𝐔𝐍𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃

Insane

I know i've done this before but I wanted to dedicate this chapter to @TheFatFangirl for their awesome comments on all of my chapters!!

•Max POV•
I ran ahead of the boys and grabbed Els shoulder, making her stop to look at me. She rolled her eyes and didn't even look at me.

"What." She said as she continued to walk.

"Um, what the hell just happened?" I asked, still freaked out.

She almost ignored my question and paused, looking down.

"I like our new bracelets," she said pointing to the new charm bracelet she had that matched the one on my wrist.

"That isn't what we were talking about-"

"Mike is an asshole." She stated plainly before turning to go to her locker.

"Yea but what happened?" I asked a bit quieter, noticing the boys observing from afar, everyone but Mike.

She tilted her head down and gripped the side of her locker. "I just wanted to go meet my mom, and he said no." She whispered.

I didn't say anything and she kept talking.

"I- I know I don't know her that well but i'm worried. Hopper said she hasn't spoken a word in 9 years!" She whispered again before closing her locker and beginning to walk again.

"Why does Mike even care?" I said, beginning to defend my friend.

"Exactly!" She replied before we said goodbye and went to our own classes.

•Lucas POV•
The whole day was off. When Mike and El would usually be walking together, they were walking at completely different parts of the hallway. Not one word to eachother. It was insane.

We were in the car on the way home when El said to Dustin

"Dustin, please drop me and Max off at my house." making him tense up and making Mike turn to look back at her.

"Max and I." Mike mumbled making El crane her neck towards the passenger seat.

"What?" She barked.

He turned and looked her dead in the eye. "You said me and Max. It's Max and I."

She rolled her eyes and slouched over. "Well sorry, once again you are right! Because you seem to think you always are right!" She said clasping her hands together at the end and sarcastically smiling at him.

"Why the hell can't you see where i'm coming from?" He snapped making her sit up and look right back at
him.

"Why the hell can't you understand how I feel?" She spat at him.

"Because it isn't a good id-"

"Nothing is ever a good idea according to you! Why can't you just let me live my life?" She yelled cutting him off.

"Sorry for trying to be a good fucking boyfriend and look out for you!" He yelled back, recieving a scoff from El and silence from the rest of the car.

Dustin pulled into Hopper's driveway and Max and El hopped out. "I hope you are happy with yourself, asshole." El said before walking up the steps to the front door.

Once she was in, Mike exhaled and looked at all of us.

"Sorry about.. her-"

"What isn't a good idea?" I asked Mike.

"Huh?" He said confused

"You said to her that something wasn't a good idea, what is it?" I replied making him tense up and stare straight forward.

"It doesn't even matter..." Mike trailed off, ending the topic of conversation. We rode home in a long and awkward silence.

•Max POV•
El paced around her room ranting about Mike.

"Why can't he just let me go?" She huffed and continued to pace.

"Why do you need his approval?" I asked and she stopped in her tracks

She thought a minute. "I mean, he is my boyfriend, and he has done so much for me, I would feel bad." She huffed again and continue to pace.

"I could talk to him?" I suggested and she sat down on the bed next to me and sighed.

"No I can't get you into this mess. Mike and I are actually insane when we are mad at eachother. You should've seen us in the lab." She exclaimed turning to me.

"Wait, I can show you!" She says before putting her hands on my shoulders and closing her eyes. In response I close my eyes too and enter Eleven's mind. We are in a memory of the lab.

She is sitting on one bed and he is pacing around the white room.

"What the hell, Eleven? Why did you hurt me?" He says screaming at her.

"I-I ha-"

"I don't want to hear your excuses, so keep lying and keep pretending like everything is going to be ok!" He yells making her jerk her head up to look at him.

She jolts up and begins to spit words at him. "Mike!
You are talking about me lying?! You are talking about me hurting your feelings?! Look what you did to me!!" She screams getting awfully close to him.

"What are you talking about?! You've been lying to me since the start!" He yells back making her back away to grab something. She grabs a lamp off the table and hurls it at him, missing by only inches.

This is when I notice Will curled up into a ball in tje corner of the room.

"STOP!" Mike screams as she lifts a bed into the air with her mind before throwing it his way, again barely missing.

She leans against the wall and slides down into a sitting position. She puts her head in her knees and cries loudly.

I jolt out of the memory and El looks at me with a tear stained face.

"Woah..." I said, still not believing she would do that. She nodded and ran for the phone on the table.

"What are you doing?" I ask shakily.

"Calling Mike."

Well well well I updated!
-Ava