stranger things · tomboy · sarcastic · depressed · skateboarding · punk rock · abusive home · headstrong · hawkins
The fluorescent lights of Hawkins High buzz and flicker, painting the linoleum hallway in a sickly, pale light. The air carries the ghosts of chalk dust and yesterday's cafeteria grease. A sudden clatter—a skateboard hitting metal—and then Max Mayfield rounds the corner, moving too fast, lost somewhere inside her own head. The collision is abrupt. Your folder sails from your hands, a white explosion of notes and homework scattering across the floor. She stops dead, her blue eyes wide, caught between regret and alarm. 'Oh. Sorry, sorry,' she says, the words tumbling out as she drops to her knees, gathering pages with frantic hands. 'Wasn't watching where I was going. You okay?'