After Steve left, Nancy and Jonathan sat down at the kitchen table together.

Once a few minutes of silence had passed, listening to the kids talk in the background, Jonathan decided he should say something.

"So... Are you and Steve-"

"-Officially over." Nancy finished his sentence.

The two teenagers smiled at each other.

"Things hadn't felt right for a while. Bad timing." she continued.

"And what kind of timing do we have?"

"A good kind, I think. I want it to be good."

"Me too."

The two held hands over the table. Jonathan kept averting his gaze. It was like he thought if he looked at her too much she'd disappear, or he would wake up from a dream.

"So are we... like...doing this now?" Jonathan spoke, struggling to find the right words.

"Doing what?" Nancy asked, pretending to be oblivious.

"You know... like... you know"

"Know what?" said Nancy, clearly seeing that he was struggling but had no intention of helping him. She wanted him to say it out loud.

"Are we dating now?" He blurted.

"Hmmm, I don't know, are we?" She toyed.

"Do you want to be? I mean, do you want to be dating. I mean... will you just put me out of my misery and be my girlfriend?"

With a laugh, Nancy leaned in and kissed him.

"Does that answer your question?" She whispered against his mouth.

After a minute or so of kissing, they remembered all the kids were just around the corner in the next room, including their little brothers. So they resigned to just holding hands.

"Are you ok? You know, after last night with Will... I know you didn't want to talk about it last night and if you still aren't ready, that's fine, I just want to make sure you're ok.." Nancy asked Jonathan.

"Yeah I'm ok. I think. It was intense. But I've haven't really been thinking about myself. After what happened to Bob, I'm just worried about my mom.." he said, looking at the locked door of Joyce's bedroom.

"She's tough. And strong. After everything she's been through this past year, she'll be able to get through this too. I swear." She looked into his eyes, hoping she was reassuring him. She had no idea what would happen to Joyce but she hoped for everyone's sake she would be able to work through this.

"Do you think Will seems ok?" Nancy asked.

"I think so. I mean, look at him. I can't remember the last time he looked as free as he does now." said Jonathan, watching Will laughing with his friends. "What about Mike?"

"We were both so sad all year, you know? But he seems better now." she said with a smile.

"Is it because of her?" Jonathan was talking about Eleven.

"Yeah it must be. It's weird, it's like they need each other or something. But they're so young to be so serious... And besides, not to be mean, but she's not the most normal girl to in a healthy relationship with.."

"Maybe that's why he likes her. Because she's not normal. And you've gotta admit, she is pretty cool" Jonathan smiled.

"But what if things go wrong between them? It's not like she has a lot of friends to fall back on if they break up. And what if he realises once he spends more time with her that she's not so cool after all? After everything she's been through maybe she wouldn't be able to handle a break up."

Suddenly it was very clear that Jonathan and Nancy were not talking about Mike and El anymore.

"Is that how you feel?" Jonathan asked.

"I don't know, I want to give this a try, but Steve and I were together for almost a year, and we just broke up. And after everything that happened this I don't know if I'm ready to jump into this. What if we broke up and we weren't friends anymore? I don't know if I could take losing one more person. I really like you but once we start dating you'll realise I'm not as great as you think."

"You're better. We've been through all these crazy life- threatening adventures together, and survived them. I think we can handle a relationship. And trust me, I know you. And you're amazing. Everything about you is amazing. And I'm lucky to even just be your friend. And if we did break up, I'll always want to be your friend. Because I can't lose you. And I swear to you, you will never lose me."

Nancy looked at Jonathan. She knew big speeches like this were hard for him. Slowly she leaned in to kiss him.

"Are you sure this is what you want?" Jonathan whispered.

"Just shut up and kiss me you weirdo"