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The next day I tripped and fell causing the plates I was holding to fall and break. As soon as the plates left my hands, I knew I was in for another beating and for that day. Normally Jeb would wait a couple of days for me to heal a little. That way he wouldn't break any bones. However, not this time not after I broke his plate.
So after dinner Jeb said that he wanted to talk to me privately. But he always said that before a beating. What I didn't know was that Fang followed us to Jeb's study, the place he usually beats me. As I walked in the study, Jeb raised his hand and slapped me. Then he punched me until I fell to the floor and then continued to kick me. When he moved on to my wings, Fang jumped out from his hiding spot startling us both.
He instantly started yelling at Jeb. No one but us could hear him because Jeb had the study soundproofed, that's the reason that no one ever heard me. Jeb even let Fang take me away. As Fang took me back to his room because he had a first aid Kit and mine was all used up, I explained that he wasn't allowed to tell anyone or we would go back to the School.
After he reluctantly agreed to stay quiet, I told him everything else. From how it started to the day before and I apologized for lying to him. Which he took with good graces and said that he understood. He also said that he would have done the same thing.
Fang's P.O.V.
I heard the plate drop and saw the look on Max's face, it was then that I decided to start following her. Every time something happened Max would sigh and have this look on her face like 'here we go again' then look like she was in pain the next day. So when that plate dropped I knew it would be like before. I wanted to know what was going on and since Max wouldn't tell me I knew I had to figure it out on my own.
I had stopped asking months ago because she would never tell me and just look annoyed or have a look on her face that would say ' just drop it please', so I would. Later Jeb asked to talk to Max in private. That only happened like once a week, so I also wanted to find out what they were talking about so often. So I followed them making sure that they couldn't see me and slipped in the door just before it closed.
I expected some boring chat on whats going to happen or planning on some secret trip or some kind of talking. But I was not prepared in the least to see Jeb raise his hand and slap Max. I was also not prepared to see Max just stand there and take it. But she did.Jeb punched her until she fell, then started to kick her. I didn't know what was happening so I didn't try to stop it.
But when Jeb started to rip out her feathers and Max start to yell out in pain. I knew I had to do something and fast. Max had been quiet the whole time until now. So I did the only thing I could think of I jumped out and tried to scare them. It seemed to work to because they both froze. I instantly started to yell at Jeb. I even made him promise to stop. But I don't know if he really will, so I decided to keep an eye on Max.
As we left I was pretty much carrying Max, while she was explaining things to me. As I bandaged her up, she explained everything that had happened the last like 11 months. She even apologized many times for lying but I told her that I understood and that I would have done the same. The next thing that Max said surprised me the most.
She said that she deserved it and that he was right to do what he had been doing and that as she put it it made her stronger. But I told her that it was abuse and that she didn't have to put up with it.
The next day Jeb cornered max and beat her worse than ever before, saying that if she told anyone then he would kill her. Max having no other choice agreed. The beatings continued until one day. One day Max just couldn't take it anymore. So she went to the bathroom where everything was. Max grabbed all the pill bottles that she could hold and making sure that no one would see her she ran to her room and slammed the door.
Fang's P.O.V.
Fang hearing the slam decides to go see what's bugging Max and to make sure that Jeb is keeping his word.
Max's P.O.V.
I dumped every pill from every bottle into my hand planning to die this way. At the time I was thinking how ironic that I should survive the School and escape but then die from a pill overdose. But just as I lift the pills to my mouth the door opens…
Fang's P.O.V.
As I open the door, I see Max on her bed with many empty pill bottles around her and her hand filled with many different pills, midway to her mouth. I lunge across the space between us before she could put the pills in her mouth, and grabbed her arm forcing her to drop them.
I just about screamed at her for what she was about to do. When she replied very calmly, "I'm sick of living like this and that I want it to stop but it never will. So I'm stopping for myself". I just stood there with shock written all over my face. Which might I add is very new for me. But it was mostly because she didn't yell back at me and that she was so eerily calm about the whole matter.
The next thing that she said was that there was no hope of saving her and that she was just too traumatized by the whole experience.
Max's P.O.V.
What Fang told me next changed everything and gave me hope to keep going. He said, "What if I helped you that way you don't have to go it alone. And maybe one day when we look back at this you'll realize that dying is never the answer and that I will always be here to help you no matter what."
And you know what he was right. Dying was not the answer and he was always there for me. Well except that one time when we went to Germany. But other than that, he has always been there for me and always will be. He has told me that everyday since the day I tried to kill myself. I never expected him to stay with me so long but he did even when I was broken, he was always there. And for that, I will love him forever.
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