Max and El finally made it the Eleven house. They hadn't spoke a word to each other on the way to her house, both of them just running and peddling to safety. They burst threw the door catching attention of both adults sitting on the living room couch while watching TV.
"Are you guys alright, you're all out of breathe." Joyce gave them a worried look.
Max broke into sobs, clutching her girlfriends shirt. El wrapped her arms around the sobbing girl, trying to comfort her. "Do you want me to tell them what happened?" El whispered into Maxs ear. Max shook her head in response "no. I can tell the." She sighed, making her way to the chair sitting in front of the two adults that gave them worried looks.
"Whats going on?" Hopper asked.
Max took a deep breathe before explaining "My mom met this guy. His names Neil. They got married, then we moved here. He seemed okay at first. But then he just flipped like a switch all of the sudden. He was mean. I remember the first time he hurt me. We were at restaurant, I was having a bad day, I wasn't hungry. He got upset I wasn't eating and when I scoffed at something he had said to me, he grabbed my wrists. He squeezed them so hard they left marks. His nails dug into my skin and he told me to sit in the car. When he went home that night I just went to my room but then I heard a lot of noise coming from downstairs. He was yelling and beating my mom with a belt on the couch. She tried to get up, but he just pushed her back down. The next day while Neil was at work I confronted my mom. She had told me that he loved her and thats why he beat her. That everything was fine and that we were a perfect family. He beats Billy the most-- hell Billys had to live with him his while life. Anyway, my mom noticed how close me and El were, so she invited her for diner. Neil had just beat her again not even an hour before El arrived. He had also beat Billy upstairs when we were waiting for them at the table. I came out to them. They didnt like that so much..." she ponted to the huge red mark on her cheek where Neil had struck her in the face.
"Max... why didn't you tell anyone?" El asked, tears streaming down her face.
"Because. Its easier to pretend like everything is perfect even though its not." She gave a sad smile.
"OH I am going to KILL HIM!" Joyce jumped up but before she could make her was to the door Hopper grabbed her by her waist "Joyce! As much as I would love to, we can't just go to their house. I'm a police officer, I can do things okay. We will figure it out. But max is staying here until we do." He said.
"Thank you guys, I really appreciate it." Max smilled.
"You're welcome honey. Now why dont you get some wrest, El help Max get settled, yeah?" She smilled as she watched the two girls disappear into her daters room. "I'm going to-" Joyce tried to make her way to the door again but Hopper stopped her again.
"Joyce! Calm. Okay. You need to calm down okay? Why don't you go take a walk? Let lose of all this anger." Hopper suggested.
Joyce smirked "yeah okay. I'm calm, I'm calm." She walked out the door.
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She was not calm.
In fact she was currently pulling into Suasans and Neil's drive way, anger boiling at the thought of what Max had told her.
She jumped out of the car before pounding on the door, she was furious.
"Can I help you?" Neil said as he opened the door.
"You. YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST BEAT YOUR FAMILY AND THEN GET AWAY WITH IT?! AND THEN YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY TO CALL ME DAUGHTER AND MAX SLURS! YOU ARE LUCKY I DON'T KILL YOU RIGHT HERE ON YOUR DOORSTEP YOU UGLY PIECE OF SHIT! IM NOT VERY FOND OF SUSAN BUT SHE DESERVES WAY BETTER THAN YOU-- YOU RAT LOOKING BASTARD! YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH ALL THINGS YOU HAVE DONE! ESPECIALLY TO BILLY AND MAX!" she screamed before kicking Neil where the doesn't shine and stomping back to her car.
"FUCK YOU!" she screamed out her window as she drove off.
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Hopper was already waiting for Joyce at the door. He had noticed that her car was no longer in the drive way. "Have a good walk?"
Joyce nodded "yeah. I think it really helped release a lot of my anger."
"I bet it did!" He laughed "Did you at least leave a mark on him?"
"Oh definitely!" She made her way to the kitchen the make diner.
This is poorly written, but we stan protective Joyce.
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