A/N: Once again, Ruby Smith has indeed reviewed my last chapter. She's reviewed every chapter except the first one. Her reviews and update begs give me the motivation to put up a new chapter! Okay, she asked a few questions that 'need to be answered', so here are the answers (well, insights more like it):
Is Sadie falling for Patrick? It seems so, doesn't it? But Patrick is an old friend, but has recently revealed his crush that he has on Sadie – or is that had? Did Max make him change his mind? Patrick is, however, protective of Sadie, even defending her against the violent Tim, but is accepting in the way that Max loves her. Hopefully upcoming chapters will reveal Sadie's feelings…
Will Tim get the message? Now Tim, he's an interesting character. But a bloody bugger! He appears as a violent type and not one to easily give up on his infatuation with 'our Sadie' (as Ruby Smith likes to call her!). He even managed to get four fifteen year olds, including himself, arrested! Tim doesn't seem like one who would change his ways though, does he? We'll see…
Will she end up leaving Max? This question really ties in with the first one. If she falls for Patrick, she would most likely leave Max in the process. But Max has declared his love for her on many occasions, and is very protective, even more protective than Patrick. They seem like a match made in heaven, don't they? But do perfect matches always work out?
Sadie has doubted her love for Max quite a few times. She thought that she would never find anyone else who loves The Beatles as much as her, so when Max came along, it seemed like coincidental perfectness. But all of a sudden, Patrick seems to have some minor knowledge on the topic, as shown when they were in 'jail'. It even seems as though there might be a budding friendship between Max and Patrick! But Maxwell and Sadie may come across some bumps in their relationship in this chapter… READ ON!
Chapter 9 – The Night Before
We had put all the drama about the punch-up and the arrest behind us – or so we thought, until Tim posted a big status about it on Facebook. TAGGING us in it as well! God, I was so furious! This is what it looked like:
TIM GRUBB: omg, I can't believe we got arrested today! had a massive punchup in woollies with sadies boyfriend, the douche. and patrick! then me her him and patrick got arrested – I mean come on! who arrests 15yr olds? not to mention we have 2 appear in court also… grrrrr lol :P. with Sadie Parkinson and Patrick Donaldson
SADIE PARKINSON: Oh my God Tim, you did NOT just post this! I can't believe you! YOU are the antagonist in this case and everyone knows it! Just by posting this you've lowered your reputation dramatically… not that you had one in the first place.
PATRICK DONALDSON: You're the douche here, you douche. You're such a fucking douche
HARRY LEWIS: omg what happened!
TIM GRUBB: I kissed sadie and she punched me so I tryed to punch her put patrick jumped in and ended up punching me then her bf came out of nowhere and started beating me up! like wtf dude!
SADIE PARKINSON: You have issues. Grammatical, personal, anger management, respect and tastefulness issues. Get a life you douchebag.
MAX EDISON: Delete this fucking status or I'll report you.
TIM GRUBB: since when can u acess my page?
MAX EDISON: Since you're friends with Sadie and Patrick
TIM GRUBB: no way douche
MAX EDISON: What, so you want the whole world to know you got arrested and are going to court, do you? Maybe they can charge you for spelling and grammar fraud as well!
TIM GRUBB: wtf dudeee
MAX EDISON: I rest my case.
I had to agree, the fight was pretty funny, although it was so distasteful and rude to post that! It was so embarrassing for me! Let's just say Tim had three reports after that… Max was such a hero. He'd been my hero in more ways than one. I also noticed that him and Patrick were Facebook friends now. Our comments on Tim's status also got quite a few likes. Especially, Max's last one. But Max and I were lucky that we were finally going on our date. We had a pupil free day on Monday, which I had forgotten about when making date plans, so Sunday was a suitable night to go out. We kept our original plans. At 5:30, Bob and Max picked me up to go to the movies.
"Hey!" I greeted as I hopped in the back seat with my handsome guy.
"Hello, Sadie," Bob greeted. Max greeted with me a hug which made me go all warm and fuzzy on the inside.
"How are your parents taking the recent developments?" Bob asked from the front seat as he drove.
"They're not too happy," I replied, "Bloody Tim."
"I know, he's such an arse."
This shocked me. I thought Bob was a proper and kind man, but it turns out he can use the same adjectives as the rest of us when it comes to scum like the Grubb family.
"I can't believe we have to go to court," Max added.
"I know, ridiculous, isn't it? Technically you didn't commit a crime. I mean, sure there was violence and attacking, but come on! You're fifteen for God's sake!"
"Mum's not too happy about having to testify," I interjected, "Did you see Vince's face when Mum said that Lucas was a witness?"
"Priceless," Max agreed.
We arrived at the shopping centre where Bob dropped us off.
"What time does your movie start?" he asked.
"6:30," Max replied, "We'll get dinner first."
"Okay, call me when you're ready to be picked up, okay?"
We said goodbye to him and walked off to the food court.
"What do you want?"
I hated this. It happens all the time when I go out with my friends. We can never decide what to have to eat!
"I don't know," I replied. Max sighed very loudly.
"There's McDonalds, Hungry Jacks, KFC, Noodle Box, the Yum Cha place…" he started listing all the places I could see before I cut him off.
"I hate Asian food."
"Okay, that's good, now I know what food you don't like, for future reference."
"These places are a bit… I don't know, shabby, don't you think? I mean for a first date."
"I agree. There's the Coffee Club?"
"Okay."
We headed off in the direction of said café. When we got there we were seated and we ordered. We awkwardly sat in silence while waiting for our food to arrive.
"So..." Max tried to start a conversation, "Why aren't we talking? We usually have heaps to talk about."
"One topic, Max. One topic. We can't talk about that all the time."
"Don't be silly."
A sadness dawned on me at this point – we really had nothing much in common. Apart from the big obvious one. Almost as if on purpose, our food took forever to arrive, leaving us in an uncomfortable silence for about twenty minutes. I made excuses to go to the toilet.
I got up and went into the bathroom where I tried to compose my thoughts. Why? Why didn't we have anything to talk about? Usually we had a lot to talk about. But for some reason, tonight we didn't have anything at all to talk about, even with the recent developments, but we didn't feel like talking about that. I concluded that it's because I'm a loser and Max is brilliant. Those two types of people don't match. I decided to be brave and go back out there and tell Max my theory.
"Oh, Sadie, you're being ridiculous!" was his reaction, "I like you. You like me. Simple as that."
"Yeah, but is that enough? Just because we like each other, doesn't mean that we have a lot to talk about."
These words way have been voodoo or something for all I know because suddenly we had found a lot to talk about, and it wasn't the food or The Beatles either. This date was picking up.
We had finished our meal and were heading to the movies. The cinemas were outside, separate from the shopping centre, and it was getting dark outside. And what did we end up seeing? Breaking Dawn Part 1, that's what. Just as I had compared my life to the Twilight saga earlier when in jail. Max even bought my ticket, which was sweet, and we shared a popcorn. He held up the tickets and smiled at me.
"Now you've got a ticket to ride!"
I couldn't helpbut laugh.
"I don't even really like Twilight that much, but, well, this can be a cheesy first date," he suggested. I did not object.
We went into the movie theatre where we watched the film. At the wedding part, he did the 'stretch' and put his arm around me. But as soon as it was the honeymoon part, he awkwardly and slowly took his arm away and placed it in his lap.
When the movie was finished, we walked out, him with his arm around me.
"You're my Bella and I'm your Edward," he whispered randomly into my ear. Of course, I knew he was being sarcastic, mocking the corny romance of the characters of the film we had just seen. I laughed and he quickly joined in.
We were soon out of the movie theatre and walking outside in the darkness back to the shopping centre. Out of nowhere, the moonbeams from the full moon (which were unusually and extraordinarily bright) shone directly on us, blinding us for the duration of the flare. It was like the moon was attacking us! Max tried to pull me towards the door, but somehow we lost each other as my hand slipped out of his. The light was so bright, it was flooding us and I couldn't see! The beams then gave me incredible pain, nothing like I've felt before, and I was screaming before I blacked out…
I didn't remember where I was when I first woke up. It took me a second to realise that I was outside the shopping centre where Max and I had our date. I remembered having dinner and seeing the movie, but after that my memory was… blurry. I looked at my watch – 6:14am. WHAT? It was the next morning! Why was I still here? And where was Max? I groggily and light-headedly stood up, getting my bearings. I was outside, between the movie theatre and the shopping centre. My handbag was lying a few metres away, so I picked it up. I got my phone out, only to find TWENTY-SEVEN missed calls from Mum and Dad. What had happened the night before? That certainly was not a cliche first date like we had anticipated. I decided that my number one priority was to find Max…
A/N: Ah, a BIG twist! As always, review please! And feel free to ask more questions which I will gladly give answers/insights to at the start of each chapter, without giving too much away! Oh, and I updated quicker because I got my target 2 more reviews.
