Lucas's POV

I opens the door. It was Mike and Dustin. The smile ran from my face. "What do you want?" They stayed silent till Dustin hit Mike. "I drew first blood, so..." He had his hand out. I knew this was gonna be a longer talk so I let them in, I walked back and fourth. Then I noticed Y/N walked out. She looked confused, she stayed silent though. "Okay, I'll shake." I said to Mike. He held his hand out again. "One one condition. We forget the weirdo and go straight to the gate." "I agree." Y/N said as she walked next to me. "Then the deal's off." Mike snapped. "Fine!" I yelled. "Fine." "No, no, not fine! Guys seriously? Y/N you too? What has gotten into you guys?"

"Don't be blaming her! She the only one who is right!" I yelled back at him. "No, just listen to me. Do you remember the what happened on the Bloodstone Pass?" We all shrugged. "We couldn't agree on what path to take, so we split up the party and this trolls took us out one by one. And it all went to sh*t. And we were all disabled! So we stick together, no matter what!" I agreed. He was right. "Yeah, I agree. But this is the party right here in this room." Mike clearly disagreed. "El is one of us now." "Um, no, she's not. Not even close! Never will be. She's a traitor-" Y/N interrupted me. "No! You seriously think Eleven would help us?! Did you not see her hurt Lucas! She's clearly dangerous. We should just forge about her before she hurts us all."

"She was trying to keep us safe! She didn't mean to hurt you. It was an accident." "Safe? Accident? What she did was not an accident!" Y/N yelled. "All right, accident or not... admit it, it was a little awesome." Dustin said. "Awesome?" I questioned. "Yeah, she threw you in the air with her mind!" "I could have been killed!" Where they not seeing that? "Which is exactly why we need her. She's a weapon! Do you seriously wanna fight the demogorgon with your wrist rocket? That's like R2-D2 going to fight Darth Vader. We're no use to Will if we're dead." "If you two wanna waste your time looking for a traitor, go ahead, cause I'm not spending my time on her anymore. No way! I'm going to the gate. I'm gonna find Will." I pushed both of them aside. Y/N followed me. We went into my garage and got in my bike and grabbed my bag and left.

Eleven's POV

I was hungry, I came across a store. There was music playing the background, they stared at me. I'm not a freak. Let me be. "Are you lost?" A men asked me. I turned to him. "Is your mom here? Your dad?" "Mouth breather." I spoke to him. There in the window I saw eggos, I grabbed several of them, and started walking. "Excuse me. Young lady! You know you have to pay for those! Hey! Stop that!" The blood started trickling down my nose again. "You have to pay for those!" The man cried out again. I walked through the doors. "Stop right there! Thief! Thief!" I had had enough. I slammed the door and they chattered as I continued to walk away.

Y/N POV

We were crossing the street when we noticed a man in a Hawkins Power and Light van. He waved at us, we waved back. This was very suspicious. We road off.

Dustin's POV

"This is weird without Lucas and Y/N." I told Mike as we road our bikes trying to find Eleven. "He should've shaken my hand." Mike told me. "He's just jealous." I told him. "What are you talking about?" Did he not get it? "Sometimes, your total obliviousness just blows my mind. Yes your best friend, right?" "Yeah... I mean, I don't know." "It's fine. I get it. I didn't get here until fourth grade. Ha had the advantage of living next door. But none of that matters. What matters is that he's your best friend. And then this girl shows up and starts living in your basement, and all you ever want to do is pay attention to her." "That's not true. And besides that's what he's doing with Y/N to. So don't and act like I'm the guilty one." "I know. Yes, it is. And you know it." "That's not true." He told me. "Yes, it is. And you know it. And he knows it, that's another reason why he's trying to spend a lot of time with Y/N. but no one ever says anything until you both start punching and yelling at each other like goblins with intelligence scores zero. Now everything's weird." "He's not my best friend." "Yeah, right." I chuckled. "I mean, he is, but so are you. And so is Will." Those weren't the rules. "Can't have more than one best friend." "Says who?" He asked. "Says logic." "Well, I call bull on your logic, because you're my best friend, too." "Okay." I smiled. I guess logic could be wrong sometimes. "Whoa." Mike said. I turned to what he was looking at. It was the grocery shop. The cops were there and the doors were broken. "You don't think..." I said. "Uh... definitely." We road our bikes past them.