends," Lucas chimed in as his eyes gazed at the ground earning El's eyes to shift to him. 

"Friend?" El asked unclear about what the boy was talking about as her doe eyes gaze at the Sinclair boy. "Yeah, our friends. Will and Eddie?" Beverly retorted to the girl like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"What is 'friend'" Eleven inquired softly, taking her time with her words to make sure she was saying them correctly. Lucas and Beverly shared a ' you've got to be kidding' look. Lucas's eyes shot to Lily who was now standing beside Mike, the girl met his annoyed gaze. 

"Is she serious?" Lucas asked pestered as he and Dustin shared a glimpse, earning nothing more than a shrug from the Henderson boy.

"Lucas! Leave her alone" Lily scolded the boy, earning him to shot his hands up in defense. Mike's hand grabbed her hand as a way to say calm down. The duo's eyes met each other's gaze before Lily took a deep breath. 

Eleven's eyes overflowed with grief as they stayed glued to the duo's clamped hands. Lily's eyes peeled open, landing on the down girl earning her to quickly pulled away from the middle child. Mike studied the brunette as she has never done that before.

"A friend is someone you would do anything for" Lily explained quickly as nothing had happened even though she felt terrible about what she did to Mike. El's brown eyes flicked and met Lily's faded grey ones.

"You lend them your cool stuff like comic books and trading cards" Dustin carried on with the explanation.

"Or when you bring your mom to the police station to get your friends out of handcuffs so they wouldn't go to jail" Mike joined in the conversation earning each pair of eyes to immediately flash to Beverly and Lily. 

Bev's cheeks burned from embarrassment as her eyes quickly glanced at Mike who met her soft gaze. There was a few seconds of eye contact before the two quickly looked away with a rose tint hidden in their cheeks. 

Beverly's eyes prowled around the room, glimpsing at everyone, and stuck her index finger up.  "That was one tim-" Bev trailed off before Lily cut her off. "Bevvie that was more than one time Mrs.Wheeler saved our asses" Lily joked as she playfully rolled her eyes. 

The group shared a laugh as Eleven softly smiled at the party. El's eyes and attention shifted to the softly giggling girl.  Almost immediately the Harrington girl met her gaze earning a tint of scarlet to quickly wash over the girl's faces earning Lily to then quickly covered her face so no one could see her blushing. 

"Aghhhh" Lily whispered to herself as she quickly turned away from the group to avoid the group staring at her flustered expression.

Why is she so damn cute. Aghhhh.

Her bright red face turned back to normal after a while, her friends looked at her confused as they didn't know or see what happened that caused their friend to act so strangely. 

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