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before leaving the mall, el and max arranged to meet up the next day, so when the shining sun woke up el the morning after, she was already excited for the day ahead.
pushing the worries and fears that she had been swarmed with yesterday to the back of her mind, el prepared herself to see max, brushing her hair over and over again and drumming her fingers anxiously on the table as she waited.
at 10:32am el heard a knock on the door. she rushed to open it, and in the doorway stood the red headed beauty that she had been looking forward to seeing.
"hi!" el had excitedly, wrapping the girl into a tight hug before max knew what had hit her. she smiled and melted into the hug.
eleven invited max into her room and the two chatted for a while. eleven sat cross legged on the bed as max lay on her front on the carpet. they talked about dustin, lucas, will and mike, about school, about hawkins, tv shows, everything on their minds, and what had started as slightly awkward small talk grew into a deep conversation about some of the most important things to the girls.
"i'm sorry i didn't invite you round to mine." max said. "it's just... my mom is away, and it's just my stepdad and billy, and they're quite a lot to handle." she admitted.
"it's okay" eleven said brightly. "hopper is happy that i'm not always with mike any more. he says you can come over when you would like."
max grinned. "i promise you can come soon."
"okay." el smiled.
max sat up and hopped on to the bed next to el, who turned around and smiled at the girl.
el stared at max's gorgeous face, eyes flickering from max's green eyes to her pale lips, to then darting across her freckles.
from the day she met her, she had always loved max's freckles, but now she had a close look at them, she realised how beautiful they were. she reached out and traced her finger ever so lightly across them, joining them up and forming shapes.
the feels of el's skin on hers sent shivers down max's spine.
"like stars." el murmured to herself. "you're perfect." she told max.
max looked deep into el's chocolate brown eyes.
"i think you're the most perfect person i've ever met." max said quietly.
el's hand went from max's cheekbones to her neck as she leaned in and kissed the girls lips, holding her face in her hands.
butterflies soared through their stomachs as they melted into what felt like a perfect kiss.
who cares what anyone said.
this is where they wanted to be.
a/n: don't attack me but i kind of edited byler out of the story for a load of reasons, 1: i'm too lazy to write abt them as well lol and i just want to mainly focus on max n el, 2: i don't really ship byler as much any more? i want will to end up with someone who he fits with more than mike and someone who will be good to him, maybe i might bring in a new character but idk, and 3: i kind of want mike to get jealous over el mayyyybe or something because it could add to the story. anyway just wrote like a whole chapter on the a/n pahaha, love u all n don't be mad at me haha
