Hello, everyone!

So I'm updating my story again today – yays! I got my first reviews on Chapter 1, and they totally made my day, thank you so much! I've tried to separate the speech for ya, hope this is better!

Chapter 2, here we go!

-R

*crackle crackle*

Lucas opened his eyes very grumpily. He had been woken up far earlier than he'd have liked on a Saturday morning by – he supposed – his parents trying the new TV.

*crackle crackle*

Lucas rolled over and looked at his Star Wars alarm clock. 8:30am.

Great.

*crackle crackle* Lucas, are you there? Come in, please!

Lucas sat up. That wasn't the TV, he realised, but his Supercomm! That wasn't Mike, he knew. He was pretty sure it wasn't Will or Dustin, either. Maybe it was Max, the red-haired new girl whom Lucas and the others had befriended (and Lucas was developing rather inconvenient feelings for her), but he doubted it.

Then who?

*crackle crackle* Lucas, please! It's Nancy, Nancy Wheeler. It's about Mike. Do you copy?

A pause.

Over?

Nancy?! Thought Lucas, remembering the last time he'd heard Nancy's voice over the Supercomm. It hadn't been great. He picked up his Supercomm nevertheless, pulled up the ariel, and pressed the button.

"Nancy? Yeah, it's Lucas, I copy. What's up, over?"

Nancy heard Lucas' reply and sighed with relief. "It's about Mike, over." She replied. She could almost hear Lucas' confusion in the silence that stretched between them. It went on for so long she almost thought he hadn't heard. "Lucas, over?"

*crackle* I'm still here. What's wrong with Mike, over?

"He's really sad about Eleven – heart sick – and he's up all hours with nightmares, especially with the Snowball, over."

Woah, wait. Why the Snowball? And I knew he liked Eleven but I didn't know that was why he's been moping around lately! And don't tell him I said this, but his Dungeons and Dragons campaigns have been getting kinda boring…over.

Nancy didn't know whether to tell Lucas the whole truth yet, and decided, having known Lucas for many years, not to – as he tended to wind Mike up. "I don't think he'd want me to say, and knowing you, you'll wind him up about it. Over."

Excuse me? Lucas' reply was dripping with mock hurt. I would never! No, I'm kidding, I see your point. So why are you telling me this? I'm crap at talking to people about emotional problems, if that's what you're thinking, over.

"No," replied Nancy, "it's not that. I have a plan to help him, but I'll need your help. Over."

I'm listening… over.

"I need you, and Dustin, and Will to meet me… somewhere, and I'll explain everything, over."

Lucas groaned and flopped back onto his bed. "Does it have to be soon, over?"

Nancy chuckled. "No, it doesn't. I'd quite like to stay in bed too. Later, after lunch, then?"

Yeah, came the reply. I'll tell Will and Dustin. Where shall we meet?

"I don't know, maybe Dustin or Will could think of somewhere?"

Yeah, I'll ask them, and I'll Supercomm you when I know, ok?

"Ok."

Nancy, how did you get Mike to lend you his Supercomm?

"I didn't. Stole it out of his room this morning. Lucky he's such a deep sleeper, huh?"

You've turned into such a freaking badass compared to a year ago, haven't you? See you later. Over and out.

The static blinked out.

Outside Nancy's door, Mike stood, listening. Not such a deep sleeper – he'd heard Nancy come in, and when he heard the static next door he'd gotten suspicious. And he'd heard everything.

How could you, Nancy? He thought angrily. How could you?

So that's my Chapter 2! Sorry, not much action in this one. But I love writing this for you guys already! Thank you again for the lovely reviews!

-R x