Joyce opens the door. "Oh? Hello you two", she welcomes us. "We want to have a sleepover again, is that okay with you?", El says and we go inside. "For sure. Me and Jim are going out anyway and Will is spending the night at the Wheeler's", Joyce answers. Now I notice that she's very special dressed: she has a black dress on and her nails are painted red; also her hair is styled. El smiles at her, gives her kisses and says goodbye.

Me and El storm upstairs and throw ourselves on her bed, me not even pulling off my backpack.

"Today was awesome", Eleven breaks the exhausted silence. "Hell yeah", I agree.

After a while of peaceful laying around, I get up and pull off my backpack. "Soooo", El gets up too. "Soooooooo", I imitate her and smirk. She smirks back. "Wanna sort in my new stuff?", she asks. "For sure", I answer.

I guess we both have the same idea, because we both go at the same time to the stereo. We look surprised at each other and laugh, until we both get a stomach ache. I don't even know, why it was so funny, but with El is everything fun. So we finally stop laughing and just look at each other's eyes. Even though our eyes are full with tears of laughter, I get lost in El's coffee-brown eyes. They might be the most gorgeous eyes I've ever seen.

"Err...", El breaks the eye contact. "Uh yeah sorry..", I say. Wait why did I say sorry? Ugh I'm such a jerk. "So I guess we both want some music?", El says. "Yes please", I reply. So we put on music and start to sort El's closet completely new. It's already 8pm, so that's what we're doing the rest of the evening. I thought, that this would maybe be a bit less fun, but it isn't at all. We joke around a lot and laugh very hard about it, try some things on again, sometimes even me and compliment ourselves. Like I said, with El is everything fun. I bet even something boring like homework. She's just the best person I've ever met.

Soon it's 11pm and we're both exhausted from the day, so we decide to go sleeping.

After we changed our clothes and brushed our teeth and our hair, we lay down under the warm blanket. We say good night and turn off the lights.

Something outside starts dripping. It's going to rain.

Suddenly something starts to grumble. Oh wow, not only rain, a whole storm's starting there. For a quick moment something zaps. There we go, that's the lightning. El winces.

Every next time when there's thunder or lightning, she winces and tightens up. Is she ... scared? It zaps again. This time El starts to shake. I kind of get scared now too, it's awful to just lay here, with my back against her. She doesn't stop to shake and I can't stand it anymore. I turn on the light and turn around to her. I find a very scared Eleven, tears running down her eyes. It's horrible to look at.

"H-Hey.. it's okay...", I try. I can't even clear my mind, it just makes me panic to see her like that. I carefully try to stoke her forehead and wipe her tears away. Suddenly she sits up, not letting go of her teddy bear. "I'm sorry..", she mumbles. "Don't you be!", I say surprised. She moves near to me. I open my arms a bit, to signal that we can cuddle. Wait. I just did that automatically. What the fuck? I never did or had something like this before. Oh god this is so embarrassing, help. But (at my surprise/shock), she actually crawls over to me and sits on my lap! I'm not even going to lie - it's adorable. I get so many butterflies, but I try my best to push them away; hug El and dig my hair into her's.

"It's okay. This house is a hundred percent safe and no thunder or lightning can attack us.", I tell her calmly.

After persuading and calming her more, she stops crying and shaking. We stay in a hug for a long while.

"I saw a turtle during a thunderstorm", I suddenly say to El. "Huh?" "You could tell he was pretty shellshocked", I grin. El chuckles softly. "The joke is so bad", she says. "I know...", I smile.

"So... are you ready for trying to sleep again?", I propose, after another while of sitting and not saying anything.

"Yeah.. but...", she mutters. "Hmm?", I look at her. "C-Can we ... cuddle?", she asks. My eyes wide. "Uh.. sure.. yeah!", I agree. She lays down and I turn off the light. I lay down next to Eleven and spoon her(Max hugs El from the behind).

It rumbles outside and El winces again. "Shhh... I'm here", I whisper softly. I wrap my arm a bit tighter around her and she takes it and squeezes it whenever lightning zaps or thunder rumbles.

I fall asleep smiling.

Sunshine is softly waking me up. I open my eyes and see, that my wall turned light yellow. I don't know what time it is and I do not care.

Suddenly I notice a hand on my waist; it's Max's. I carefully turn around. There she is, sleeping.. she looks so calming. I could stare at her forever.

I think that's what I was doing, until she suddenly moves. She rubs her eyes and yawns. I still look at her, smiling slightly. Max opens her eyes and she has this cute sleepy look on her face. "Good morning Maxie", I say softly. She immediately blushes a bit and I smile more. "Morning", she mutters.

We lay a while like this, looking at eachother. We slowly get closer, not even really noticing that we are; our noses less than one inch away from eachother's. The feeling in my stomach that I always have around Max gets stronger. My eyes are sliding down to Max lips. I note that these are addictive to look at. I want to touch them... but with ... mine. I want to kiss her.

Our lips are dangerous close and we're still moving closer...

Suddenly the door opens. I flinch away from Max and turn around.

There is standing no one else than Mike Wheeler.