phobia | elmax

rumours

max woke up to the alarm she had set last night.
she looked at her surroundings and noticed that eleven was sleeping on the couch next to her.
max slowly pulled away from eleven and gently woke her up.

"five more minutes, hopper." eleven groaned.

max rolled her eyes and chuckled.

"it's me, you idiot." max smiled as she tried to wake her up again.
"max?" eleven quickly sat up, accidentally head butting max.
"ow." max moaned as she rubbed her forehead.
"oh my god! im so sorry." eleven panicked and places her hand on max's forehead.
"it's okay." max winced and pulled away from elevens touch. "we have to get up though."
"yeah yeah." eleven sighed.

-
max and eleven walked to school together.
it was the first time she walked with eleven to school.
I wonder if people will ask questions about why we were missing.

"are you sure your mom won't be mad?" eleven asks as they walk up to the front of the school.
"trust me, el. no one in my house would care if i was gone for a whole year." max assured eleven.
"lucky. hopper is so overprotective." eleven rolls her eyes.
"maybe it's because your his only child. my mom has three children." max shrugged.

just as they were walking, their friends stopped them.
they did not look happy.

"look who decided to show up." lucas put his hands on his hips.
"excuse me?" max raised her eyebrow.
"where were you two?" dustin asked.
"we slept in! does it matter?" max scoffs.
"yeah! why should you care?" eleven narrows her eyes.
"i think you two should care. there's rumours all over the school of why you two weren't at school yesterday." will says.
"what?" elevens looks at max with fear in her eyes.

fortunately, the bell rang.
max grabbed elevens hands into hers and ran into the school.

"what are you doing?" eleven asks.
"im finding out what rumours will was talking about." max continues to drag eleven with her.
"max, stop. i don't think it's nothing serious." eleven pulls her hand out of max's. "let's just go to our class, okay?"
"fine." max sighs as the two run back to their lockers.

-
when they reached their class, a bunch of students were staring at them.
"max. eleven. please take a seat." the teacher greeted them.

they nodded and sat in their seats.

"why's everyone staring at us?" eleven looked around nervously.
"i don't know." max sighed.

a few seconds later, they heard a few whispers.

"did you notice that eleven hopper and max mayfield are here today?" one girl whispered.
"yeah but did you hear about what they did yesterday?" another whispered back.

max looked back at eleven with confusion and nervousness on her face.
elevens heart was beating fast.

"i mean i can see max being a lesbo but eleven?" the girl whispered again.

max's eyes widened and her body filled with anger as the girls continued whispering.

"isn't eleven dating mike?"
"yeah but she totally cheated last night with that mayfield girl."
"elevens bisexual?"
"when mike and eleven break up he's mine."
"mike is such a good guy. mike deserves better than that slut."

that was enough to push max over the limit.
she angrily got up and pounced on the girls, punching them in the face.
everyone including eleven stared at the situation in shock.

"max mayfield stop this immediately and go to the principals office." the teacher yelled.
"it's not her fault! those girls were saying mean things about max and i!" eleven tried to defend max.
"i don't care what mean things they've said. nothing justifies being violent with another student at this school." she gritted her teeth.
"can i at least go with her?" eleven stood up in her seat.
"no. sit back in your seat. if you want to see miss mayfield you'll have to see her at lunch."

eleven sighed and sat back in her seat.
Why did Max freak out like that?