Stranger Things Elmax One-shots

Mess

A/N: modified from another book

(Warning: swearing)

Max's POV:

I've always been a tough person, or at least I've tried to be. But there are some things that I do find pretty scary. Sometimes, I get scared easily. I hate it, and my mom and step-dad hate it, even Billy. They always get annoyed when something so small can get me so frightened.

My biggest fear is thunder, like real thunderstorms can easily break me. I am sensitive to loud noises, like REALLY loud noises. Aside from screaming, which my family has done plenty of from being so annoyed with me getting easily scared. They always tell me that I'll never change, but what the fuck do they know?

Right now, I'm upstairs in my room after I was ordered to. The school principal called again and said that I was suspended for two weeks for fighting another student after he called me mean names. I even tried telling my family that, but they did not care. They were tired of me always getting in trouble at school and that I should've told a teacher instead of throwing hands.

Everytime my parents say that to me, it just pisses me off more. I wanna scream at them so much and just let all my anger out, but I'm afraid if I do that, they might do something really horrible like beat me or disown me, and I have nowhere else to go, so I kept it in as best as possible.

Eventually, they called me down to dinner. I really didn't feel like eating, but I didn't wanna hear them yell again, so I got up and went downstairs. I didn't talk the whole time, and neither did anybody else. They did, however, give me a few dirty looks. I tried not to look back at them and just kept eating.

After dinner was over, I went back upstairs. I'm sitting on my bed right now and trying to let all my emotions out, but for some reason, they were bottled up to a point where they wouldn't leave my mind. Just when I thought things couldn't get worse...

BOOM!

There was a fucking thunderstorm happening. Fucking perfect, I thought, just what I've been hoping for. As soon as the first thunderclap hit, I shrieked and hugged my knees. I must've shrieked too loud, because I heard Neil from downstairs saying...

Neil: "GROW UP, MAXINE! IT'S JUST THUNDER!"

That hit me where it shouldn't have. I tried really hard this time to make tears come out of me, but it just wouldn't work. That's when I realized I had no other choice. There was only one person that I could go to right now, someone I know I would be really happy to see, someone who'd be really happy to see me... El.

At this point, I didn't care how soaked I would be by the time I got to his place, so I took the chance, grabbed my rain gear, and climbed out my window. After making super sure my family didn't hear, I ran away from that awful house. I sprinted all the way to El's house, gradually getting wet with the downpour. I did not stop to take a breath for any reason and just kept on going.

When I reached the woods, I felt like my heart was gonna stop at any point, but I just kept running. Suddenly, I took a step, and ended up falling flat on my face. At that moment, I felt that I should just lie down here on the wet and muddy ground for the rest of my life, and let the rain wash away the remains of my scared, pathetic little self.

I had to fight through it, though, for El. I stood up, wiped some of the mud off my face, and started to run, but I couldn't budge. I looked behind me and saw the reason, also the reason I fell flat on my face. Turns out my rain boot was stuck in the mud. I tried freeing it, but the mud was putting up a fight.

I was not gonna give up so quickly, so I continued twisting and turning on my foot. After about a minute or two, I was freed. Then came another clap of thunder.