Hey guys! Sorry this is REALLY late! Schools been hectic so this is the unedited verison.
"So did you join?" Tara asked
"Yes"
"Yay! I want to normal song writer Max back. I'm tired of this loner girl Max, no offense"
"Its fine, I found my two old best friends from elementary school and the guys in the band seem nice. Did you know Nudge was in the band?"
"Yes and this talkative Max I miss"
"Stop talking about the normal and supposedly un-normal Max"
"Sorry"
"It's fine, so why did you have to pick me up?"
"Because we have company coming over so Ella's going to dress you up"
"Who's the company?"
"It's a surprise" Tara winked at me and pulled into the garage
"Why do I have to dress up?"
"Because you do now do tell Ells you're home"
"Okay" I sighed and walked inside and to Ella's room "Hey I'm home"
"Yay!" Ella rushed out of her room and pushed me into my room. "Now what do you have to wear?"
"I have clothes"
"Stop being smart" I smirked at her and flopped on my bed "But seriously do you have any good dress clothes?"
"I don't know" I closed my eyes and thought about going to school on Monday and being more social then I have been so far this year.
"Well you have this black blouse and a good pair of black skinny jeans. Put them on." Ella handed them to me and I looked at the shirt.
"Ells this is see through…"
"Whoops, here's a black cami" She handed me the tank top and I walked into the bathroom
I walked out of the bathroom in a black blouse and black jeans.
"You look good" I turned my head and saw Fang standing by the open window
"Still coming in through the window I see"
"What no thanks for my compliment?"
"Nope" I sat on my bed and Ella started applying eye shadow
"What are you getting all dressed up for?"
"Tara's boyfriend is coming over and we get to meet him." Ella answered
"I didn't know that, why'd Tara tell you but not me?" I asked
"Because I'm special"
"Fang why are you here?"
"I was invited by your sister" he answered brushing a piece of lint off his shirt
"Which sister?"
"Me" Tara said poking her head in the doorway "and Ella did you open the door for him I didn't hear the door bell ring?"
"He came through the window" I said pointing at the window
"Ok then" Tara walked away at the sound of the door bell ring
"We should have told her he's special that way" I smirked at him and I could tell he was try hard not to smack me
"No we shouldn't have" Fang smiled evilly at me
"You sure? I mean I remember your hair being dark brown but not black did you dye it so you could be Mr. Goth boy or Mr. Emo?"
"I didn't dye my hair at all, and I don't go by those names call me Mr. Sexy"
"Sure you didn't Mr. Thinks He's Sexy"
"Max, Ella, Nick t-"
"Fang" Fang corrected Tara
"Max, Ella, and Fang dinners ready" When Ella and Tara and walked down the hall Fang turned to me
"Why does everyone say my name like that when I correct them?"
"Because Fang, your name is Nick not Fang" I smirked at him and walked out of the room
I heard footsteps behind me as I walked into the kitchen/dining room.
"Max, Fang, this is my boyfriend Sam" Tara said smiling at the guy standing next to her. He was tall and had blonde curly hair and he was somewhat tan, and he had brown eyes.
"Hi" Fang and I both said and sat down at the table
The rest of the night was filled with small talk and random things about ourselves, but around 10 Fang had to leave and when he left he actually left through the front door instead of my window but as he left I handed him a small note with my cell phone number on it.
"Well I better get going too, I don't want Max and Ella to have to skip school tomorrow" Sam said standing "Bye guys, talk to you tomorrow Tara" He kissed Tara on the cheek and left
"Night" I got up and walked to my room
Once in my room I took the lace blouse and tank top off and pulled on a baggy t-shirt.
I was pulling on a pair of sweat pants when I heard a knock. I looked at the window and didn't see anyone so I opened my bedroom door.
"Do you like him?" Tara asked
"Yeah he seems nice" I said
"Wait that's not the reason I came in here" she stated
"Then why'd you come in here?"
"Because, Mom gave you this" She handed me a heart shaped locket
"She did?" I took it and was looking over it
"Yes, and there's one thing that you'll get for Christmas from her. Also open the locket"
I did as she said and stared wide-eyed at the picture. It was the last picture I had taken for my mom; I was at the beach in Florida. The waves were big because the high-tide was coming in but I was still standing in the water smiling hugely at my mom in a green satin dress we had gotten for my senior pictures.
"I didn't know she had put this is a locket"
"Yeah she has one of me from my senior pictures and on of Elena in Florida"
"Are the lockets all the same?"
"No"
"Oh"
"Well go to sleep you have school tomorrow and I hear you get to sit with your new-ish friends"
"Yeah"
"Good night"
"Night" I shut the door behind me as I walked over to the dresser.
I laid the locket on the wood surface and turned around. I lay on my bed with my eye closed and thinking over memories of Mom.
I jumped at the sound of my phone suddenly go off. I looked at it and saw it was from a number I didn't recognize.
Hey it's me can I come in?
I looked at the window and saw him standing outside shivering slightly. I stood up and walked to the window and pulled it open.
"I thought you had to go home" I told him closing the window feeling a cold early December wind float through the open window.
"Yeah but when I got there it was a couple minutes past my curfew so they locked me out."
"Don't you have a key?"
"I forgot it" He sighed and sat down on my bed
"I'll be right back" I walked out of the room closing the door behind me and I opened the closet in front of my bedroom door.
I pulled out a box with an air mattress stuffed inside and I pulled a sleeping bag of the shelf. I turned around and bumped into Tara.
"What are you doing with that stuff?" She asked raising an eyebrow
"I want to sleep on the floor tonight I have a kink in my neck"
"Oh, ok" Tara walked down the hall and walked into her room and shut the door. I sighed in relief and opened my door.
I threw the sleeping bag at Fang and he caught it. I carried the box inside the room and shut the door. Pulling out the mattress I remembered I forgot the pump.
"Can you unfold this and lay it on the floor somewhere, I have to grabbed the air pump"
"Ok" I swung the door open and pulled the air pump out of the closet and walked back into my room.
I started plugging in the pump to that wall outlet and the mattress.
We got the mattress blown up and Fang had laid out his sleeping bag on it.
"Do you have a spare pillow?"
"Yeah" I threw him a pillow and he lay down in the sleeping bag and I got into my bed "Night"
"Night" I turned the lamp off and was engulfed in darkness
It was my 16th birthday and I had just walked into the living room of the house and I saw all my friends. Mom was hold a birthday cake with those big number candles sticking out of the cake lit. They started singing happy birthday to me and when they wished I blew out the candles.
Now I was at my aunt and uncle's house in Florida and my little cousin Angel was missing. Mom and I were looking around the beach when we heard a familiar scream. I looked out into the water and saw her being carried out deeper and deeper and she couldn't do anything about it. I jumped into the water Mom screaming at me not to but she knew I would be alright. I swam as fast as I could to her and right as I got to her she started going underwater. I dove under and grabbed her hand and pulled her to the surface. I swam back to shore and saw paramedics and police lining the shore line. I reached my mom and a paramedic took Angel from my arms and two of them started CPR. Mom was crying and so was I. I looked down at my soaking wet clothes and watched the paramedics carry her off to the hospital.
I was in a car, a familiar car.
"MOM! LOOK OUT!" Mom slammed on the brakes and I hit my head on the glass of the window next to me. I blacked out.
I gasped and shot up straight and gasping for air looked around the room.
"Max? You okay?" I looked over and Fang was standing next to my bed, I sighed and rested my elbow on my knee and set my forehead in my hand. "Max? Is there something wrong?"
"No sorry, just a bad dream"
"You want to talk about it?"
"I don't know"
"I don't know isn't an answer"
"Sure" I patted the spot next to me and I scooted over more. "First it was okay because it was my sixteenth birthday party, but then it changed to my cousin almost drowning then- then the car accident" My voice shook a little bit
"Oh," Fang put his arm around my shoulders "Do you want to talk about the accident?"
Without hesitation I started telling him about the wreck. "I was at a party my mom told me not to go to, but me being a stupid teen I snuck out with my friends and went to it anyway. There was drugs and alcohol the normal high party. The neighbors called the cops and when the cops arrived they booked all of us for drinking and doing drugs –I only drank I never did the drugs–. They took us to the police station and put us in a holding cell until our parents came and took us home. My mom came and I could tell she was pissed. The ride was silent until she started yelling halfway through the ride home" The flashback came as I keep telling Fang what happened.
Flashback (Max is still telling Fang this)
"How could you go to that party that I told you not to go to and drink!" Mom screamed, I stayed silent and she started yelling again "Answer me Maximum!"
"My boyfriend was going and I wanted to go with him" I staring at the road ahead of us
"BOYFRIEND?! Since when?"
"After Christmas break"
"Who?"
"Kole"
"Kole Lockwood?"
"Yes"
"How could you be dating someone?"
"See I like him and he likes m-"
"Max!"
"What? I was answering your question!"
"You're not allowed to see him anymore!"
"You can't tell me what to do!"
"Yes I can, you have to be 21 before I don't have a say in what you do or don't do"
"So what are you going to do when we get home, spank me? Send me to bed without dinner? Send me to my room? Ground me?"
"You're grounded for 2 months no friends, no phone, no computer, no TV."
I looked to my hands then back at the road, "MOM! LOOK OUT!" Mom slammed on the brakes, swerved but missed the car ahead of us. We crashed into the front of their car and Mom hit head on the steering wheel and her head bounced back into the seat and both our air bags went off. I hissed as I hit my head on the glass of the window next to me. I blacked out.
I opened my eyes but closed them instantly and slowly opened them. I took in the brightness and whiteness of the room. I smelled the scent of disinfectant and lemon smelling cleaning supplies.
"Max, you're awake!" Tara and Ella ran over to my bed. I looked over and saw Mom lying on the bed next to me. I reached for my head but Tara grabbed my hand "No, you're not allowed to touch the bandages on your head."
"Oh," I heard a fast beeping noise come from beside me and looked over at Mom, her chest wasn't moving. Five nurses and two doctors ran in and they started CPR.
After a minute of trying CPR they grabbed those electric paddle thingys" I took a breath remembering the scene clearly. "They shocked her but it didn't do anything so while the paddles were recharging they started CPR again. When the thing beeped to say the paddles were charged they shocked her again but she wasn't breathe still. Tara, Ella and I were in tears and two nurses were trying to calm us down and block our view. After awhile they gave up and told Tara to follow him.
"Tara told me later that I had been in a coma for two days and so had our mom. I ended up going home with a slight concussion –since the concussion I had was healing quickly, it went from a major concussion to a slight one in two days–, a broken arm and somehow I managed to get a broken nose." I smiled remembering the doctors face when he told me about the broken nose.
"Tara's birthday was really sad but I had managed to get out of the last week of school but the next week I had to take exams over. You probably know the rest. Summer was depressing. School year came and I turned into the loner girl with no friends, but actually that happened during summer." Tears started falling down my face and I remembered the locket. I got out of bed and Fang looked at me strangely. I grabbed the locket and put it on.
"What's that?" Fang asked
"A locket I got from my mom"
"Oh, well it looks p-nice"
"You were going to say pretty weren't you"
"Pfft, No" I raised an eyebrow at him and he sighed "ok maybe yes I was" I looked at the clock next to me
"Its 1:30, if you're going to get up an hour before my sister you're going to half to be up in 4 and a half hour"
"Actually it will be 4 hours"
"Why?"
"Because I go running in the morning and I need to drop my car off at my house unless you want to come with me then I can say I drove here and we ran from your house"
"We could do that"
"So you're going to go running with me?"
"Sure" I smirked and Fang got up off my bed and laid down on his.
You got to learn what happened to Max's mom! And a little Fax with Fang caring and ya…