phobia | elmax

breakfast

eleven had spent the night at max's.
this time though, max made sure the alarm was set again.
when she heard the alarm go off, she quickly woke up and tried not to wake eleven.
she hurried down the stairs and into the kitchen.

"what are you doing up this early?" a familiar voice asks.

max's eyes widen and jumps to the direction of the voice.
it's her annoying older sister maya.

"holy shit, maya! you scared me." max places her hand over her heart and sighs.
"still didn't answer my question."

max rolls her eyes and ignores maya.

"eleven and you have been having a lot of sleepovers lately." maya smirks.
"yeah? so?" max raises her eyebrow as she pulls out a frying pan.
"it's just very interesting." maya crosses her arms as she watches max.

max rolls her eyes again before narrowing her eyes at maya.

"i don't know what your on about but can you not watch me? it's creepy."

maya raises her hands up in defence and sits in the living room.

"are you making breakfast?" maya asks.
"duh. but not for your lazy ass. i'm making it for el and i."
"touché." maya chuckles.

max goes back to cooking.

"i heard what happened yesterday."

max stops in her tracks and walks out of the kitchen to look at maya.

"excuse me?"
"i heard what happened yesterday." maya repeats. "literally everyone was talking about it around here."
"well, what happened doesn't concern you so mind your own business." max replies coldly before walking back into the kitchen.
"i bet you told billy that you were defending yourself." maya laughs.
"why does it matter, maya?" max sighs in frustration.
"no reason." maya smirks before walking back upstairs.

max watches maya leave, cautiously.
max began to worry that maya would tell billy.
of course she would.
but max shouldn't worry about that right now.
she went back to cooking her and eleven breakfast.

~

max places the breakfast on the end of the bed as she gently wakes up eleven.

eleven groans.

"i made you breakfast." max whispers.

eleven slowly wakes up and stretches.

once max is sure eleven is awake, she places the plate on elevens lap.

"thank you, max." eleven smiles. "i love you so much."

max pauses and is unable to speak.
eleven has never said that to her before.
in fact, no one has said that to her before.
not even billy.
it made max feel very weird inside.

"are you okay?" eleven looks at max with concern.
"yeah. i'm i-i just your w-welcome." max stutters and mentally slaps herself for doing so.

eleven gives her a small smile before silently digging into her delicious breakfast.