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Elmax - Teach me how to skate

El stepped outside of the small cabin she had shared with hopper. breathing in the fresh air softly smiling to herself as her eyes gently close. the smell of the healthy trees and the sound of their leaves brushing against eachother from the wind was always a sound that felt like home to Eleven ever since hop took her in. which she also couldn't be more grateful for, even if at first, he was a strict and sometimes a bit scary. they had grown onto eachother, lit up eachothes lives, love. eachother, she loved him as if they were biologically related. she carefully opens her eyes, and admires the graceful outdoors on her porch. taking in the outside world and purely fresh air that entered her lungs each time she breathed in softly.
she steps back inside and puts on her shoes, she remembered how Mike and will had told her about this girl named max, Max mayfeild. hoping to help both girls branch out and become friends.
"bye dad, I'm gonna hang out with max"
" Later kid, stay safe . "
"i will"
El smiles lightly at him, and walks out the door, closing it behind her with her telekinesis. she walked out to town, and ends up knocking on Mike's front door, how was she supposed to go to Max's without her address? a few moments later, his father, Ted, answers the door.
he doesn't speak to El. he only turns around with the door still opened.
" MICHEAL, YOUR FRIEND IS HERE ! "
he hollers to his son, whose currently in his basement, hanging out with will, Lucas and Dustin. the party.
" OKAY ! " he shouts back, Ted moves out of the way for the girl as she smiles awkwardly and then walks inside and goes down into the basement, all the boys send her friendly smiles.
" El! "  (M)
" Hey stranger " (L)
" What's up El? " (W)
" Hey Eleven! " (D)
"hello! uhm, mike, can you give me Max's add..ress..?"
" oh, shit yeah, sorry about that "
he laughs whilst getting up from his seat and grabbing a sticky note, and a pen, beginning to write down Max's address, messing up, crumbling the note, writing it on a new one, messing up again.
" son of a bitch! "
will and the others snicker at his failures as he glares at them and rolls his eyes. El just stands there awkwardly waiting patiently. he crumbles that other messed up note and males a new one. he writes her address down, only having known it due to Lucas. he finally doesn't mess it up this time and walks over to El and hands it to her whilst also smiling at her, she gently takes the note from him and smiles back, and waves to the boys signaling her goodbye to them.
" bye guys "
" bye El, come again if you want "
" later el "
" bye ! "
" be safe "
she goes up the stairs out of Mike's basement and opens the door and makes her way out of his house, as she starts to walk through Hawkins, looking up from her sticky note to the signs of the roads and neighbor hood names, staying clear of the roads, and struggling from time to time to turn on the crosswalk signals. after what had felt like almost hours of walking to El, she had looked up, and seen she was on the right road, and starts to speed walk reading the signs of the neighborhood labels. she finds Max's neighborhood and walks down the street, and sees a red headed girl stumbling and falling off of her Skateboard.
Eleven catches it with her foot and picks it up, as Max collects herself and gets back onto her feet, seeing the brunette making her way towards her, as El forwards her arms out offering back her Skateboard, but also feeling a sense of nervousness inside.
" hi.. "
" Hi..? "
"i was.. wondering if you, wanted to hangout..?"
" Uhm.. yeah sure.. "
"cool.. I'm, el.."
"I'm max"
the red haired girl awkwardly smiles at her and takes back her Skateboard
"Do you like to skateboard..?"
"whats.. skateboard..?"
Max looks at her a little taken back, but smiles warmly.
"Well, its- its kind of,, hard to explain.. uhm, I'm assuming you've never tried since, you don't know what it is?"
"no, I've never tried before.. is it, hard..?"
"Not really, you'll eventually get the hang of it, do you want me to show you?"
El nods and smiles lightly, receiving and small smile back from Max as she puts her Skateboard back onto the floor.
"Okay.. just, step up onto the board.."
"how..?"
"Right, uhm, l-like this.."
Max gently grabs elevens hands, guiding her up onto the Skateboard. El exhales shakily as she wobbles onto Max's Skateboard.
"It's okay El, I won't let you fall."
Eleven looks up at max, as they make eye contact.
"I promise."
Max smiles comfortingly at El, whilst she begins to feel a fluttery feeling inside of her, but it also felt like nervousness at the same time, only it was now in her stomach. it was new to her,  it almost scared her a little, but tried to ignore it anyways. she nods at max, signaling her trust towards her, as  she struggles to help El move on the board and gets ontop of the board behind her. she places her hands on els shoulders with slight firmness, to guarantee some sort of safety for eleven to feel. She puts one foot down onto the concrete floor as they start skating down the road.

Elevens hair flows behind her with the wind, Max's doing the same. El subconsciously puts her left hand over Max's as they skate, she breathes in slowly as the air hits her skin. Max smiles to herself and moves her head slightly over els shoulder and manages to be able to turn them around to go back up the street, once done so, she finds herself admiring El. As El gently opens her eyes and smiles lightly to herself. Max quickly shakes her head as if she were trying to shake off the recent events of her admiring a girl she barely knows, slowly they come to a stop and they step off the board as Max looks at El.
"Do you.. wanna try skating on your own now..?"
El nods nervously and smileys weakly, Max helps her up onto her Skateboard, as she stands there wobbling trying to steady herself, eventually being able to do so. she ends up being able to go a little bit down the street, but before you know it, there goes El, her knees smashing into the concrete floor, the sharp rocky ground tearing at her skin, scraping it open as Max runs to El, teary eyed with knees scraped open and trembly hands.

"El! El holy shit..! uhm, okay okay, come inside okay? I'll help bandage you up.."
El nods in response whilst sniffling as Max gently grabs her hands and helps her up as she winces at the feeling of her wounds stretching. Max puts her arm around El to help support her to stand straight as they walk inside of the house. Thankfully, Billy was nowhere in sight, must've been in his bedroom.
Max leads her into the bathroom as El sits on the edge of the tub. Max pulls out some alcohol cleaner, cotton balls, and some bandaids and faces El again.

"This is probably gonna sting a bit okay..?"
" okay.. "
"I'm sorry it'll burn.."
" no it's okay.. just get it over with.. "
Max nods in response and puts some alcohol cleaner on one of the cotton balls and lightly dabs it against els left knee, she winces sharply and grunts in pain squeezing her eyes shut as Max begins to geek regret, along with guilt.

"I'm really sorry el.. I shouldn't of asked you to skate on your own."
" no no.. no it's okay max really.. I wanted too anyways.. "
"I know I just.. I feel really awful.."
" no, don't it's not your fault max, I promise.. "
Max sighs softly
"Okay.."
She finishes cleaning els knees and patches them up with some bandaids.
" hey max? "
"Yeah?"
" uhm, thank you, for.. helping me with my knees, and uh, well I was wondering that, if your parents were okay with it.. if you wanted to.. sleep at my house..? "
"You mean like, have a sleepover?"
" yeah..! a-a sleep over. "
El smiles
"Yeah sure, I'd love too."
Max smiles back sweetly at her.

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1,421 words.
hi, I had alot of fun thinking of and writing this! I might do a second part but idk.
planning on releasing 2 more oneshots today, maybe a 3rd!
- author