phobia | elmax

invitations

max was sitting in the living room on her phone when the doorbell rang.
she ran to the door, knowing it was eleven.
when she opened it, eleven jumped into max's arms.
max is startled but she slowly wraps her arms around eleven.

"its only been a few hours." max laughs.
"the worst hours of my life." eleven sighs dramatically.

max rolls her eyes playfully and pulls eleven inside the house, before closing the door.

"so what'd i miss?" max sits back on the couch.
"nothing much. just a normal day." eleven sits next to max.

eleven gasps, making max jump.
eleven laughs at max's reaction.

"sorry, i didn't mean to scare you."
"it's okay. what happened?" max raises her eyebrow.
"i almost forgot to tell you that we were invited to a party this weekend." eleven jumps up and down excitedly.

max stares at eleven blankly.

"did you hear me?" eleven asks, smiling.
"i did. i just wasn't expecting that." max sighs. "are you planning on going to this party?"
"yeah, of course." eleven laughs.
"and you expect me to come?"
"well yeah..."
"eleven, no. you know i don't like going to parties!" max snaps.

last year, eleven forced max to go to a school party. they were playing spin the bottle and everyone laughed at her when she chickened out on kissing a boy.

"c'mon max, that was a year ago." eleven rolls her eyes. "i'm sure it'll be different this time."
"it won't. they are going to play some sick game and they will laugh at me when i refuse to do it." max clenches her jaw.
"then stop refusing and do it already." eleven sighs, annoyed.
"it's not as easy as it sounds." max yells.
"it is easy, max. or at least it should be. why are you so scared of kissing a boy?"
"i'm not scared!"
"yes you are!"
"eleven, i'm not scared. i'm just not ready yet." max defends herself.

eleven can sense that max doesn't want to talk about it more so she closes the argument.

"okay. let's talk about something else then." eleven smiles.
"thank you." max smiles back.
"but can you just think about it? if they play spin the bottle, we can leave." eleven promises.
"alright, ill think about it." max agrees. "only for you."

eleven smiles appreciatively before giving max a quick hug.

these chapters are getting shorter but i promise they'll get really interesting and longer soon.