Hey guys! So just to clear things up, I've been mixing up which grade Max is in in my writing, so I'm making her a junior, don't hate me for being a weird writer. I'm terribly forgetful with this stuff.

ANNOUNCEMENT: STILL CAN'T DO LINE BREAKS IN DOCS MANAGER HELP

Max was getting pretty tired of ignoring Nudge. The poor brunette emailed her everyday, and it was almost impossible to not see her at school; their lockers where next to each other after all.

This was such the case on Monday morning, the day Max and Nudge's project was due. Both girls planned to come to school early so they could review their paper together in the computer lab before printing and turning the paper in.

Max arrived at the computer lab and checked her phone. In order for her and Nudge to communicate about the project, Max unblocked Nudge's number.

Just as Max sat down in front of the computers, she received a text from Nudge.

Slept through my alarm, I'll be there in ten minutes.

Max sighed before signing into the computer and pulling up their paper in Word.

She was deep in thought when Nudge arrived, almost fifteen minutes later.

"Sorry I'm late," she said while pulling a chair next to Max's. "Belle refused to drive me here before she curled her hair."

Max ignored Nudge and set the keyboard in front of her. "We need to fix paragraph three…"

LINE BREAK YAY

Max fidgeted quietly in her seat.

She was currently in sixth period, science. Her teacher had collected everyone's papers at the beginning of class so they could be graded, giving them the rest of the period to fool around.

After what seemed like forever, the teacher began to give back the papers and call up students to give them feedback.

Iggy and Gazzy passed Max's desk on they way back to their seats. Max had seen their grade, and apparently they had gotten a "D-."

"My mom's going to kill me." Max heard Gazzy mumble.

Soon enough, Max and Nudge were called up.

The teacher looked at them before sighing. "I'm very disappointed in you girls. You're missing an entire part of your paper."

Max snatched the paper from her teacher's hands, flipping through the pages frantically before finding that they were, in fact, missing a chuck of the last page.

She glared at Nudge. "What did you do?"

Nudge bit her lip. "When you went to the bathroom I went back and tried to rewrite our last couple of paragraphs but you came back from the bathroom just as the bell rang so we just printed it and I forgot."

Max slammed the paper onto the teacher's desk. "Nudge, every time you do something you screw it up, and I thought 'Maybe she won't screw this one simple thing up.'" Max shook her head. "I was wrong."

Nudge's lip trembled as tears welled in her eyes. "Max, I'm so sorry-"

Max put up her hand. "I'm done."

With that, she walked out of the classroom, ignoring Nudge's crying and the teacher's yelling.

ANOTHER LINE BREAK BUT WAIT NO LINE WHAAAAT

Max was studying when someone knocked on her door. She looked up just as her mom walked into her room.

"Hey mom, what's for dinner?" she said, smiling.

Her mom smiled. "That's why I came in here actually. Nudge's family invited us over for dinner tonight. Ari's coming as well."

Max's smile faltered. She had decided not to tell her mom about her and Nudge's falling out, and she still felt it necessary to keep it from her.

"Sounds good mom. I can't wait."

Her mom beamed at her before leaving her room.

Just as Max refocused on her notes, her older brother Ari barged in.

Max tossed her hair back. "What do you want, Ari?"

Ari rolled his eyes, "Already annoyed by me, little sister? I've only been home from college two days."

"What do you want?" Max asked, repeating her earlier question.

"I wanted to talk to you about dinner at Nudge's tonight." Ari said, fidgeting with his hands.

Max ignored his actions, something she had been doing a lot of lately. "Stop beating around the bush, I have a test tomorrow I have to study for."

Ari stopped with his hands and looked Max straight in the eye. "Belle and I have been seeing each other for the past couple of months and we are going to tell everyone tonight."

Ari's confession was met with an explosion of silence before Max replied.

"Come again?"

GETTING FED UP WITH NO LINE BREAKS

Max sighed as she knocked on the door of Nudge's house, grateful it hadn't burst open the moment she raised her hand to knock.

She heard footsteps from inside approach the door before it was opened by Nudge.

"Come in, come in." she said, ushering everyone inside.

Once Max was inside, she was met with the familiar scene of Nudge's mom, Harriet, and Nudge's dad, Kenji, cooking in the kitchen while Belle set the table.

Max's mom entered the kitchen and hugged Harriet. "Harriet, it's been so long."

"Too long if you ask me, Val."

After everyone was hugged, Nudge and Max hurried up to Nudge's room to avoid having to socialize with the adults.

Once they were in the room, Nudge turned to Max, her eyes glistening with unshed tears. "Max, I'm so sorry. About the paper, about the text, everything."

Max sniffled. "No, I'm sorry Nudge. I'm sorry about blowing up about the paper, it was an honest mistake. And I forgive you about the text. I forgave you a long time ago, I was just so mad. But it's just a text. I'm over it."

Both girls hugged each other, their tears wetting each other's shirts.

Once they pulled away from each other, Max gasped. "Oh my goodness, I have to tell you about something Ari told me-"

Max was cut off by Harriet shouting to the girls from downstairs. "Dinner's ready!"

Please help. Rae can not figure out how ti insert those line things. SOS.

What will happen at dinner? Is Max and Nudge's friendship finally mended, or will future conflicts hurt them even more? What's going on with Belle and Ari? Find out in chapter 5!

Love you my stars!

-cw