Until My Final Breath - Max Verstappen (I)

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TW: raping, hospital, bullying, kidnapping

5 minutes later I left my room and started walking towards the other side of the hotel, where Max's room was. Before I knocked on the door, I gave myself one last peptalk:

"Okay Joy, it's just Max. What can he do? Kill you? Okay yeah probably. But it's just the Max you've known for years. Just knock on that door, it's not that difficult. You can do this!"

I knocked on the door and a few seconds later the door opened.

"Euhm hey" he said. "Hey, can I come in?" I asked. Imagine if he said no, that would be so awkward. "Yeah sure". Pfew, he doesn't let me stand here. I entered his room and walked over to his couch. I sat down and he did the same.

"You wanted to talk?" I asked, trying to break the awkward silence which was hanging in the room. "Uhmm yeah. I- I- I'm sorry that I flew out on you. I mean, I really didn't mean to. I was just a bit stressed and when Lando started talking to you I-" he stopped talking. "When Lando started talking to me you what? Isn't he allowed to talk to me or what?" I said with an angry tone in my voice. "Ofcourse he is, but I just want to protect you. That's all"

After 5 minutes of discussing the fact that he only wanted to protect me, the fight escalated. We were screaming at each other and said pretty harsh things.

"Ughh Max, you're so fucking selfish! You don't want me to make friends and be happy, do you? The only thing you care about is yourself!" I yelled. He didn't really like my remark, and I saw the anger filling his eyes. "I just want to protect you! I don't want you to go to the same thing as you went through in 4th grade! He's a player and you're just blind. Just like when Dylan asked you to be his girlfriend when his only intention was to hurt you!! Maybe I shouldn't have come and rescue you, you would've been dead then and then there was no fucking problem!!!"

And that my friends, was the moment where he went too far. And he knew it.

Flashback - 7 years ago

"Hey Dylan, I'm so excited for our date tonight!" I told him when he came to pick me up. I was wearing a short dress with sandals. We were going to my favorite restaurant. I stepped in his car and we went on our way to the restaurant.

After a few minutes, we reached a crossroad. To ride to the restaurant we needed to go left, but we went right. "Dylan, you should've gone to the left." he didn't answer. I started to freak out a little bit.

"Dylan, where are we going?" and in that moment I felt someone grabbing my head from the back of the car, and he put a cloth with some weird smelling product in front of my nose. Then, everything went black.

I woke up with a massive headache. At first I didn't knew where I was, but when I looked around I saw I was in a forest. My nose and jaw where hurting really bad. I wiped my hand over my cheek and when I looked at my hand, I noticed it was covered in blood. I also noticed that I was only wearing my underwear, and that my dress was lying on the ground, torn apart.

I walked through the forest for what felt like an hour, with every piece of my face hurting. I noticed a luminous building in the distance, and I recognized the place. I was in a forest not really far from my hometown. Around 14 kilometers.

"Please say that they didn't took my phone. Lord please!" I said to myself while reaching in the pocket of my dress.

And then I felt it. They forgot to check my pockets when they robbed me. Did they rob me? I don't know to be honest.