lake house quarantine ~ lumax

17

While the girls were having their sleepover in the basement, the boys decided to make a bonfire. Dustin and Will were disappointed there were no s'mores, but the beer made up for it. 

"Why are we acting like we're 30?" Mike pointed out the way they all sat in lawn chairs, with a beer in their hand around the fire. "What are we gonna do next? Talk about politics?"

"NO." The other 3 responded. While politics are interesting to discuss, they give out massive headaches for free. 

"It's just us, no girls," Dustin commented. 

"Well, yeah, no shit."

"I wonder what they're doing..." Lucas says, which causes everyone to look at the windows. 

"Gossiping?" Mike raised his eyebrow in suspicion.

"About what? We've been stuck in the same location with the same people for a month." 

"They're probably complaining about how bad you guys are in bed," Dustin said and chuckled to himself. 

"Oh, for sure." Will laughed. When Will, El, and Max have sleepovers, he gets to hear all kinds of stories. When they first started to include Will at their sleepovers, he felt a little uncomfortable talking about that stuff. Now that he's gotten a little older and more mature, it was fun for him to hear and talk about it. "Max and El tell me practically everything."

"WHAT?" Lucas and Mike yelled with wide eyes. Dustin was practically falling off his chair from laughing. 

"Yeah, I get all the details." Will was having fun hanging this over their heads. 

"I'm going to need to hear some of this," Dustin was very intrigued to know his best friend's screw-ups. 

"I want to know, but I don't at the same time," Lucas stated.

"Just tell us what you know!" Mike was frantic. 

"Well according to them, you guys have improved a lot, so bravo. The first couple of times they told me about...yikes," Will was trying his best not to burst out laughing. Dustin was wheezing at this point. 

"You could totally be making this up. Those aren't details!" Mike pointed out.

"Do you really want me to repeat the details I got?" 

"YEAH," Mike, Lucas, and Dustin responded. Concerning looks were shot at Dustin.

"I could use this shit to make fun of you guys! Jeezus, I wouldn't want to know about your sex lives for any other reason. Gross." He reprimanded them. "The fact that Will hasn't, baffles me."

All eyes were on Will, waiting for him to talk. 

"Well, for starters, they both complain about how obnoxiously gentle you guys are. I mean, Max complains about it more than El, but they both have talked about it more than twice." 

"I'm sorry I don't want to hurt my girlfriend." Mike was getting a little defensive. 

"Her words, not mine." Will put his hands up, surrendering. 

"Yeah, it's not Will's fault you guys don't bang hard enough." Dustin loved being the instigator. 

"Uhhh, let's see what else...oh, apparently Lucas has gotten this down, but Mike needs some help. You see, there's a difference between going harder and faster. So, learn that, I guess." 

Lucas tried to hide the prideful grin on his face causing him to laugh a little. 

"I don't even know what that means!" Mike complained. 

"It's basic vocabulary," Dustin added. 

"Dude, if she says harder, just go in harder." Lucas tried to help explain. 

"Thanks for the advice Mr. Gentle," Everyone laughed at Mike's response. "Do they tell you anything other than what we do wrong?" 

"Oh yeah. They tell me where, when, how many times, the few good things you guys do, and they always rate it." 

"Well, now we know what they do at sleepovers," Dustin mumbled. 

"Wait, they rate how good it was?" Will nodded yes in response. 

"What's the highest rating?"

"It's out of ten, but I'm pretty sure the highest you've both got is a 7 or something." 

"Damn, you guys need to step it up," Dustin chuckled. 

"Alright, I'm done talking about my sex life with you three. Next conversation," Mike declared. 

The four childhood best friends spent the rest of the right relishing old memories. When they went inside for the night, Max was in the kitchen making more popcorn. 

"What have you guys been up to?" She asked, leaning against the counter with her arms crossed. 

Dustin was last to walk into the room but was thrilled when he saw Max. "Oh, hey Max, Will was just telling us about your se-" Lucas kicked him in the shin before he could finish his sentence. "OUCH!"

"What did you tell them?" Max's eyes were daggers. 

"Nothing," He smiled nervously. 

"WILLIAM BYERS I SWEAR TO GOD." 

Will sprinted upstairs into his room before he received Max's wrath. She raised her eyebrows at Lucas, signaling she wanted an answer. 

"It was nothing," He reassured her with a kiss on her forehead. "Goodnight."  

The boys went upstairs while Max made her way back to the basement. 

"What took so long?" El reached out for some of the popcorn. 

"The boys came inside while it was popping. I'm pretty sure Will told them about our ratings."

"Ratings?" El was blanking. "OH NO. Fucking traitor." 

"Eh, whatever. Maybe it means they learned a thing or two." Max suggested. 

"Let's hope." The girls laughed as they started the next movie. 

This was funny and weird to write, lol. I normally try to write a least 1000 words per chapter, but this one is a little shorter. I feel like this book needs more of a plot but idk. I'm going to try to update one more time this weekend, but I'm going out of town so we'll see. I hope you guys liked it! I love reading comments too. I am also touched by all of you that have been inspired by this book.