𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 ; ᵂᶦˡˡ ᴮʸᵉʳˢ

ii ; The Mall Rats

"Hey El!" Ethan called, hopping off his bike and leaning it against the stairway.

"Hi Ethan" She smiled

"So why'd you need me?" The boy asked her, walking up the stairs onto the porch.

"Mike, he's being... weird" She told him

"What do you mean, he's being weird?"

She took Ethan's hand and led him inside, and took him to her room, closing the door behind them. "He said Nana is sick, but Hopper said it was false alarm, and his mom was acting weird on phone" She explained, her grammar a little off. But the summer studies plan was paying off.

Ethan tried wrapping his head around the situation, but I was no good with girls. Obviously.

"I-I don't think I should've been your first resort in this uh- this situation" Ethan stammered, embarrassed and his face turning red. He had a crush on a whole boy for almost a year.

"Then what should we do?" She questioned

"Max"

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El and Ethan biked down to Cherry Lane, where Max lived, to ask for relationship advice for El. They hopped off Ethan's bike a little ways down the street. The boy mentally prepared himself because the two never interacted much with each  other, the first time they met Eleven shoved past her. 

Max was trying to kickflip on her skateboard, but it wasn't going very well, and her skateboard started rolling down the street towards the two lab rats. El stopped it and successfully kicked it up and caught it for her with a rather intimidating face. Eleven walked up to her, handing her board back with a stern "Hi" as Ethan walked behind her, keeping the bike from falling over.

"Hi?" Max replied, confused why El came to see her for some reason, because they never spoke after meeting much. They had a small rivalry the past year and never really spoke.

"Can.. we talk?" El asked her

<·>

"And then he said he- he missed me. And then he just hung up" El explained

"He's a piece of shit" Max told her

"Wait what?-" Ethan asked, puzzled

"Mike doesn't have jack shit to do today, and his Nana obviously isn't sick. I guarantee you, him and Lucas are playing Atari right now." Max accused

"But friends don't lie" El argued

"Yeah, well, boyfriends lie" Max scoffed

Ethan sits silent, not wanting to interrupt the girls.

Max sat down next to El, on the right side of her, and spoke, "You're gonna stop calling him. You're gonna ignore his calls. As far as your concerned, he doesn't exist."

"Doesn't exist?" El repeated

"Wait, why are we ignoring him? It doesn't make the situa-" Ethan started, Max covered his mouth and muffled the rest of his sentence.

"Mike treated El like garbage, we need to give him a taste of his own medicine." Max assured

"Give him the medicine" El repeated, nodding her head in understatement

"And if he doesn't fix this, if he doesn't explain himself, dump his ass." Max told her

"Uh- anyways.. why don't we go to the mall? It'll pass the time and El could use some new clothes?" Ethan offered, "I mean look at her, she looks like a wannabe redneck or something"