Chapter 3!
Sorry if the characters seem out of place.


**After School. Dani's POV**

"Daniiiiiiii..." Max wined, "Tell me again!" we were walking to his family's sub station.

"No Max!" I rolled my eyes for the millionth time today.

"Why not." He sounded like a 5 year old boy who didn't get what he wanted for christmas.

"Because I'm not telling you the details of me skinning a deer. I already told you once." we walked into the sub station.

"Fine." he pouted. Hes so cute when he pouts. Wait, did i just think Max is cute?! Well, he is when he pouts, or laughs, or looks confused, or looks serious, or looks like hes thinking,or when hes sleeping, and don't get me started when he smirks. I-

"Dani!." Max's hand waved in my face, " you alright there?" i nodded, not sure if i could find my voice. "Okay, you spaced out there for a little bit."

"I'm fine." told him, with a small smile.

"Good, do you want a sandwich?" I hadn't even notice we were in the sub station now.

"No thanks Max. I don't want another 'to the Max" I shivered with the thought of what happen last time.

"Oh come on. You weren't that sick." I gave him my 'really' look.

I looked at the clock on my phone. 3:30. "I have to go."

"Why. You never leave this early."

"I have to go pack for, um, Grandpa's. See ya." i gave him a quick hug and headed out of the sub station before he could say anything else.


I opened the door to my apartment, and sat my back pack next to the door and my keys on the hook on the wall. I walked in the kitchen looking for a water bottle and came face-to-face with a man in his boxers.

"Ah! What the hell are you doing in my apartment?" I screamed taking a step back.

"Your apartment? I thought this was Jessica's apartment?" he looked confused. I huffed, walking to my mom's room with the man in tow.

"Really!? I thought we agreed that they weren't going to be here when I was home?" I yelled at my mom, who was in bed with the covers around her chest. The man slid past me, careful not to touch me, grabbed his clothes that were on the floor and went into the bathroom that was in my mom's room.

"Honey, I didn't know you were going to be home at this time. Your never home at this time!" She tried to keep her voice down.

"Your the one who told me to get home at this time. You said I needed to pack!" she might be keeping her voice down, but i sure as hell wasn't. I walked out before she tried to blame this on me. I went and got my back pack, and sat at the table in the kitchen. I was getting out everything that was in my locker and throwing away anything i didn't need.

"Uh. It was nice meeting you." The guy was now fully dressed.

"Just get out." I said, not bothering to hide the hatred in my voice.

"Bye, Michael. I'll call you." My mom lied to him as he walked out the door. She was now in a dark blue robe, "Daniella." She was the only one to use my full name, "You didn't need to be rude to him. He-"

"Save it mom." I held up my hand interrupting her, "I heard this last time." I told a drink of my water I got out of the fridge.

"So how was your last day of school?" She asked, forgetting 'Michael' ever happened.

"I was okay. I'm going to pack now." I got up taking my back pack and water bottle with me. My mom climbed out the window onto the fire escape, she closed the window half way, my rules not her's , and lit up a cigarette. I walked into my room and pulled my suit case out of my closet.

My mom never use to be this way. She never smoked, drink, slept around, nothing. When my dad was alive, wee lived in this great, big country house in Kentucky. My grandparents lived next door to us. When my dad died in a horrible car crash, my mom lost it. She started drinking, but never getting drunk. She didn't really sleep around in Kentucky, the town we lived in was so small everyone knew each other. Mom said everything reminded her of dad, so we packed our bags and moved to New York. To this day, I still don't know why we came to New York. Not even 24 hours after we were settled, I met Max. About a month or two later, I walked into the apartment and stumbled across to something similar to what happen today. I'm guessing my mom picked up smoking from one of her 'buddies'.

Do you believe in magic, in a young girl's heart? How the music can free her, whenever it starts And it's m- I grabbed my ringing phone and slid the bar to answer it, not even checking who it was.

'Hello?'
'hey are you done packing'
It was Max.
I looked to see my suit case full. I'll just put my straightener and make-up in a duffel bag. 'just about. Why?'
'hurry up and finish!'
'Again, Why?'
'Cause!'
He wined like a little kid.
'Max just tell me.'
I zipped up my suit case.
'Fine. I'll tell you.' I rolled my eye, 'I want you to come over for a movie night.'
'Why Max?'
I made it sound like I didn't want to go, but secretly I did. I love having movie nights with him.
'Dani, its our last night together, ever!'
'Max. You do realize that I'm only going to be gone for 8 weeks, Right?'
'Oh, thank god. I thought you were moving.'
'No' i chuckled, 'I couldn't stay away that long!'
I told him, hoping he thinks I'm kidding.
'I know!'
He laughed.
'I'll be over in an hour, okay?'
I asked getting up and grabbing my duffle bag and taking it into my bathroom.
'Okay, see you soon.'
We both hung up.


Okay, just in case your confused, the way Dani's Apartment is set up is you have walk through the kitchen to get to the bedrooms.

Review Please.