"Die! Die! AHHHH!" Max yelled when he woke up.
His nightmares from the war were getting worse and worse as the summer went on.
He felt so alone in the empty apartment since Sadie and JoJo left with the band, Prudence moved in with Rita across town and
Jude and Lucy got real jobs and a real apartment. Max was the only one who didn't want to change. He hated change. There
was just to much of it before. Him moving to New York, then Lucy coming, then Jude and Lucy going together, being taken into
the war where there was to much change to handle, then coming back to find everything had changed here too. The only
change max had done since then is shave his moustache.
Jude had gotten a job at a sign place where he designed signs for other stores or companies. He still made art on the side
and sold them to different people or places. Lucy got a job for a secretary for a small business. Prudence got a job at a
clothing company designing and making clothes. Rita opened a restaurant and was doing pretty good.
Max only had his small part time taxi job that barely paid the rent and kept him fed. Every weekend it would be a different girl
for a 1 night stand.
Max got up and went into the kitchen to get some food. He had to get groceries because all he had left was bread, cereal and
butter. No milk though.
He walked into Lucy's old room and sat where Prudence once had been wishing to have Sadie.
It was a beautiful, day but through max's eyes all he saw was crowded side walks with the sun beating down on him. Yet he
decided to get out of the house (He had had a late shift that night with the cab)and go for a walk to Jude and Lucy's house. It
was a farely long walk but max tried to walk in the shade.
He was walking by the library when a girl came running out, her arms full of books and papers. Max didn't see her and she ran
into him.
"Ooops! Sorry" she said
"It's okay" He said picking books up. He went to give her a book when he noticed that she was quite pretty.
"Thanks" She said, grabbing the books from him.
"In a hurry?" Max said jokingly
"Yeah actually, I got an appointment with a racoon in about half an hour, so I have to hurry "
"Racoon?" max said wondering what the hell she was talking about.
"Yeah, I'm a veterinarian, and this poor little racoon named Rockey has a broken paw and I have to help him. Problem id I
don't know shit about racoons so I got books on them" She said as she held up the book.
"Oh, well good luck with that" Max replied.
"Yeah, thanks" She said and jogged away.