Hi there !
This one-shot is a bet asked by AssassinMasterEzio91.
Finally, english isn't my first language, I am french, so if you see any mistake or weird sentences, please, feel free to tell me about it so that I can learn and improve.
Summary : "Thanks for having been there for her when I wasn't."
Disclamer : Life is Strange is not my property and thank God, it isn't, you would hate the way I'd change it!
To be by her side
Facing the sea, the hot sand under her feet, Max gazed as Chloe happily ran to her favourite spot. Her smile was radiant and she was glowing with happiness.
"Come on snails!" She shouted
"Chloe, the sea won't vanish! Hold still while Max take her picture!" A gentle voice scowled
Wearing a red tankini, Rachel Amber was living up to her reputation of a muse, a sexy aura surrounding her innocent looking face. Max was still amazed they had managed to find her, alive, in a week while she had been missing for six months.
When Nathan had does her too much, scared for her life but also for his safety, he had driven her in an hospital in a foreign city. She had woken up with amnesia due to the shock and had been taken care of by a nurse's family after she was able to leave the place. A former colleague of David had recognized the girl and contacted him. David had come, taken Rachel back to Arcadia, hidden, waiting for everything to be over? Eventually, she recovered her memories but obeyed his orders to remain as silent as a dead body, to avoid spoiling his hard work. He released her when Nathan came clean, guilt ridden, selling Mark Jefferson out and having him arrested. Chloe has wept and wept when Rachel reappeared in her sight, as if she was unleashing all the pain and sadness she had kept inside for months. Frank almost did as well. Rachel and him finally made amends, he apologzied to her for everythung wrong he had done to her, they broke up in peace and remained friends, the man promising to turn a new leaf after the scare he had when she vanished from his life. Rachel took an immediate liking on Max and now, for the first time, they could really talk. Rachel was looking at Chloe with fondness.
"Thanks for having been there for her when I wasn't." She said, breaking the silence
Max looked at her, startled and confused.
"I should be the one saying that. I left and never called." She replied, ashamed by that fact
"Neither did she." Rachel argued. "And you didn't lie to her. Never did. Unlike me. I am such a shitty girlfriend."
Max could see her guilt. She felt sad for her. Rachel thought she was unworthy of Chloe's complete devotion and unconditional love.
"You make her happy. You care for her. That's more than enough."
Rachel had a grateful smile.
"Now I see why Warren loves you so much."
"Come on, let's bathe!" Chloe shouted again
The two girls looked at each other, laughed and said together:
"Coming Chloe!"
This trip to the beach became Chloe's happiest day in six months of agony.
The End
