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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Abadi',sans-serif;"It had been six months since the couple had gotten engaged on a trip to California with their friends. /span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: Abadi, sans-serif;"It was June 8/spansup style="font-family: Abadi, sans-serif;"th/supspan style="font-family: Abadi, sans-serif;"span style="font-size: 10px;", 1992/span, Grover Beach California. No one other than the sea gulls were up when Mike Wheeler woke up his girlfriend El Hopper and led her down to the beach. The sand was soft on their feet, jagged cliffs lined the shore while waves crashed onto the sand./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Abadi',sans-serif;"It was there and then that he popped the question. After El had pulled herself together she said yes. They quickly snuck back to Max's dads house where the whole party was staying while he was on a business trip./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Abadi',sans-serif;"They decided they would not tell anybody until they were back in Hawkins. Or at least that was the plan. If it had not been for eagle eyed Max, they would have gotten away with it. /span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Abadi',sans-serif;"As soon as she had come downstairs, she gasped as she saw El quickly pull the ring off her finger and slide it into her pocket and then she dragged El into the room her and Lucas had been sharing. "OMG when were you planning to tell us?" she asked excitedly "We were going to wait until we got home." El responded./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Abadi',sans-serif;"There was then a sharp knock at the door it was Lucas saying "Is everything okay in there? I want my flip flops; will you at least pass them out Max?" They laughed and exited the room Max thrusting his flip flops in his direction. /span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Abadi',sans-serif;"El then whispered to Mike that Max knew, Mike then said they might as well tell the rest they all knew there was a limited time Max could keep a secret (her skill at keeping secrets was how they found out that her and Lucas were dating)./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Abadi',sans-serif;""Guys I just want to let you know me and El got engaged last night on the beach." You could hear the sigh of relief leave Max's lips. There was uproar from the party as they all flooded over to them and pulled them into a massive bear hug. Will whispered to El "Congratulations sis, looks like there's another wedding coming soon." He chuckled remembering the events at Joyce and Hoppers wedding earlier that year. Let us just say it ended in chaos. (Jonathan got drunk and reviled that Nancy was pregnant.)/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Abadi',sans-serif;"Less than six months later the party was in Mike's basement planning the music for the day. The couple had requested that the whole party not only have a role in the wedding but have a role in the planning. Max was El's maid of honour, Holly, Nancy, and Suzie were her bridesmaids. Whereas Mike had three best men Lucas, Dustin and Will. Steve was in charge of the arranging the guest list and sending invites. /span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Abadi',sans-serif;"When it came to music everybody had a different opinion on what it should be. The only song the couple had complete control over was the song for their first dance. Which they had chosen 'Every Breathe you take' by Police. Max had teased them endlessly for their choice until Mike whispered something in Lucas's ear which made him smile from ear to ear. Lucas then unlike Mike had intended Lucas announced very loudly at Max that they had had their first kiss to that song. Max's face went so bright red it almost matched her hair, let us just say that shut her up but Mike Wheeler got a stern talking to by El after they had all left. /span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Abadi',sans-serif;"The wedding was being planned for January 8supth/sup exactly seven months after they had gotten engaged./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Abadi',sans-serif;"The party met up the next day to discuss who would be doing the filming. Both El and Will knew Jonathan was eager to do it but wanted to make sure that Mike was okay with it. Everyone was happy with the idea of Jonathan doing the filming after seeing the photos of Dustin and Suzie's wedding./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Abadi',sans-serif;"Everybody said goodbye but Lucas asked if he could talk to El in private for a minute. El thought it was because she and Mike had given him the role of planning the main part of the honeymoon (Mike had picked the country and booked flights, but it was up to Lucas for the hotel and car etc.). /span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Abadi',sans-serif;"El quickly realised that Lucas looked extremely nervous. "So, El, I need to ask a favour." El looked puzzled not knowing where this was going but played along. "Okay" "So you cannot say a word about this to anybody okay the only person you can tell is Mike." El nodded because she unlike his girlfriend knew how to keep a secret. "Do you know Max's ring size?" El almost screamed with excitement "Quiet down girl she's just in the other room" El quickly calmed down "Yes I know give me one minute" She racked her brain "I think it is four maybe 3.5."/span/p
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