The Night

Soon it was time to sleep. So I offered her my bed, but she didn't want to sleep on the bed, for some reason. I had a table, which I had covered with sheets, inorder to make it like a tent. It was quite similar to the one at the basement.

She decided that she would sleep there. So with a shrug of my shoulders, I laid on my bed and switched off the lights. The only source of light in the room was of the moon that came from the window.

It was weird that the moonlight was there, since it was still raining. That's when a loud roar of thunder startled me.

The thunder that startled me, had worse effect on Eleven. She was visibly shaking from the thunder. I decided to help her out, only because of me being so kind and a gentleman. She hadn't closed the sheets that made up the tent, this was also why I saw that she was shaking. I am not a pervert to peek on everyone destroying their privacy. Eleven stiffened when she saw someone walking towards her. I noticed this, so I spoke, "El, It's me Joey. Are you Alright?"

Thankfully she recognised me, because her body relaxed, and she nodded, but didn't speak anything. I sat beside her sleeping figure, and decided to make her sleep first. I made her lie her head on my lap. She was confused when she couldn't understand what I was doing. So I explained her, what I was doing. I said, "When I was younger, I was afraid of things. I couldn't sleep at night. So Karen would do this to me and Mike. And we would fall asleep before we knew it. "

Eleven confused and probably a little guarded when she heard my words. She asked in confusion, "Who is Karen?" I smiled and replied, while stroking her cheek. She probably liked it, since she leaned her face more towards my hand. Then I replied, "She was one of the person to adopt me. "

She was one in this life, but in the life before, I had two people who had adopted me. And they did the same there when I was afraid.

When she heard the word 'adopted' , she was a little confused. So I said, "When there is no one in your family and you are all alone, if a person takes you in. Gives you home, food, and most importantly love. That is adoption. " She thought for a second and said, "Like Benny?"

I nodded my head. Although she hadn't told me about Benny, I knew him because I had went to his diner before and since Hawkins being a small town, it wasn't exactly hard to remember the name of it's residents.

Thankfully she wasn't mature and didn't remember that she hadn't told us about Benny. Then both of us were quiet. Then she asked me something, that I had no answer to. She asked, "Then, what are you to me?" I replied without a hesitation, "Friend. " She got confused again. She asked, "Friend?" I explained, " A person who helps you without any benefits. He/She just does that because they want to help you. " She nodded as if that made sense. But I just randomly blurted out that definition. Then she was silent again and then asked me, "You are different from others. "

I smiled and sheepishly rubbed the back of my head. Then I was about to give a reply to her, but she said, "You are strong, and are same like me.. " I was confused. Suddenly the dim lights in my room turned on by itself and I could see the bleeding nose of hers.

"Shet. ", I muttered worriedly, as I wiped the blood from her nose with my sleeves. I looked at her sternly and said, "Stop using your powers. You are hurting yourself. " Eleven was silent when she heard my words. She didn't speak a word, while I carefully wiped the blood. But I saw that she had a smile on her face.

After wiping the blood, we both were soon asleep. When I woke up, the next morning, I found a pair of curious looking eyes staring at me. It belonged to Eleven. I asked, "What?" As if I wasn't worried about seeing someone staring at me, up so close. Shaking her head, Eleven decided to give me a kiss. Although I didn't mind it and even enjoyed a little, but it was still a surprising kiss, and she held me tightly, like she was dominating me. I didn't mind that, but that wasn't true for my bloodline probably.

Because I could feel my blood surging, like it had the intelligence of it's own. I grabbed her and kissed her too. After a few minutes of sloppy kissing we stopped. I couldn't help but ask, "How did you know all of this?" She was at the lab, and I am sure that although it is a parallel world, those people wouldn't be caring towards Eleven. And they won't obviously show her some romantic movies or teach her romance or something like that.

She replied, "At Benny's. I saw it on the magic box." I understood what she meant. The magic box should be TV right. Since that's the only box like thing in which she could see these things. It was probably some romantic movie.

I couldn't help but smile, as I said, "A person's kiss is very valuable. You can't just give it to anyone. The person that you give the kiss should be valuable to you. You should love him/her. Only then can you kiss them. And once you are in such relationship, it isn't good to do that to someone else. " I did make sense, since this was 80s. The folks of the timeline would agree no less. Even though this place would have more open folks later in the future, but the 80s was a period where people weren't quite open minded like in the 20th century.

Eleven simply nodded. That's when I heard Karen's voice, "Joey, Mike, come downstairs to eat breakfast. You will be late for school. "