"Mike!"

"Mike!"

"Michael!"

"Okay okay, I'm coming! geez"

He ran down the stairs to see everyone sitting at the table

"I made blueberry pancakes sweetie, come have a seat" motioned Karen Wheeler

He sat down in between his older sister Nancy and baby sister Holly as a small stack of pancakes were placed before him.

Their dad looked over his newspaper only to make eye contact "Hey kids, you know Chief Hopper wants to see you two today"

Nancy eyed him curiously "um, do you know why?"

"I don't know, but he called earlier and it sounded pretty urgent" Ted shrugged

"He wants to see me too?" Michael asked with a mouthful of pancake "because usually Nance is the one getting in trouble with the cops"

Nancy kicked him swiftly underneath the table "Shut up.."

He looked at her with a smile and she smiled back. They had been through alot together which had actually brought them closer in a way. Before everything happened they could barely stand being in the same room as each other. It was different now, even though they playfully teased each other, they both had a mutual respect for one another after what happened last year.

Once breakfast ended,

Nancy grabbed her coat "Hey dork, you better hurry up if you want a ride to the station"

"Go ahead, I'll meet you there" Mike smiled

"You sure?"

"Yeah, I got to do something real quick" Michael said running towards the basement door.

As he reached the basement he grabbed up his supercomm

"Lucas. You there?"

"Yeah, What's up?"

"Have you heard anything from the chief?"

"Actually yeah.. My mom said that he asked to see me"

"Weird, He asked to see me too."

Lucas laughed "You didn't do anything stupid right Mike?"

"What? No! Did you?"

"Nope, I haven't spoken to the chief since we found Will"

"Yeah, same. I wonder what he wants"

"Who knows. I'm gonna call Dustin and Will though to see if the chief reached out to them too."

"Okay, talk to you later. over and out"

Will didn't have a clue on why the Chief wanted to see them. Did something happen? Was someone in trouble? What was going on? his thoughts were soon interrupted as he passed the old fort. He had initially made this fort for Eleven to sleep in when she hid away in his house but he just never took it down. He held onto the hope that she'd eventually return.

He stared at the fort for awhile, drifting back to the memories of last year. She was the strangest girl he had ever met but there was something different about her, there was something special. Ever since the day he first met her it's like they had a certain connection. He saw beyond what everyone else saw. He didn't see her as a freak nor a psycho. He saw her for who she was. He saw a vulnerable girl. A loyal girl. A beautiful girl. A girl who just wanted normality. A girl who sacrificed herself for friendship. He saw the real El.

Mike checked his watch "Crap! I need to get going!"

Grabbing his bike, he rode down the street to the meet up with everyone at the police station.