Everything's not what it seems

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Taome's POV
I was sat face timing Charlotte, Max came and sat next to me, I put my phone on my lap but stayed on the call to Charlotte. "Taome!" Max shouted, even though we were, now, sat next to each other.

"What Max?" I shouted back to him.

"No need to shout!" He shouted back.

"You shouted first!" I shouted back.

"Did I? I can't hear myself." He shouted again, and tipped his head, water slowly trickled out of his ear. "Much better, I thought I got it all out after my shower." He said laughing.

"So what did you want to ask me?" I asked laughing.

"I wanted to know if we could face time Charlotte." He said.

"Why didn't you ask Liv? And she literally left with Dobby half an hour ago." I said.

"I know, but I already miss her, I want to make lots of dyslexic jokes." He laughed.

"Now you know how me, Liv and Charlotte feel after every tour when we have to say goodbye." I said to him.

"You feel like this every time?!" He asked shocked.

"Yep, been to every tour since 2017 and said goodbye until the next one every time." I said, all the memories of each sad goodbye coming back to me, the tears in the car after we go, the sad calls saying 'I miss you' and 'I can't wait to see you again'.

"I still can't get my head around the fact you're almost a teenager, and Charlotte's almost an adult but you're so close to each other." Max said.

"Well, we are extremely close, and it's thanks to you and Harvey." I said.

"Woah! I knew we helped people make friends, but you guys are like sisters." Max said.

"We are, they even like my mum more than they like me." I laughed.

"Wait really?" Max asked, laughing.

"Ye man, just wait a sec." I said and shouted Liv. "Liv! Opinions on my mum, go."

"Zoe is a leg end, she's great." Liv said.

"Ok, opinions on Taome." Max said.

"Taome is a Kool dude." Liv said.

"Thanks Liv, you can go now." I said and pushed her away. "See I told you. A leg end is the highest rank in our friend group, Kool dude is a close second but leg end is the best."

"Oof." Max said and laughed slightly.

"Why did we start talking anyway?" I asked, as my mind went blank.

"I wanted to face time Charlotte." Max said.

"Well why didn't you? You have her number." I said.

"Wait do I?" He asked.

"Yes you idiot. We all gave each other our numbers when you guys knew you could trust us." I laughed.

"Oh, well, I'm gonna go face time Charlotte then." Max said and walked off.

"Well that was awkward." Charlotte laughed.

"Yep." I laughed.

"So, you wanna add Max into this?" Charlotte laughed.

"Yeah, go on then." I laughed.

"Hey Max." Charlotte said as Max answered her call.

"Hey Charlotte, Taome you b**ch." Max laughed.

"Hey Max." I laughed. "I was on call to her the whole time."

"Wow, I don't like you, plus we're in the same house, so us both being on call is pointless." Max said.