Heart Shut.

"Max, why are we here?" El asks the redhead who is basically dragging her towards Venice Pizza. "To get your mind off of things." El scrunched her eyebrows. "What things?" Max looked at her before opening the door and entering inside. "Y'know what things."

There weren't many people there. Only one couple, sitting aside. So she takes a seat in between the restaurant. El was still standing there, watching every move of the redhead. "Max? Why are we here? Hasn't Mike arrived yet? Shouldn't we go and greet him?"

Max looks up at the brunette. "Do you really want to?" El huffs and takes the seat beside the redhead.

"B-but won't he feel bad?" Max scrunched her nose in disgust. "Are you on your period right now?"

El widens her eyes. "What? No!" "Then why are your moods swinging every minute?" Max raises a brow.

El still doesn't get the clue what redhead's referring to. Is she slow?

"Back at your dorm, you were continuously rambling that you don't have the strength to face Mike and blah blah blah." Max mocks her. "And now you're saying that we should go and meet him?"

"What's on your mind, El?"

El sighs and adjusts herself on the chair back. "It's just...I'm having mixed feelings and I don't know why. A part of me wants to meet him so… bad while- while the other makes me afraid that-that ...will I be able to face him?" She takes a deep breath in. "It all feels so complicated."

Max nods and replies, "It's okay to feel like that, El." El just shrugs and takes the menu in her hand, diverting her mind from Mike.

But diverting herself wasn't the option that she needed at the moment as she felt the sensation that a certain curly-haired boy was making his way to her.


Sounds of laughter surrounded the car as Dustin and Will laughed hysterically. Lucas was driving and Mike was sitting in the side front seat. Dustin, Will, and Ash were sitting in the backseat of the car, randomly chatting about them.

"Dude, I swear," Dustin tries to hold his laughs, "Lucas farted so bad that we weren't able to play in Mike's basement for like 3 days!"

"Ewwwww!" Ashlyn gags.

Lucas just rolls his eyes and stares back at the road.

The atmosphere in the car was so loud and cheerful but not to Mike though. His legs were shaking continuously as he rubbed his sweaty hands together. "Did- did they tell you where they are?" Mike's small voice escapes his throat as he turns his head to see Lucas.

Lucas nods his head. "Yeah. Venice Pizza." Mike nods his head as his eyes land again on the ground. He swears to God, he never felt much anxious as he felt at the right moment. And it was all because of that girl. He thought that after coming to Hawkins, he'd enjoy the best time of his life with his friends, partying, hanging out, and laughing their asses off, but in reality, he has to face the biggest problem of his life, also called as El.

Not mentioning that he was gonna be happy to see her but he felt something bothering him, too.

Was it the fact that he decided to meet her just to go with his stupid plan?

Or the fact that it's gonna be worth meeting her?

Well, the thing is, he agrees with the second point as he knows how much hurt she caused him after breaking his heart. So yeah, it'll be definitely not worth it to meet her. And after all, only bad memories are gonna hunt his mind after it, then... why bring the risk up?

But he also wants to continue his plan to hurt her, so he will take the risk. Yes. He will.

Even after knowing that it'll hurt him too as he knows that the hurt he's going to cause to... is the same girl he used to love.


"Max, I don't have enough money for all of this!" El mouth shouts to her best friend who has just ordered two big-sized pizzas, two strawberry slurries, and a white chocolate dessert. "Bitch, how did you even think I'm letting you pay for this?" The redhead emphasized the word 'you' as she sees the waiter serving food on the table.

Now, El couldn't believe her ears. Whenever they went to eat out, it was always one of the friends paying but Max never did. And how in the miracle landed on the earth, today?

Max chuckles as she takes a bite of pizza from the plate. "Surprised much?" El shakes her head before taking the slurry in her hand and sipping some of it.

"Y'know, Max?" "-What?"

"Thank you for all of this." The brunette smiles sadly. "I will never ever forget all the oblige you have done on me."

Max smiles but then furrows her eyebrows as her eyes lock on something behind the brunette. El finds it weird as she sees the redhead's eyes almost bulging out of the sockets.

"W-what what is it?" She asks. Max doesn't give her reply as she keeps staring behind her, standing and with her mouth agape open. El also stands up and turns behind to see what had left the redhead's mouth agape.

And the moment her eyes lock on the person in front of her, she feels her heart shut down.


Hehehehe. What do you think? Who has left the girls in shock? Well... aren't I supposed to think that you guys are smart enough to understand it? And if you're not... don't worry. Just stay tuned for another chapter. Anyways, hope you liked this one. Short but enough to make you excited, right?

-Lilia