Eleven nods. "Hopper is good," she says. It's the truth enough, anyway, even if it is simply put. Hopper has been good to El, even when they've fought. He's been a good friend and a good guardian, and she imagines that he's been those things for Beverly, too.

It isn't Beverly's fault that Eleven wasn't here. It isn't Beverly's fault that Hopper is a good person.

It also isn't Beverly's fault that Eleven doesn't know how to do this: how to talk to a stranger she isn't sure how she feels about, in a situation she isn't sure how she feels about. She swallows uncertainly.

"You... go to school?"