fuego. lumax

Chapter 1: MADMAX

Before

𝐒he arrived in the middle of Mr. Clark's lecture. The girl with the crisp and fresh autumn leaves in her hair, with eyes that had watched the ocean so many times it filled them up, and a sun-kissed skin that was slowly fading. She came in with a fearless demeanor or at least that is what Lucas saw. 

Dustin however, saw a sweet and delicate flower. You know how in the movies the time stands still? For Dustin it wasn't like that, everything was rushing through him. Time was moving faster and faster around her, Mr. Clarke's petition to him almost forgotten in the organized chaos, but as soon as he rushed into the confusing feeling he rushed out and slammed his hands on his desk in a rhythmical manner, the sound snapped him to reality almost instantly. 

Will was thinking about the Upside Down, yesterday it had been exactly a year since he was saved and he came back into a world that was so foreign to him, he sometimes worried he had been brought to an even more crazy dimension... He had been snapped out of his trance when the new student entered the class, he noticed she was carrying a skateboard and just as he was to whisper to Dustin about that interesting detail he noticed the matching expressions the boys had. He shied away as he realized that this change wasn't related to his absence but rather with the girl up front.

Mike was miserable yet again, the school had become blurry and unimportant to him and this new student was just one more addition in his surroundings. He looked up as Dustin did his drumroll and he met her eyes, she glanced at him for three solid seconds screaming something at him that he could not catch, her glance reminded him of El, when she looked at him with fear and knowledge she wasn't able to put into words, his eyes fell on her hand who was tugging the sleeve from her jacket and he sat up straighter in his chair... Could she be?

The four boys were lost in their train of thought until the girl announced her name roughly to the overexcited teacher.

"It's Max," she grumbled at the teacher. 

They all turned around looking at each other and exchanging looks that could only be the product of a strong friendship.

"Madmax,"

Almost on cue, they all followed her with their eyes until she sat down and gave them a glare that kept their eyes up front the rest of the class. Not a single one of them was thinking about whatever science theory Mr. Clarke was explaining, they were thinking about the impressive arcade score they had seen days earlier 751,300. She had over a hundred points more than Dustin and Lucas and all the arcade, to be honest. 

Mike went back to his usual bored mood paying more attention to his shoelaces than the whiteboard. Will tried to revert his attention towards the lesson but he somehow kept seeing the lights flicker. Dustin and Lucas however, were lost in a dream world and constantly controlling themselves from sliding their eyes to the back of the classroom.

The bell rang and all the students stood up wanting to get out of the classroom as soon as possible.  Dustin Lucas, Will and Mike all huddled together walking into the next class. Students bumped into them as usual, one of them almost making Will trip. Once they got to the intersection they stopped and huddled closer.

"Do you think she could be The Madmax?" asked Lucas to which Mike shook his head.

"No! It is just impossible!" Mike said with an outraged look, Lucas had noticed Mike had been really negative since last year, sure all of them missed El but him, he was just broken.

"I don't know Mike! She looks awesome!" Dustin muttered and Will nodded behind him making Mike roll his eyes. 

Now they were eager to include a girl in their group! But a year ago they were ready to send El to an asylum, he was about to protest but Will grabbed his arm and pulled him away before he could actually think of something to say.

"Let's discuss this after class okay?" said Will as he turned towards the right hallway pulling Mike, they had to get to their English class. 

After a few classes, some broken pencils and a lost notebook later, they were all watching Max behind a metal fence as she skated around. Lucas' eyes were stuck in the fire trailing behind her with every turn and twirl she mustered while Mike watched with disgust and impatiently. 

"Guys come on!" pressured Mike, they had decided to go to his house but all they were doing was ogling the new girl. 

"She is definitely Madmax," decided Dustin his expression was matching with Lucas, in complete awe.

"There are millions of people called Max!" protested Mike to no avail, he looked up into the girl's face and she locked eyes with him in one fleeting moment.

"Shoot she saw us!" muttered Will and all of them hid behind a wall, after a few seconds passed they saw her once again climbing up the steps to get inside the school building, she threw a paper in the trashcan making eye contact with all of them before she swung the door open. Lucas and Dustin glanced at each other and took off running with an upset Mike and a curious Will trailing behind. Dustin dug through the trash finally founding the paper and unfolding it. 

𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐅𝐎𝟏𝟏𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆 

 𝐌𝐄! 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐒

Mike snatched the paper from Dustin's hands and read it, there was something off about the 'l' and that's when he noticed the little upturned corners almost invisible to the eye. Fast strokes, that was Mike's first answer but the other 'l' was the same and then he saw the number standing clearly against the other meanless words. 

𝐎𝟏𝟏. His Eleven, maybe his plan had worked, he folded the paper up tucking in the front pocket of his pants and running up the steps, she couldn't get away! She couldn't! he ignored the distressed and confusing screams of his friends and as he closed the door he could have sworn he heard El's voice, feeble and croaking, calling out for him.

Hold on El, I am coming.

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I know I know! Too much Mike! Just trust me and tell me what you think about this chapter, I swear to God I will stop focusing so much on Emo Mike (IT'S IMPORTANT TO FOCUS ON HIM.. JUST TRUST ME) and more on our Mucas (DID ANYONE SEE THIS INTERVIEW?)  ship. Just wait, please! Okay once again, thoughts?

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