Attack of the Black Snakes
By Maxwell Chan
Chapter 4
Max woke up after the night of the Black Snakes' arrest. He got himself dressed up, ate a morning meal and drank some tea. He was ready to begin his new day. He looked at the time on his watch and left his house.
Kate was in her room sitting on her bed and watching TV. Within a few minutes, she receives a text message on her phone. She read, "Look outside of your room window". There was no name of who sent her the message. She looked outside of her window and there she sees Max in the backyard of her house. "What is he doing here?" She thought to herself as she went downstairs from her room to the backyard.
Max was standing in Kate's backyard looking at his phone to see if his text message has been sent. Then Kate got downstairs and into the backyard. "Max, what are you doing here? How did you know where I am?" She said. Max put two fingers on the side of his forehead, "I adapted to telepathy so I can read people's minds. But enough of that, we didn't finish our conversation from last night." "What would that be?" Kate said. Max began to breathe deeply in hesitation, "Look, everything that has happened 3 years ago…I know that a simple apology doesn't always help fix everything but I want you to know that I am truly sorry. This doesn't sound believable to you but, I wanted to make it back to Josh when I came here but I couldn't believe the horrible things his gang has done." Kate looked confused, "You wanted to get back to him?" and Max nodded. "Everything I did in those 3 years—I'm over that now. You will only be just a friend to me and nothing more than that." They talked for a while later. "So what brings you here?" Kate asked. "I've been accepted to a college here and I want to explore the world a little more." Max replied. Then Kate's parents came into the backyard. "Hey you! Who are you and what are you doing here uninvited?" yelled her dad. "I don't mean to cause any harm. I am only a friend of her's" Max said. "Well you look like one of those Black Snake members that are out killing people. Get out of our house" her dad yelled. Without trying to argue back, Max walked slowly out of the backyard and back to his house. "We'll talk more later today" he said to Kate as he climbed over the fence and back home.
Max wasn't allowed anywhere on Kate's house nor was Kate allowed to go see him. From that point if they wanted to go somewhere with just the two of them, Kate would have to tell her parents that she was going to hang out with "a friend". Her parents trusted her enough for them to not know that she would hang out with Max. Max spent most of his summer exploring around Maryland and Kate was there to help him guide through what lies in this state. Every Friday, Max takes his exploring days off updating to Wendy to let her know that he was okay in Maryland.
"Where do you want to go next?" asked Kate. "Wherever you want to go" Max replied as Kate continued to accompany Max around Maryland.
