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

Chapter 7-I Dump Your Ass

Art: Tashsh (i think that's what the signature says. Please correct me if I'm wrong)

-This chapter takes place in Season 3 Episode 2: Mall Rats-

-Max's POV-

          I've been trying to perfect this skateboard trick all morning and not once have I gotten it right. I try stopping it, then jumping but it rolls from right under my feet. "Shit". It rolls on the street until someone stops it and picks it up. El starts walking up to me and hands me the skateboard. 

"Hi", she says in a perfect deadpan tone. 

"Hi..?".

 "Can we talk?"

          "And then he said he missed me, then he just hung up", El explained. "Well he's a piece of shit", I say. "What?". "Mike doesn't have jack shit to do today, and his Nana obviously isn't sick". I stop pacing for a second. "I guarantee you him and Lucas are playing Atari right now". El shook her head. 

"But friends don't lie".

"Yeah, well boyfriends lie. All the time".

I sit down next to El on my bed. "You're going to stop calling him. You're going to ignore his calls. As far as you're concerned. He doesn't exist"

"Doesn't exist?"

"He treated you like garbage! You're gonna treat him like garbage. Give him a taste of his own medicine". 

El began to nod. "Give him the medicine"

"Mm-hmm. And if he doesn't fix this, if he doesn't explain himself, dump his ass.

          I stand up and grab El's hand, which makes me blush. "Come on". "Where are we going?", she asks me. I almost scoff. "To have some fun. There's more to life than stupid boys you know".

-Some Time Later-

          Me and El step off of the bus and she looks around like she just saw the sun for the first time. "So what do you think?", I ask her. When she doesn't answer me I get slightly concerned. "Hey what's wrong?". "Too many people", El says. "Against the rules". "Seriously?", I can't help but crack a smile. "You have superpowers. What's the worst that could happen?". She nods and smiles. I swear her smile is contagious because now I feel like grinning myself. 

          I grab El's hand and we run in to Starcourt mall. "So what should we do first?", I ask. The brunette just looks around in awe. "You never been shopping before have you?". She shakes her head in response. "Well, I guess we're gonna have to do everything". I grab her hand and we run into The Gap. El starts looking at all the clothes, her smile never leaving her face. She looks up at a blue shirt "Do you like that?", I ask her. She looks at me. But not just at me, she looks in my eyes. My heart just flutters. This girl is going to give me a literal heart attack! "How do I know what I like?", she asks. I shrug. "You just try things on. Till you find something that feels like you". "Like me?". El points at herself and I nod. "Yeah. Not Hopper, not Mike, you".

         El comes out of the dressing room and jumps in front of a mirror. I hand her a yellow beret and she puts it on her face. At first I can't tell if she doesn't know how to put it on or if she's just plain goofy. Then I fix it for her and she smiles. El snaps her suspenders, laughing and I can't help but smile at her. After El goes back into the dressing room she comes out with a matching shirt and skirt. I hold up two matching belts and she chooses the yellow one. "Can you help me put it on?", she asks. I nod but I feel myself turn beet red as I bring the belt around her waist. After, she spins in the mirror a bunch and falls in my arms. Her hand touches mine for a brief moment, and in all honesty the moment is far too short. El goes back into the dressing room and I try on some sunglasses while waiting. She comes back out with a black romper with colorful patterns. El starts to flip her hair in different ways and I almost sigh. If only she knew how pretty she already was.

          Walking out of The Gap El hooks her arm around mine. I nearly flinch at the unexpected contact but I don't. She looks at me with the biggest smile and I feel my own grin grow. "El! Come on!". I grab her hand and we run into a photo studio.  We dress up in all the random accessories they have, not any of it really going together. We take six pictures before heading to a shoe store. I help El walk in some heels but then she falls and erupts into a fit a laughter. A bunch of girls look at us and I recognize a few of them. One was named Stacy. She was an jerk to Dustin at the Snowball but overall shes a bitch with a tree up her ass. I help El up and we watch the girls roll their eyes before laughing. We wait for them to leave the store and follow them. They get smoothies. Me and El hid behind a pillar and she blew the smoothie up in Stacy's face. We gasp before running to Scoop's Ahoy. "See! What'd I tell you?", I ask El as she continues laughing. "There's more to life than stupid boys", we say at the same time, only causing us to laugh more.

          We get there and order our ice cream. In the middle of scooping my cone Steve turns around and talks to Robin before I hit the bell again. "Come on Steve we don't got all day", I rush. He hands us our ice cream and we thank him. "Hey, are you even allowed to be here?", he asks El. We glance at each other before running off. We exit the mall and switch cones when I hear the most annoying voice in existence. "You've gotta be shitting me", I say. I hear El scoff as we approach them. "Isn't this a nice surprise". Mike drops his bike and points at El like she was something gross he found under his bed. "What are you doing here?". "Shopping", she answers. "This is her new style. What do you think?", I ask in a sarcastic tone. "What's wrong with you?", Mike snapped at me. Well Mike for starters I'm a child of divorce who moved across the country to get away from my nice, sweet, caring father who I never get to see among other things. "You know she's not allowed to be here". "What is she your little pet?", I scoff. El looks at me and nods. "Yeah, am I your pet?". Mike stands there for a moment. 

"What? No!". 

"Then why do you treat me like garbage?".

"What?".

"You said Nana was sick".

"She is! She is sick!"

"Yeah that's why we're here actually", Lucas chimes in. 

"Yeah we're shopping. Not for us, for Nana. Not for us, for her, for Nana"

I look at Mike and wonder how dumb does he think El has to be to believe any of this.

"Also we're here to get a gift for you. Just we couldn't find anything that suited you and I only have like three dollars fifty cents so it's hard"

"It's expensive"

I locked eyes with Will who buried his face in his hands. He looked as tired of this absolute bullshit as I did.

          "You lie", El said. "Why do you lie?". Mike stood there with his mouth hanging, saying nothing. Our bus pulled up and El looked back at it. She walked up to Mike and I was sure she was either going to kiss him or smash the ice cream on his face. "I dump your ass". The raven haired boy scrunched up his face like she was something smelly and sticky he peeled off his shoe. My mouth fell open into a smile. El turned on her heel and made a beeline for the bus and I followed. I could have kissed her for that but instead I just high-fived her and we laughed. "Sleepover?", El asked me. "Yes", I say. 

A/N: This chapter was kind of short actually. Only 1429 words. I have family visiting and I start school on the 30th. But I have pre-written a bunch of chapters and stuff so I'll be updating normally. Constructive criticism is always appreciated.

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