Chapter 6

                                    

                                          


Y/n POV
I came back downstairs and El was under the tent near the bathroom. Mike sat  in front of her as he talked to her. I came in and sat next to him. 
""Hey, um, I never asked your name" Mike said softly. She looked up and us and then looked down. She lifted up her sleeve and revealed a tattoo. 011.
"Is that real?" I asked her as I went to touch it but she pulled her hand back. "Sorry" I mumbled. 
"We just have never seen a kid with a tattoo before" Mike said trying to make me feel a little better. Thunder rumbled in the background and it made me jump a little. 
"What's it mean?" I asked her. "Eleven?" I said to clarify. She pointed to herself. Was her name really a number?
"What's your name?" Mike asked her with the same confusion I had. She nodded her head. 
"Eleven. Okay. Well, my name is Y/n, and that's my twin brother Michael, Mike for short" I said as I introduced ourselves. 
"Twin?" She said slowly. 
"Yeah, we were in our mom's belly's at the same time. Only I'm 2 minutes older" Mike said with a smile. 
"Two minutes means nothing" I said to him as we fell into a familiar argument. 
"I've seen more of the world than you have" Mike fired back. 
"Sure sure" I said as I rolled my eyes. "Hey, maybe we can call you 'El'. Short for Eleven. Everyone needs a nickname. Mines Y/n/n" I said with a smile trying to make sure she feels welcome.
It was nice to have a girl to talk to. At our school girls thought I was to weird and didn't want much to do with me. So I stood by my brother's friends and soon they became mine. And it was better than all of those other kids out there. To me, they are the weird ones. 
"Um, well, okay. Night El" Mike said as he stood up. I took that as my que to get up as well. 
"Night, El" I said with a smile. 
"Night Mike, Night Y/n/n" El said to us. I gave her a big smile. 
I covered her up as she crawled farther into the tent, I walked over to Mike as he turned off the light behind me and we went up the stairs. 
I did my night time routine and then I head to bed. I felt good knowing that El was safe with us instead of out there doing whatever. 
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It was another day at the breakfast table. I stood by the toaster as I hid Mike while he shoved Eggos into his coat pocket for El to have breakfast. 
We then both sat down and shoved our food into our mouths to eat it as fast as possible to go check El to make sure everything was okay. 
"Slow down, twins. That's disgusting" Nancy said as he rolled her eyes. 
"You're disgusting" I said with mouth full of food. 
"Do a lot of studying last night?" Mike asked her with waffles in his mouth as well. 
"Yeah, actually, I did." She said giving us a look to shut up. 
"What was your test on again? Human anatomy?" I asked her as her face got red and she kicked my chair and I kicked hers back. 
"Hey, what's going on?" Mom asked us. 
"Nothing" All three of us said at the same time. 
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As soon as I put my dish away in the sink I went down into the basement followed by Mike. When we came down there she was messing with the walkie. 
"Hey, you found my supercomm" Mike said with a smile. 
"Pretty cool, huh?" I asked as I took a seat next to Mike. 
"We talk to our friends with it. Mostly Lucas, since he lives so close. Signals pretty weak. But Y/n, likes to climb on the roof to try and reach Dustin" Mike said, i felt my cheeks heat up and I pushed him. 
"Shut up" I said as I but my head in my hands .
"One time, she sat outside in the cold for a hour non stop talking to him" Mike said a she continued to embarrass me. 
"Are you done?" I asked him. 
"Got you breakfast" Mike said as he pulled out the eggos from his pocket and handed it to her. She gladly took it and took a bite from it. 
"Okay so listen. This is going to sound to sound a little weird. I just need you to go out there, then go to the front door and ring the doorbell. Our mom will answer and you'll tell her that you're lost and that you need help. But whatever you do,  you can't tell her about last night or that you know us. Understand?" I asked her, my words were rushed and I took a deep breath afterwards. 
"Really, it's no big deal" Mike said after she didn't say anything she just continued to chew on her food. "We'll just pretend to meet eachother again. And our mom, she'll know who to call" Mike said trying to reassure her. 
She stared at us for a good bit before she said anything. The staring made us a little uncomfortable. I shifted in my seat for her to say something. 
"No" fuck. 
"No?" I asked her a little confused. 
"No" She confirmed. 
"No... you form I and our mom to get help?" Mike asked her. She did her staring thing before she said anything. She shook her head no. 
"You're in trouble, aren't you?" I asked her as I caught on to her. She looked away from us and then looked back at us. The stare meant everything. She was and there was no way we could take her to our mom. 
"Who... who are you in trouble with?" Mike asked her quietly. 
"Bad" She whispered. There was an uneasy feeling to the  whole room. 
"Bad?" I asked her slowly wanting her to go on with everything. "Bad people?" She nodded her head. She had a scared look to her that made me want to protect her at all costs. 
"They want to hurt you? The bad people?" Mike asked her, I was glad it seemed we shared the same brain sometimes because when I didn't have the words he did and the same goes with him. 
She put her hands into a gun and put it to the side of her head. And then pointed the same gun to me and then Mike. 
"Understand?" She said softly. I nodded my head. We couldn't let her go because then we would all end up dead. 
"Michael? Y/n? Where are you to? We're going to be late. Let's go!" Our mom called to us from upstairs. I jumped and got up quickly. 
"All right, we will be right back" Mike said as he covered her up and we hurried upstairs. 
"Just stay here okay?" I asked her before I opened the door from the basement. I saw her shake her head yes.