Running up that hill - a mileven texting au

Mr. Brightside

Mike 😡

Helloooo Michael

Oh, hey El.

OMG HE RESPONDS

What do you want?

Just checking in on my basic pringles lover friend.

Wait we're friends?

Of course we are you stooge. The moment I strike a conversation with someone we're friends for life. That's how I met my bestie max. Also my best friends name is Max, her birth name is technically Maxine but I call her Max cause she hates her birth given name.

You know you can legally change your name when you're 18 right? Why hasn't she gone to a courthouse to change it?

Well for one, she isn't 18 yet, and two I did tell her about doing that, but then she went off on this long tirade on how she doesn't want to deal with all the paperwork and looking for her social security card that she totally doesn't keep hidden in a shoe box under her bed.

She sounds lazy.

You're not wrong lmao.

So...

So?

Are we going to talk about what happened the other day?

What happened the other day?

You know..that thing, you left me on read for like half a day.

Oh..That, we don't need to talk about it.

Are you sure?

I'm sure.

Max says I'm a good listener.

Good for Max.

Michael.

El.

You can tell me anything.

We don't even know each other, we're complete strangers to each other.

Has it ever occurred to you that when people meet they're complete strangers to each other? Those two strangers can turn into best friends or lovers.

Not for me.

Maybe you haven't given it a chance yet.

Can I ask you something?

Of course 😁

Am I a goal to you? why do you want to be my friend so much? For all I know you could be a female Ted Bundy.

Well you never know 👀.
But to answer your question, Michael you're not a goal to me. But I really wanna be your friend, okay? Max is my only friend, yeah she's good company and all, but she has a boyfriend and sometimes I hate playing the third wheel a lot. Sometimes I get lonely, I only have two important people in my life. That's my dad and Max, my dads always out on patrol sometimes, it's kinda rare when me and him hang out, just the two of us. Sometimes I get lonely.
Between me and you Mike, there's just something about you. I feel like I can trust you and I barely even know you. You're right we're complete strangers but somehow I feel like I've known you all my life.
Sorry. That must sound weird.

It doesn't. I'm sorry if I ever came across as a dick. I don't mean it, it's just I've dealt with a lot of bullshit from people who made fun of my disability, and I keep this mentality that everyone I meet is an asshole who's gonna make fun of my disability. Im lonely too, my sisters practically the only one who cares about me, my dad is always on military duty, he's eligible to retire already but I feel like he loves serving his country so much he'd rather do that than come home and be a father. Nancy's best friends treat me like one of their own, it's crazy lol.
You're not alone El. You have me.

You're not alone either Mike, you have me too .❤️
So it's finally established that we're friends?

Best friends.

with that el clutched the phone to her chest and sighed in content, she hadn't even met Mike in person and already she feels like he's always been in her life.

only a few minutes away from her house Mike wheeler sits in his bed shaking, with tears in his eyes. maybe he realized it now or he will realize to that he will need her.

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AND THERE YOU HAVE IT AN UPDATE, sorry it's a small shitty chapter but the other chapter will be longer.