𝙴𝚕𝚢𝚜𝚒𝚊𝚗 ~ 𝙴𝚕𝚖𝚊𝚡

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Hey! I'm sorry for not updating for a long time. I was trying to finish all the chapters of this book in the meanwhile so...I hope that excuses me! Anyways, hope you enjoy this chapter •-•.
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August 22, 1985
9:30 AM

In the morning, Max was the first one to wake up. When her eyes fluttered open and the light in the room hit her, she sighed and covered her eyes with the palm of her hand for a second, rubbing the sleepiness out of them.
She then noticed something that was moving under her chin and tickling her neck slightly so she looked down to see messy brown curls and couldn't help but chuckle quietly at the sight. Her best friend was currently so close to her that she could feel her chest going up and down as she was breathing. If someone saw them like this, the person would maybe think that it's weird. But thinking back to what happened few hours ago, Max didn't mind at all. In fact, she was happy that El finally trusted her. The two girls weren't always friends. Not from the beginning.
When Max saw Eleven for the first time, she wanted to be friends with her. From what the boys told her, the brunette seemed really cool. But for whatever reason that Max didn't know to this moment, El completely ignored her for almost a year. But to Max's surprise, the girl came to her of all people for advice. Apparently, Mike was acting weird and she needed her help with figuring out what happened.
Now it was all over though. El and Mike were together and happy again as if nothing ever went wrong. And after what happened a month ago, they are now stronger than ever.

Max didn't want to wake El up, knowing that she needs as much sleep as she can get now. She just slowly turned to lay on her back because her shoulder was starting to get numb. She then felt El's head move slightly and turned her attention from her thoughts to the girl again.
El started mumbling something almost inaudible, probably not realising that she's awake and Max couldn't help but chuckle at that quietly. El did that every time she woke up. Like...every single time, so Max was used to it by now because they were having sleepovers quite often.
The redhead then moved up a bit to sit, making the brunette whine quietly when she didn't feel the heat of Max's body next to her anymore. The girl then finally woke up, her eyes tiredly looking around the roo until they stopped on the face of her best friend.

~"Morning, sleepyhead. Rise and shine."

She said jokingly when she saw the look El was giving her.
The brunette rubbed her eyes and let out a long sigh before rolling to the other side of the bed, trying to stretch her limbs and mumbling something inaudible again.

~"What did you say?" Max asked with a small laugh.

~"I'm tiiiired!" El now said much louder, making the redhead sigh. She had an idea how to make the brunette a bit happier this morning. She smiled at the girl, yanking the blanket off of herself and sitting up with crossed legs.

~"How about this...you can continue sleeping while I make us Eggos for breakfast and th-" she couldn't finish her sentence because the brunette's voice cut her off.

~"Eggossss..." The girl said, her voice slightly muffled by the pillow her face was buried in.

Max smirked, knowing that if there's something that can get El out of bed in less than 10 seconds, it's the round waffles...or Mike.

~"...yes! Eggos! And then, we could go get some ice cream. Or go to the arcade. I could give you another skateboarding lesson too. Your last try was...painful." she wanted to say painful to watch, but decided against it. Well...at least El tried right?

The brunette didn't seem so excited about this though. Of course...she would love to spend more time with her best friend but...

~"I can't...I'm sorry. I promised Mike I'd spend time with him today. Um...maybe we can hang out tomorrow..?" El said, a hint of sadness obvious in her voice which confused Max. She was always so excited to be with Mike. They were always so...inseparable.