Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story or own any rites to the game Life Is Strange. This is my own multi shot take on what could have happened in Chapter 3 at the end instead. Enjoy!

"Alright, so what am I missing then?" Dana asked politely.

I sighed and ran my hands down my face. " That whole mess was just the beginning, Dana. Later that day, do you remember I stopped by to pick up Warren's flash drive?"

"Yeah, you also helped prove to Juliet that I didn't sleep with Zachary and that it was a cruel prank by Victoria." She nodded.

"Well I met Warren in the schools parking lot and returned the flash drive. We started talking and Nathan showed up to give me hell since I 'Narked' on him to the principal for having a gun. Warren tried to stop him from getting to be and Nathan head butted him to the ground, then he grabbed me by the throat and started threatening me. I clawed at his face, so if you saw the scratch marks those were me, and he let me go. There was this beat up truck that stopped right behind me when he let go and when I got up it was the same blue haired girl, and on top of that it was my old best friend Chloe Price, who I hadn't seen in five years. Needless to say she and Warren totally saved my ass. Chloe drove away with me in the truck and Warren took a beat down from Warren so we could get away."

"Wow, that's intense Max. Though that would explain Warren's black eye." Dana said thoughtfully.

"Yeah. So it was totally trippy seeing Chloe again after so long, and it turns out she's been the one posting the Rachel Amber missing posters all over campus. They were best friends, Rachel kinda took over from when I left I suppose. I'm glad someone was there for her when everything was falling apart anyway. So naturally she digs into me for being here a month and not calling, texting, or visiting her since I've been back. To be honest I wanted too, but I was nervous and afraid she's be pissed at me, kinda like she was. She drove me back to her place, and aside from some things it's like no time had passed at all. I think her room, was the biggest change though, it was so different. I used her step dads tools to try and fix my camera since it busted when Nathan pushed me to the ground, but it was beyond repair. When she spotted the picture I took of the Butterfly she realized I totally saved her life and gave me her dad's old camera, she said it would be better with me since I would actually use it." I scooted back on Dana's bed and leaned against the wall as I talked. Dana was listening attentively to everything I said now that she knew my secret, or at least one of them.

About a half an hour later...

Then she dropped me off here and wouldn't even look at me or talk to me. It hurt like hell, and I felt like shit and at the same time so angry because she was acting like a petulant child since she didn't get her way and I wasn't fully siding with her. I feel so confused and It's driving me insane. I still think of her as my best friend, even if she doesn't see me as such anymore, but I'm also starting to feel something more for her as well. I just don't know what to do, I don't think I really stand a chance since all she can think about is Rachel Amber every moment of every day. Even when we were chilling in the pool just the two of us, she still brought her up, it should have just been a chill time between two friends no added baggage, but there she goes again bringing her up. Sometimes I think she wishes I was Rachel, I wonder if she even missed me at all. I mean...I just feel like I'm being used to find Rachel and then despite her saying she would always be her for me, she's going to leave with her and leave me alone." I let out a weak sob as my tears that I had kept bottled from the beginning of the week till now finally came spilling over and I cried. I heard rather than saw Dana move since my face was in my hands, then I felt the bed dip as I was pulled into a hug.

"Hey now, shhhh. It's alright, let it out. It's okay to be confused, and from what you've told me you're in pretty deep. I think you might of had feelings for her even before you moved, you were just too young yet to realize it, and with coming back and seeing her again it brought all the old feelings to the surface and since you can understand them now it's coming as a bit of a shock. It's not cool though that she almost seems to be using you either to have fun, or lead you on. That's not something a friend should do. She doesn't seem to be taking your feelings into account, especially with what she said about Kate. As if her problems are more important or worse than Kate's or anyone else's." Dana said while she rubbed circles in my back to calm me down. As she was holding me I heard the door open and I looked up to see Juliet looking surprised to see me crying. She came in and shut the door and went and sat on the couch.

"Hey, Max. What's wrong, why are you crying?" Juliet genuinely was concerned, then again she was a good person, if not highly gullible at times and easily manipulated by the worst people.

"She just needed a friend to talk to, Juliet. It's been a rough week, and she's hit her breaking point, she needed a girl-friend to talk too. We both know what that's like." Dana offered as an answer to Juliet's inquiry.

"Ah, yeah I remember. I felt like total shit after finding out about Zachary and Victoria, you and Max were both there for me with that." Juliet said looking at Dana before turning to me. "It's a good thing you went to Dana. She's a great listener and always gives awesome advice, it just helps if you listen to the advice, and listen to her not rumors made by the Queen Beeatch of Blackwell Academy."

I nodded back as a response since I wasn't quite done crying yet and I don't think my vocal cords wanted to work just yet either. Dana and Juliet agreed to meet up again later to talk, it seems Juliet had another scoop she wanted to write up, but wanted Dana's thoughts on it first. I can admit that although she can be a bit dense, I'm not sure Dana's crush was as one sided as she feared. Once Juliet left, and I stopped crying, Dana let me go and handed me a box of tissues for my nose.

"Thanks, Dana." I said after blowing my nose a couple of times and throwing the tissues away in the waste basket.

"No problem, Max." Dana said after putting the box of tissues down on the shelf beside her bed.

I got up and stretched then gave Dana a hug. "I think I'm wiped out now. I'm gunna head back to my room now and crash, thanks again for listening."

"It was my pleasure. I'm always here if you ever want to talk, remember that. Alright?"

I nodded. "I will." I said before I walked over to the door, opened it and walked through closing it behind me as I went.

I walked back up the hall and to my room, stopping just enough to open my door before I walked in and closed it. I went over to my closet and stripped out of Rachel's clothes and slipped into some of mine. It felt wrong wearing Rachel's clothes, besides it just wasn't my style. I folded up Rachel's clothes and grabbed a bag from my closet and put them in it. At least now I could return them to Chloe without issues, whenever she began talking to me again. I shook my head and placed the bag on the couch before I went over and made sure Lisa was watered and that Kate's bunny was fed. Then I went and crawled into my bed and tried to get some sleep I needed it after having that meltdown earlier.

Chloe's Pov

Driving away from Blackwell Academy after dropping Max off I felt like shit. I was upset that Rachel lied to me and didn't tell me she was with Frank, I was frustrated and felt betrayed because it seems like everyone in some way or another has taken a massive shit on my life. Dad died, Max left, then Rachel disappeared, and Mom remarried David Dickhead, I just feel like everything in my life is falling apart and I can't do shit about it. As I drove I pondered on what Max said before I dropped her off without saying anything.

As I drove and pulled into the drive of the house, I was still thinking. I turned off the truck and got out then went into the house, David wouldn't be home tonight since mom kicked him out until things were cleared up, and I knew mom was working the night shift. I went over to the bookshelf in the living room and pulled out the photo album mom had shown Max earlier that day and went up to my room to look through the photos. When I got to my room I tossed the album onto my bed, then I shrugged off my jacket and slung it over the back of my desk chair. I went and sat down on my bed and pulled the album to me, flipping to the first page and going back I let my walls come down for the first time since dad died.

I looked at the different photos of Rachel and I, the moments when mom and I got along even though she was with David, even the picture of when I was arguing with David over my birthday cake. I kind of actually felt like shit for that, I was taking my anger out on David that day I didn't want another "father" in my life, so I acted like a brat. I sighed and took my beanie off before running my hand through my hair. As I continued to look at the photos the further back I went the more I saw pictures of me when I was happier, back when dad was alive and Max and I were younger, when we were close. I winced as I remembered the conversation Max and I had that day on the railroad tracks,

"My powers might not last, Chloe." Max said.

"That's okay. We will...Forever." I said in return.

and at the pool.

"Don't give me that look. You don't have to worry, I'm never leaving you."

Gods I felt like such an ass. Max has done nothing but be my friend since we reconnected and has been doing everything in her power to help me find Rachel, but all I've been doing is being an asshole to her and making her feel like shit. I should have said something when I dropped her off, anything, she probably feels like I hate her now. Looking back on it, even though I'm worried for Rachel I loved being with Max again. However, I don't think Max knows that, after all how would she since whenever I got the chance I brought up Rachel and didn't even clarify that it was because I thought they would make great friends and honestly wished they could meet each other.

"Shit." I said as I flopped back on my bed and stared at the ceiling in dismay. I royally fucked up big time.

I didn't even think about how this could be affecting Max, I mean she saved me from getting shot by Nathan, shooting myself in the junk yard; thankfully she told me about that one which really tripped me out, She defended me from Frank, then she saved me again on the Railroad tracks, and on top of everything else she had to save Kate from attempting to kill herself and since her powers failed it could have gone either way. I know that messed her up badly, that much was proven when I acted like an ass and tried to spook her before we broke into the school with David's keys. And even after all of that when she tried telling me the truth about Rachel and even when she showed me the proof and tried to give me the hard facts that I didn't want to admit she was right about, I treated her like shit, what kind of friend am I?

Despite that I'm also feeling conflicted in my feelings for her, I know I was crushing on her before her folks made her leave, and having her come back and keep saving my ass, along with bonding with her again is just bringing everything back. I still can't believe I dared her to kiss me, what's even harder to believe is that she did kiss me. This was of course after I admitted that no one was good enough for her other than me, I'm just grateful she didn't ask if I had a boyfriend then it might lead to me telling her about my crush on Rachel...

"Awh, fuck. She has rewind powers you dumbass, she probably already knows you had a crush on Rachel, fuck I probably made her think I'm using her as a substitute or some shit. Fuck! I need to fix this, even if it means I have to eat my own pride, she's more important that something as stupid as that." I said as I jumped up off of the bed and ran over to the door flinging it open and grabbing my jacket from the desk chair on the way past, I didn't even bother closing it on my way out I just hurried down the steps and got into my truck. I started it up and headed back towards Blackwell Academy, I needed to let her know how I felt, and that I was sorry. If she forgave me for this it would be a damn miracle, I used to think Rachel was my angel because she saved me when Max left, but I was totally wrong, Max has always been my angel, my light in the dark. "Hang on Max, I'm coming."