A Piece Of Us Breaks Each Time

By- Min

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Summary:

Max thought he was over Chelsea. Chelsea's dating Patrick now anyway.

So Max starts dating Abby, but Max and Abby's relationship has its

Ups and downs.

Max/Chelsea, Max/Abby, Max/Mimi, Patrick/Chelsea.

Prologue

Abby sat at the kitchen table of the apartment that she used to share with Chelsea and Max, it was now just Max and herself. Chelsea had moved out six months ago, and was now living with Patrick Lockhart. This apartment wasn't meant for two people to be living in it, rent and bills were so high and Abby was wearing herself thin between her job at Max's Garage and working at Cheatin' Heart, not to mention school. She punched numbers into her calculator as she was trying to balance her checkbook, but she was still short and left with bills to pay. "Dammit!" she said as she flung the calculator across the room angrily in the direction of the door just as it opened.

The calculator hit Max square in the chest," Ow," Max said catching the calculator as it slid down." That hurts Abs."

Abby pushed the bills and checkbook into her Statistics notebook," Sorry," she said. "I didn't know you would be home this soon," she said.

Max raised an eyebrow," Were you in the middle of planning a wild party that I'm not invited to or something?"

"No nothing like that," Abby promised," Just homework," she said tapping the front of her Statistics notebook.

"Good, for a minute I thought you were going to say bills or something if it wasn't a party."

"Uh why would you think that," Abby asked uncomfortably as she shifted in the chair that she was sitting in at the table.

"Because I saw your face the day the bills came."

"Max, you have to admit that this apartment was not designed for only two people, rent wise, size wise or bill wise," Abby said," Its getting harder to pay everything between just the two of us."

"And that is exactly why I have got something that," Max said with a grin as he brought both his hands together pointing at Abby," you are going to love!"

"Extra Money?" Abby asked hopefully.

"No even better," Max said," hold on," he was excited. He turned and walked out of the open apartment door and then came back a few seconds later with his arm loosely slung around Mimi Lockhart's shoulders." A Roomate!"

"WHAT!" Abby said almost falling out of the chair at their dining table.

"Mimi was looking for a new place to live and I thought this would be so much easier on all of us!"

Abby didn't know Mimi Lockhart and honestly she really didn't want to know Mimi Lockhart, she was the last person she wanted for a roommate. She stood grabbing her stuff from the table," You could have asked me before promising the extra room to someone," she said upset.

"Abby, I'm sorry. I didn't mean for Max and I to upset you," Mimi began.

Abby shook her head as she grabbed her bag and pushed past the two of them to get out of the apartment.

"Abby!" Max called after her, but she ignored him as she hurried towards the elevators and planned on getting away from this. Max was just willing to give up Chelsea's old room like it didn't even matter to the first thing with two legs and in a skirt.

Abby left the apartment building and climbed into her car, tossing her stuff into the passenger seat. She had to get to work at Cheatin Heart in four hours, so she still had time to get some studying done at Java Café.