The summer I llǝɟ for her || 𝐌𝐚𝐱 𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝

51. 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒆?

Chapter 51~ who will it be?

"Okay- um start barricading the door." Arwen instructed, they panicked around before grabbing chairs and tables, going back and forth to each door until all the entrances and exits were blocked, "this one needs one more chair." Arwen turned back to get it but Max suddenly let out a gasp, "Arwen..." She turned around and saw the door. The Creel house door.

"You two think you can hide from me?" His voice called out as the door started to slowly open, "the clock." Arwen mentioned, listening to the ticking.

"Close your eyes and think of a memory." Max said, they grabbed onto each other's hands and thought.

"You think I don't see what you're doing?" The girls tried to block out his voice.

"looks like we now have three things in common, maybe we should consider even being friends."
"mhm we'll see."

"you're going to have to do better than that Mayfield, I pulled that stunt last year."

"You think I don't see? Everything."

"You know Maxie your face- your face is re- ally pretty."
"so is yours Wen."

"you mean the world to me."

"I had no idea I would be meeting someone like you."

"I just need you to be here and hold me please."
"always."

"you think I could leave you?"

"You thought you could trick me?"

"Arwen, you cannot blame yourself for any of this. I would go through this every single day if it meant I could be with you because I'm in love with you."

"if you had actually gone I would have walked straight out of that mall and stopped breathing."

"You thought your friends could stop me?"

"he's using these things against you, to try and get into your head Arwen, okay? He did the same to me...with Billy."

"I know that I will never love anyone the way I love you...and I know that no one will ever love me the way you do. I want to be with you for the rest of my life Arwen."

"I see them. I see your friends Arwen. Just as clearly as I...see you. I can feel them. Dying."

"You are not a monster Arwen. You're not a monster."

"We're both safe."
"breathe."
"everything's okay."
"you're so strong."

The clock suddenly chimed again making the two girls rapidly open their eyes, "it's time...but who will it be?" Once again, music started playing throughout the room making their breaths escalate.

"It's time." Arwen stepped back and abruptly turned her head to see him. She instantly threw her hands up but he was too quick, he pushed them both back, hurling them across the room and into the wall making them both scream out in pain.

"Max!" Arwen screamed, trying to reach for her hand across the wall. They both groaned and struggled as he began to walk over slowly, "get away from her!" Arwen shouted as he stepped closer to Max, "you have only yourself to blame."

"Don't listen to him!" Max let out, "you are brave, Maxine. Much braver than your brother. But in the end...you are weak and fragile, just like him. Like all the rest of them. And you will break." He lifted his hand up above Max's face, "NO STOP!" Arwen let out blood curdling screams, "STOP IT! MAX!" With his other hand he lifted Arwen's head forward then hit it back against the wall making her pass out on the floor, "ARWEN!" Max cried, "it will all be over soon, Max."

He brought his hand closer and closer to Max's face, his fingers centimetres away from her eyes, when suddenly, he got pulled away from Max causing her to fall to the ground next to Arwen, she managed to crawl over to her, "Arwen, Arwen can you hear me? Wake up please." She pleaded hysterically, "Arwen come on." Max kept checking between her and Vecna.

All of a sudden, she grasped her eyes onto her. Eleven. She had her arm held up in the air, using her powers to keep Vecna lifted in the air. Slowly turning him around, "hi." She whispered before throwing him into the bleachers.

Max struggled her way onto her feet before El came running through to see her, "Max, are you okay?" El held her arms out for her to hold, "huh?" Max looked at her in disbelief, "how- wha." Her eyes widened at the sight of Eleven, "are you okay?" She repeated, "are you- are you real? Did I make you?" Max felt over her arms and face in confusion, "I'm real."

"Arwen- Arwen's unconscious." Max focused her attention back onto Arwen, El crouched down and placed her hand under Arwen's head, "I need you to stay here and make sure she wakes up."
"What if he comes back?" Max panicked, "I'll handle him okay?...does she still have her powers?" El asked worriedly, "yes but he's too strong."