Ch. 15

El pulled over after driving for around 15 minutes. "Are you hungry?" she asked Mike, who shook his head. "Really? Ok." She shrugged before saying "I'm glad you're back, Mike," and squeezing his hand. "Oh, HOLY FUCK!" El screamed, noticing Mike's left pinky was missing. (You thought I forgot, didn't you?) "What the hell happened to you?"

"What do you… OH SHIT! When did I lose that?" Mike screamed? (I want to say that Mike will tell his story in a second, but Mike and El need to, one, drive to the police station, and two, make up.)

"I take it you didn't notice? Well, at least you don't play the piano." El replied, smirking.

"Really? Seriously, El. Not the time." Mike replied.

This prompted El to respond, "Actually, I think it was exactly the right time. Think about it. You're no longer losing your shit about the missing finger because you're annoyed with me."

"Whatever, El. By the way, I know you want to hear what the fuck happened, but I'll only have the energy to tell the story once today, so let's wait until we get to the police station, okay?" Mike asked, to which El agreed, and so they went. Along the way, Mike apologized to El for being such a little shit to her, and El replied that he was still the best boyfriend she could have.

"I thought we were done?" Mike asked in response to her statement.

"Nope. I realized that I care about you too much to let you end up with some airhead who can't save your dumb ass." El replied, adding, "Everything I said last week was true, but you didn't hear the whole thing. I still want to date you, I just want to start over."

"Start over? No expectations, no drama. Yeah, sounds good. Enzo's tomorrow, at say, 7?" Mike responded, causing El to say,

"Hold on there, buddy. Let's not be hasty. You still have to get looked over and stuff. Make sure you don't have any serious injuries, make sure you don't have any poison or toxins in your body, that sort of thing." El said, causing Mike to say,

"Seriously, El, I told you that I'm FI- *insert General Grievous level coughing fit here*" Mike cut off and started coughing and wheezing uncontrollably.

"Mike! Are you okay? MIKE!" El shouted hysterically, becoming more and more frantic as Mike continued to cough uncontrollably, and get redder and redder in the face until he finally gasped in a breath and said weakly,

"Point taken. I'll wait."

"You had BETTER not die on me, because if you stand me up for ANY reason, there will be HELL to pay. Am I clear, Mike Wheeler?"

"Crystal clear, Eleven Jane Hopper," Mike replied, causing El to burst out laughing.

"Whatever, you goofball. Anyway, we're here. Let's go," El said as she cut the engine and began to clamber out of the cab, telling Mike to stay in the truck until she could help him out and help him into the station.

End ch.15

AN: I know I'm taking the story in weird directions, but bear with me. It will be explained.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

THE WEED THAT EL SMOKES IS 80'S WEED. THAT HAD WAY LESS THC, SO WHILE IT WAS STILL BAD FOR YOU, IT WAS SIGNIFICANTLY LESS SO. NOW WEED WILL MESS YOU THE HELL UP. DONT DO IT. Also, I can hear you saying, "But if it was still bad for you, and El claims to get extremely high every day, how is she not getting messed up?" The answer is that she smokes in public, never in private. She only does it to provoke Hopper. When she doesn't want to do that, she doesn't get high. She was EXTREMELY exaggerating her drug usage there to make Mike look bad. Also, some characters, (not main ones) will use some harder drugs. Honestly, that will probably only be ecstasy. THAT IS A DEADLY AND EXTREMELY ILLEGAL DRUG. EL ONLY PRODUCES IT BECAUSE SHE IS BEING THREATENED WITH SERIOUS PHYSICAL HARM. THE CHEMICAL PROCESSES THAT PRODUCE THIS DRUG ARE JUST AS OR MORE DANGEROUS AS THE USAGE OF THIS DRUG. IT IS FOR SURE MORE ILLEGAL THAN THE USAGE OF IT. LIKE, DEA BLACK-OPS UNITS WITH MACHINE GUNS KICKING DOWN YOUR DOOR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT ILLEGAL. Simply put, don't use or produce any illegal drugs, and I KNOW you know not to, but just DON'T, okay? Ok, I'll step off my soapbox now. That was mainly for legal reasons. I DO NOT ASSUME ANY LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY CONSEQUENCES ARISING FROM YOUR PRODUCTION OR USE OF ANY ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES.