Stranger Things: Return to Normal
Chapter 3: Breaking the rules
It was Tuesday and Mike was sitting at his desk doing his homework. None of his friends would be coming over tonight. Will was going to see a movie with his brother, Dustin was grounded, and Max and Lucas were going to the arcade.
Mike thought to himself, "Dammit Hopper this is just so stupid. Let me think about this: Hopper gets home at 7:15 its 4:00 now; it would take me about 30-40 minutes to get there on my bike so we'd have a little over two hours!"
Mike sprang up from his desk, yelled at his Mom, "I'm going out, be back by 8"
Mike got on his bike and peddled as fast as he could. He was thinking, "this is really exciting, El will be so happy to see me"
When Mike arrived he hid his bike under some leaves a decent distance from the house just in case. He slowly snuck up to the cabin to make sure there wasn't anyone else there. He didn't see anyone so he went up to the door and gave the special knock, he made it sound like Hoppers so El wouldn't know till she opened the door.
El came up to the door because Hopper had told her she needs to stop relying on her powers all the time, "Home early… MIKE!"
El jumped forward giving him a big hug "What are you doing here? It's Tuesday!"
Mike smiled at her, "I'm breaking the rules El I just can't handle 5 days of not seeing you!"
El smiled "I'm glad but we could get in big trouble"
Mike came in closed the door and locked it. "Yeah but that's part of the fun, making sure we don't get caught!"
He took her by the hand and led her to the couch and put his arm around her and started kissing her. They kept on kissing for a few minutes when Mike finally pulled away.
"El if you're up for it I want to try something else, I always thought it was gross but I feel like trying it with you" Mike said smiling at her
"What is it?" El asked
"It's called French kissing, it's more intense than just normal kissing you use your tongue" Mike tried to say this reassuringly
El gave him a weird look, "Your tongue?"
"Yeah just follow my lead and if you don't like it we can stop" Mike leaned in and started the kiss.
Initially El was taken back by Mike when he started using his tongue but she decided she would give it a shot and started copying his tongue movements. After a few seconds she decided this is really fun.
They kissed like this for several minutes before Mike separated from her.
"Soo what do you think?" Mike asked trying to get a read on her face
"It was fun, a lot of fun!" El replied with a smile on her very red face
"So what do you want to do El? Do you want to play a game or watch a movie?" Mike asked.
"Um yeah a movie" El said.
So she got up and pulled Mike with her to her room, Mike let her pick the movie because he didn't really care which movie it was. She picked out Mr. Mom. El then went and hopped onto her bed and motioned to Mike to come join her. Mikes face became a little red but he smiled and laid down next her. El leaned up next to Mike so Mike put his arm around her.
So they watched the movie and enjoyed themselves. They both laughed a lot together through the movie. When it was over El looked up at Mike and said "I'm glad you broke the rules tonight" and she started kissing him.
They both kept on kissing and El and Mike turned over on their sides and held each other close while it was happening. They stayed like this for several minutes when they heard a knock on the door.
"I think that's Hopper" Mike said "I'm going to have to go out the window so he doesn't see me!" Mike gave her a quick kiss goodbye and climbed out the window.
El went up to the door and let Hopper in "Hey kid" Hopper noticed El seemed unusually happy. "You look like you had a pretty good day"
El blushed, "I watched Mr. Mom its funny"
"Oh ok well let's make something to eat"
While they made dinner and ate together all El could think about was if Mike was going to break the rules again because that was so much fun.
Meanwhile Mike made his getaway and Hopper was none the wiser. While he was peddling away he was on cloud nine. All he could think about was how incredible El was and how much fun they had together. Before he knew it he was home and he'd have to think of more ways to be sneaky so he could see El.
Chapter 3: Breaking the rules PT 2
On Thursday Mike decided to go see El again. This time he didn't really have the excuse that his friends were busy. After school they all wanted to go to the arcade but Mike said he was feeling really sick and acted like he was going home.
Instead Mike went straight to the cabin after school. The whole time he was riding he was just thinking about El. The more he thought about her the faster he could pedal. Mike made it to the cabin about 5 minutes faster than he did the last time.
Mike walked up to the door and knocked and then El opened the door and saw him. She didn't say anything she just jumped at him and started kissing him. Mike held her close and slowly pushed her inside so he could close the door while kissing her.
They slowly made their way to the couch and after a few minutes finally came up for air. "Wow! That's like the best hello ever!" Mike said with the biggest smile.
"It's my favorite thing Mike" El said with her face glowing.
"So what do you think we should do tonight El?"
"Let's go to my room and watch another movie" El took his hand and lead him to her room.
Mike looked through the movies he wanted to watch and eventually asked, "Have you ever seen Scarface?"
"No that's in the scary movie box I worry about watching those"
"Oh ok what do you want to watch?"
El thought to herself that since Mike likes kissing her so much he'd like a movie with that kind of stuff so she picked out Staying Alive.
Mike thought to himself you have to talk her into watching scaring movies or you'll be stuck watching chick flicks from now on, definitely have to get her to watch Star Wars.
So Mike and El got up in bed together like last time. It was still a little awkward for Mike to be lying in bed with her but El seemed to be completely oblivious to this and she was just thrilled to be with him. Being by herself all day was very boring.
Mike and El laid next to each other very close with Mike's arm under her head and around her shoulder. As the movie went on Mike found himself very sleepy and he looked over at El and she was sleepy too. Eventually they couldn't keep their eyes open despite trying too and they fell asleep.
Hopper pulled up to the House and walked to the door and gave his usual knock. No answer. He jiggled the door knob and realized the door was unlocked. He thought to himself I'm gunna have to talk to that kid she must have been outside at some point.
Hopper walks in and yells "Hey kid I'm home, you left the door unlocked you know what I've said about that"
El and Mike woke up very groggy and El just responded to Hopper "bedroom… tired"
"Too tired for pizza? I brought pizza home!"
Mike quickly realized what was going in and he rolled off the bed and slid under it making a very loud noise.
"What the hell was that kid!" Hopper shouted.
Now El's face was red once she realized Hopper was home and if he caught Mike they'd be in so much trouble.
"Dropped something, its ok"
"Alright get out here and have dinner"
El walked out of her room and closed the door behind her. Hopper thought to himself that's weird. Hopper jokingly asked her "Are you hiding something in there?"
El quickly replied in a defensive voice, "NO"
Hopper now knew something was up. Hopper went over to her room and tried to open up the door but he quickly realized El was holding the door closed with her powers. "What the hell kid, what's going on in there?!"
Mike was trying to get out the window during this time but he made a bit of noise getting out of the window. When Hopper heard this he stopped trying to get into El's room and looked out the kitchen window and saw someone running away from the house.
Hopper tried to get out of the door but El kept him from opening the door. Hopper yelled at El "Let me out of this door right now!"
Mike stopped when he heard shouting. He knew even if he managed to get away that Hopper would figure it out so for El's sake he decided to go back and face the music.
Mike knocked on the door and yelled in, "El we got caught it's too late"
Hopper opened the door and grabbed Mike by the collar and pulled him inside and slammed the door shut.
"I trusted you kids and this is how you repay me! Sneaking out here and doing God knows what, what the hell!"
Mike spoke up, "I'm sorry I don't know what to say."
"Sorry, Sorry?! Ok I want to know exactly what's been going on and how long you have been sneaking out here" Hopper said staring straight at Mike.
"This is only the second time, the last time was Tuesday. The only thing we've done is watch movies I swear!" Mike couldn't look at Hopper.
"I trusted you guys to abide by the rules, I even let you guys take walks so you could be alone, which I did NOT want to do; now I see I can't trust you guys at all!"
Mike looked down, "I'm sorry this was all on me please don't punish El, I was the defiant one, I thought to myself that I was mad at you and didn't have to listen to you that I could just do whatever I wanted; It's all on me!"
El tried to speak up, "No Mike not all…" Mike cut her off; "No El this is all on me!"
Hopper just stared at Mike, he was furious but at the same time seeing Mike accept responsibility like that calmed him down.
Hopper sighed, "Ok ok two weeks grounded no visits except for this Saturday's group visit; one month no solo visits from Mike but he can come with friends; if this ever happens again then there will be no visit's for a long time."
Mike looked at Hopper, "I'm sorry I was selfish" then Mike turned to EL, "It was selfish of me El"
El unlike Mike however was in no mood for reconciliation.
"No Mike not selfish, HE is controlling! He…" Mike cut her off "No El he just wants you to be safe, I want you to be safe; eventually we will be able to go out together and go to school together but we have to make sure its ok, I'm so sorry El" Mike voice started getting shaky towards the end.
Hopper was now completely calm. He thought to himself this kid is pretty good if he hadn't came back to face me I probably would have ended up with a bunch of windows to replace again.
Hopper looked at Mike and said, "Well you handled getting caught better than most kids would have so that's something. After the grounding's over things can go back to the way they were, if all stays quite for a couple months I'll be more lenient with the visit schedule"
"Ok, thank you sir" Mike replied
"Well you better get going kid"
Mike gave El a quick hug and told her he was sorry again before he left. El really didn't understand why Mike gave in so easily but it seemed to work out, Hopper seemed to like Mike more now for some reason.