Author's note: Just making up for lost time. Enjoy! :)

"What did you think would happen, Mike?" Lucas asked after Mike explained everything that had happened with Hopper a few minutes earlier.

Lucas and Dustin stayed in the basement of Mike's house, waiting for his friend to come back. They did not know where he had gone, but they thought it best to wait a little. And it did not take long. Soon Mike was back, pale and frightened. Hopper had almost hit him. And he knew it was not over. The Chief would still come after him and maybe he would have to stay a week without speaking to Eleven. God help Hopper to pity him!

"don't know!" The boy exclaimed irritated. "I just wanted it to be special for Eleven!"

"Just because it's not an extraordinary deal, doesn't mean it's not special." Dustin tried to comfort his friend, but he was a little annoyed. It had been so easy for him the first time. He did not have sex with someone who was his girlfriend, but the girl was a virgin too and they solved it quickly. They didn't suffer like Mike was now.

"Yeah!" Lucas agreed. "Lily and I decided the day and it was a normal situation, even so, very special!"

"I know! I know!" Mike took a deep breath. "Our mothers are in my ass! I understand them. El went through so much that they wanted it to be very special."

"Mike, Eleven looks at you like you put the sun in the sky! This is already special enough. You have nothing to worry about!" Lucas remembered. Only Mike's existence was enough for Eleven and she made that clear to everyone. Only Mike did not seem to understand.

"Mike?" The three friends heard a thin, low voice coming up the stairs. It was impossible not to know whose it was.

"El?" He answered and soon saw the girl holding a plate full of cookies. "I did'nt know you would come." He was a little nervous to see her in such a conflicting moment.

"I'm glad you're here!" She said when she saw the other two friends. "We made cookies!"

El offered the plate to them. Lucas picked up a half-suspicious cookie. He knew that El was still learning. Meanwhile, Dustin took as much as his hand could hold and put some in his pockets.

"You and Joyce?" Mike asked confused. Joyce was already in her fifth month of pregnancy, but because she was old to have children, she still felt sick and could not stand being near the kitchen.

"No. Me and your mother." Eleven answered as if it were obvious.

"One minute. Have you been here for a long time?" He asked finally, understanding what was happening.

She nodded.

"Damn it! This is too good!" Dustin had already eaten all he'd picked up, so he took the plate from Eleven's hands and began to eat the rest.

"Really, El." Lucas stole another cookie. "You got over it! You can get married!"

Mike blushed a little, but El smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Miss you." She kissed him quickly because they were interrupted.

"BYE!" The boys shouted toward the back door. They were not yet accustomed to Mike and Eleven like that. The burning hormones of need and anxiety.

"Thanks for the cookies, El!" Dustin said closing the door and running away with her plate. Well, it did not matter. There were only two more. She sighed, because Mike had not had a chance to try and she had done it for him. At least if Lucas had complimented her, it was good. Lucas was very fond of El, but she knew that a few years ago it was different, and so sometimes she sought her guarantee.

When the two of them were alone, Mike remembered how he was failing to impress Eleven. She had been so rejected in her life that he wanted her to feel the most loved possible. He just did not know he was enough for her to feel that way.

"What is it?" El asked when she noticed the look of failure on her boyfriend's face. The boy sighed heavily.

"I was trying to make our first time something special, but I discovered that I can't..."

Eleven frowned, trying to figure out what Mike was talking about. She managed to remember what 'first time' meant. She did not understand what the problem was. They were alone in the basement. Why could not they just take off their clothes and do what had to be done there? People were too complicated for her. Even Mike sometimes.

"Special?" She thought aloud, trying to understand him.

"First, I wanted us to get away from our mothers!" Mike needed to stay away from those women. They already knew too much about their sex lives that had just begun. And he prayed that it would really begin one day.

"Far?" El frowned even more, trying to imagine a place far from their mothers and special. Then something occurred to him. "I know where."

"Where?" He asked in surprise. How had she suddenly found a place?

"Tomorrow."

She gave him a kiss and went out the back door.

"El, wait!" Mike followed her and stood in the doorway. She kept walking, but slowly to hear him. "Want me to take you home?" Hawkings was not a dangerous place to be alone at night, but this wasn't about murderers, rapists, and robbers. When it came to monsters, there was trouble.

"I can do it, Mike!" Eleven had become an independent woman. She did not need Mike to be with her anymore. Not to mention, she clearly took good care of herself.

Mike took a deep breath. He knew he could not do everything for her, but knowing Eleven did not need him that much, it was not the best feeling in the world. Well, El still adored him. He had nothing to worry about.

Mike went back into the house and sat down on his couch. Why could not she tell him at that moment the place she had thought?

Eleven was halfway there when she met Hopper. The Chief was driving the other way.

"Eleven!"

"Dad?" She got closer when he stopped the car. "What are you doing here?"

"I was just going to get you." Hopper answered and his tone warned Eleven that he was not happy. "Get in the car."

She did not hesitate. It was not time to deny what Hopper wanted, it was time to scold him. After a little drive in silence, Eleven started to stare at him, knowing the Cheif had something to say. He took a deep breath, noticing the looks of El.

"What is it?" Hopper had a lot to talk about, just did not know how to say without hurting her feelings. He was so protective that he ended up overreacting.

"I'm the one who wants to know." El turned her face to the road ahead of her. She knew he was not going to take it. It was just waiting.

A few seconds passed and ...

"You're forbidden to speak to Mike, El!" It was to be expected. He always gave exaggerated punishment.

"Because…?" She was very indifferent and it irritated Hopper.

"Because he was asking me to close the school so you could-" He did not want to say the word. "to do inappropriate things." Eleven was not impressed. It was typical for Mike to go to extremes to please her.

"You've seen-" She meant Hopper to have them in her room. "Why now?"

"Because there are limits, Eleven!" The Chief stammered a little. He needed to do something. He could'nt bear to see his daughter with the Wheeler boy. It was hard to accept that she was growing up. "He has to understand that he can't ask and think these things!"

"Because…?"

"Because that's how it is!" Hopper punched the wheel of the car, startling the girl. She did not respond very well to the violence. "And you were with him now"! He paused a little. He could not lose his head with Eleven. He could not scare her.

"I was not with him! I was with his mother making cookies! I would give it to you, but Dustin ate them all!"

"Do you really want me to believe you were making cookies with Mrs. Wheeler?" Eleven shrugged. It was the truth and if Hopper did not want to believe it, it was his problem. Things were simple like that for her. The Chief sighed. "Just don't let Mike do things you don't want, okay?"

"Okay." Eleven did not quite understand what he meant, but she did not want to upset Hopper any longer.

Then they got home. It was fast, since the city was tiny. Eleven ran all agitated into the house. Hopper smiled at that vision. The girl acted as if life were just congratulations, because to her everything was very easy. She saw no evil in the world. And it hurt to show her that things were not quite like that, but Hopper knew he would have to say one day.

"Will!" Eleven screamed when she saw her brother in her room. She hugged him. They got on very well. Besides Mike, Will was the person the girl liked best.

"I'm sorry to be here in your room, but Mom's annoying!"

When Eleven moved, the family had to adapt. Will and Jonathan slept in the same room and Eleven in the other that once belonged to Will. Jonathan's old room was closer to Joyce's and Hopper's, and so Will could hear her humming along.

"Why?"

"Mom and Hopper had sex today and you know that when that happens, she gets super happy!"

Eleven nodded. She did not understand very well, but she knew that from time to time, after Joyce and Hopper were alone, the woman would start humming without stopping. Will and Jonathan quickly figured out what was happening, while El thought it was just adorable.

"Are you all right, Will?" She noticed her brother's uneasiness.

"She's my mother and she's pregnant!"

"AND?"

"So that's disgusting! I can't believe they did it anyway!" Will shuddered at the thought of his mother's sexual activity. Eleven laughed, but she knew there was something else. She and Will, being connected to the Upside Down, were also connected to each other. They read each other without any problem.

"And what else?" Will sat on El's bed and she was next to him, holding him in his arms to support him.

"I'm worried about Jonathan. I don't know if he knows what he's doing! I'm afraid he'll get hurt." Will felt that El knew what Jonathan was doing. She was innocent but very observant. He was sure that his big brother was not around taking photos.

"He's an adult. There's not much we can do..."

"But I wish there was!" Will sighed. He knew how much Jonathan liked Nancy.

"You two!" Hopper pointed to the two teenagers. "Bed now!"

They both sighed deeply. They went through unpleasant experiences with their parents, but even so, having a parent who cared was too difficult.

El remembered something.

"Do you know my mother's address?" Eleven was still half-lost with locations. Although he had gone there only once, Will remembered very well.

Will got up and wrote on a paper.

"Why do you want it?" Hopper always took her there willingly, she did not need to know the address.

"It's for Mike." Will understood at once and sighed. His mother, his sister ... He just wished he did not know those things. "Don't tell Daddy."

"Okay. I'm going over to Bethany's. Don't tell Daddy!" Will opened the window, ready to jump to the other side. If he left by the front door, he would be noticed.

"Do... ?"

"No, El!" Will almost fell "It's not all about sex! I just ... wanted to see her."

She understood. When she was upset, she also liked having Mike around. She was not even offended that her comfort was not enough. El had never been very good consoling. She barely spoke. It was good even if he spent time with Bethany.

Eleven took advantage of the fact that no one was around and took a long shower. There were times when she had no rest with Joyce always going awry. She could not occupy the bathroom for long, because the woman always needed to use it. May Joyce and Hopper have sex again, amen!

She thought a little about what to do with her siblings. If she helped Jonathan, it would certainly help Will. It really was not fair that Joyce was worried when her son was more than safe. Normally she would call Nancy and ask for advice, but this time her counselor was involved. She did not know what to do, but she hated seeing Will like that. Her brother was a very good person and suffered enough already because of the Upside Down. He did not deserve it at all. He was even breaking the rules for comfort with his girlfriend. Then a light went on. And what if it was exactly with Nancy that she should talk?

Eleven thanked God as she left the bathroom that she had a telephone in her room. Worried about adjusting El in their lives, Joyce thought it best that she had a telephone nearby if something happened. So, there was El typing one of the only two numbers she had decorated, the other was from Mike's house. She did not want his parents to listen, because that would hurt Jonathan, not to mention that she had been given clear orders to sleep.

"Hello?"

"Nancy?"

"El Is everything all right?" Nancy always asked her to call her at night if she needed to, because she would not be in any class and could attend, but she always worried. The girl hardly ever called to give good news. Normally, she was in trouble.

"Yes. I need to talk to you about Jonathan."

There was a pause and El could hear Nancy sigh.

"What about him?" Her tone had changed. She was no longer so friendly, but suspicious.

"I know he's there." El said simply, as if she was not saying anything too much. "Since you're with Steve, I just wanted to make sure you're not going to hurt my brother."

"Oh, El!" Nancy was taken by surprise and seemed to be having difficulty to keep up with the talk. "I will not do anything. Just don't tell anyone, okay?"

That was a delicate topic for Nancy who also did not know what to do, after all, they were in that situation because she could not decide her feelings.

"Okay." El trusted Nancy, so she did not press her any more. Those three were adults and knew what they were doing. At least they were warned.

Silence. Neither spoke for a few seconds, waiting for the other to speak.

"So..." Nancy tried to break the tension. "Is something good going in there?" She asked, even if she doubted something big would happen. The only extraordinary events in that city were also dangerous. It was better to ask for nothing to happen.

"Mike and I are having sex on Friday." Eleven spoke again as if it were something normal to say to anyone.

Nancy shrank at the thought of her brother's sexual activities. She really did not need to know.

"W-what a good thing, El!" Nancy was not sure how to respond to that. "Are you sure about that?"

"Yeah!"

"Great, so use protection and don't let Mike do what you don't want, okay?" Once again this story!

"Okay."

"I have to go, El!" Someone seemed to have called her. "Good luck!"

"Bye, Nancy."

El managed to sleep more relaxed that night. Nancy and her boyfriends were already warned and knew that El could do anything if they did not please her. It was only a matter of time.