Hey, um, I never asked your name.
Is that real?
Sorry, I've just never seen a kid with a tattoo before.
What's it mean? Eleven?
That's your name?
Eleven.
Okay.
Um, well, my name's Mike.
Short for Michael.
Maybe we can call you "El." Short for Eleven.
Um, well, okay.
'Night, El.
'Night, Mike.
There's no way that's Mad Max.
Yeah. Girls don't play video games.
And even if they did, you can't get 750,000 points on Dig Dug.
I mean, It's impossible.
But her name is Max.
So what?
So, how many Maxes do you know?
I don't know.
Zero. That's how many.
Yeah, she shows up at school the day after someone with her same name breaks our top score.
I mean, you kidding me?
Exactly.
So she's gotta be Mad Max. She's gotta be!
And plus she skateboards, so she's pretty awesome.
Awesome? You haven't even spoken a word to her.
Hey, I don't have to. I mean, look at her.
Shit, I've lost the target.
Oh! There.
Got it! There we go.
"Stop spying on me, creeps."
Well, shit.
What exactly are we looking at here?
An unassembled one-of-a-kind battery-powered radio tower!
I can talk to my girlfriend whenever and wherever I choose.
Girlfriend?
Wait, so her name is Suzie?
Suzie with a "z". She's from Utah.
Girls go to science camp?
Suzie does. She's a genius.
Is she cute?
Think Phoebe Cates, only hotter.
What's going on?
Going to talk to Dustin's girlfriend.
Girlfriend?
Maybe we can go to the Snow Ball together.
"Snow Ball"?
It's this cheesy school dance, where you go in the gym and dance to music and stuff.
I've never been, but I know you're not supposed to go with your sister.
No?
I mean you can, but it'd be really weird.
You go to school dances with someone that, you know, someone that you like.
A friend?
Not a friend.
Uh, uh...
Someone like a...
No, no. No way. Hotter than Phoebe Cates? No.
Brilliant, too. And she doesn't even care that my real pearls are still coming in.
She says kissing is better without teeth.
Wow!
Yeah, that's great. Proud of you, man!
I just like, I've never felt like this, you know, with anyone before and...
You know, they do say it makes you crazy.
What makes you crazy?
You never...
You never heard that term?
You know, like the phrase, like "blank makes you crazy", like the word...
"Girlfriends"?
No, no, no, no, not not girlfriends.
"Boyfriends".
No! No, no, not boyfriends either.
It's like It's like a feeling or-
Yeah, like something, like, old people say it to each other sometimes.
Old people?
Yeah. What I wanna say is that I just I know that I know, that I...
Better?
Still stings.
Is that a new zit?
What is wrong with you?
I was just asking!
You just want me out of here so you can make your move!
Oh, cause you're such a threat.
That's right, she will not be able to resist these pearls.
Like a lion!
Yeah, don't do that.
You ok?
Hop on!
We only have a few hours.
Remember that day at the cabin, you were talking to Max?
Um I don't think I follow.
You talked about your your feelings, your heart.
Oh.
Oh, yeah, that!
Man, that was so long ago. Um..
That was really heat of the moment stuff, and we were arguing and I don't really remember...
What did I say, exactly?
Mike...
I love you too.
Max.
Hey.
Um, it's nice, right?
Wanna, um...
Wanna like, you know, like, just...
You and me?
Are you trying to ask me to dance, stalker?
No?
Of course not.
Unless, you want to.
So smooth.
Come on!
Suzie, do you copy?
Suzie! Do you copy?
Suzie, do you copy?!
This is Suzie. I copy.
Suzie!
Dusty-bun?
"Dusty-bun"?
Where have you been?
I'm so, so sorry.
I've been really busy uh, trying to save the world from Russians and monsters.
Of course you have!
She's super sick.
That's why we're here, actually!
Yeah, we're shopping.
Not for us, but for her, for Nana.
For Nana.
Also, we're here to get a gift for you.
Just, we couldn't find anything that suited you and I only have, like, three dollars and
fifty cents, so it's hard.
Super hard.
It's expensive.
You lie.
Why do you lie?
I dump your ass.
It's just one little mistake.
I've made hundreds, thousands.
Max has dumped me five times.
But what have I done?
Huh?
Have I despaired? No.
I've marched back into battle, and I've won her back every single freaking time.
How?
I'll show you.
Come on.
Suzie, this is your Dustin. Do you copy? Over.
Dustin, come on! She's not there.
She's there, all right? She'll pick up.
Maybe Cerebro doesn't work.
Or maybe Suzie doesn't exist!
She exists!
She's a genius and she's hotter than Phoebe Cates? No girl is that perfect.
Is that so?
I mean you're perfect.
I mean, like, per perfect in your own way.
In your special your own special way.
Relax, I was teasing.
I'm obviously perfect and Dustin's obviously lying.
Come on, Don Juan.