Regular People [Elmax]

Chapter 2 - Star-Crossed Lovers

Eleven, Max, Mike, Lucas and Will were hiding in Dustin's living room. Their friend was finally coming home today after a month away at Science Camp, they had planned to surprise him and got his mum to help by letting them in and keeping it a secret. When Dustin finally got back he went straight to his room, El closed her eyes in concentration, a single drop of blood trickling down her nose, as she used her powers to activate all the battery-operated toys in his room to make them come out to the living room. Dustin followed them cautiously, a bottle of hair spray in his hand for protection. When he reached the centre of the room El suddenly stopped all the toys. The Party carefully snuck up behind their friend, the 'Welcome Home Dustin' sign in hand and party blowers in mouths. Max counted to 3 on her fingers, on the third count they all blew into their party blowers. Dustin screamed and spun around, spraying Lucas with hairspray in the process. Lucas returned a scream of pain as Max tried to stop herself from laughing.

"What the hell guys!", Dustin yelled.

"Surprise?", Eleven asked, genuinely unsure of how to react or what to say in this situation.

"MY EYES!", Lucas screamed as he ran towards the kitchen sink, "WHAT DID YOU SPRAY IN MY EYES?"

"Oh erm...", Dustin hid the bottle behind his back, "just some cologne. Yeah some sprayable cologne".

"You wear cologne?", Will questioned, not believing his friend for a second.

"Bullshit, you can't even get sprayable cologne", Max interrupted.

"All cologne is sprayable, how else do you think you get it on, genius?" Mike scoffed.

"You know what I mean. No cologne sprays like that, that was more like deodorant or-"

"GUYS! A LITTLE HELP IN HERE! I'M IN PAIN!", Lucas screamed from the kitchen.

Max sighed, "I'll go help him", she felt bad for almost laughing and wanted to try and be civil with Lucas so that the rest of the party didn't have to suffer through their bickering.

As Max walked to the kitchen Dustin turned to the rest of his friends, "want to see what I made at Camp?"

They all looked at each other and nodded as Dustin lead them to his bedroom.

Lucas was still running his eyes under the water as Max stood next to him.

"Ow ow ow", Lucas muttered as he came up out of the running water to be face to face with Max.

"Better?", asked Max.

"Still stings", Lucas replied. He stared at Max for a few seconds, unsure of what to say after the revelations of last night. He still liked her and, after all the times they'd broken up and she'd taken him back, he was struggling to wrap his head around the fact that they were completely over. She was MadMax, the super awesome girl of his dreams, and he'd failed, he lost her. Max looked at him sceptically, he realized that he had been staring too long in awkward silence. Before he could even think about what he was going to say, he blurted out,

"Is that a new zit?". 'Shit, I'm an idiot', he thought to himself.

After a second of shocked silence, Max asked the first thing that came to her mind, "what is wrong with you?" As soon as he started trying to defend himself, she shoved his head back under the stream of running water. This is why she dumped his ass.

Dustin pulled one of his latest inventions out of his bag, "I call it the Forever Clock. It's powered by wind, very useful in the apocalypse". Will grabbed the Forever Clock and looked at it with awe, admiring the immense amount of detail his friend had put into designing this miraculous invention.