Mike is your classic loner. He's always kept people out, focused on his school work and accepted his fate that he was always a loser. That's what he's always thought everyone thought of him anyway. He's in his final year of torture at Hawkins High . Everything was fine in his eyes, he didn't think he was missing anything, until he got to know El. The popular,0 pretty nice girl that everyone likes. She changes everything for him and makes him realise that there was something in his life that he was missing.