phobia | elmax

friday

on friday morning, max and eleven met up at their usual spot at school.
there was never anyone there and they could talk in private without their other friends or mike interrupting.

"its already the last week of school." eleven bounces up and down and claps her hands.

max chuckles at elevens excitement.

"i know. it's crazy."
"i can't wait for the weekend." eleven smiles.

max already knew eleven was talking about the party.

"i can tell." max smiles back.
"so did you think about it?" eleven puts emphasizes the word it.
"if you're referring to the party then yeah, i did." max simply answers.

eleven was clearly trying to hide the huge smile creeping onto her face.
max didn't want to disappoint her and ruin the beautiful smile.

"so?" eleven asks, hopeful.

max places a finger on her chin, pretending to think about it.

"max!" eleven laughs.
"alright, yes i'll go." max playfully rolls her eyes.

eleven squeals and quickly jumps into max's arms, hugging her tightly.

"stop it el!" max giggles as she gently pushes eleven off her.
"i'm sorry! i just wasn't expecting you to actually go." eleven blushes.
"honestly i wasn't either." max shrugs.

when they hear the bell ring, they begin to make their way inside.
max looks around to see if she can spot mike.

"how was yesterday with mike?" max asks.
"same old." eleven says emotionless.
"same old?" max repeats. "what do you mean?"
"we just chilled at his house. it was pretty boring."

boring?
eleven never said anything to do with mike was boring.

"well is he coming to the party with us?" max raises her eyebrow.
"i don't know. i never really talked to him about it." eleven shrugs.

max desperately wanted to know what had changed between eleven and mike.
and she wanted to know why eleven wouldn't tell her.
but she couldn't ask her now.
max and eleven walked to their lockers in silence.

~
once school was over, eleven and max quickly got ready and left.

"can i sleep over tonight?" eleven asks.
"i guess. but why?" max furrows her eyebrows.

max didn't mind eleven bunking with her every now and then but she wasn't used to having this much sleepovers.
eleven was sleeping over at max's more than she did at her own boyfriends nowadays.

"i want to get ready with you to go to the party tomorrow." eleven answers.
"doesn't the party start at 7? you have tons of time to come over."
"you don't want me to sleepover, do you?" eleven frowns.
"no! it's not that." max sighs. "i'm just not used to you sleeping over all the time."
"i don't have to come over if you don't want me to." eleven continues to frown.
"no, i want you to." max smiles.

eleven scans max's face for any hint of sarcasm but when she can tell max actually means it, she smiles back.

"thank you."
"you're welcome."

omg thank you guys for almost 1k reads. this is really pushing me to continue to write this book. i hope you are enjoying it so far. the next chapters will be pretty interesting so stay tuned :)