(2) Love You to Hell and Back (Max Mayfield / (Fem) You)

-Chapter 5: Boyfriends lie, but do girlfriends?-

We ride the bus to Max's place, before getting a lift from my parents to El's place. We decided to stay over at El's place since we won't have Billy and Neil's presence and my parents are having an old friends reunion. I am sitting on El's bed, watching Max dance and sing around the room, pretending a hairbrush is a microphone while El looks through magazines, bobbing her head to the music. El opens the magazine to a page with the karate kid on it. Max stops dancing and chuckles. "Oh, I see you've found Ralph Maccio." She says, putting the brush down and sitting down next to me. "Maccio?" El asks, confused. "Yeah, the karate kid." I say before Max mimics doing a karate chop, making me laugh out loud. "He's pretty hot, right?" She asks her before I nudge her. "Well, not as hot as you." Max says, grinning.

"I bet he's an amazing kisser too." She adds, eyeing me. She knew what she was doing and I refuse to let her win. I smile, nodding. "Oh sure. I bet." I say. After a beat, Max looks to El, clearly considering a question. "Hey, um, is...Mike a good kisser?" She asks. "I don't know." El replies. "He's my first boyfriend." She adds. "Ex boyfriend." Max corrects, earning another nudge from me. El looks down, clearly upset and I sigh. "Hey, don't worry about it, okay? He'll crawl back to you in no time, begging for forgiveness." I say. Max nods quickly, smiling. "I guarantee you, he's like, wallowing in self pity right now. Probably dragging Lucas into it too. He's like..." She starts before pretending to be the boys, wallowing in self pity. "Oh, I hope she takes me baaaack" She cries, causing El to laugh.

I love how Max is able to turn the mood around so quickly, and how much she cares for El too, even after their rocky start. El looks at the two of us, tilting her head. "Well...is Y/N a good kisser?" She asks, as if I wasn't here. I look at Max, waiting for her response. "Uh, Well..." She starts, eyes darting to me. "Hmmmm. I don't know." Max teases, shrugging. I gasp and El laughs. "Max!" I say, smacking her arm. "I don't know! It's been too long since I've experienced it so I've forgotten!" She says. I know she's saying that just to get me to kiss her...and I do. I lean forward and give her a quick kiss. After I pull away, Max puts on a thinking face before nodding. "Oh yeah. She's a great kisser." She says.

I laugh at her response before Max starts chuckling to herself. "What?" I ask. Max just smiles at us "God, what I would give to see their stupid faces." Max says, referring to the boys. She loved teasing them. They were just too easy to tease. El's posture changes suddenly, clearly indicating something. "What is it?" Max asks as El smiles.

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Boom Box. Turning it to an empty frequency so it just plays static noises as El grabs a blindfold. "Is this really gonna work?" Max asks as I nod. El puts on the blindfold, tying it. "Holy shit this is insane." Max starts before getting cut off. "Max." El says. "Yeah, quiet. I'm sorry." She says. After a few beats, El speaks. "I see them," she says. "What are they doing?" Max asks, moving to sit on the floor, intrigued. "Eating." El replies. "Well that's not as fun as I thought." I mutter. As El continues to spy, I lay down. My head on Max's lap as she smiles down at me. 'Hi' she mouths. 'Hi,' I mouth back. El is still quiet, so I grin at the girl above me. 'You're cute' I mouth to her, making her grin. Before she can do anything, El speaks. "They say we are a...species"

"What...?" Max asks, confused. "Emotion...not logic." El adds. "What?!" Max asks, offended now. She goes quiet again, leaving Max and I waiting. I look at the redhead, raising an eyebrow and in return, she leans down, pecking me on the lips before El abruptly takes off her blindfold, coming back into reality. "What? What happened?" Max asks, confused and concerned. Instead of explaining, however, El begins laughing. Really hard. Max and I start laughing too, out of confusion though. "What happened?" Max repeats. Before El says anything, we hear a car approach the house and El immediately sits up. Hopper?

"Act normal." El says before cleaning her nose, grabbing magazines and turning the music up and laying on the floor. Max gets on El's bed, motioning for me to join her, so I do. We cuddle, reading our own magazine when I hear a loud voice from behind the door. "Hey!" Yeah, it's Hopper. "HEY!" I hear stomping footsteps and soon, the door bursts open. "When I say three-inches, three inc-" He stops short when he sees Max and I. "Do you knock? Jeez!" Max says, faking surprise. "Yeah! Jeez!" El repeats, which is actually really cute.