El and Max leave Hawkins, for a roadtrip, jocking about memories they made when they were fourteen.
El is nervous about the new feelings she has for her best friend.
"It's more in life than stupid boys, you know"
Both laughed about that earlier. Actually her heart beats faster, but it's not for a stupid boy, it's for a sarcastic smart girl with the most beautiful eyes in the world.
She's afraid of losing her, she almost did with Vecna, the time she had to wait for see her waking up from her coma, was a waking nightmare, she couldn't handle the idea of a life where Max was not next to her...
So if the only way for her to keep her in her life is to forget about her feelings.
She would put them in a box, at the back of her heart, pretending they don't even exist. She would be okay to be just a "friend", ...
Right?
Max noticed she's was not totally here; _"What's wrong", El smiled softly, she couldn't take her eyes away from the oceans blue ones right next to her, she's following the freckles on Max's face, before coming back to reality, when she's passing her hand trough her ginger hair, jeez focus Jane.
El looks at the road before asking; _"Where we going?"
_"To have some fun", the smile of Max comforts El, with confidence she takes her hand, both look at their hands, but El needs to be focused on the road, she gets her attention back on it.
She feels Max's fingers linked to hers.
El almost forgot how to breathe after that.
Max can't take her eyes away of their hands, her heart skips a beat before getting erratic.
She remembers when she woke up after almost two years in coma, El was the first person she saw, and the last thing she remembered before Vecna killed her.
It was El angrily telling him
"if you touch her again. I'd would kill you again"
And she knows, she did everything to save her that night...
She brought her back to life,
Her Wonder Woman...
And El never left her side after that. Even when she has undergone rehabilitation, learnt how to speak and walk again, and all the simple little things of everyday life. She was also with her, when she heard the news, about her mother...
_"Heading for Chicago !", the exclamation surprised her, vanishing the bad thoughts;
_"Why Chicago ?" She remembers El talking about the trip she went on before they met officially, about her sister Kali, the number Eight, she looks at El, and notices her smirk;
_"I make my own rules" a feeling of pride consumes her heart when she hears El
_"It's presumptuous of you... yeah you might be here"
After a moment El asked her;
_"Should we name the van ?", ...
