-1 Royalty in Exile
Chapter 8
Stealing Hubcaps with Max
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I went to Brock's billiards and found Max sitting on the front steps. "Hey," I said, getting his attention. "Is your mother all right?" He looked at me. "She's in intensive care right now." I asked, "It wasn't you sneaking out the other night that caused it, right?" He looked at me with a puzzled look on his face. "No, of course not." he said. We started to walk down the sidewalk. "Hey, you know Coach Leeper, the gym teacher?" I asked. "Yeah." Max said. "Well, he offered me fifty dollars to beat up Drew, and I'm really thinking about doing it." I said he offered me fifty instead of five dollars to try and impress Max, or at least to get him to yell at me. He and Drew started getting along after May's death. But he just said "Yeah." and kept on walking. I started to think of how to get some money. I offered to take Paige to a Flaming Charizard concert tonight, but the tickets were twenty dollars apiece, and I didn't have that kind of money right now. But I was determined to take her to that concert, and nothing was going to stop me.
We were walking down near an apartment complex when I saw a late model car with some good looking hubcaps on it. All four hubcaps would get me eighty dollars. So I took out my switchblade and started to pry off the hubcaps. I got three off, and was working on the fourth one, when Max said, "What are you doing?!" "Shut up and take these," I said, giving him the first three hubcaps while I was working my ass off to get the fourth one off. Max dropped the hubcaps I handed him, and they made a clattering noise. "Would you be quiet?" I whispered harshly. "You know I don't steal things." he said. "You know that I do." I answered back. Just then, three guys came out of the apartment just as I got the fourth hubcap. Max picked his hubcaps up. "Hey, what the fuck is going on here!" one of the guys yelled. "Oh, shit run Max!" I yelled. We ran away with the three guys behind us. While we were running away, Max threw away the hubcaps. One of the guys stopped to pick them up. One hubcap wasn't going to do me any good, so I also threw mine away. The second guy stopped to pick it up. The third guy kept chasing us. "I'm going to kill you both!" "FUCK YOU!" I yelled back at him.
Max and I jumped over a back fence to get away. The other guy kept running the way he was. "ASSHOLE!" I yelled at him, laughing. Then we bumped into Officer Jenny. "What are you two doing here." she said. Max and I both replied with, "Nothing." and we kept on running. I knew that other guy was still behind us. We went to the roof of an apartment building and I jumped across to the next roof. I made it with ease. I then turned and saw Max with a terrified look on his face. "I can't make I'll fall!" he yelled. "Well you are going to wish you jumped off the building if that guy catches up with us!" I yelled back. Max took a few steps back and jumped. He managed to grab the edge, and he was in hysterics while I was pulling him up. When I pulled him up. I looked around. That other guy was no where to be found. "I guess we didn't need to do that, it doesn't look like he is going to come up here." Max looked at me, pissed off. "We didn't need to do that, huh? You know, sometimes you are so stupid!" "Max, just shut up." I said. "Just shut up!" Max said, mocking me. "Fuck you." I said. I then started to feel dizzy. "Andrew-James, are you all right?" Max asked. "No," I said. "Why did you throw away those hubcaps, I could have gotten twenty fuckin' dollars apiece for them, man." "You were stealing them." he said. "Yeah, well they probably stole them from somewhere else, man." I said. "I wanted to take Paige to a concert tonight, but now I can't because I don't have any money." "Don't worry, I'll get you money for the concert." said Max. I knew I could always rely on Max from that point on.
Author's notes: Another chapter! Also, be on the lookout for a new story from me later today!