The next day after school Dustin and Lucas came over to mike's house. Lucas, Mike and Dustin try to talk to the girl they found in the woods. While Hopper questions an anxious Joyce about an unsettling phone call.
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Mike's POV

"Is there a number we can call for your parents?" I asked.

"Where's your hair?, Do you have cancer?" Dustin asks.

"Did you run away?" Lucas asked.

"Are you in some kind of trouble? -Is that blood?" Lucas asked reaching out to her.

I slapped his hand away. "Stop it! You're freaking her out!" "She's freaking me out!"

"I bet she's deaf." Dustin said.

Dustin moved forward and clapped loudly in the girl's face and she jumped. "Not deaf."

"All right, that's enough, all right?
She's just scared." I said.

I grabbed some clothes for her and she took them. "Here, these are clean. Okay?"

When she took them she started to remove the giant t-shirt she was wearing before: "No, no, no!" We exclaimed.

"Oh, my God. Oh, my God." Dustin kept repeating while pacing back and forth.

"See over there? That's the bathroom." I stammered.

I led her to the bathroom. "Privacy.
Get it?" I asked as I started closing the door but she kept pushing the door open. "You don't want it closed?" I asked. "No." She replied.

"Oh, so you can speak." I said surprised. "Okay, well..." I trailed off. "Um, how about we just keep the door." I said closing the door enough for her to see. "just like this."

"Is that better?" I asked. "Yes." She said.

I walked back to Dustin and Lucas who were going out of their minds. "This is mental." Dustin said rubbing his hands through his hair. "At least she can talk." I said.

"She said "no" and "yes." Your three-year-old sister says more."

"She tried to get naked."

"There's something seriously wrong with her."

"Like, wrong in the head. -She just went like..." Dustin said imitating the girl.

"I bet she escaped from Pennhurst."

"From where?, The nuthouse in Kerley County." I asked.

"You got a lot of family there?" Dustin teased.

"Bite me." Lucas said annoyed.

"Seriously though, think about it." I told them. "That would explain her shaved hair
and why she's so crazy." Lucas said.

"Why she went like..." Dustin once again demonstrating the girl almost getting naked.

"She's an escapee is the point. She's probably a psycho." Lucas said.

"Like Michael Myers." I said.

"Exactly!" Lucas exclaimed.

"We should've never brought her here." Lucas said.

"So you just wanted to leave her out in that storm?" I asked.

"Yes! We went out to find Celeste and Will, not another problem."

"I think we should tell your mom." Dustin said.

"I second that." Lucas said agreeing.

"Who's crazy now?" "How is that crazy?"

"'Cause, we weren't supposed to be out tonight, remember?" I said reminding them.

"So?"

"So if I tell my mom, and she tells your mom and your mom..."

"Oh, man."

"Our houses become Alcatraz."

"Exactly. We'll never find Will or my twin."

"All right, here's the plan. She sleeps here tonight."

"You're letting a girl--"

"Just listen!"

"In the morning, she sneaks around my house, goes to the front door and rings my doorbell."

"My mom will answer and know exactly what to do."

"She'll send her back to Pennhurst or wherever she comes from."

"We'll be totally in the clear."

"And tomorrow night, we go back out. And this time, we find Will and Celeste."

Dustin and Lucas left while I was talking to the girl. "Here you go. This is my sleeping bag."

"Hey, um, I never asked your name."

I looked at her hand and saw she had a tattoo, a real tattoo!

"Is that real?" I asked reaching for her arm but she pulled her hand away. "Sorry, I've just... never seen a kid with a tattoo before."

"What's it mean?, Eleven?"

She pointed to herself so I made the connection. "That's your name?" She nodded. "Eleven. Okay. Um, well, my name's Mike. Short for Michael."

"Maybe we can call you "El." Short for Eleven."

Since she doesn't have the same vocabulary as me it was weird and awkward trying to talk to her but i made the most of it i guess. "Um, well, okay 'night, El." I said.

"Night, Mike." She replied.

The next day after breakfast I went downstairs to the basement to give El breakfast. "Hey, you found my supercomm." I said.

"Pretty cool, huh?" I asked.

"I talk to my friends with it mostly Lucas, 'cause he lives so close signal's pretty weak tho."

"Got you breakfast." I said handing her eggos.

"So listen, this is gonna sound a little weird but I just need you to go out there."

"Then go to the front door and ring the doorbell."

"My mom will answer and you'll tell her that you're lost and that you need help."

"But whatever you do, you can't tell her about last night or that you know me."

"Understand?"

She was silent she probably didn't understand what i was talking about, "Really, it's no big deal we'll just pretend to meet each other again and my mom, she'll know who to call."

"No." She said.

"No?" I ask.

"No." She replies back.

"No... you don't want my mom to get help You're in trouble, aren't you?"

"Who... Who are you in trouble with?"

"Bad." She said.

"Bad? Bad people?" I question.

"They want to hurt you The bad people?"

"Understand?"

She made a gun with her fingers on her forehead then pointed towards me. I left then waited for my mom to leave.
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Dustin's POV

Lucas and I got settled in our seats worrying about Mike. "Oh, this is weird. He's never this late."

"I'm telling you, his stupid plan failed." Lucas said.

"I thought you liked his plan."

"Yeah, but obviously it was stupid, or he'd be here."

"If his mom found out a girl spent the night."

"He's screwed right about now."

"Hey, what if she slept naked?" I asked.

"Oh, my God, she didn't." He said annoyed.

"Oh, if Mrs. Wheeler tells my mom..." I said freaking out.

"No way. Mike would never rat us out."

"I don't know." I said.

"All that matters is, after school, the freak will be back in the loony bin, and we can focus on what really matters, finding Will and Celeste."
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Mike's POV

El and I were home alone nothing to do so I thought I would give her a tour of the house we ended up in my room. "Oh, these are all my science fair trophies."

"We got first every year except for last year when we got third Mr. Clarke said it was totally political."

She pointed to a picture of us at the science fair last year, but more specifically she pointed to Celeste and Will. "You know Will? and Celeste?" I asked.

"Did you see them? Last night? On the road?"

I looked out my window to see my mom was back so El and I ran downstairs so I could get her to the basement but my mom was halfway in the door so we ran back to my room and I stashed El in my closet then I ran downstairs and sat on the couch while my mom sat next to me. "I just... I don't feel good."

"I woke up and my head, it really hurt bad, and my throat was all scratchy, and I wanted to tell you, but the last time I told you I was sick, you made me go to school anyway, and--" I started but was cut off by my mom.

"Michael." She said.

"Yeah?" I questioned.

"I'm not mad at you."

"No?" I asked.

"No, of course not."

She sighed, "All this that's been going on with Will, and Celeste I can't imagine what it's been like for you I want you to feel like you can talk to me I never want you to feel like you have to hide anything from me I'm here for you. Okay?"

"I miss her mom... I want my twin back."

She hugged me and kissed my forehead. I went back to my room and phoned Dustin and Lucas they came over and saw El then Lucas flipped out. "We're telling your mom."

He tried to open the door but it was like a force was pulling the door we turned to see Eleven standing up with a bloody nose. "No." She said.

I've seen every episode of Stranger Things and since they cuss and I'm not allowed to swear the dialogue Will be different.

(See what I did there)

Over and Out
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The End of Chapter 2