Max's POV:
Sam lead me down the hall with a friendly conversation about what happened back when I had my memories and how we met before at the gym when he was getting my uniform. I believed him because the stuff that he was saying seemed familiar as in like if you saw a house with a chicken on top and someone comes up and asks if you seen a chicken on a roof you would know what they're talking about and that's what I felt when he said that.
We had already gone to gym and the coach decided to let us pick our teams, boy or girl. Sam was on my team and that's all I know. No one I knew was on my team that I knew so I stuck close to Sam and he stuck close to me. He caught the balls that were going at me that I didn't know about and I did the same. We took turns throwing the balls at people's head and we would always laugh and high five and I didn't even see or sense the stares of everyone else.
Now Sam was leading me to the Choir room, which was down the hall of the gym and a right and the third door on the left. It sounded easy enough but I wasn't sure if I could if I was by myself. We had stayed after a bit at gym or just until everyone else was out before we went out. Now we were walking down the hall by ourselves but we did nothing other then stand somewhat close to each other that we could touch but we never did. We were only friends. At least that's what I thought it we were.
"Hey, Sam?" I asked suddenly feeling a need to ask it. Sam turned his head towards me with question in his green eyes. "Why did you confront me on my way to fifth period?"
He chuckled a bit and looked ahead again while I still looked at him with confusion. "I saw how you looked so confused when you tried not to show it on your face but it showed in your eyes. You see, no matter how much you try to hide your emotions they're still there. I also felt that you were probably feeling what I felt and I just couldn't leave a damsel in distress like that." He said and then put a fist to his heart and stopped and stood up straight like he was going to say the pledge but instead he said, "Because I am a man." In the biggest and stupidest macho voice he could muster up and I laughed at him and he smiled and joined me.
We came up to the door of the choir and we quieted down and took a peek inside. The teacher was up in the front of the room saying something to the class and we kneeled down at the foot of the door in that secret ninja style that you wish you could pull off. I looked at Sam and he held up his hand in a gun form and I stifled a laugh and did the same.
"So what's the plan?" I whispered quietly to him and stood up and took a peek inside to check that the teacher was still there looking out at the class. I then kneeled down so I wasn't in the sight of the teacher or anyone else in there. Sam kneeled next to me and thought for a bit.
"How about we wait until he turns around and since there's a row of instruments and student chairs he'll never know we'll be there." He said after a moment.
"Yeah but what about the students. We don't want them witnessing us breaking in." I said with logic on my side. Sam nodded and thought for a moment and then grinned.
"There are two doors leading to this room. One is in the back and one is in the front. And since there are two of us one could distract them at the back door and I could come in through the front door unnoticed. Then we could distract them again and then I could take a seat at the back row. Then once I'm in you could maybe make a noise and then I'll say it was at the front door when you come in through the back door and then you go to the back row and drop down to the floor and when he doesn't look you can then sit next to me. It'll make sense once you see it. How about that?" He said with his eyes filled with excitement and I equaled that with my own and nodded. "Okay do you have a watch?"
"No."
"Okay then count down to sixty and at one make some sort of loud noise for tens seconds which should give me enough to get in to the instruments. Then wait twenty seconds and do it again but in a different place like near the front door. Then I'll wait thirty seconds and pretend to get up to sharpen a pencil and trip over chairs making a lot of noise and cause attention and then you'll slip in a take a seat at the back row quickly and then you'll come help me up along with some others and then boom. Perfect plan." He said with a smile and held up his gun formed hand and tapped it with mine. "To the MAM!" He whispered yelled and I looked at him like he was crazy. "What?" He said innocently and I laughed at him, softly of course but I couldn't help it.
"Mam?" I asked through laughter. He crossed his arms and glared at me.
"It's the combination of Sam and Max. M for Max and AM for Sam." He explained but I still thought it was bad and I expressed it through laughter. I don't even remember the last time I laughed this much. This person was changing me and for some reason I was glad. "Fine. How about SAX?" I thought for a moment before shaking my head.
"It sounds too much like the actual saxophone." I said and thought about what our name could be for us since that's obvious what we were doing. "How about Ying and Yang? You could be Yang and I could be Ying." I said and waited for his opinion.
"Yeah, but it sounds too much like we're Chinese and I don't know about you but I'm no where near Chinese." I nodded agreeing to his words. We thought more and I then came up with an idea. "How about The BadAss Twins? Or the Hell-Raisers?" I suggested with a hint of for coming up with it and I saw Sam look jealous.
"I'll go with Hell-Raisers since that sounds way cooler then The BadAss Twins." He said and moved his hand to his mouth trying to stifle his laughter but couldn't help the smile.
"Shut up, I was just thinking out loud." I said trying to hide my own laughter as well. I pushed him and he laughed out loud and I laughed with him and we forgot all about the people on the other side of the door and event though we forgot about them long before but we forgot about the security camera's too. We just laughed and smiled and laughed so much until tears were running down our eyes and we had to lean against each other for support.
We didn't even hear the door open until someone yelled, "MAXIMUM RIDE AND SAM LERNER, GET INSIDE RIGHT NOW." A loud and commanding voice said and we looked up calmly with smiles on our faces for somewhere deep down I knew he was joking and it was jut for show in case anyone was watching.
I nodded slowly along with Sam and we still couldn't stand up because of all the laughter and we still did a couple a snickers and chuckles when we looked at each other to remind us of what happened. Everyone turned to stare at us on our knees with our faces red with laughter and leaning against each other for support. I looked at Sam the same time he looked at me and we only lasted two seconds before bursting out into laughter and falling on the floor holding our sides and I heard the door, in the distance, close.
"Car to explain yourselves?" The teacher said. I looked up and tried to get to my knees. And I tilted my head up to look at him.
"Well, you see Danny-" I started but Sam but my off with a whisper to my ear.
"His name's Tommy." I looked at Sam with a look of confusion.
"Really? I thought it was Danny." I mused and a couple of students laughed and the teacher's face- Tommy- went a little red with embarrassment. "Well, anyway, you see TOMMY-" I emphasize the word Tommy just to please Sam and I saw him smirk. "We were on our way from Gym when this Hell-Raiser came up to me and said the national anthem of 'I'm a man' and the code of never leaving a damsel in distress untreated and how he thought our names were about Saxophones. Me and Sam were laughing at your door at the irony of it and how the Hell-Raiser thought we were BadAss Twins." I said and put a elbow on Sam's shoulder and leaned against him and he looked down to try and hide the smile on his face because only he knew that I was telling the somewhat truth.
The students in the classroom laughed and one girl with bright red hair seemed to have that "wow, she's so stupid" look on her face and I knew instantly that I didn't like her.
Tommy looked at me and I thought he was going to give me detention but he shocked me by just laughing and telling us to go sit in our seats. We nodded and we half walked and half stumbled through the isles before sitting down side by side at the back row leaning against each other from exhaustion.
I then saw the people I knew, Ella, Sam, Iggy, Nudge, Fang, and someone I somewhat recognized. Long brown hair and hazel eyes and white skin. The word J.J. went in my min but I dismissed the thought completely. There's no way I could remember someone's name just by looking at him or her. It's just no possibly way someone could do that after ALL of his or her memory was erased. Well, if all of my memory was erased then I'm sure I wouldn't even know what a chair is if I didn't look at word cards.
Sam saw the look on my face and he leaned in to whisper in my ear, "You remember J.J. didn't you?" I blushed and looked away with an innocent look on my face.
"How did you know?" I asked looking down at my lap. He laughed.
"I know everything there is about amnesia from why you got it and how the heck you remember stuff. You see, every time you remember something you feel something different each time and so your looks are different each time. You saw J.J. and I remember how you guys were kind of friends." He pointed at the red haired girl who had that look I didn't like. "Who do you think that is?"
The blush gone I scoffed and crossed my arms. "She's Ms. Prissy Bitch the Second right after Ms. Prissy Bitch the First." I said nodding at the other red haired girl next to her in a blunt tone and he smiled and muffled laughter.
"Students." Tommy called for our attention. Sam and I stopped talking to listen to what Tommy wanted. Everyone else did so and when we were all looking at him he began again. "Today is independent study so feel free to do what you like as long as it's not loud and can be explained with a reasonable excuse." With that he plugged in his iPod and when he put in one ear bud he said, "And the reason why I'm wearing ear buds is to hear the news report so that I know what's going on in the world because I want to be safe, got it?" We nodded and he put in his last ear bud and all the students got up to go to their instruments or in a corner to talk about something or what not.
"You know," I said thinking out loud. "I think I'll like this teacher." I stood up and didn't wait for Sam to follow me as I went to the guitars. This is what I wanted from the start to see if I remember how to play the guitar. Or at least see what made it what it is if that makes sense to anyone but me.
But sadly I wasn't able to reach the guitars with Sam a few feet behind me because the Ms. Prissy Bitch the Second came in front of me with an angry look on her face.
I looked at her for a bit, a little annoyed. All I wanted was to get to the guitars and see if I could play them but this person just happened to be in my way. And being the nice person that I am I decided to be polite…ish.
"Excuse me but you're in my way." I said in a nice and innocent voice. "I need to get to the guitars, so can you move out of the way?" I smiled at her hoping she would just get lost so I won't have to hear her again. She just blinked at me and I took that time to side step her and around her to the guitars leaving her and her friend starring after me dumbfounded and I don't know why. That's when I noticed Sam was doing the same thing except more in shock for using that type voice. I don't blame him because it's too girly for my taste.
"Hey, Sam, are you coming or not?" I called out to him in a joking manner and I saw some of the people I know, Fang, Nudge, and Matt, look over at me and saw who I was looking- no smiling- at and saw Sam looking at me with a grin. I gestured with my hand to come and he did and I took his hand and dragged him towards the guitars without bothering to look at the bitches as they gaped at us as we walked by.
I was just looking at the guitars with excitement on my face.
"Why do you want to play the guitar so badly?" Sam asked and then an idea came across his mind. "Did you used to play- wait never mind. I remember. You played that song you made up. I think it was called Take Me Away or something. It was really good. So I'm guessing you want to see if you can still play it?"
I nodded at him. "You know, it looks like you can see right through me." I joked and grabbed a guitar playing with the strings even though as I looked at it nothing was coming in my mind. I don't remember anything. I just know that I'm pressing a string down and strumming it. Nothing else. I don't know what string I'm play, what cord- if I'm even playing one- or anything. I don't know what strings to hold down or what to strum. I don't know a damn thing about this guitar.
"I'm also guessing by the look on your face that you have no clue what you're doing." He said with a laugh. I glared at him with my lips in a tight line.
"So? I just forgot that's all. I'll be able to play it in no time. Just you watch." I said at him and took off the guitar and put it back on its stand.
"Yeah, yeah. I'll take you up on that deal. If you can learn how to play guitar in two weeks I'll give you thirty dollars, but if you lose you have to come with me downtown to buy your own guitar." He said with an innocent look on his face where he actually did want me to get my own guitar.
I smiled at him. "Can we get a guitar anyway?" I asked. He grinned at me while heading towards the chairs.
"Of course." He said sitting down at a nearby chair. "That is if you want too."
"I want to." I replied easily.
"Then it's settled. In two weeks we're going to go get you a guitar no matter if you win or lose the bet."
And I really didn't have a problem with that.
With guitar or him.
A/N: I am SO SORRY! I know I haven't updated in a while and I give you something that's totally not even worth reading. I am so sorry! It was like I couldn't write and then when I could my beta reader couldn't read it because of "homework" and other nonsense. Either way it is both my sister and I's fault that this chapter came in way late. I'll try updating regularly without any complaint, so be prepared because I'm going to try making the next chapter way better then this one. It's a bit longer then usual so I hope it's okay for now. Again I'm sorry and I'll try updating faster with better chapters.
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