𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐞 ; 𝐸𝐿𝑀𝐴𝑋 ⌫

5.

Hawkins Highschool / Fri 3:45p.m.
Jane Hopper

Eleven sat at the bleachers, watching her boyfriend do his soccer tryouts, not only bored out of her mind, but also with no idea on whether or not if he's doing good or not. Eleven never understood sports, and never cared too, obviously.

As the feeling of desperately wanting to go home creeps onto her more and more. She thinks about her interaction with Max a few days ago. She had seemed a bit weirded out at their interaction.

Maybe she just wasn't social like Eleven. Or maybe she disliked her, but how could she dislike her if she only knows her name? that doesn't make sense, atleast not to El it doesn't.

How could you collectively decide if you liked or disliked someone if you don't know them? Eleven overthought their interaction when suddenly her thought train had been bursted when Mike finally spoke up to Eleven.

"El? Hello?" Mike spoke somewhat concerned. His girlfriend jumped a bit and looked at him. "What?" She says. "Are you okay? I've been talking to you for like, 3 minutes now." He says as she gets up. "Oh, yeah I'm okay, sorry I was just, thinking about something." She says walking next to him.

They begun to walk towards the parking lot. "What were you thinking about?" He asks with his voice filled with curiosity. "Trying to remember which classes I had homework for." She lies whilst grabbing his hand.

"I get that." He states, they enter the parking lot as Eleven suddenly starts to hear suddenly arguing in a very far distance, she starts to search for whom may be arguing with her eyes, trying not to bring any sudden attention to herself or have her boyfriend notice.

After a bit of searching, she finds 2 people in the distance, A male and female. The girl seems to have her hair in braids, it looks red. Whilst the boy has beautiful dark skin.

"What more do you want from me Lucas!" Max yells. "To talk to me! im right here and you keep pushing me away!" Lucas yells back. "Maybe there's a reason i keep pushing you away then! you ever think about that?!" Max argues.

"And if you just talked to me, then we could work out why you're pushing me away! why you're pushing everyone away!" He yells whilst doing hand gestures. "Maybe I don't wanna work it out! maybe this, never would've worked out in the first place!" She yells at him.

"Well you already broke up with me so apperantly not. If you just talked to me, we could make us work." He states sternly. "Maybe I don't want us to work." She says whilst looking down at the concrete ground. "Are you serious?" He asks.

"Yeah, pretty fucking serious Lucas." She says glaring him. "Whatever Max." He says before turning and walking off, feeling misunderstood. She sighs annoyed and gets on her Skateboard whilst putting her headphones on, and playing Kate Bush, skating her way home.

Eleven continues walking with Mike as they arrive at the bike lock ups and he unlocks his bike, both of them getting on as Mike proceeds to bike to Hoppers Cabin to drop Eleven off home.

***

Eleven finishes her homework and puts her books and folders back inside of her bag, and sits on her bed looking through some fashion magazines. When suddenly she remembers the encounter she overhead with Max and that boy.

She gets puts the magazine to the side and grabs her blindfold and turns her radio to static, she ties it over her eyes and uses her powers to search for Max.
She finds her, seeing her from afar whilst she walks towards her in the black void.

Max is sat at her desk, doing her homework whilst listening to Kate Bush. When suddenly her working gets inturepted by hearing what sounds like someone calling Max's name, Eleven looks around to see who's calling her.

Max takes off her headphones and leaves her bedroom, whilst it only seems like Max is normally walking, Eleven still continues behind her. They walk out into her living room.

To which Maxine sees her intoxicated mother. Along with Eleven, although she can only see her mother holding a wine bottle, a couch and coffee table next to it.

"Yeah mom?" Max says dreadfully due to having to see her mother in such a state. "Maxine, have you seen the wine?" She slurs heavily whilst trying to keep her eyes opened. "Mom it's in your hand.. here, just sit down okay?"

Max takes the bottle from her mother casioutly whilst having her sit down. She helps her mother lay down on the couch and covers her with a comforter.

"Try and gets some sleep okay..?" Max speaks softly to her mother and then throws the wine bottle into the garbage bin. And then enters her room, Eleven still following and feeling somewhat confused by the situation.

Maxine sits on her bed and puts her head in her hands whilst sitting criss cross, her elbows resting at her knees.
El puts her hand on Max's shoulder, causing Max to fade into thin air along with the other objects visible in her bedroom to Eleven.

Eleven exits the void by taking off her blindfold and thinks about the past events for the next few moments before getting into pajamas and going to sleep.

To be continued.
910 words

12/4/22