'God.. When this train passes I'm going to actually murder her.' Max thought to herself, her face buried in the palms of her hands as she tried to wait out the pounding in her head. It didn't help that she had to push herself so soon after coming out of another one of her visions. Just moments pass by until she's pushed back a couple steps from the bear hug from her living blue haired friend. Sliding her arms up out of the grip before they're crushed along with her chest and looped them around Chloe's neck.
"MAX! You're hella awesome, gurl!" Chloe proclaimed, "Coming through in the clutch again! What are you now, two for two?"
"More like two for ten.." She let out in more of an exhausted breath than half as happy as Chloe sounded, "Please be more careful, Chloe.. It takes a lot out of me when I do it so often." The pounding in her head retreating to no more than a hard pulse.
"Well.. I really appreciate it, sista!" She said in a way that left Max unsure if she'd listen to anything that was just mentioned, breaking off the hug right afterwards. "Man. I haven't even gotten over the fact you nearly killed Frank back there for me, and now this? I think we're bonded for life now, Maxine."
"Ughh.." Max groaned while simultaneously gave Chloe a push that probably moved herself back more than it did the other. "You know how I feel about people calling me that. But yeah.. And I'm never leaving again. Not by myself at least." Max finished with a smirk.
"Woahh, been working out?" Chloe joked at that halfhearted push before returning to the other matter, "And you better not. Else I might actually have to track you down and murder you!" She laughed, even managing to draw a little chuckle from Max. "Let's head somewhere a bit safer, we have a bunch'a catching up to do and I simply must hear about the adventures of Super Max in Seattle." Extending a tattooed arm towards her best friend, "Right this way, Madame."
With a smile, she took Chloe's hand in her own. "After you, Ms. Price." It was amazing to her that after all these years they were able to talk so casually to each other like they never even left. "Just don't get your hopes up." Max warned. And with that, they turned to head back to Chloe's car.
"Five years, Max. Five years and you still can't get over my bed." Chloe said with crossed arms, standing at the edge of her bed watching as Max buried herself underneath the blankets. "I mean come on. Grow up, girl."
Still bouncing so slightly from her initial flop face first on the mattress, Max spoke out, her voice muffled by the severely worn out blankets, "It's been so long! We have so many memories from this old thing." The only difference being the faint smell of smoke, both from cigarettes and what Max got 'busted' for the previous day.
"Sit up, dummy. I can hardly hear a word your saying." Chloe spoke before jumping back onto her bed with her butt in an attempt to break Max from her trance. Success.
Max positioned herself leaning back, supported by her elbows still resting on the mattress. "It's just how I remember it. We used to bounce on this thing all the time. It used to drive Joyce crazy." She said with a smile, stretching her arms up over her head and laying back down on the bed, only this time nothing covering her mouth.
"Still does." Chloe retorted almost instantly and topped it off with a snort, drawing a puzzled look from Max for a few short seconds before responding with a chuckle of her own and nudging into Chloe with her knee. "So tell me of your exploits, Super Max." She requested, falling back with her head now resting on her hands, leaving them both on their backs. "Have a boyfriend? Or two? Three?"
"Oh god.." Max let out, sounding almost defeated. She knew a question like this would come up, though she just hoped it wouldn't have come so soon "I uh.. No, not really. I've been saving myself for you all these years, Ms. Price." Max said exuberantly, though not entirely sarcastically, hoping to guide the conversation in another direction.
"My god, Max. You are such a prude!"
'Crap. She saw right through that. Oh well, please let that be the end of it.' Max thought to herself, just wanting to move on.
"Do you even like boys?" Chloe asked, jumping up to her knees and just as quickly swinging one over to the other side of Max's waist to straddle her, trying her hardest to keep it together while looking at the wide eyes and open mouth of the shocked person below her. "Nahh, I bet you don't.." Lowering herself closer to Max's face slowly with each word spoken. "I don't blame you, they're gross, right?"
"Uhh C-Chloe.. W-what are you doing?" Max struggled to let out, her pounding heart feeling like it was in her throat. Placing both of her hands against Chloe's shoulders trying to stop her advance, her face turning a brighter red the closer Chloe came, causing her to close her eyes and turn her head.
The hands on Chloe's shoulders doing almost less than nothing to stop her advance. "I think so too.." Chloe spoke out softly, now close enough for the heat of her breath to brush against Max's cheek.
'Okay okay okay I can't do it anymore. She's so cute like this, I can't keep it up.' Chloe thought before turning her voice out, "I'M FUCKING WITH YOU, DUDE!" She exclaimed and sat herself back up laughing as hard as she had all month. Falling off Max to the side she laid before this little joke, still giggling like a maniac while watching Max and her beet red face slowly open her eyes. "Gosh you're so adorable, acting like you've never been kissed before. Which you have.. Right?" Chloe managed to get out after a few more moments of laughing.
'NOT COOL CHLOE! You made me look like a total idiot! I can't believe that.. this was all my fault. Ughhh I should've just lied to her a minute ago. But I'll be damned if I rewind for that. She's my best friend, so what if I'm a little embarrassed in front of her? I wouldn't want to lie to her anyway. Get it together Max! You have a superpower, what do you have to be embarrassed about?'
Doing her best to rub the red from her cheeks with a few deep breaths and some self-motivation, Max was finally able to face her devilish friend. After a moment of eye contact, Max finally bit the bullet and shook her head. Her brunette hair falling in front of her eyes as she made the movement. Perfect, now she didn't have to see Chloe's expression. Though it didn't matter, Max knew Chloe had her mouth wide open with the hint of a smile tracing along the edges of her lips.
"You know, you haven't changed a bit! You're still the same Max Caulfield from five years ago. So you know what.." Chloe spoke, sniggering quietly to herself, not wanting to make Max any more embarrassed, despite just how adorable she thought it was. "I dare you to kiss me." She finished up, brushing Max's hair from her eyes to find that same dismayed face from just moments before, near instinctively bringing a hand up to stifle a laugh.
"You wh.. Y-yo.. You da-"
"Yes, I dared you." Chloe cut off, "You know what, I double dare you, kiss me now."
'Did she really just do that?! Okay, Max, you have to make up your mind and FAST. She's my best friend, this is wrong. No, she's my best friend, so who better than that? But she's a woman, do I even like women? No, Max, you don't know what you like. You can't pretend you don't think she's attractive..'
Taking in a mock astonished breath, Chloe let out "Is this Max not going through on a dare? No, worse. A double da-"
This time Chloe being cut off by the quick little peck on the lips Max gave her before pulling herself back. "There, I kissed you." Max let out factually, her heart beating nearly as hard as her head was pounding earlier in the day on the railroad. She was feeling a handful of emotions, excitement, anxiousness, proud, humiliated, but there was something she felt in her that had nearly been forgotten about up until this point. Butterflies?
"Okay, Caulfield, I'll say it, didn't think you had it in ya." Chloe spoke, genuinely not expecting Max to have gone through with it, if you can call it a 'kiss'. "But I'll have you know, that was no kiss. That little thing you did? Like a bird pecking at some food in a seeder. Here, I'll show you how it's really done.." Chloe wrapped up and leaned toward the timid brunette who looked perfectly terrified at what was about to happen.
Before Max could voice any protest, a warm, pale hand rested against her cheek to almost guide her into the moment. Their lips connecting in a one sided embrace as the now madly fluttering butterflies in Max's stomach screamed for control, a request to which she hesitantly accepted, closing her eyes and melting her away into the passion of their touch. Not being herself, Max's hand found its way up to the warm fingers held against her cheek and traced a path along the way to Chloe's waist.
After what felt like too short a time to Max, who somehow managed to enjoy herself, it was over. Chloe pulled herself off with a gleeful smile strewn against her face, the taste of the other lingering in each ones mouth. Both of them bringing their hands back to themselves, "Well look at you, party girl. Almost seems like you enjoyed it a bit."
NOTES:
This was my first attempt at any fanfic type thing, and I'm not entirely sure if it will be my last. I have nothing exactly in my mind where I want this to go, so other then shipping PriceField, there's no real motivation behind this for me. If anybody has any ideas where they think I should take this story, I just might continue.
This was mostly practice for me, as I'm not entirely adept at writing stories, yet I have a class on it. So if (If. Heh) there are any parts in here that any of you may find particularly shit, go ahead and mention it. Critique the hell out of it, that'll help me big time in my future writing.
Like I said, this'll more than likely be a one-shot unless I come up with a slammin' idea or anybody would be so kind as to throw something my way. I'd like to keep it in the LiS universe in maybe a diverging storyline.