Mikes been pushing Will away, and Will can tell. Mike suddenly starts feeling weird about Will but he can't out his finger on why. Meanwhile, Will is struggling with this painful neglect while being in love with Mike.
Slam! The phone call gets hung up by Mike, leaving Will standing there, vastly confused. Was Mike lying to him? Will just wanted to make sure that Mike wasn't sick or something, but he sounded fine, it must have been Will that made Mike act all weird. He must have done something wrong.
Wills pov~
I walk around my room, trying to figure out what happened to Mike last night. Was it something I did? Was it what El said to him? I don't know the details, but El told me that they broke up and it was mutual. While I feel bad for El, at least I don't have to feel sick to my stomach anymore when I see them together.
As I was about to go back to sleep, I remembered that Max is coming over soon to hangout with me and El. Oh shit I think as I put in my clothes rapidly.
Just as I finish my hair, I hear a knock at the door, it's Max. El's still in her room so I rush to the door.
When I open it, Max smiles and exclaims "Hey!" before walking through the entrance and drops on the couch. I walk towards her and say my hellos, then I go to find El.
I open the door to El's room to see her standing in front of her mirror, fixing her hair. "El," I chime, "Max is here, she's in the living room.", then I leave with El following me.
"Hi El! So what movie do you guys wanna watch?", Max asks, El's head shoots up as she replies "Actually, I know I said that we could but I don't really want to watch a movie, sorry.". Max smile drops slightly, but I can tell she's just a little confused.
"Oh that's fine. Soooo, what do you want to do, then?" Max asks her, I look over at El with curiosity, waiting for a response. El says "Actually, could you two come into my room for a sec?", Max and I are both intrigued, so naturally, we both go into her room swiftly.
Once we stepped through the door, El sat on the bed and opened her mouth to speak, "So, Max, Will already knows this, but I wanted to tell you too," she said. When she said this, I knew what was coming next.
Max wrinkled her eyebrows, then commented slowly, "Uh- tell me what?", El peered at her for just a moment before saying in almost a whisper, "Me and Mike, um, we broke up yesterday, after the pool,". Maxs jaw dropped slightly while raising her eyebrows, I think I saw Max give a shy smile before dropping it and lively adding "Oh my god! Why? Did you or him do it? Do I need to beat him up?".
I see El begin to giggle, "No, haha, it was mutual. We were just on different pages," she chuckled. I didn't quite know what she meant by this, they seemed perfectly fine at the pool. Maybe there was more going on, who knows.
"Hey, I kinda want to cut my hair!", El proclaimed. I was slightly taken aback by this, thinking that this would be the furthest thing she may want to do, but Max's face lit up.
"Holy shit! Yeah sure!" Max commented, El began to smile, then all three of us were talking about what she could do.
After a little while, we decide on the same length as last summer, but with her bangs. Max tried to convince El to dye a part of her hair, but she didn't want to. "Let's go to the mall first. If it isn't too expensive she could get the cut there," I said. During last year, the town rebuilt the mall after what happened last summer. Max and El nodded in agreement. Max leads the way to the garage to grab our bikes, and then we leave.
As we're riding our bikes, we pass Mikes house. Please let him not be there please let him not be there I thought to myself. But sure enough, there Mike was, in his front lawn. I try to wave at him, but when he see's me, his eyes widen and he quickly walks back into his home. My face drops, why doesn't he want to talk to me? What did I do wrong?
Anyways, we get to the mall and park our bikes. El and Max run inside while in still putting mine away, causing me to sprint to catch up with them. We run through the mall, looking at all the stores.
Eventually, we run to the hair salon and we walk in to see that this week, they're having a sale! "Hey they're having a 50% off sale!" I grin, and we all looked at each other with smiles on our faces.
El talks with the stylist as Max and I wait, and after about 20 minutes, El comes out with her short hair and bangs. "Wow," we both gasp, El's smile fades slightly, looking concerned "is it bad? I like it," she asks. "No! It looks great, just... different," Max replies, I look to her and nod my head, "Yeah, I really like it." I say.
El's smile comes back as we go to grab some ice cream. After ordering and getting our cones, Max begins to talk, "Did you guys hear about the party tomorrow? Apparently some senior is throwing one at his McMansion," she said in between licking her ice cream. "No, sounds like fun though, we should go," El replies. I think it sounds cool, but I don't know who all is going to be there. I mean, what if some mean kids are there, or... you know. We get back on our bikes and make our way back to our house, and Max goes back to hers.
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