"Promise?"

"It means something you can't break, ever."

"What is friend?"

"It's someone that you'd do anything for, and they never break a promise."

Mike has broken his promise, and has been a terrible friend.

He broke his promise, he said she would be safe, that she would be here, with him, eating eggos, and having her own bed, and she would be going to the snowball tonight. Not rotting in that place.

He had been a terrible friend, he had punch his own friend in the face, he was more a danger to his friends than a help.

Then why, why would El want to come back to him, he had this realization multiple times. If Mike wasn't Mike anymore, if he was just a kid who could stop himself from hurting someone, then why would she come back to him.

"El, please, come back, come back." He said this everyday

One day it was different though, he was in his room, thinking over his options to get El back, and he noticed something was off, his notebook, it was floating, when he noticed it dropped.

"El?"

No answer

Then what the hell did that, if it wasn't El, who did it? After a while, he realized, he was the only one in the room, he immedeatly brushed it off, but it came back a while later, his pencil was floating. If it was him, how? He tried to lift something this time, he didn't know how to, but he made his pencil float a little again. He realized that his nose was bleeding, so it must've been him.

He wondered, if he could do these things, could he open a portal to the upside down. If he had more practice than lifting a pencil, maybe. But, he decided it would take too long, so he would go with plan A.

The next day, he went to school, and tried to apoligize to his friends.

"Hey guys, look, before you say anything, I'm sorry, I've been a real jerk for the past month and I'm sorry for that."

"Good to have you back." Said Dustin

"Yeah, good to have you back." Said Lucas

Mike looked at Will, he was better, Mike's punch didn't do much physical damage, but it was unknown how much damage to their friendship it had done.

"Look, I'm sorry, I shouldn't've punched you in the face, I was angry."

"Ok, you're forgiven, good to have you back."

"Cool, now I know it's kind of early to call in favors but I need you guys to get to my house after school, alright?"

"Why?" Said Lucas

"Just, get there, I'll have my mom ask your moms if you guys can stay the night."

"Ok." Said Dustin

For the rest of the day, Mike was more fazed out than usual, he was distracted on his plan, if he had thought this through, if this was how much he was willing to give.

After school he biked as fast as he could to his house. He asked his mom if they could stay over, she said yes, she was happy that he was hanging out with his friends, even she had noticed that he wasn't hanging out with many people.

Once his friends had gotten there he had already setup most of what he had needed, which was mostly an air matress and a lot of pillows.

"What's all this for?" Said Lucas

"Will, do you at least trust me a little?"

"Yes, as long as you don't punch me in the face again."

They laughed

"I won't punch you, just we have to wait until you pass out again."

"What?"

"Ok, so if El is actually in the upside down, and you pass out and go there, maybe I can go with you."

"Why would I do that?"

"That's why I called for staying the night, if you pass out anyways I can go with you."

"Fine, is this what you had to show us?"

"No, I'll show you once we're in there."

"Hey what about us?" Said Dustin

"I'll show you guys once we get back."

So they waited, mostly playing D&D.

Around four hours later

"Guys, I'm about to pass out." Said Will, looking queasy

"How do you know?" Said Lucas

"I get uneasy when I do, it's how I know to go to the bathroom."

"Oh."

They setup to go.

"Ready Mike?" Said Will

"Ready."

They fell back, Mike's consiousness leaving him as well, he was in the upside down.

It was a cold, unforgiving place, dark, even though it was sunset in the real world.

"Ok, what I'm about to show way, weird you out, but don't be, and what every you do, don't pass out, you may bring us back to the normal world."

"Ok."

Mike closed his eyes and concentrated on El.

"She's in my house, but where are we?"

Mike wiped his nose before any blood showed

They looked around, they were in Will's room

"That's a walk." Said Will

"Have you seen any monsters?"

"No."

So they started out, sticking to the border of the woods

"Wait, how do you know where she is?" Asked Will, who was just catching up

"The same way I can do this."

He lifted Will in the air, around a foot off of the ground.

"What? How, can, you."

"I don't know, I just accidentally started making a pencil float in my room."

"Cool."

"Now, I just got tired from that so you're gonna have to carry me the rest of the way there, ok?"

They laughed, Mike had finally had some joy in him.

They reached Mike's house

"Ok, last time I checked, she was in my room, so we'll go from there." Said Mike

"Hey, if she's not there, I'm blaming you."

"If we get caught, I'm saying this I saying this was all Dustin's idea."

They went in

"El!" Mike yelled

"Mike?"

He rushed up to his room.

"El, are you ok?"

"Mike, what are you doing here?"

She was too weak to use her powers more than once a week now.

"To save you of course."

"Mike, how do we get her back? Only our minds are in here, her whole entire body is in here, and I'm about to pass out again." Said Will

"Crap, umm."

An idea popped into his head

"Hey Will, do you think you can carry her?"

"Depends on what the distance is, why?"

"The distance will be about three feet, I'm going to try to make a portal out of here."

"Dude! You got tired lifting me up a foot, making an inter-dimensional portal is kinda out of the question, isn't it?"

"If I pass out, I wake up, but you don't, you carry her to the other side, don't worry, the portal will be to the basement, we just have to walk down there."

"Fine, but if you pass out, won't I have very limited time?"

"I'm guessing around fifteen seconds, maybe less."

"That's not a very long window!"

"But it's our only chance."

"Fine."

They walked down to the basement, Mike carrying El, he didn't want Will to pass out.

"Ready?" Said Mike

"Ready." Said Will

He started, concentrated, and a black hole, the size of a doorway opened up, and he passed out.

"Come on El!"

He ran torwards the portal.

"Lucas what is that?" Yelled Dustin

There was a black hole forming in the room

"I don't know! Why would I know?"

Suddenly Mike sorta woke up

"Guys! Help Will with El."

There was a person coming out of the hole

"Help!"

Dustin grabbed El and Will woke up.

The portal closed

They did it, El was home, They were safe.