I wake up the next morning on the floor with Els hand intertwined in mine and her head on my lap. I blush and sit up. This wakes her up and I instantly feel a pang of guilt.

Our hands pull away from each others and she sits up. I smile at her as she turns her head and rubs her eyes. She smiles back and my heart flutters. She so cute in the morning. Her hair is messy and she has tired eyes with a sleepy smile.

My heart melts at the sight. We must of fallen asleep last night in the middle of a conversation. El & I have grown really close and I don't want to leave her. I also don't want to leave the others. Last night I got to know Mike & Will a bit better and they're really sweet.

Of course I want to go back to the Losers but it's not the same without Richie and Eddie.. I wish the Losers could move to Hawkins and we could all be friends. Then me and El could dat-.. I mean.. be really close friends. Because we are the only two girls. Yeah.

I blush at my thoughts and then shake my heads. El doesn't notice this and I sigh in relief that she doesn't.

I get up properly and walk over to my bag. I get out my hair brush and brush my hair carefully. All the others apart from El are still asleep and I admire how cute Richie and Eddie look together. I also think Mike and Will look adorable together and I would of thought they were dating if El had not of told me everything that happened with them.

Today, I will be going out with all the boys & El. We are going to the cinema. Me, El, Dustin, Lucas, Mike, Will & Richie. We will be seeing The Goonies. I'm glad about this because 1. I love the cinema & 2. It means I will have a chance to get to know Dustin and Lucas better. They both seem pretty cool.

I notice Will stirring and he slowly gets up and rubs his eyes just like El did a few minutes earlier. He looks just as cute as she did and I smile at him and give a small wave. He smiles tiredly back and returns the wave.

He gets up and stumbles over to me.

"Hey Bev! Goodmorning El." He says this all in a whisper. El smiles widely and waves back.

"Hi!" She whispers. I do the same.

"What's the deal with you and Mike? I mean, El told me you guys broke up but you both were just basically cuddling." He looks over toward Mike and back at me. He shrugs.

"I..I'm not sure..That's what we always did before we started dating I guess." He smiles slightly and shrugs again.

I nod my head. He sighs sadly as he looks over at Mike. I put my hands on his shoulders and spin him around. I look him in the eye.

"C'mon Will, don't be upset over Mike. Maybe you guys will get back together or maybe you'll find someone else."

He wraps his arms around me and hugs me tight. I hug him back and I can hear him crying. It's getting my shirt wet but I don't care.

I look over at El sadly and she looks back sadly. I can tell she wants to come over and join in but she doesn't want to ruin the moment. Will pulls away and his cheeks are stained with tears.

"Guess I'm still not over him." He says.

"Maybe not."

I cup his cheeks in my hands and smile reassuringly. He smiles back and turns around. El gives a small thumbs up and a small smile to me. I give one back and walk over. Will is sitting beside Mikes sleeping body, drying his eyes.

I look over at them. They make a cute couple and I think they should get back together but they obviously can't if Mike no longer loves Will in *that* way.

I'm clearly lost in thought as I hear El say my name agitatedly (is that a word? lol dk but it is now) for what seems like the five hundredth time. I shake my head and focus my eyes on her. On her beautiful face with half invisible freckles, her beautiful brown eyes with stars in them and her beautiful small smile.

"Sorry! I was lost in thought." I say guiltily. She shrugs, a small smile remaining on her face.

"I'm excited for today. I can't wait to hang out with everyone including Dustin and Lucas. I feel kinda bad we didn't invite them to the sleepover." El looks down as she says this.

"They're meant to be my best friends." She looks at me. "And I hardly hang out with them anymore. I don't even know what's going on in their lives and they barely know what's going on in mine. I feel bad. I completely ditched them and even though I invite them to group hangouts with you guys and they seem happy, I know they're still a little upset that I basically ditched them." She gushes.

My eyes go slightly wide for a second after she says all that so fast. I smile slightly at her flushed face and pink cheeks because she looks adorable.

"Yeah, I get that. They probably might be a bit upset but maybe after today you should try hang out with them and just them altogether again." I say. She nods.

"Yeah, I would, but tomorrow is Monday." She frowns as she says this.

"Oh yeah. Oh.. I'm leaving tomorrow.." I look down sadly. I want to see my friends but I don't want to leave these guys either.

She puts one finger under my chin and lifts my head up.

"It's fine. You can come over again soon! Or we can go to you. It's not that far." She gives a reassuring smile and squeezes my hand.

I blush at this gesture and I wish I could kiss her. I've known her for 3 days and I've fallen hard for her. I obviously don't love her in *that* ( yet ;) ) way but I have a crush on her and I can see that clearly now. Maybe she feels the same? Only in my dreams.

"Yeah, yeah. Thank you El." She nods but keeps a hold on my hand. Her cheeks are tinted a light soft pink and mine are probably coloured a blood red.

Suddenly, Richie jumps up out of nowhere.

"Sheesh! What the fuck was that for?" I say.

"Sorry. Sometimes when I wake up I get sudden bursts of energy and ju-.." he notices our hands intertwined and his face contorts into a sly grin.

El's mouth opens slightly and we pull our hands away.

"I still saw it even though you pulled your hands away.." he says.

I see El give him a death glare and laugh quietly.

"Don't tell anyone Trashmouth. We aren't dating."

He makes a motion over his lips as though he is sipping them and winks. I roll my eyes and laugh slightly and so does El.

I miss him a lot. I miss his winks, stupid jokes, flirting, sharing cigarettes, meeting at the quarry, constant cursing and cycling with him. Just us two. We used to do that all the time, cycle around to random places and explore Derry.

We are exploring the forest together because Mike told us it was fun and reassured us he knew his way around. Leaves keep getting stuck in Bev's hair and I keep scraping my arms against random twigs.

It's fine though because right now Lucas, Dustin, Bev & Will are all indulged in a conversation. I smile to myself until I realise she's leaving tomorrow. My smile fades and I sigh sadly. Atleast it's a half an hour before school so we will be able to walk her to the bus stop and say goodbye.

I'm walking beside Richie and he has his arm wrapped around me because he is telling me a 'fascinating' story that he is just making up on the spot. It's a story that he got attacked by a bear and then ate it. Yeah, I don't know.

I'm betting he's on drugs right now because I honestly don't have a clue why anybody would make that up. It's so random.

Eddie walks up to us and Richie puts his other arm around Eddie. He begins to fill Eddie in on the start of the story and Eddie looks as confused as me. He looks over at me and I shrug and give him an 'I'm scared' face and he smiles to himself.

Richie's story ends with him growing a massive fur ball in his stomach and then trying to cough it up but he accidentally chokes on the furball and dies. I honestly don't know why he made that story up and I'm still so confused.

Eddie bursts out laughing at the whole entire story and I then find myself joining in with his laughter. Richie smiles proudly and pushes his gigantic glasses up to the bridge of his nose. Eddie leans up and kisses his cheek. I guess they're really affectionate or Eddie just loves that *great* story.

Richie smiles and blushes. I leave them be and walk towards Mike.

"Heeeeeey!" I say. He gives a small smile.

"Hey El."

I walk by his side in a comfortable silence until he breaks it.

"Is there something going on between you and Bev?" He blurts out.

My face flushed and my cheeks are most likely burning red.

"Uh, why would you think that?" I question.

"You guys seem pretty close, you always blush when you're with eachother and earlier Richie woke me up with his energetic self when he jumped up. I saw you two holding hands."

My face, I didn't even know it was possible, goes more red.

"No! I was just trying to reassure her of something and thought that the comforting touch would help." I say in a desperate attempt to cover up my liking for her.

He doesn't seem convinced but he decides to let it go by nodding his head. I change the subject.

"Does Richie ever tell you these super weird stories?" I ask.

Mike nods.

"Yeah, they're fucking weird. Where the heck do they come from?" He says.

I laugh.

"He told me one about him being chased by a bear. He then apparently ate it because it was attacking him. He ended up with a furball in his stomach and when he tried to cough it up he choked on it and died."

Mike bursts out laughing loudly and everyone looks at him. His face flushed and he looks back at me, still laughing.

"What the fuck."

"I know!" I exclaim.

We end up talking a lot more for the rest of the night. Bev and I stay at the back, behind everyone. We hold hands and blush. We can't see eachother blushing though because it is dark.