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

Chapter 23-Can We Talk (part 2)

-Max's POV-

"Can we talk?"

"Dustin?" El says. "What are you doing here?"

"I just want to talk, guys," Dustin tries.

"Why so you can call us more homophobic slurs?" I ask.

"What's going on?" Will asks, suddenly appearing behind me. Soon enough his eyes land on Dustin and he lets out a long, dragged out sigh. "Dustin, go."

"Will, please let me expla-" Dustin quickly trails off. "What is Mike doing here?"

"Why do you care?" Will asks.

"Will, El, Max, please, let me apologize and explain. We can take a walk down the road or stay here or whatever, just let me fix this." 

          I glance back at the others, looking for their answer. El nods and hooks her arm around mine. Will sighs and rubs his face before glancing at Mike. "Only if Mike comes too," he says. Dustin quickly nods. Will shouts to his mom that we're leaving before we all walk out of the small house. We walk down to the curb before sitting down. Dustin stands in front of us, taking deep breaths.

"I just want to start off by saying how sorry I am," the curly haired boy says. "What I said was totally uncalled for and wrong and I didn't even mean it."

"Then why did you say it?" I ask. "You just thought that it'd be fun to be an ass and joke around? Please Dustin, I'm very interested in what reason you could possibly have for saying that shit."

"Look, stuff happened the day before and I was just being a bitch because of it I guess."

"What happened?" Will asks, twiddling his thumbs. 

"I don't really want to talk about it," Dustin says softly.

"I'm afraid you don't have very many options here," I snap. "You either explain or you leave"

Dustin takes in a deep breath before letting it out. "Suzie dumped me. And you guys were being so adorable and it felt like you were rubbing it in my face. I was so pissed that I took it out on you guys and I shouldn't have."

          I nod and make an "mhm" noise before getting back up and heading into the house. "Where are you going?" El asks me.

"We're done here, right?" 

          I hear Dustin sigh before I go back inside. I was very tired of his shit. Even if Suzie broke up with him, what right did he have to say those things about us? About El?

-Will's POV-

"She'll forgive you," El reassures Dustin. "Eventually."

"No she won't. It's because I said all that shit about you," Dustin says. "I wouldn't forgive me."

"But she will. That break up with Suzie must've been tough, she'll realize that," El says, grabbing Dustin's hand. "For now, you better go though."

          Dustin nods before heading back to his house and El goes back inside, leaving me and Mike outside, still sitting in the curb.

"I can't believe that asshole," Mike sneers. "Blaming being a dick on a break up. El broke up with me and I wasn't being an ass when I found out she got with Max." Mike then started to trail off about how he was in fact relieved that he didn't have to make out with her all day anymore since his feelings had very much faded away. Then he started rambling on about how he actually liked me so it wasn't technically the same. That only branched off to how "absolutely adorable" I was, (although I don't see it) before coming back around to what a dick Dustin was.