I could feel her grip getting tighter like she was holding onto dear life. She closes her eyes too afraid to see what she's doing 

"El, Eleven you have to open your eyes" I stop the bike from crashing and I look at her shaking hands

"it's okay, i'll never let go" she becomes calmer and she slowly takes her hands off her eyes. 

"You saved me, Mike"  she hugs me so lovingly and so close we stare into each other's eyes...she's beautiful.  

"sorry..." she gets off the seat and she hands me my bike. her cheeks were blushing profusely. We walk a few blocks up the road not talking the whole way through. I wonder if it was because of what happened. 

"oh Lucas's house maybe we should go there" I try and hold her hand but she quickly let's go of my hand what did I do to her?. 

"El.."

"Yes Mike" 

Just as I was about to kiss her  Erica opens the door 

"Who are you?" she stares at me in a really uncomfortable way then she starts chewing gum

"Uhh... I think you know who I am"  she starts to examine my face she squints as if I'm dust. 

"Ooooh...aren't you one of my dorky brother's dorky friends?" I slowly nod my head 

" Wait...MIKE!" she hugs me really tightly then she brushes herself off 

"OMG, how are you?" I didn't know how to tell a 10-year old to shut up but I really wanted her to 

"I..i'm good is your brother Lucas here?" she looks around the front hall 

"Yeah he's upstairs in his room I mean he's been there all day with some ginger chick?"

"Ginger?" Eleven quickly turns around she looks at me with bigs eyes 

"uhh...yeah she has ginger hair??" Eleven started to act really weird like she just couldn't control herself 

"Hey, I'll let you and your girlfriend in on one condition" How could she think El was my girlfriend?, I mean we don't even look like a couple. 

"First of all Eleven isn't my girlfriend Erica..and second I'm not betting you crap" she rolls her eyes and lets me in but Eleven never follows after me. It was like  she was stuck there, in super glue or something. she just stares at me like I'm some stranger like she lost or something. 

"Uh..El what are you doing?" her face began to swell up her once happy face was now filled with rage. 

"Soo I'm not your girlfriend huh" she folds her arms and she avoids all eye contact with me, I mean I seriously can't read her anymore. 

"What?"

"You know what I mean Mike" Lucas pushes Erica out of the way he looked disheveled and very 'out of it'. 

"Uhhh what the hell is going on here?" Lucas takes El and he drags her inside . 

"You want to know Lucas, Mike said I wasn't his girlfriend" Lucas looks at me with pity all he wanted to do was to kick El out. 

"And why does that fucking bother you?" this time she becomes very mad she takes Lucas by his shirt and she pins him up agianst the door. 

"I'll tell u why it's because he told me we were more than friends so much, that I was his girlfriend. And we've kissed so many times but he always denies it like I'm crap. Crap..that was the first time I'd heard her say thing like that had I really upset her that much?. 

"El..I'm sorry I didn't know it meant that much to you?" she wipes away the lone tear from her face then she quickly storms off. 

"What the hell did I do Lucas?" The room because really silent Lucas looks at me and he pats me on the back 

" What you did was you just pushed the one girl who may really love you away, you can't just say you love someone one day and then the next you just pretend like there's no spark" I look at Lucas in a confused manner, what did he mean by 'the spark'. 

I guess I've never noticed 

I guess I've never cared 

Eleven's POV- 

I never knew that love could hurt, that someone could your soul so hard. I hate Mike for doing this to me, but at the same time I love him with all my heart. I quickly run away and I bang the door, rolling down it after in pain. 

I didn't realise that Max was in Lucas's room that she heard me crying my guts out. 

" Eleven, El what are you doing here?"

She gives me a loving hug then she sits me on Lucas's bed 

"Mike brought me here" 

"But..who the hell made you cry?" I clench my fists in pain ready to punch someone in the face

" That stupid mouth breather Mike" I wipe the blood from my nose crying again soon after

"Yeah he's an ass" she gives me a cookie from Lucas's drawer and we started to gossip all about boys. 

"damn El you've really brought out the girly girl in me, I sort of hate you for it" we both laugh together I and Max had really gotten closer lately.

"So what were you and Lucas doing before we came here.." Her eyes started to glitter and her cheeks turned red..oh my god. I think I know what they did, I mean Mike had told me about the thing that loving people do but I didn't know you could do it at such a young age. 

"No..No El we didn't have sex god dammit. We're only like 15 my mom would kill me" then why was she blushing?, it must have happened.

"But you must have I mean Lucas looked so messy and your stuff is in his room" I've never seen Max cry, she's always been such a strong and tough girl. But this may mark the first time I saw her cry, because strong girls also cry I guess. She looks at the sky I see tear after tear roll down her face. 

"Max...why are you really here, what are you running from?" I could see it in her eyes, she was scared I knew how she felt. Having to hide from all the people who are trying to get you. 

" Max..." when I put my arm around her she finally breaks down it's like she can't control her crying like it's so painful. 

" You want to know what I'm running from. I'm running from Billy and my stupid ass step-dad and my mom because I can't take it anymore. It's like I live in the house of terror like I can never get away. Billy makes my life a living hell..He's the reason that I hurt inside" When her cries get deeper Lucas barges into the room he kneels down and he start to hug her. He strokes her hair something Mike always used to do. 

Mike shyly stares at me from across the room but I never look at him back. I just couldn't stand the look of him..it just hurt to. 

"You're lucky you have someone like Lucas  someone who actually appreciates your feelings" I could see Mike face drop lower and lower he sheilded his eyes from my face. 

"Eleven just stop it..stop doing this to me"

"doing what!!!" he comes closer to me and he starts to stroke my cheek his eyes glitter and glisten in the scorching sun. 

"Stop confusing me...stop hurting what we have". Was he serious!, was he really blaming me for what was going on. That I was the reason that he denied all feelings for me. He hurts me way more than I hurt him, he's just to ignorant to understand that. 

"Don't you dare blame me hurting our make believe relationship Mike I've never hurt like you've hurt me. But even as much as I want to hate you I can't" The room around us starts to  get really hot, it was like we were in our own world. He just stares into my eyes he dosen't respond. Then we kiss just like we did at the snowball..i love him. 

"El.."

"Mike.."

" I love you" he kisses me on my forehead

" Wait so are we gonna you know ...do it now?" Mike looks at me in a confused manner I look over at Max and Lucas because they knew what I was talking about 

"EL!" 

"What?" 

"We didn't do it!" I knew they were lying I could see the smug look on both of there faces. 

"Of course you did it"

The room slowly grows silent and then a uproar of laughter follows 

I look at Mike and I smile 

my guy.....