Hey! Here is a brand new story! This is all about Mike's and El's engagement and wedding! Yay! Before reading this, I highly recommend you go read my first story El's First Birthday, because that will lead things up to this story. Please go do so first, and then enjoy this one! Here we go!

Chapter 1: Secret Keeping

1995

El's P.O.V

"We congratulate the class of 1995!" The crowd suddenly erupted into cheers and shouts and clapping. We were all here. Dustin. Lucas. Will. Max. Even Nancy and Johnathan. Mike stood on the stage smiling, and holding his diploma. I clapped harder, waiting for Mike to come off stage so I could wrap my arms around him and hug him as tight as possible. My bracelet jingles as I clap. Dustin nudges my arm.

"He's smiling more than he should. He's keeping something." I froze.

"What makes you say that?"

"He smiles when he's happy, he has a specific grin when he talks about you, and a huge goofus smile when he's hiding something really important." I chuckled nervously.

"You May have loved him, but I've known him longer. He's definitely hiding something." I nodded and tried to shrug it off. It was already hard enough as it is to keep our secret from everyone, but with Dustin watching our every move, it made it all the worse. Mike and I had decided to wait until after graduation to announce the engagement. We wanted everyone to be there.

Mike finally came off the stage a long with the other graduates. I decided to sneak up on him. He was busy hugging Lucas and Will when he asked,

"Where's El?" Will shrugged.

"She was here a second ago." I flicked my head slight, making the yarn hanging off his cap fly in the air. He whipped around. "El!" He gasped and hugged me so hard, that I lost my breath. We hadn't seen each other since Christmas.

"Oh! I missed you!" He said letting go of me.

"Me too. It felt like forever." He nodded in agreement, when Dustin interrupted us.

"Hey old pal! Congratulations. Soooooo... why are you so happy?" Mike froze and glanced at me, asking with his eyes if I had told him. I shook my head a little.

"Uhh... Dustin, I'm done with college. I get to go home. I'm sure you would understand that I'd be happy." Dustin wasn't buying it.

"Okay... whatever you say buddy." Dustin said with an innovative smirk and shrug. Lucas pulled Max up to us.

"Hey Mike! Great job!" Lucas and Mike chatted for a few minutes, while I hugged Max.

"Mike finally gets to come home with you. Are you excited about that?"

"Yeah. Once he gets a job, we are planning on moving in together. Since I work at the station, we have enough to get our own place."

"Sounds fun. Next your going to tell us that you're getting married!" Max chuckled.

"Heh. Yeah." I said with a small smile. Everyone was on to us. It was about to get a lot harder to keep this secret.

Hawkins, 1994, Mary June's Jewelry.

Mike's P.O.V

I took a deep breath before entering the little shop. As soon as the little bell rung, the old man, Henry, rushed out from the back room to greet me.

"Ah! Mike! I see you are here for your girl again?" I nodded with a smile.

"Yep!"

"Another charm for El?" Henry asked with a sweet smile. I felt my hands get suddenly clammy.

"Well... actually, I uh I'm here to get a ring. For El. An engagement ring." Henry's face lit up with pure joy.

"Ah! My boy! Congratulations! From the day I saw you look at her while she was looking at those bracelets, I knew! Oh I just knew, that you'd be together for ever!" He began to do a happy jig around the room. I laughed, but was suddenly grabbed by the arms and swung around.

"Ha Ha! It's such a happy day! Loosen up Mike! She's going to say yes!" I chuckled nervously. Was she going to say though? I knew she loved me, but would she want to commit to me forever? She had never even had another boyfriend. Neither had I, but what if she wanted to date other people. I had to shake the thought away, to keep me from freaking out more than I already was.

Henry composed himself again, but still carried a huge grin on his face. "Alright Mike. Let's see what I got." I nodded and followed him as we looked through glass cases at all the jewelry. I suddenly stopped at a simple diamond ring, with small strips of sliver Weaving around it. It was simple. But it was El. She wouldn't want anything fancy.

"This one!"

"Oh yes! She will like this very much. Is that it?" I thought for a second.

"Is it possible that you could engrave something for me?" Henry chuckled and motioned me to follow him into the back room.

"Of course it is! What would you like it to say?"

"Promise."

"Ah. A very particular word. May I ask as to why promise?"

"It goes way back. Me and El never break a promise. That's our rule."

"A good one too. Alrighty, here you go!" I smiled and gently put the ring in the same box that held El's bracelet that I got her when we were only 14.

"She will say yes, Mike. You are one lucky man." He said with a soft smile. He turned and shuffled back into the main room.

"Thank you sir. I really am lucky." Henry smiled and waved goodbye as I left the shop. The cold November air stung my nose. I took a deep breath. I then whispered to myself. "Let's go find El."

That's the chapter! Hope you enjoyed! I will update soon. I plan to have this be maybe four chapters long. I'm not quite sure. I also want to start writing my other story, which will be darker, have more mystery and an overall define plot line. It will of course have Mileven. Okay! Thanks for reading! Until next time,

-Daisy