The Way She Makes Me Feel-Elmax [UNDER EDITING]

|Chapter 3-What the Hell Just Happened?|

-Max's POV-

-Saturday Morning-

I woke up pretty early. I looked around and see I was the only one awake, other than Will, who wasn't anywhere to be seen, and neither was his sleeping bag or pillow. I assumed he was either on the couch asleep or upstairs. I grabbed my toothbrush from my bag and headed to the bathroom to get ready. I opened the bathroom door and saw Will sleeping in the bathtub. I couldn't even blame him. Everyone else were just being assholes last night. I wouldn't have slept near them either. I tapped Will on the shoulder and he slowly sat up.

"Come on Will, get up," I whispered. "It's morning."

"Really?" He asked, his voice weak and froggy. I nodded.

He grabbed his stuff before heading out the bathroom. After a moment, he came back in as I was brushing my teeth and he also has his toothbrush in hand. We both got to work, sharing one sink.

"Thank you," Will said softly after spitting out his toothpaste.

"For?" I asked before brushing my tongue.

"For last night. I would have stayed there crying the whole night if you hadn't moved me and talked to me."

I smiled at him. "Of course."

Will hugged me and I happily returned the embrace. Eventually we walked back into the main area to see everyone else awake.

"Hey Lucas, looks like your girlfriend is playing seven minutes in heaven with Will," he said with a tone filled with assholery.

"Go fuck yourself, Michael," I scoffed. "We were brushing our teeth." I grabbed my bag and headed upstairs for breakfast.

"Good morning, Max. Morning Will," Mrs. Wheeler said with a smile. I turned around and Will was behind me.

"Good morning Mrs. Wheeler," Will responds with a smile.

Mrs. Wheeler flips some bacon over while the others come up the stairs. Mike, Lucas, and Dustin quickly sit at the breakfast nook. Since that table is smaller it only fits four people, unlike the dining table that fits eight. El sits in a seat next to Mike with a confused face. I assume it's because she's trying to figure out why the boys are being such dicks. I grab a plate of toast, bacon and eggs with Will and we head to the dining room and sit down and eat.

I could hear muffled arguing from the kitchen and somebody aggressively sliding there chair away from the table then them sliding it back in. Not long after El stormed in with her plate and sat next to Will. She muttered him an apology then hugged him.

"It's okay El. I expect you to be hesitant," Will says. El shakes her head vigorously.

"No, not hesitant. Just understanding. Now I understand." Will nods, a smile spreading across his face.

-Friday Afternoon-

The Monday after the sleepover, Will and I ate lunch together at an empty table. Then after school we went to El's house for an hour or two. We had been doing that all week and today was no different. I got to the table last and sat down with Will and immediately began to eat my sandwich.

"What if we had a sleepover?" Will asked me. I turn to him and make a "hm?" noise. "Like me, you, and El. The three of us."

I nodded. "We should, that sounds fun."

After school I skated to El's and Will rode his bike slowly next to me. The whole trip we were talking about how everything was for me back in California. When we got there we could hear some muffled shouting coming from inside the cabin. Will and I locked eyes before throwing down our skateboard and bike and we sprinted towards the porch. I swung the door open only to be met with something flying past me in a blur, almost hitting me directly in my face. Once it smashed against the wall I could see it was a glass bottle.

"EL WHAT THE HELL!?" Mike shouted.

Of course. Fucking Michael Wheeler. Of course he was here.

"Get out," El said, blood drilling from her nose. Did he hit her? I was seriously going to kill him. The raven haired boy finally seemed to notice us and his face dropped when he sees Will.

"What are you doing here?" Mike asked.

"I'm here everyday," Will said flatly. I wrapped an arm around Will and glared at Mike as we passed him on the way to El.

"I SAID GET OUT!" she shouted. The lights flicker on and off, causing me to look around on confusion.

"El, let's just talk-"

Just as he stepped toward us El threw her arm out and he flew back into the wall. The curly haired girl snapped her head to the right and Mike flew out the front door. El turned and flung her arm back. The door slammed shut and locked, all without El even going near it.

El went to her room and screamed into what sounds like a pillow, the lights flickering in response once again. I turned to Will with a horrified expression and he barely looked concerned.

"What the hell just happened?" I asked.

Will looked me up and down and sighed instead of giving me a response. He just walked to El's room and asked her what had happened. I had about a billion questions of my own spinning around in my head but El had a mix of blood, snot and tears running down her face so I left the room and grabbed a bunch of tissues paper from the bathroom to give to El.

After she cleaned off her face she cleared her throat. "We had a big argument," she croaked, her voice now hoarse from the previous screaming. "I told him I want to break up. He said we can't, that he needs to have a girlfriend. So I said find a different girlfriend. That's when he tried to kiss me and I pushed him away and I threw stuff and threw him out the door."

"But how?" I asked. "You were across the room and even if you weren't you couldn't have pushed him that hard, right?"

El and Will made eye contact before looking at me again, both of them looking nervous.

"The party decided we weren't gonna tell you this," Will started, "but now it's hard to hide it I guess."

"Hide what?"

"Last year, I didn't just get lost in the woods." His voice was shaky and low. Instead of continuing to make eye contact with me his gaze shifted downwards. "I got lost somewhere, much worse."

A/n Max finding out about everything that happened in season one and two in a normal way? WELL that isn't gonna happen. As always constructive criticism is appreciated.

Edit: we're gonna ignore how i said I'd get this edited chapter out very then didn't touch it for like a year😭. I mostly just fixed grammar stuff cus that's the biggest problem with these chapters but I also changed some of the writing just to make it a little better.
Word Count: 1192 words