Mike's POV

We went to my house and snuck in through the basement door. The girl had my jacket wrapped around her. "You can sit there," I said. She looked over and walked there slowly sitting down. 

Her breathing was escalating. She looked around paranoid. We stepped closer but she flinched. "Is there a number we can call? for your parents?" I asked. She looked up at me. 

"Wasn't your hair white just a moment ago?" Dustin asked. I looked at him weirdly. "Did you run away?" Lucas asked. She moved her head each time someone spoke.

"Are you in some kind of trouble?" I asked. "Is that blood?" Lucas asked reaching towards her. She whimpered and looked terrified. I slapped his hand away. "Stop! You're scaring her." I said.

"She's scaring me!" He yelled. "Maybe she's deaf," Dustin said. He clapped his hands by her face. She flinched back. Her legs shaking. "Not deaf." He said. I rolled my eyes at him.

"Alright, stop. She's just scared and cold." I said gesturing to her. She looked at everyone. I went over to the laundry basket and got the new fresh clothes mom washed today.

I walked back over to her. "Here, These are clean. Okay?" I said. She grabbed them gently from my hands. She looked at it funny. She brought my clothes up to her nose and then sniffed them. 

She got and let the jacket slip off. She looked at us then looked down. She grabbed the hem of her shirt and lifted it up. I moved forward grabbed her hands. The guys turned around. 

I was blushing. I looked up once I saw her stomach. Afraid to look down. I saw her face. She looked like she had no idea why we were screaming at her. She looked highly confused. 

"Can you let go of your shirt?" I asked. She let go of it letting it fall back to her thigh. I let go of her hand. I looked over to the bathroom trying to let my blush go away. 

"T-the bathroom is over there," I said pointing. She stayed still. "You-you know privacy," I said looking at her. She gave me a confused look but turned and bent over to get the clothes from the couch.

She held them close to her body slowly stepping towards it. I followed her. I put my hand on my upper cheeks feeling it getting hot.

 I bit my thumb and moved and started closing the door once she got in there. She turned when she heard the door creak and stopped me.

 "Y-you don't want it closed?" I asked. She nodded her head. "Oh okay," I said. I slowly closed it a bit.

 "How about...like this," I said. It was open enough for her not to panic and closed enough for us not to see.

"Is this better?" I asked. She nodded a little before turning around taking her shirt off. That was my cue to leave. I went over to Dustin and Lucas. 

"This is mental," Dustin said. I rolled my eyes. "She's really weird," Lucas said. "She tried to get naked and I don't think she was wearing underwear," Dustin said.

 We both looked at him. "You looked?" Lucas asked. "I didn't see anything but I didn't see anything on her hip." He said. "There's something really wrong with her," Lucas said.

"I mean she was like this," Dustin said lifting his arms up, knocking his hat to the ground. "She's messed up in the head," Lucas said pointing at his head and moving it.

I sighed at there comments. "I bet she escaped from Pennhurst," Lucas said. "Where?" I asked rolling my eyes once again.

"The nuthouse in Kerely County," Lucas said. "Got a lot of families there?" Dustin asked smirking. Lucas turned to him. "Bite me." He said. 

"But seriously. That would explain why she's acting so crazy." Lucas said. "And she tried to show us her body," Dustin said making his arms go up again. I sighed. 

"She's probably a psycho," Lucas said eyeing the door she's in. "Like Michael Myers," Dustin said. Eyes widening. 

"Exactly! This is why we shouldn't have ever brought her here." Lucas said. "So, you just wanted to leave her in that storm?" I asked looking at him in disbelief. 

"Yes! We went out to find Will, not another problem." He said sighing. "We should go tell your mom," Dustin said. "I second that," Lucas said agreeing. 

"Now look who's crazy," I said. "How would that be crazy?" Lucas said. "Because if I tell my mom she'd tell both of your mom's and we weren't supposed to be out," I said. 

Lucas and Dustin looked at each other. "Then what will we do with her? I say kick her out now." Lucas said. "I don't second that," I said. 

I looked over to the bathroom door. I turned back to them. "Alright, the plan is that she sleeps here-" "You're letting a girl-" "Just listen!" I said cutting Dustin back off.

"She sleeps here, I make her sneak out and knock on the front door. My mom will answer and will know what to do." I said. They looked at each other again.

I turned towards the couch and jumped a little. "I didn't know you were out," I said. She was on the couch fumbling with her thumbs. 

"How long have you been there?" I asked. "For a while." She said very softly. "Oh, so you can speak," I said walking over to her. She didn't seem that scared anymore.

She looked up at me. Her eyes looking into mine. "Umm, You're going to stay here tonight," I said. "O-okay." She said nodding her head. I walked over to the fort and opened the cloth doors.

I went over and grabbed the sleeping bag next to her. She scooted away from a little and looked downshifting. 

"Can you come here?" I asked. She looked up. She got up and looked at me. I walked over to the fort. "You'll be sleeping in here," I said. She got down on her knees and crawled inside the fort. 

"Heres the sleeping bag," I said. "Bye." Dustin and Lucas said together. The door closed and she got everything situated in the fort.

"I never asked your name," I said. She looked over to me. She pulled the sleeve on her left arm up a little.

 She turned it around. I saw 013 on there. "Whoa, is that real?" I asked grabbing her hand gently and looking at it closer only to have her jerk her arm away. She looked scared again.

"I'm sorry...I just never saw a kid with an actual tattoo before." I said smiling a little. She calmed a bit but looked confused. "So what does the thirteen stand for?" I asked. She pointed at herself.

"That's your name?" I asked. She nodded her head." "Oh, well, my name is mike. Short for Michael." I told her. She shifted in her spot still looking into my eyes. 

"Um, well, okay, goodnight Thirteen," I said getting up. I grabbed the cloth doors to the fort. She stuck her head out a bit and I paused. "Night, Mike." She said softly. 

I put the cloth doors down and walked quietly towards the stairs. I looked over at the fort. I heard heavy breathing and shuffling. I sighed and turned off the light making my way upstairs. 

Thirteen's POV

The loud came back and I got scared. I quickly got into the sleeping bag and hid my face and closed my eyes. I heard a door close and I started to quietly cry. 

If Papa gets me...I'm in so much trouble. I can't go back there. It hurts when they stick all those needles into me. It hurts so much...

I close my eyes and think about Papa. I opened my eyes and saw woods. "What do you mean you can't find her?" Papa asked the other bad men.

"Maybe she got too far and teleported. I mean you said yourself you don't know if she can think of a place and just wind up there without her knowing." The man said.

He sighed. "We will all look for her in the morning with disguises." He said turning away from them and walking to the white moveable thing. "Yes, Sir!" They said. 

"He opened it's door and looked out. "And make sure we hear about the calls for a missing girl with long black hair." He said. 

I got out of his mind and put my hand over my mouth trying to silence my loud crying. I turned so I could at least try to get to sleep.

Mike's POV [The Morning]

I barely got any sleep last night. I wasn't that tired. I got up and already had my outfit on for the day. I went downstairs and into the kitchen. I opened the fridge and got Eggo Waffles.

I grabbed four and put them in the toaster. I paced around waiting for them. After about five minutes in the toaster, they popped up.

 I grabbed a plate and put two on there. I stuffed the other two in my jacket pocket. I walked over with my plate and sat down. I folded the waffle and stuffed it in my mouth trying to eat fast. 

"Slow down, Mike. That's disgusting." Nancy said. I stopped eating and looked over at her. "Do a lot of studying last night?" I asked a bit muffled since the whole waffle was in my mouth.

She nodded cutting a piece of her breakfast. "Yeah, actually I did." She said. "What was your test on again? Human anatomy?" I asked. He eyes widened and she looked at me glaring. 

She kicked my shin and I kicked her back. "What's going on?" Mom asked. We looked at her. "Nothing." We both said together. 

We went back to eating silently. I soon finished and put my plate in the sink and went downstairs to the basement. I heard a static sound coming from in the fort. 

I moved the cloth door and saw her messing with the knob of my supercom. I smiled at her. " I see you found my supercom." I said. She glanced up at me then back down. 

"It's pretty cool, right? I mostly talk to Lucas on it since he's so close." I said. She looked back up at me but just started listening to me. 

I looked down from her gaze and reached in my pocket to get the eggos before they were too cold. "Got you breakfast," I said. She reached for it took it looking at it funny.

"It's waffles," I said. She looked at it and took a bite. She started scarfing it down. She probably looked like me this morning. She looked pretty hungry. 

"Um, this is going to sound pretty weird but, I need you to go out that door sneak to my front door and knock on it and tell her your lost," I said biting my lip.

She looked up at me, her green eyes staring back at mine. She looked at me funny. "It'll be fine. She'll know who to call and we'll just pretend to meet for the first time." I said reassuring her.

She gave me a disapproving look before nodding her head no. "No?" I asked looking into her gaze. "No." She said turning away from me, eating the waffle.

"No, you don't want my mom to help?" I asked. She turned back to me. "No." She said softly. I looked at her for a moment. "You're in trouble, aren't you?" I asked. 

She looked down and looked really frightened like I reminded her. She looked up at me. She didn't have to say anything. It said it all over her face that she was. 

My breath hitched a little. "Who...who are you in trouble with?" I asked. She kept her straight face but with panic all over it too. "The bad men." She said very quietly. 

"They want to hurt you?" I asked. She stared for a moment. She soon brought her hand up to my face making it like a gun. She moved her hand up like, she shot me. 

"Do you understand?" She asked shifting a little closer to me. I was about to answer until my mom interrupted me. I looked back at Thirteen grabbed the cloth door. "I-i will be back," I said.

I dropped it and then ran to the stairs, going up them. I opened the door to face my mom. "Why were you down there?" She asked. "Finding stuff," I said closing the door and grabbing her hand.

Dustin's POV [At School]

We got into class and saw no Mike. "This is so weird. He's never this late." I said sitting down. "That means it didn't work," Lucas said shaking his head slowly. 

"If his mom found out that a girl slept there..." I said wide-eyed. "Yeah, he's in deep shit right about now," Lucas said. "Hey," I said getting closer to him. "What if she slept naked?" I asked.

He looked at me funny. "She didn't." He reassured. "Oh my god. If my parent's found out a girl slept there and possibly was naked sleeping-"

 "Mike would never rat us out." He said cutting me off. "You don't know that," I said. "Look, When we get off school, she'll be back in the loony bin and will have a chance to find Will." He said. 

Mike's POV

I waited a good five minutes behind a bush waiting for my mom to leave. Once she left the driveway, I peddled back to the garage. 

I got off my bike and went inside. I made my way to the basement door. I opened it and went downstairs. The blanket fort cloth door was still closed. "Thirteen?" I asked pulling it up. 

She was laying down but she looked at me and sat up. "How about we go upstairs," I said. She crawled out of the fort and walked with me upstairs. 

"Do you want anything to drink?" I asked walking to the kitchen. Her close by me. I looked back at her and she looked fascinated by everything. I turned back towards the kitchen.

 "We've got orange juice, skim milk, soda, water, tea, and what else?" I asked myself trying to think what else we have. 

I turned towards her again to see she went into the living room. I smiled. "Oh, this is our family t.v," I said. 

"It's a twenty inch which is ten times bigger than Dustin's," I said looking down. I saw her move away and I looked over to where she was going.

 She held my picture and turned around. "You?" She asked pointing at my picture. "Yeah," I said walking over to her. She turned around and set it back down. 

She put a smile on her face. "She's pretty." She said. "I guess so," I said rolling my eyes. "That's my sister Nancy and right here is baby Holy and those two are my parents," I said.

She looked at the rest of the photos then walked over to the lazy boy. "That's our La-Z-Boy," I said. She touched it then walked around it. "You can try it if you want," I said.

She sat down and looked over to me. I kneeled down to the side with the lever. "Trust me, okay," I said. She nodded slightly.  I pulled the lever making the chair fall back. She did too. 

She looked panicked but smiled a little. "Fun?" I asked. She looked over smiling a lot more. I pulled it back up. "You wanna try?" I asked. She reached for it and pulled it towards her. 

She fell back once more and I laughed a little. She did too. I pulled it back up for her. She was smiling at me. 

She got up and started walking around the house. I followed closely. She saw the stair and looked up at them. "You can go up the stairs," I said moving up them already.

 She started walking up them but stopped looking at the pictures she saw on the way. She walked over to the doors. "This is Holy's room," I said. "Your room?" She asked looking at me. 

"Oh, it's right here," I said walking over to my room. She followed close behind and walked in. I did too and closed the door. She sat by the table with all my toys. 

"Oh, these are most of my toys. The rest are down by the basement." I said. she picked up my Yoda figure. "Oh, this is Yoda. He can control things with his mind." I said.

"Like this," I said pushing mostly everything off my table. she got up and walked over to my dresser. She put her hand on her knees and bent over to be the size of the science trophies. 

Thirteen's POV

I looked at all the trophies. "These are all the trophies we won for the science fair." He said. "We all won first place except last year." He said. I looked over at another photo.

I saw him and the two other people with him. Then I saw...that boy. He looked familiar. My breath hitched. 

[Flashback]

"Now remember Thirteen. what you saw in that place he could hurt you then but if you teleport into his mind he can't hurt you there." Papa told me. 

"Now will you be a good girl and find him for us?" He asked. "Yes, Papa," I said. "Now concentrate." He said.

I closed my eyes and tried to focus. I then heard a noise. I opened my eyes. He was walking. someone up ahead. The boy was on something moving. He looked up and crashed and fell. 

He looked up and got scared running away quickly. It turned to where he was going and started following him. I touched my nose and went out of that. I looked at Papa. 

"Did you see it?" He asked. I shook my head. "Yes, Papa," I said. He got up. "Well, tell me." He said. "He was...chasing after a boy...He got out and it's your fault I said getting up.

 He went to grab my hand but I backed away. "It was not my fault." He said. "If you didn't make me do this, that wouldn't have happened," I said. Closing my eyes. "Bye, Papa," I said.

[Flashback Over]

"The boy..." I said slowly pointing at him. "You know Will?" He asked. I stayed silent. "Did you see him?" He asked. I still stayed silent. A screeching sound came from outside. We both turned.

Mike ran to the opening thing and looked out. He turned to me and grabbed my hand. "We gotta go." He said pulling me out of his room. 

We ran downstairs and stopped when we saw his mother? He pulled me back up almost making me fall over. 

"Ted? Is that you?" His mom said. "Just me mom!" He said pulling me back into his room and shutting the door locking it. 

He then pulled me to this other door. He opened it. It was pretty small and filled with clothes. "In here. I'll be right back, okay?" He said. I looked in there feeling weird. 

"Please, If you don't my mom will find you. I promise I won't tell her about you." He said. "Promise?" I asked looking at him confused. "It means something you can't break ever." He said.

"Michael?" I heard making me look over. "Please." He whispered. I looked over to him then back at the place. I stepped in and immediately felt like back at the lab. 

He closed the door and I was left alone trying not to cry. I pressed my back up against the wall. I closed my eyes and tried to control my breathing. 

[Flashback] 

I just did something bad. Papa snapped his fingers and two guys held my arms dragging me away. I screamed and cried. "Papa!" I yelled. I looked behind me and saw him looking at me.

"Help!" I yelled. They turned the corner and saw the door I was all too familiar with. my eyes widened. "No! no no no no!" I yelled louder turning into a high pitched scream. 

They opened it and grabbed a needle. I struggled even more. "No!" I yelled. He injected me and made me feel week. They threw me in and shut the door. I ran to the door and beat on it.

"Papa!" I yelled once more before trying to use my powers only to have it not work. I felt dizzy. I sat down on the edge crying loudly.

[Flashback Over]

I slid down the wall falling on my butt. I hugged my knees crying softly. I wanted to open the door or teleport out of here but don't want to make mike worry. I stayed there thinking about it.

"Thirteen?" I heard. I stayed silent trying to stop crying. The door opened and revealed, Mike. "Are you alright?" He asked looking worried. 

"Are you alright?' He asked again looking worried for my sake. I nodded my head. "Yes," I said. "You sure?" He asked. I put a fake smile on my face.

"Promise."