She thinks to Max, the way she'd angrily paced before her when El had told her everything, the way she'd nodded, so certainly, and said 'He's a piece of shit.' It'd startled her, but she'd stuck to her decision.

"Max said he treats me like garbage," she explains. "He lied. Friends don't lie." A little heated, now, she twists slightly to face Hopper. "He lied about Nana being sick! Why would he lie?"