Here's another cliche bad boy likes the good girl. I see there are no Kate/Nathan, but there's plenty of Nathan/Max, Victoria/Kate, and Nathan/Warren. I might do that last one. lol :D

This follows some of the same canon as Life is Strange. It's mostly focused on Kate. Max too but not as much as Kate. Contains MarshScott and later Pricefield.

Max sighed as she ran her fingers through her short brown hair while staring down at her math homework. She couldn't understand a lick of it considering she had been sick that day when it was taught and her tutor and good friend, Kate Marsh, hadn't shown up yet. This was rather unusual considering this was Kate here. Kate was a fairly punctual young lady and if she ever was late for anything, she would have texted first. They were suppose to meet 30 minutes ago and she there was no text or call. Max had tried contacting the young woman multiple times, but she wouldn't answer.

"Where the hell is that girl?" she mumbled under her breath as she looked around the library from her seat. The library was fairly empty with only her, the librarian, and a red headed girl flipping through a book across the row from where she was sitting. She cast a look back down towards her cellphone and so far the only person texting her was Warren. She was tempted to invite him to help her. She'd wait a bit longer before asking him anything. Max waited 5 more minutes before she started texting Warren. Before she could hit send it, Kate came into view.

"Hey Max."

"There you are!" she said as the older girl sat down across from her. "I tried texting and calling you, but you never answered. What happened?"

"Uh well it's not that important," Max noticed that the girl was grinning a lot bigger than usual with a flustered cheeks. She seemed to be glowing today, something the younger teen had never seen before. Max temporarily forgot how upset she was about her being late and smiled.

"You're looking very happy today," said Max. "Something interesting happened today?"

"O-oh! N-no!" she said as she pushed a stray piece of hair out of her face. "I'm just happy for this beautiful day, that's all."

"That's not the only thing you're happy about," smirked Max. "Come on tell me. What's going on, Kate?"

"Well it's my boyfriend," she said after looking around. Max was surprised to hear this. While Kate was one of the prettiest girls that attended their school, she was shocked to hear she had a boyfriend. Kate normally kept to herself and she'd never seen the girl with anyone other than a few female friends and only spoke to a boy if it had something to do with school. She figured the reason why was because of her strict lifestyle. She probably avoided it for temptation or maybe her parents made her for that reason. As near saintly as Kate was, she was sure the girl wouldn't do such a thing.

"Your boyfriend? Who?" Kate's smile suddenly disappeared as her eyes shifted to behind Max. Upon turning there was Victoria coming towards them. Max internally groaned upon seeing the woman.

"Well well well. If it isn't Little Miss Selfie and Miss Fashion Disaster. Having a little study date, are we?"

'No, but we are minding our own business,' retorted Max in her mind. She wasn't quite that brave enough to say it out loud though. She wished she would be that brave, but being that brave might make her a much bigger target than she'd like.

"Max needed help with her homework," Kate said quietly while staring down at her hands.

"Speak up little mouse, I can't hear you," smirked Victoria as she snatched up Max's homework. She scoffed. "You're having trouble with this? You know if you end up failing, you can always count on your selfies to finacially support you. I'm sure some lonely, desperate clown will pay you enough for it. I seriously don't know why anybody would like that shit in the first place."

"I like them," said Kate meekly.

"I rest my case," Victoria frowned down at the blonde. She tossed the notebook back down. "Have fun, losers."

When Victoria had gotten further away, Max mumbled, "I don't see how someone like that has any friends."

"She's not even very nice to them sometimes," said Kate. "I wish she'd leave us alone. It's not like we're hurting her. I don't like to speak ill of people, but for someone so well dressed and pretty, she has an ugly inside."

"No doubt about it," Max could tell Kate's happy mood had been ruined and quite frankly her's was too. Of all the days for Victoria to make a rare trip to the library, she had to pick today. "Let's get to work. I've gotta go before Howard's closes. I wanna get my pictures."

"Doesn't it close at 5?"

"Yeah. We've got an hour before it closes."

"Wait, was I late that today?" Kate picked up Max's phone and blushed at the time. "I guess time got away from us."

"Uh what were you two doing?" Max gave her a suspicious look while cracking a smile. She knew Kate wouldn't be the type to mess around like most girls their age so she was just teasing her here.

"N-not what you t-think we were!" she turned even redder than before leading to Max concluding that the two of them were likely having a heavy make out session. That or Kate was blushing so hard because of the implications of sex. It made sense she'd blush at the sight thought of sex. "We just watched TV!"

"Is that all?" she giggled.

"Yes! Now let's get on our homework, please," she said as she took out her notes.

"Okay if you say so," As they worked on their homework, Max wondered who Kate's boyfriend was. Considering Kate's background, she figured the boy had to be a total gentleman. A handsome, kind fellow who'd walk Kate back her dorm and be the type of guy even her parents let her go into her room alone with. They likely some of the same things in common and he'd regularly proclaim his love for her. However this was all speculation, though she hoped whoever he was would continue to make her friend happy. Overall a regular prince charming it seemed.

Once they had finished up their homework, Max thanked her and asked if she wanted to go get a bite to eat after she picked up her photos. Kate shook her head but thanked the brunette for it anyways. As it turned out, her boyfriend was coming to get her so they could eat somewhere. Max nodded and left or so Kate thought. She was curious about who this guy was so she decided to watch out for him. Yeah she knew she was being nosy, but that's just how she was. Just as she walked outside, she ended up bumping into one of the last people she wanted to walk into: Nathan Prescott, practically the king of the Vortex club and rich asshole whose father basically owned this school with its large donations. She always tried her best to stay away from the teenager and usually always could until now.

Other than saying, "Watch where you're going," he merely brushed past her into the library with a pissed off expression on his face. That was nothing unusual as Nathan just about always looked pissed off. Max just shook her head as she went into the girl's bathroom. Just as she finished washing her hands after using the bathroom, she went for her jacket pocket for her phone when she realized it wasn't there nor in her other pocket. She cursed when she couldn't find it in her bag either and quickly made her way back into the library. Maybe she could catch site of Kate's boyfriend. What she found next, surprised her. Sitting in the spot she had just left from was Nathan. Just seeing him there made her automatically hope Kate had gone. People like Nathan tended to target sweet quiet girls like her. After all, is female counterpart, Victoria, and her minions were good examples of such a type. However daring to take a further peek revealed that his hands were locked with Kate's. Nathan was smiling a genuine and rare smile at the woman who was smiling right back at him with pink cheeks.

'Nathan and Kate? Together? Holy shit!' she gasped as they just stared into each other's eyes. She'd have to tell Warren about this later. Nathan said something low which made Kate giggle. Max strained to hear what they were saying, but they were speaking too low and she was too far away. She was afraid of getting any closer as she might get caught watching them. On the table, Max's phone lit up and vibrated causing both teens to jump and look at it. Kate picked it up, said something to Nathan who nodded, and then he got up. Before he left, he gave her a rather long and passionate kiss before leaving Kate to gather her things. Max quickly moved out of site and peeked around the bookshelf to see him going by. She waited a bit before walking up to her friend.

"Oh there it is!" she said in a relieved voice as she picked up her phone from off the table. "I was wondering where it was."

"You were in such a hurry, I guess you forgot it," said Kate as she placed the last of her books inside of her bag.

"Thank god I came back for it," said Max pocketing her cell phone. "I would have been without it for a while. Well I'd better get going for real this time. See ya later, Kate."

As Max hurried off, she wondered how the hell Kate ended up with Nathan in the first place. Nathan was one of the biggest assholes in the school and one of the nastiest too. From that glance, it seemed he liked her though he could be faking it for some kind of benefit. But what could Kate have? Nathan could buy and sell every single student at Blackwell and if it was sex he wanted, he could very well easily get it from elsewhere as Kate was unlikely to give have sex with him anytime soon. Maybe he really did like her. She hoped so, just as long as he didn't hurt her.

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