Thirteen's POV

I finally got dry and was able to put on my socks and Hopper's button up. I laid my head against Mike again. He looked like he was impatient. He was bouncing his knee up and down.

He looked at his watch and brought it back down. He soon got up catching me off guard. I almost fell but caught myself. He ran out the door. 

I sighed and sat up straight. I looked over to Dustin. "Where's he going?" I asked. "Probably to find Nancy." He said answering my question. 

I sighed and looked down. Mie came back and sped walked towards us. "They're gone," He said. "What?" Lucas asked. "Nancy and Johnathan. His car is gone." He said.

"They're probably just sucking face somewhere," Dustin said. I looked at him confused. "Gross," Lucas said. "No. No way!" Mike said giving Dusting a weird look.

"Did they go with the chief?" Dustin asked. "How would I know?" He asked. My nose dripped a bit of blood when I thought of Nancy. 

I wiped it off and looked towards Mike. "Shes..." I said. He looked at me. "Did you see them?" He asked. "Yes," I said. "Where?" He asked being impatient again. 

"The Demogorgon," I said looking down. They all looked at each other then back at me. Mike sighed and looked up.

"I have to go get her," Mike said. Lucas and Dustin got up. I let my mind wander for a bit. I kept thinking of the bad men. 

I put my feet up on my seat and hugged my legs. I stayed like that thinking. "Thirteen needs to be recharged!" Dustin said making me get up. 

Mike looked back at me and sighed. "Come on." He said walked over to me and grabbing my hand. We walked out of the building and went to the other one. 

[Skip To The Cafiteria]

"Mike, I found the chocolate pudding!" Dustin yelled. "Okay!" Mike yelled back. He looked over to me. "Are you feeling any better?" He asked. I shrugged and looked down.

He sighed and looked at me still. I looked up at his gaze. "What's putting?" I asked. He smiled. "Pudding, it's a chocolate goo you eat with a spoon." He said. I looked at him weirdly.

"Don't worry. When this is all over with, you won't have to keep eating leftover like a dog anymore." He said. I nodded.

"My mom, she's a pretty awesome cook. She can make you whatever you want." He said. "Waffles," I asked. My face lit up in excitement. 

"Well, yeah, Eggos, but real food, too." He said. He sighed and looked down. "See, I was thinking...once this is over and Will is back...and your not a secret anymore." He paused.

"My parent's can get you an actual bed for the basement. Or you can take my room since I'm down there all the time anyway." He said chuckling a bit.

"My point is, they'll take care of you. They'll be like your new parents, and Nancy, She'll be like your new sister." He said. I couldn't help but smile.

"Will you be like my brother?" I asked curiously. "What? No, no." He said scoffing. "Why no?" I asked. 

"Cause...cause it's different." He said. "Why?" I asked. "I mean, I guess it's not." He said looking away from me. "It's stupid." He said. 

I grabbed his hand. "Mike," I said. He looked up at me. "Yeah?" He asked. "Please tell me," I said scooting closer. Our knees close to touching. 

"I was thinking...I don't know...Maybe we could go to the Snowball together." He said. "Snowball?" I asked confused. "It's this cheezy dance at school." He said.

I nodded. "I've never been, but  I know you're not supposed to go with your sister." He said. "No?" I asked. "I mean...you could, but it'd be really weird." He said.

I looked away from him but glanced up to show I was still listening. "You go to school dances with someone that, you know..." He said. I gave him a questioning look.

"Someone you like." He said. "A friend?" I asked. "No, Not a friend." He said. I leaned up closer. Almost on the edge of my seat. 

He liked and looked down. "Someone like..." He stopped trying to find the right words. "Someone like a..." He stopped and looked down. He looked straight into my eyes. 

He leaned closer to me. He then almost got out of his set but put his lips on mine. I don't know what I felt, but I never wanted it to stop. 

My eyes widened but slowly closed. He pulled away and he looked at me. I breathed weirdly and smiled at him. He looked away smiling. 

"Mike?" I asked. He looked over. "Yes?" He asked. "What was that?" I asked. "I-It's called a kiss." He said. I touched my lips. 

"That...felt good," I said. he let out a breathy laugh. "I don't entirely get it but I'm starting to understand that I like you more than a friend. Whatever that is." I said.

He smiled at me. "I like you more than a friend, too." He said. I smiled and leaned back in my chair. 

I slowly reached out my hand and grabbed his. He smiled and looked into my eyes again. "Was it your first?" I asked. He looked at me confused.

"The...kiss," I said touching my lips. His face got red and he looked down. "Yeah..." He said. "I'm glad," I said making him look up at me. 

He smiled once more and leaned on the edge of the seats. "Are you going to kiss me again?" I asked. Before he could do anything, Dustin and Lucas came in.

"Alright, Thirteen, This stuff will make you recharge," Dustin said. I grab the thing and looked at it. "How...you open?" I asked looking over to Mike. 

He grabbed it and pulled on a thing and opened it. Dustin gave me a spoon and I scooped a little. I looked at it and put it in my mouth. 

I looked over and saw them staring at me. "How does it taste?" Dustin asked. I swallowed it and smiled. "I like it," I said. He smiled and everyone started eating there's. 

I ate more but slowly. It was a weird taste. I finally finished my first one, Mike finished his second one, Lucas finished his fourth one, and Dusting finished his eighth one.

I felt better after eating. I looked over and saw a flash of light at the window. I walked over to the door and looked through the hallway. I pushed opened the door. "Thirteen?" Mike asked.

I looked back over to him. He was walking over to me. "What are you doing?" He asked. "Lights," I said starting to walk. 

He followed me. "Nancy and Johnathan must be back." He said. "I don't think it's them," I said walking faster to the door. 

I heard running footsteps and something grabbed my arm making me stop. "What do you mean?" He asked. 

I looked back at him. A trickle of blood was running down my nose. "Bad men," I said. Mike breathed weirdly. 

He let go of my hand and ran to the door. He jumped a little and ran towards me. "We gotta go." He said grabbing my hand. 

We ran back to the cafeteria and stopped. "Guys!" Mike said. They looked back startled. "What?" Dustin asked. "They found us," Mike said. Mike ran and grabbed his stuff. 

I then heard a door open. Mike came back and grabbed my hand. "This way." He said running. The others followed.

 Lucas ended up taking the lead. We turned a lot of corners then ended by a way out. "How did they find us?" Lucas asked.

 I looked back. "I don't know, but they knew we were in the gym," Mike said looking around. "Lando," Dustin said. The doors to the outside opened and two flashing lights were shown.

We stopped and stepped back. "We got them!" The bad men said. Mike let go of my hand and I ran up the stairs. "Go, go, go, go!" Mike yelled. 

I ran back the way I went. I stopped when I saw three bad men coming towards me. Someone grabbed my hand. I ran further down the way and stopped to see the lady that killed Benny.

I glared at her. She put a gun up to my face. I raised my hand up. I was thinking really hard about crushing there brain's. 

I was closing my hand slowly. I made my hand into a fist. Everyone fell down dead. I put my hand down slowly. I wiped my nose and stumbled feeling dizzy. I fell over and everything went black.

Mike's POV

I saw Thirteen collapse to the floor. I ran over to her and kneeled down. "Thirteen?" I asked shaking her. I furrowed my brows. I shook her again. "Come on, Thirteen. Wake up." I said.

"Mike, she's just drained," Dustin said. "No, no, no. She won't wake up. Thirteen. Thirteen!" I yelled. I turned her over on her back. I put my ear up to her chest.

 Her heartbeat was pretty fast. I moved my ear towards her mouth. She let out a couple of breaths, but it wasn't enough. "She's barely breathing," I said.

"We gotta go, Mike," Lucas said. I looked over to him. "Leave her!" I heard making me and the others jump. I looked over to see a tall man with white hair looking at us. 

"Step away from the child." He said getting closer but stopped. We got up. "No!" I said. Lucas and Mike stepped over Thirteen. "You want her? You have to kill us first." I said.

"Yeah!" Dustin said. I heard footsteps behind me. I looked back and got [icked up by one of the bad men. We all squirmed and yelled. 

The man kneeled then sat next to thirteen. He lifted her upper body making her sit. "Thirteen? Thirteen, can you hear me?" He asked shaking her head a bit. 

She whimpered and opened her eyes a little. "Papa?" She asked. He smiled at her. "Yes, yes, It's your papa." He said. 

She looked down then over to me locking eyes. She looked like she was going to cry. "Let her go! Let her go, you bastard!" I yelled. 

Thirteen's POV

I looked around whimpering. "Shh, You're sick. You're sick, but I'm going to make you better. I'm going to take you home and make you all better again." Papa said.

I looked up into his eyes. I stared and felt tears coming down my face. "Bad," I said. His worried smile turned into an expression I didn't know. 

"Bad," I said again. I turned my head to Mike. I glanced back at Mike. "I need, Mike," I said whimpering. He let his hand fall to my shoulder. "Mike," I said looking at him.

 Papa put his hand on my cheek. I pushed it away with what little strength I had. I grunted a little and tried to push away from him. "Mike." I sobbed trying to get away. 

The light's started flickering. Papa sat me down and looked at the wall. I looked over trying to steady my breathing.

"Blood." I heard Mike say. "What?" Dustin asked. "Blood," Mike said again. The wall started crumbling but stayed in place. 

A hand came out. "The Demogorgon," Dustin said. The Demogorgon screeched and looked around. Footsteps and gunfire were all I heard after that. 

I started drifting back to unconsciousness. I then felt hands grab me and lift me up. I wrapped my hands around the neck and felt them running. I looked up and saw Mike holding me. 

I looked over his shoulder. I saw Papa going towards the Demogorgon. The Demogorgon tackled him to the ground. I gasped and laid my head down on his shoulder. 

I stayed like that until another pair of hands grabbed me. "Help, help." I heard. I was lifted on a table and then laid down on to it. 

I turned to my side and opened my eyes. I saw Mike looking worried. He grabbed my hand. I wrapped my hand around his other hand. 

"Just hang on a little longer, okay? He's gone. The bad man's gone. We'll be home soon, and my mom...she'll get you your own bed and you can eat as many Eggos as you want." He said.

I smiled softly. He rubbed his thumb over the back of my hand slowly. He got closer. I held tighter. 

"And we can go to the Snow Ball." He finished. I was now crying a lot but not sobbing. I gave him a big smile. 

"Promise?" I asked almost letting a sob out. "Promise." He said. He let go of my hands and grabbed my cheeks. He leaned down and kissed my forehead. 

He looked at me and I looked back. A screeching noise came from the outside of the door making Mike pull away. 

I laid there. Too drained to do anything. Gunshots were heard. All of a sudden there was no noise. "I-is it dead?" I heard. 

The door came crashing down with the Demogorgon. My eyes widened. They started yelling but I was too focused to hear what they were saying.

I got off the table and fell to the floor. I got up. I looked over and saw it getting angrier. It got closer to them. It opened its mouth ready to pounce. 

I moved my hand and focused all the energy I had from getting angry into this. The Demogorgon flew back and went through the wall.

 I started walking slowly to Mike and the others getting in front of them. The Demogorgon got up and growled. It jumped and I focused again making it hit the ground. 

I started stepping closer to it. "Thirteen, stop!" Mike shouted. He put his arms around me and pulled me back. "Mike..." I said. 

 I held onto his hand and gripped it tightly. I focused on Mike. I let go of his hand. "I have to," I said. He looked at me. He reached for my hand but I dodged. 

"Stay," I said. I walked towards the Demogorgon. "Thirteen..." He said. I put all my focus on the Demogorgon. I was crushing it to the ground. It screeched making them groan.

I started making the flesh rip apart. I thought harder about it so it'd work. I was getting drained again. My knees were buckling. 

It reached out but I stepped back. I started screaming trying to feel more powerful. It ripped apart and It almost surrounded me. I felt hands around me and pulled me back. 

It was now dead. I then fell making Mike fall down. I started crying badly. He held me close. "Are you okay?" He asked sounding like he was trying not to cry. 

I didn't answer. I turned and wrapped my hands around his neck crying into his chest. I felt more hands wrap around me. I soon felt the blackness take over. 

Mike's POV

I heard Thirteen stop crying. I looked down to see her passed out. I shook her a bit, but she didn't wake up. "Thirteen?" I asked shaking her again.

"Something's wrong," I said. They released from the hug and started helping me. I leaned down and heard her barely breathing again. 

"She's barely breathing," I said. We then got cut off by sirens. We looked towards where the noise was. I looked down and saw her moving. She groaned and got up a little. 

"Thirteen," I said in relief. She held her hand over chest a little. I started to worry again. "Are you okay?" I asked. "Drained." She said trying to get up. She ended up falling on me again. 

"It's okay. Help is coming." I said cupping her cheeks. She looked at me. She nodded and rested her head on my chest again. I stroked her hair and looked back at Dustin and Lucas. 

"Can you guys help me with her?" I asked. They came over they sat her and she looked very drained like she said. 

I got up and picked her up. She wrapped her legs around me and wrapped her arms around my neck. She nuzzled her head into my shoulder hiding her face. 

We then started walking out of the classroom. We walked outside to be met with a lot of firemen and police officers. 

She then let her legs fall down. I set her down and she was stumbling a bit. She looked down a bit making her hair fall down in front of her face. I held her hand. "You okay?" I asked. 

"Yes." She said gripping my hand. "You sure?" I asked. she looked over and gave me a small smile. "Promise." She said. I decided to leave it. 

We all waited in the back of a fire truck wrapped in blankets. Dustin's mother came first and she was so happy to see we were all okay. 

Lucas' parents came next and I was left alone with Thirteen and the paramedics. I looked over to see Thirteen looking around paranoid like the first time we met.

I unwrapped myself from my blanket and hugged her from the side. "it's okay, the bad men are gone." I said. 

She looked over. "Are you sure?" She asked. I wasn't sure at all if they'd come back and try to take her. I was terrified of her leaving me.

 It's hard to believe a twelve-year-old can be in love already; when he still has his whole life to know. I sighed and looked right into her pretty eyes. 

"I'm not sure that they'll come back to get you, but I promise I won't let anything happen to you," I said trying to make her better. She smiled and scooted closer to me.

I smiled at her. She rested herself on me and held grabbed my hand. I looked at her and saw her nose was bleeding a little. 

"Thirteen?" I asked. She wiped her nose with hoppers jacket and looked over to me. She smiled and hugged me. "Will's okay." She said. I smiled and hugged her tightly. 

I leaned down breaking the hug. "I can't wait for you to meet him," I said holding on to her hand. She smiled at me. "Michael?" I heard making me look over. 

My mom looked worried. For some reason, I felt like I was going to cry. Thirteen's grip got tighter making me look at her. "You okay?" I asked. She nodded. "My mom's here," I told her.

She looked down and nodded again. I looked back over. "Oh, my god." She said walking over with tears in her eyes. I looked up at her and she grabbed me holding me in a hug.

Thirteen let go of my hand and sat there. I looked behind my mom seeing her smiling a little. She looked down and fiddled with her fingers. "I'm sorry," I said to my mom.

"I'm just happy you're okay." She said. We released from the hug and she looked back at Thirteen. Thirteen looked up. "Mom," I said walking over to Thirteen. 

I grabbed her hand and sat down next to her. "I'd like you to meet...Thirteen." I said looking down. "She's..." I paused feeling embarrassed about what to call her.

"She...more than my friend..." I said feeling embarrassed. I looked over to my mom and she looked surprised. "She's your...girlfriend?" She asked.

 I nodded my head and looked over at Thirteen. She was looking at my mom with a small smile on her face. "Oh..." My mom said. 

I looked at her. I really thought she'd be more happy about it. Thirteen moved her hand and wiped her nose. Her hair wasn't turning white this time. 

[Skip To At The Hospital]

We all sat down waiting patiently for Will to wake up. I was facing Thirteen. She sat in silence. She kept looking over to Hopper. Every time I looked back I saw him looking at her. 

I sighed and tried to distract her. "So, Thirteen..." I trailed off trying to make her smile. I feel bad when she frowns. She looked over to me. 

I bit my lip due to nervousness. "How are you feeling?" I asked. She shrugged and looked back down. I touched her shoulder and made her look up at me. I smiled and scooted closer to her. 

"Are you going to kiss me again?" She asked. I felt my cheeks get hot and put my head down afraid everyone awake looked over at us.

"Uh...I wasn't planning on it." I whispered. I was wishing something would get me out of this embarrassing situation. I heard the door open making me turn. 

Johnathan was at the door. I looked at him with that look. "Is he up yet?" I mouthed. He nodded and my eyes widened. I got up and turned to Lucas and Dustin. 

they were passed out. I shook them. "Come on! Will's awake!" I yelled loud enough. I grabbed Thirteens hand and pulled her out of the seat. 

"You have to meet Will!' I said excited dragging her to the room he's in. Dustin and Lucas followed close. Once I got to the door I let go of her hand and ran to Will. 

I hugged him and then felt Dustin move me. He hugged him. I looked over to see Thirteen smiling a little at this while leaning against the wall.

"You won't believe what happened when you were gone, man," Lucas said. "It was mental!" Dustin said. "We had a funeral," Lucas said. "Jennifer Hayes was crying," Dustin said.

Will smiled at this. "And Troy peed himself!" Lucas said. "What?" Will said in disbelief. "In front of the whole school!" Dustin added.

Will started laughing. It soon turned into a coughing fit that made our smiles fade slowly. "You okay?" I asked bumping his arm. He stopped and looked over to me. 

"It got me. The Demogorgon." He said. "We know," I said looking back at thirteen then back to Will. "It's okay. It's dead. We made a new friend." I said walking over to Thirteen.

I grabbed her hand and made her follow me over to Will's bed. Dustin and Lucas scooted over. "She's the one who stopped it. If anyone wanted to thank someone it should be her." I said.

Thirteen looked over at Will. She smiled slightly. "I'm glad you're okay." She said. Will smiled. "Thirteen, this is Will and Will, this is Thirteen," Dustin said. 

"Thanks for saving me," Will said. Thirteen smiled and put a hand over his arm. "You're welcome." She said. She put her arm back over to her sides and looked down.

"She's basically a wizard," Dustin said. I looked over to him. "She has superpowers," Lucas whispered.

 I put my hands on her shoulders. "She's sorta like a Yoda that can also teleport," I said. "Yeah, you missed the awesome stuff. She flipped a van with her mind and these agents." Dustin said.

"The van flipped over us," I said. "Yeah, and the agents were trying to grab us and she squeezed there brains making blood gush out of there eyes," Lucas said. 

Thirteen looked down smiling but looked embarrassed. "And the Demogorgon came out and screeched really loud and this gross red goop was coming out of the wall," Dustin said.

We all started talking at once making it difficult to understand each other. We talked for a while until it was time to go home. 

[Skip To Mike's House]

I sat down in the basement with Thirteen drying her hair. She took a shower and got the dress washed. "you like when I play with your hair. Don't you?" I asked. 

"Yes." She said tilting her head back more. " I think I'm about done," I said finally stopping. she turned to me and glanced down at me. "Aren't you going to take a shower?" She asked.

"I will after Nancy is done," I said. She nodded and laid back a little on the couch. "So, what does girlfriend mean?" She asked looking back over to me. 

"It's when to people are in love and they want to make it official," I said. "You made it official?" She asked. "I kissed you..." I said. "That's how you make it official?" She asked turning to me.

"Well, in a way It is," I said. My face was really red by now. "How do you make it official she asked sitting on her knees. She gave me her full attention. 

"Thirteen?" I asked. "Yes?" She asked. "Will you be my girlfriend?" I asked. She nodded. "Yes." She said with a smile. I smiled back. "What does that make you?" She asked.

"What?" I asked confused. "I'm you're girlfriend and you're me?" She asked. "Boyfriend," I said. She smiled and leaned closer. I smiled and leaned closer too.

We were inches apart from our lips touching. She closes her eyes. I put my hand on her cheek and was about to close my eyes. "Michael!" I heard turning around quickly.

I looked back at Thirteen. Her eyes were open and she was leaned back looking embarrassed. "I'll be back," I said reassuring her. I got off the couch and ran up the stairs.

I went up to the door and Saw my mom with a whole bunch of cops. My eyes widened. "What's going on?" I asked. "They need to get Thirteen." Mom said. "What do you mean?" I asked.

One of the officers came forward. " Michael, we know about Thirteen. We're sorry to say but she's a very dangerous person." The officer said. "She's not dangerous!" I said.

They started walking towards me. I blocked there way. "She's not even down there," I said blocking the door. 

Thirteen's POV

"She's not even down there." I heard. I looked up after hearing Mike. I Teleported to the top of the stairs. "We know it's hard for you, Michael, but she's a very dangerous person." I heard. 

I looked down. "She's not dangerous!" I heard Mike yell. He stopped by the door and saw me. "She's...A real sweet person and If I knew where she was I'd never tell you." He said.

He looked mad. "Move kid." I heard. I teleported to the bathroom and looked out the crack. "Stop! I said she's not here!" Mike said. I felt a tear fall down my cheek.

I didn't want to, but I had to leave for a while. I teleported to the woods and started running. I ran really fast to a new place I had never been. 

I sat down after running out of breath. I looked over and saw a tree knocked over. I closed my eyes and thought about Mike. 

"I told you everything I know," Mike said. "We know it's hard to accept this, but you need to tell us where she went. She could be harming people right now." They said.

"She's a gentle person that has barely seen this world!" Mike said. "Send people to look out at the area." One of the men talking to Mike said. 

I stopped and looked away crying. "I'm sorry, Mike," I whispered to myself. I held my knees together and started to sob into them. 

"I'm so sorry." 

I'm sorry to say but this book is done. I might soon make the second book for this. I know its such a terrible ending. Never was really good at starting or ending stories. Also, sorry it took a couple of days to post this. I don't really know why but I got very emotional about this ending.