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Max Mayfield had a shitty life she found out the hard way you can’t depend on anyone too long, and you can’t get to attached. She never bothered to fall in love, she had a seen all of her moms crappy excuse of relationships. And she didn’t want any one to treat her as bad as they treated her. She found a group of friends and stuck with them for her whole life. They had been the best thing to ever happen to her, especially Lucas. Lucas was a kind sweet boy, understanding and mature he was like the groups dad a lot of them looked up to him like that at least, except max she thought looking up to people as figures was useless especially if you didn’t know if they would stick around. One day she was packing up at school, talking to Lucas as usual when she saw her, Jane Hopper she didnt know what it was. But she hated her she didn’t know what it was why she hated her, but she would glare at her with pure hate. Max hasn’t done anything to make anyone hate her atleast she doesn’t think so, she always had been a reckless kinda girl but she hadn’t even talked to her. She knew to just stay in her lane, anyways.
- 2022, start of summer -
She was currently laying in her bed face up in her oversized plain black shirt, and sweatpants. She started to get sleepy when all of sudden she hears a smash to the wall beside her and a crack. She gets up to crack open her door when she sees Neil pushing billy against a wall. She accidentally hits the door with her foot and she fails to bite back the “Shit” coming out of her mouth. Neil looks at her with fury and slowly walks towards her. Out of fear she slams the door shut and locks it behind an angry Neil now banging against the doors so hard she fears it might break. She follows her instincts and slips on her beat up converses and a jacket and jumps out the window, She catches Neil’s eye while she’s running because somehow he’s now outside. She hops on her bike and zooms down the street. He doesn’t try and stop her he just looks with a certain fury in his eyes. He looked like he wanted to kill her. He probably did want to kill her and that’s what bothered her.
Once she’s at Lucas house she’s sweating and stinky. Shes knocks on the door, and Erica answers she looks sat her like she saw a ghost “What are you doing here?” She asked. “It’s a long story and one I wouldn’t like to tell you, anyways is lucas here.” Shes asks in a rush. “Yeah he’s upstairs.” She opens the door for her and Max dashes upstairs. When Erica turns around she’s not even there anymore. Max knocks on Lucas door and he answers with an empathetic look on his face. She loved hated that look. She hated that people had to feel bad for her she hated the fact that she was viewed so helpless that other feel empathy for her. Any other day she would go off but she didn’t feel like it, not today atleast. “Again?, I swear to god he just can’t stop can he.” He says letting her in and sitting down on the floor. “Yeah he’s a pretty shitty person..” She says. “I’ll gladly take him if you want me to, I can fight just as well as he can.” He says jokingly. She punches him in his arm lightly “You wish.” she giggles.
“Hey you know that girl Jane?” He says randomly. “Yeah I know her, it’s pretty hard not to know someone when they hate your every move.” She says slightly annoyed. “Yeah I guess, but anyways I heard she’s coming to mikes party for the start of summer break” He says. Peaking her interest “She is!” Shes says sarcastically. “I know I know they’re dating it makes sense for them to go to each others party’s.” He says. “I just thought you should know assuming you’re still coming right?”. “Yeah I’m coming it’s tomorrow night.” She sighs. “If you think for a second I’m letting you go back to to that hell you call a house you’re wrong!” He says with worry and anger in his voice. “Its fine Lucas he hasn’t put his hands on me, he wouldn’t dare” At least not yet she thinks She says so brave. “Im still not letting you go.” He hugs her so tight she doesn’t bother fighting him. She melts into his touch. She blushes a lightly to the point only she notices it. ‘This is what friends do’ she thinks.
- NEXT DAY
She picked her outfit she decided to embrace her femininity for one day. She borrowed one of nancy jean skirts that reached a bit above her knee caps and a long sleeved pastel green shirt with a black belt with black heels. She thought it was cute , “Lucas!” She screamed “Yeah?” He came walking into Erica’s room where she was changing while Erica was downstairs watching YouTube on her phone. “How does this look, honestly.” She asked turning around. “G-good! Great! Honestly you look amazing so pretty! Really pretty you look so-” He cuts himself off before he can finish and walks out. “Ok..Whatever I guess.” She said. But there was a thought at the back of her head saying ‘He’s attracted to you.’ She wasn’t stupid, she knew she was a pretty girl but she didn’t want to think her best friend felt that way about her it would’ve been awkward if he did anyways. Lucas came back in dressed in black jeans with a gray Beanie and a gray jacket with a black jacket. He looked cute ok it wasn’t that good but it made him look cool.
Once it turned 10:00 her and Lucas got picked up by Steve, he dropped them off at 10:30 the party was already hectic. There were people doing coke in the corner, Others doing beer pong, some were sucking each others face off, and some people were just dancing. “What the hell is going on?” She said looking at the mess in front of her. “Honestly I have no idea” He screamed over the loud music. She sat down as Lucas walked away to talk to Will. Mike and Jane walked towards her, well more like mike walked towards her and Jane forced herself to go. “How do you like it!” He asked. “It’s-, It’s something I guess it’s loud as hell though!” She looked up to see Jane staring down at her thigh? She thinks it’s her imagination and.. “Hey max! you still with me?” Mike snaps his fingers in front of her face. “Oh! Yeah, yeah.” She says slightly. She gets up and says “I think I’m gonna get a drink, bye..” She stumbled sways and started to pick up some cups and chugs away.
Shes drunk. She stumbles around trying to find Lucas but she finds Jane instead she stumbles into her and slurs “Why do youuu hate meee!” She says attempting to scream but it comes at as a scratchy strained scream. “I- you, get off of me please.” She says holding her wrists trying to push her off of her. “Hey I saw you looking at mee thighhh.” Jane blushes so hard she swears she turns so bright you would think she just fell in love. “You knoww something you’re actually really prettyyy.” She leans up. “T-thank you.” Then that’s when it happens, She kisses her. You think she would push her away? Tell her to leave her alone? But she doesn’t she kisses back she leans in. But max pushes off of her and twirls back around the house slurring on words she can’t seem to make out. She finds Lucas who manages to tell she’s drunk, he calls steve to come and gets them he can tell Lucas is a little tipsy and he’s done a bit of drinking but he’s way more conscious than max. Steve drops them outside of the Sinclair’s and they go into Lucas room when max hugs his neck and says “You look so good I could kiss you right now!” And so she does she kisses him and he leans in and they have a kiss. She pulls aways and she!.. Throws up everything she had that day was on the floor and she passes out.
- NEXT DAY!
She wakes up in the guest bedroom with a throbbing headache not even Tylenol could fix. She walked downstairs to go get some water to calm her head down. And that’s when she saw Lucas talking to himself. “What are you talking about?” He turns around startled and says “Nothing.” He say’s obviously lying. “You were talking about something” she says trying to get the truth out of him. “No I wasn’t.” He said sternly. “Lucas Charles Sinclair, I have known you for 10 years what the hell are you thinking about.” She says trying to force him to tell her. “It’s, Do you, No never mind.” He gets up to walk away. She knows he’s not telling her something, he just doesn’t wanna explain why. And she was sure as hell gonna find out what happened. She put on her converse shoes, and biked to mikes house.
She knocked on the door and someone was opening it. “Hi Mrs.Wheeler! Is Mike here?” Then she saw her. “Hi..” She says sounding on edge. “Um, hi! I wanted to know if Mike was here?” She says trying to hurry up the already awkward conversation. “No he left earlier, you can still come in I guess.” It comes out more nervous than inviting but she goes on with it. She steps into Mikes house and takes off her shoes and plops onto the couch near by like always. “So I have just a quick question, do you know what happened at the party last night? Did I get to touchy or something.” She says desperate for an answer. “No, nothing you were drunk, Steve took Lucas and you home and that’s really it.” She can tell she isn’t being completely honest with her and she obviously leaving out details. “Listen Jane I grew up in a crazy household, so be honest with me. What did I do?” She’s being insistent and impatient so she takes it a step further. “Listen i remember what I did, I was drunk.” Jane flushes red. “Then why did you do it. You kissed me and then come here interrogating me trying to make me embarrassed.” Jane steps up from her spot on the couch and kisses her. They kissed, she kissed back, for a second Max feels bad for mike thinking what would happen is he walked in here to see his best friend making out with his girlfriend(?) But then she doesn’t she thinks this is probably gods gift to her for Christmas this year. Then Jane pulls away “You got what you wanted right? Don’t speak about this ever to anyone I’m begging you.” When she first started it sounded like a threat now it sounded more like a plea. “Yeah Yeah.” Is all she says when she puts on her shoes and bikes away.
She knocks on the Sinclair's door for Lucas to open it and sees mike on the couch? She just was tongue kissing his girlfriend and now she had to pretend nothing happened. “Oh, hey boys what were you talking about?”