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Flashback

"Fang!" Max jogged over to where I was standing in the cafeteria, a frown on her face. Max was my best friend since birth, she knew me inside and out like the back of her hand. Lately…things haven't been working out for us. I got a girlfriend, which cut down on my Max time, and joined the basketball team, which also cut down on my Max time. We were drifting apart, and I didn't like it. She stopped in front of me, and looked me in the eye.

"They want to send me to Military school." Max breathed out, looking down. I looked at her, and she met my gaze again, opening her arms and hugging me tightly. "I can't leave Fang, this is my home." She whispered. I knew what she meant. Arizona was the only place she had ever known, she grew up here, with me and now her father wanted her to leave. I didn't hug her back, I was stiff and still. She wasn't surprised, she knew I wasn't a hug kind of person.

"What do you think you're doing?" Max stepped away from me to look my girlfriend Brigid over.

"Hugging my best friend." Max said, rolling her eyes.

Brigid snorted, then smirked, "Yeah right, what a loser, like he would ever be friends with a girl like you. You're more of a charity case."

Max glanced at me, then back at Brigid, "What do you mean?"

Brigid grinned, "He feels sorry for you, isn't it obvious? He feels bad because your mom has cancer, he feels bad because your sister ditched you, he feels bad because nobody wants you." Brigid sneered at the end.

Max's eyes widened, she realized that I was the only one she told that. "How did you know that?" She asked softly.

"Fang told us." Max looked at me, wanting to see if what she said was true. The entire cafeteria had quieted down, knowing that Fang was Max's nickname for me and that no one else could use it. They knew we were that close.

"Don't believe me?" Brigid said, she pulled out her phone, and a video appeared on screen. It was me, totally drunk at Jason's party last weekend.

"Max isn't an actual friend." Video me was saying, "She's not important. Did you know her moms got cancer? She's going to die soon, but really, do I care? No. Max just whines and cries all the time about her poor little mommy leaving her. It's pathetic really." Video me took another swig of the drink I was holding. "And her Dad wants to ship her off somewhere, he says she's a waste of space, a mistake. Honestly? I couldn't agree more. And her sister Ella? Max is always saying how she is going down the wrong path and that she's ruining her life. Me? I think Max is jealous because her little sister is a hot and wanted cheerleader and that she has a life. Then she goes around telling people I'm her best friend, I'm not her best friend, hell no, far from it, I just feel sorry for her ugly little self. She must pretty stupid if she thinks I could ever like her as a friend. " Brigid snapped her phone shut, smirking.

I was frozen to the spot, mortified. I glanced over at Max. She was looking at me, her deep brown eyes filled with pain that only I could see. I hoped she could see that pain mirrored in my own eyes. I never wanted this to happen, hell I don't even remember saying that.

"Alright then Nicholas," I flinched, Max never ever called me by my given name. "I'll just go." Max turned on her heel and stormed out of the cafeteria.

I was still frozen as the reality of the situation sunk in. I just lost my best friend. Ella came up to me, and slapped me across the face, "That was my sister! Did you not just seehow broken she was?! My badass, freaky sister was just reduced to a wallowing grief stricken girl, I told her, I told her not to trust you. And what does she do? She trusts you. And what you said about no one wanting her, I want her! Sure she can be the annoying over protective sister sometimes but she means the world to me. You--You Bastard!" She slapped me again for good measure and raced out of the room with tears pouring down her cheeks.

I didn't move, didn't yell, didn't scream. I felt like I could cry. A part of me had just raced out of the building, and after her father finds out about this I was pretty sure she wouldn't be coming back. My Max, my best friend Max had probably just walked out of my life for good. And there was nothing I could do about it.

Flashback end

A/N New story line! Hope you like. Should I continue?!