Chapter: Mc What?
Fang's POV
Have you ever craved something so much that you will tackle someone to get it? Have you ever wanted to faint with joy when you got it? Have you ever felt like you were going to burst with anger if you didn't get it right there and then? Well, that's Gazzy at this moment. He's been begging for a kids meal from McDonald's for over 4 hours. Max was upstairs reading or something, not sure. Wait, perfect excuse to get away from this brat. I got off the couch and started my way to Max's room. I finally got to the top step and felt like I was going to fall all the way back down again. I could hear music blasting on high, it was Thee Days Grace.
I opened the door a crack only to find Max banging on the drums matching the song. It must have been on restart when the same song started over again. I recognized it was Someone Who Cares. Max mouthed the lyrics as he sang them.
Every street in this city is the same to me,
Everyone's got a place to be.
But there's no room for me,
Am I to blame?
When the guilt and the same hang over me,
Like a dark cloud that chases you down in the pouring rain.
I felt her connecting with the song and couldn't help but feel sorry, she felt like there was no place for her in the world.
It's so hard to find someone who cares about you,
But it's easy enough to find someone
Who looks down on you.
Why is it so hard to find someone who cares about you?
When it's easy enough to find someone who looks down on you.
It's not what it seems, When you're not on the scene,
There's a chill in the air.
But there's people like me,
That nobody sees so nobody cares.
Why is it so hard to find someone who cares about you?
When it's easy enough to find someone who looks down on you.
Why is it so hard to find someone who can keep it together
When you've come undone?
Why is it so hard to find someone who cares about?
It broke here for a guitar solo, I sat with my back against the wall listening to the song I've heard hundreds of times but never thought about the lyrics.
I swear this time it won't turn out the same
'cause now I've got myself to blame.
And you'll know where you end up
On the streets that is easy enough to find someone who
Looks down on you.
Why is it so hard to find someone who cares about you?
When it's easy enough to find someone who looks down on you.
Why is it so hard to find someone who can keep it together
When you've come undone?
Why is it so hard to find someone who cares about you? The song slowly ended while Max sat at the drums, unmoving. I opened the door slowly and sat down on her bed. I could see her eyes flicker to me but retreat back down to the drums.
"I didn't know you played the drums." I said, in all honestly I really didn't know what to say. Max nodded and continued to stare at the drums. We sat in comfortable silence until a scratchy sore voice asked,
"You play?" She barely whispered it but I could hear it perfectly. I felt my eyes widen the tiniest bit but quickly recovered. I shook my head.
"Are you only speaking to me?" Se thought for a second before nodding her head. I smiled, that rare smile that seems to happening more every day. She smiled back and tapped the drum stick on one of the drums. She began to play some random set of beats, her chocolate brown eyes darting from drum to drum making sure to hit the right ones in the right place. I just noticed the bags under her eyes, now that I notice that she looks purely exhausted.
"Max, you look tired." I stated the obvious but I wanted to know why she wasn't sleeping. She stopped drumming and turned to look at me. She picked up a pile of papers on her desk and gave me them. I look through them, they were reports, math, English, and history homework from the beginning of the year to papers due next week. Max's name was on every paper.
"You did all this last night?" I asked stunned. She nodded slowly, as if saying "Yeah…? What's the problem?"
"You didn't need to do all of it, besides by the looks of it you got almost every one correct." I was staring at a perfect math paper of advance algebra, like college advance. She hesitantly shrugged and looked at the back of a CD album. I watched as she put the CD in the player and hit the play button. Max mouthed the words as they flowed out of the speakers.
She never slows down.
She doesn't know why but she knows that when she's all alone
Feels like it's all coming down
She won't turn around
The shadows are long and she fears if she cries that first tear,
The tears will not stop raining down.
So stand in the rain.
Stand your ground.
Stand up when it's all crashing down.
You stand through the pain,
You won't drown.
And one day what's lost can be found,
You stand in the rain.
The song took on a solo as Max slowly sat down next to me on the bed. Her eyes were closed as she listened to the song, I slowly pulled her into a hug, she didn't pull away.
She won't make a sound
Alone in this fight by herself
And the fears whispering if she stands she'll fall down.
She wants to be found.
The only way out if through everything she's running from.
Wants to give up and lie down.
So stand in the rain.
Stand your ground.
Stand up when it's all crashing down.
You stand through the pain,
You won't drown.
And one day what's lost can be found,
You stand in the rain.
Another solo. I looked down at Max who looked asleep until the words came again. Her mouth formed them perfectly.
So stand in the rain.
Stand your ground.
Stand up when it's all crashing down.
You stand through the pain,
You won't drown.
And one day what's lost can be found,
You stand in the rain.
So stand in the rain.
Stand your ground.
Stand up when it's all crashing down.
You stand through the pain,
You won't drown.
And one day what's lost can be found,
You stand in the rain.
(A/N: Super Chick, Stand in the rain.)
She slowly opened her eyes as the song stopped, she looked up at me curiously. I suddenly felt like there were magnets pulling us together, my eyes suddenly heavy as I watch Max's eyes close. We slowly inched toward each other, I could feel her warm breath on my face and the shadow of her lips on mine.
"MAX! FANG! We're ge- whoa! What's going on here?" Iggy barged through Max's door and we jumped apart. Max's face became bright pink as she blushed. I could feel my face heat up the tiniest bit as well. Iggy stood there facing us by the sound of our breathing, his face held amusement and smugness.
"So what happened?" He asked, I punched his arm and quickly thought of something to change the subject with.
"We're getting what?" I asked in fake curiosity. Iggy totally forgot what was about to happen to his new step sister in her room.
"We're going to McDonalds! A family night out! Of course you and Nudge are invited. We're going to the one with a play ground inside the building!" Iggy jumped up and down happily. Max's face just looked beyond confused.
"McDonalds, the best burger store across America! Awesome free toys in every kids meal!" Max's face became more confused with every sentence, but Iggy didn't notice as he rambled on about how awesome McDonalds was.
"You've never heard of MCD?" I asked curiously and stunned. Max shook her head no.
"Quick! To Fang's car because my mom's van will not fit everybody!" Iggy ran down the many stairs without tripping, hard to remember this kids blind. I looked at Max and caught her staring at me, she blushed and followed me down the stairs.
XxXxX
We walked to my garage which held 6 or 7 different cars, 2 were mine the rest was my moms and dads. I looked over at my black motorcycle which had red flames. I turned to my black and red Bugatti Car. I just got my license a few weeks ago but had special training and crap before I started car school. Yes, my dad paid for a private tutor to teach me car stuff, I now know how to take apart and put back together a engine. I slid into the drivers seat as Max opened the door for shot gun but Iggy quickly slipped in.
"Hey, hey Max gets shotgun." Iggy looked truly upset.
"But I'm your bestest best friend." He pouted sadly.
"First Max called it and second bestest isn't a word." Iggy slipped into the back while a very smug Max slid into the front. We drove to McDonalds quietly, Iggy singing along to the radio and me and Max staring at the road in front of us.
I slid into the MCD parking lot and parked next to Ig's mom's car. We got out and entered MCD. Angel came running toward us and hugged Max around the knees. She patted her head affectingly, and sat down next to me and Iggy with Angel on her lap. Since she had never heard of MCD we ordered for her. We got her a double cheese burger with everything on it, a large fry and a large root beer (her favorite drink).
She took her first bit and her eyes went huge. She began to attack the poor burger till it was gone. She licked her lips and smiled for what I believed the first time.
I'm so so so so so so sorry for not updating in a while, I've been busy and didn't know how to proceed but I gots an idea and im going with it. REVIEW~!