"sooo when were you gonna tell me that you have been conversing with a complete stranger over text?" max asked as she was plopped down on el's bed painting her toe nails.
el was a nervous wreck trying to find out what right shirt to wear for her date with mike. correction it's not a date just a meet and greet as el would put it.
"he's not a stranger." el answered.
"have you two even met before?" max asked.
"actually yes, we have. and you met him too, need i remind you." el said as she pulled out her 'gorillaz' shirt from her closet.
max furrowed her brow and tilted her head to the side to face el, looking like a confused golden retriever.
"refresh my memory please cause i do not recall meeting this 'mike' person." max answered.
el rolled her eyes as she entered her connecting bathroom to change into her shirt.
"we met him at scoops ahoy remember?? the day we went to go see the elvis movie!" she shouted from her bathroom.
then it clicked inside max's head. "oh yeah!! i do remember meeting mr. 'i really wish i weren't here right now.' did you secretly ask for his number when i wasn't paying attention? cause i feel like you left out a crucial part on how you found out it was him." max replied as she painted another coat of nail polish onto her pinky toe.
"no, like i told you. my dad got a new phone and i accidentally typed the wrong number. it was mikes number who i hadn't met until a few weeks ago at the mall."el called from the restroom.
"yeah i get all that, but how did you know it was him?" max questioned.
"he sent me a picture of himself, and that's when i put two and two together and figured that was the same 'mike' i had been messaging." el responded as she exited the bathroom wearing ripped jeans, a pair of beat up vans and her favorite gorillaz t- shirt.
she spun around showing off her outfit to max.
"well? what do you think?" she asked.
"hmm. turn around again." max said.
el twirled around again showing her outfit to max once more.
"do some more squats hon, your ass still looks flat." max smirked.
el grabbed her hairbrush from her dresser nearby and chucked it at max.
"hey!!" max giggled.
"here run a brush through your nappy hair sometime!!" el laughed.
the two girls continued to share a laugh as they finished getting ready.
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"all i'm saying that, she should tell me that she just wants to be friends you know? cause i can't keep playing friends with benefits with her." steve said as he had his hands on the wheel driving.
steve had agreed to come hang out with mike and nancy at the mall, when really he was just there playing babysitter for mike and making sure el wasn't someone who was catfishing him.
nancy sat in the passenger's seat reading a book as mike sat in the backseat fiddling with his inhaler.
"are you even listening nancy?" steve asked.
"sorry what were you saying?" nancy asked as she removed her head from her book she was reading.
"jesus christ nancy. i sound like i'm a broken record." steve replied.
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Running up that hill - a mileven texting au
Fanfictionin which a lonely girl texts the wrong number of an asthmatic boy who hates his life.
