Chapter 45: Humiliation
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The sound of the front door slamming and glass breaking sent everyone from all side of the mansion to the entryway. Max shoved through the crowd of frightened faces and stomped up the stairs, leaving them to stare at the mutilated front door. He yanked open the door to his and Ryan's room and threw his hat over to his bed. Ryan did not even glace up from his book.
"Bad night?" He asked.
"You have absolutely no idea." Max said.
Ryan put the book down and sat up. "Spill."
"I met this girl, and we went to a hotel and she…she." Max could not finish. He drove his fist through the wall and every light, every computer, every TV set in the mansion blinked off.
"What the heck is going on?" Anthony said walking into their room.
"Max had a bad night," Ryan said.
"Well, tell him not to PMS on our house," Andie said joining them. "He just shut off Cerebro."
The sound of Max's fist hitting the wall echoed through the house and the lights came on again. "Somebody better stop me because I'm gonna kill Andie," he shouted.
Andie put up a hand and Max fell backwards onto his rear end. He let out a howl.
"Wow Andie how'd you do that?" Ryan asked.
"New revelation. Max has water in his body, therefore, I can make him do whatever I want."
"Well that's fantastic for you miss Daugherty, but I'm-"
"Still PMSing, we know."
"Anthony, look what you've done to her," Ryan said.
"What, me?" Anthony asked.
"That's right I did get it from you," Andie said pointing up at him.
Max hit the floor with the palm of his hand and all the lights went out again.
"Max!"
"Everyone shut up," Max said. "I would like to whine for a little while. When Andie and Hope whine because they are PMSing everyone listens to them, but when I whine because some psycho girl uses belts to tie me to a hotel bed, and I have to wait for Olga the Swedish hotel maid to come rescue me, nobody shuts up."
For a moment no one said a word. The only sound came from the wind brushing the branches against the window. Finally, Max hit the floor again and the lights came back on. His eyes moved from person to person, and then he yelled, "Don't just stare at me say something!"
Anthony exploded into laughter. "She tied you to a bed dude, that sucks," he said.
"Someone finally lassoed the cowboy," Andie joined in.
"It's not funny," Max said. "It's embarrassing."
"Actually," Ryan said. "It is pretty funny."
Max raised his eyebrows at Ryan.
"What?" He asked. "If Anthony came in and told you come girl had done that to him-"
"Not that one could," Anthony said.
"Hypothetically speaking," Ryan said. "But if Anthony came in and told you what you just told us you'd be on the floor laughing too."
Max sighed and stood up. He walked over to his bed and sunk down into it, picking up his hat and dropping it on one of the bedposts. Ryan swung his feet over the other side of his bed and rested his elbows on his knees.
"You're pretty embarrassed aren't ya dude?"
Max grinned. "Guess my pride's like, mutilated," he said.
"You didn't know her did you?" Ryan asked.
The skin on Max's ears turned bright red and her shoved his black hair out of his eyes. "She's one of Tabitha's friends, a new recruit for the Brotherhood. Chances are, she attends our school."
Ryan tried to hide his laugh but failed. "That sucks."
"Oh no, it sucks for her," Max said. "She's just throwing gasoline on a flame. I'm gonna get her somehow."
"You'd better check out what her power is first Max," Ryan said. "You don't want to get more hurt than you already are."
Max threw his physics book at him and fell back onto his bed. "Probably should have asked that before I met her."
"Just don't do anything you'll regret," Ryan said.
Too late, Max thought.