falling (elmax) 🦋

one

it wasn't even the second night that max mayfield landed in hawkins, with her stupid brother, her mother (who started all of this) and her step-dad. she was laying on her bed, figuring out what to do next. she needed to go to a new school. it's not like max had a lot of a friends in california, but it was her home. besides that, max was just a depressive teenager. y'know, not liking herself at all, crying sometimes for no reason and ofcourse feeling like she is worth nothing. like nobody out there could really love her as much as someone needs. her mother married her step-dad when she was quite young. and from that moment, things changed. not only the fact that her father left her for someone else, that she would cry herself to sleep while softly saying 'i miss you dad', but also just because her brother was a huge dick. he'd punch her for no reasons, he'd yell at her when she was too late to leave the arcade (the only place where she could actually feel home) and what hurted her the most that her brother always called her names. names that she didn't want him to call her. so max tried to look from the bright side, hoping that in hawkins, where she wanted to make a fresh start, she wouldn't be called those names, that her brother would change, that she'd be happy and loved and wouldn't have to throw sarcasm over everything that secretly hurted her.

but, she ofcourse, still had her favourite hobby; being a youtuber and vlogger. youtube was one of the only places she could be herself, where she could do what she wanted and where there were people that liked her. not loved her ofcourse, i mean... why would anyone love her?

since she was new here, she wanted to first expierience things in this village; the stores, the malls, the acrade and ofcourse the forests. max wasn't in the mood to change her outfit, so she kept this oufit, where she made a selfie of and posted it on instagram.

,,stay sunny ☆" she wrote. huh, as if she'd stay sunny. she didn't like this photo at all! nefore leaving, her mom shouted; ,,maxine, sweetie - could you do me a favor and bring me a strawberry icecream?" max replied with a shouted "yeah!" and then left.

onto the mall; there was a huge mall called "starcourt mall", so she walked in seeing bright colours, people everywhere, icecream dropping on the floor and max could smell the warm hotdogs, some boys selling them for 2 dollars each. she only had 30 dollars, and she's probably spend it on things to upgrade her camera. she listened to the calming music, giving her a good impression of hawkins so far. so she first walked in an icecreamshop, looking if she could find someone there. and ofcourse the icecream. max looked at the room; so many people. max was a lot, but being patient wasn't one of them. she took her camera and tried to look bright while filming herself.

,,hi everyone! it's the one and only max mayfield, here on your screen! I arrived in hawkins, and it's already great! i'm gonna buy and icecream while- wow, look how beautiful this room is!" she said, while filming aesthetic points of view. behind the camera, she obviously wasn't smiling. she was thinking about how people probably thought she was weird, filming the shop so closely to the ground. when she tried to look up to film more, she bumped into someone, who didn't give her time to study them; before max fully looked up, they ran away. she took a sight. okay? well, she decided to get the icecream and then go take a walk.

,,okay guys, i got my icecream - strawberry has always been my favourite - but sadly it's for my mom. so first i'm going home and then i'm gonna take a walk in the beautiful forest! and after that, i'll take a look in the arcade! see yaaaa!"

she pushed open the door, while it took a while for her camera to turn off completely. she could edit later. she felt she needed to get a breath of fresh air, and where is that better than in the forest? she ran her hand through her orange hair for a moment, making it nice and messy again. she almost tripped over a big stone, but finally arrived at their little house. she gently opened the door as she said; ,,mom? i have your ice cream!" her mother quickly came into the room and took the ice. ,,oh i'm sorry honey! i forgot you went to get one - thank you, sweetheart." normally she didn't say that. she was only doing this because her parents were probably having some fun, and therefore she forgot about max. max wasn't as important as him. she laughed softly, not really, and then left the house. on the way to the forest, she checked her instagram. she wasn't very popular, but there were still people who liked her photos. she looked and saw that her photo had almost 200 likes. not bad, for someone with 4 thousand followers. but she did it to make herself happy, "for her pleasure", to do something that could still give her a happy place. as she walked through the leaves, which crackled softly as she stepped on it, she looked at the reactions. there were people who responded to her biography, and said "i will!" and "good, you too!" there were also compliments about the outfit; ,,nice look!" , "wow, i MUST have that outfit!", "cute outfit! and i oop!" Max shivered. if there was anything she wasn't interested in, which she hated deep into her bones, then they were vsco girls. she didn't know why, but she hated them. still she was sweet enough to like the reaction. she reacted to some comments, a sun or a flower, and just tried to make her eyes glide over hate. unfortunately, people thought things about her that were not true, that she was a slut, that kind of shit. and that is why she deleted most of the posts that included things like that, because max was, of course, beyond everything she did and experienced, very insecure. max looked up and saw nothing outside of trees and leaves. she looked behind her and saw the same thing. wait, where was she? maybe she should look on google maps - oh no, her data was dead. fuck. she rolled her eyes, trying to look at the map but nothing. only blanc. she got a bit anxious. oh god... what if she never got out of the woods? her parents would kill her! and what about her brother?

one thing was sure; she was dead.