Bonding

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by sbwolfes

by sbwolfes

Max POV

I walk the rest of the way to David's house replaying what just happened over and over again in my head. WHAT. THE. FUCK. JUST HAPPENED. one second I'm just having a normal conversation with the nerd, I tell him not to talk about what happened tonight, and the next second I'm hugging him!? Why the fuck does he even care if I'm stressed about the.. About the thing... That's happening.. Wow. I can't stand to do as much as think about it without getting anxious. Just wow. I'm such a fucking mess.

I slow down as I approach the house. I wonder how all the other shitheads are doing.. Whatever. None of my business.

I jog to the driveway, under a large Willow tree and up the steps to the door.

(A/N: I love in the country, so I have no idea how much room there is in a normal neighborhood, nor if a Willow tree could even sustain live there, because of how much water they need; but, stfu people, it's my story)

I knock on the door and soon after, David peeks through. "Max?" He wimpers. "I thought you went to you're room?" He opens the door all the way . "Once again, camp man, it's called sneaking out." I reply , barging my way in. "Oh."

I flop onto the couch and immediately pass out.

when I wake up, Harrison is in front of me playing some weird game on the tv, he was placing a 3 dimensional block thing down, then he clicked on it and......? Something? Popped up? Idk, man. Technology is weird. (A/N: minecraft. Harrison is playing minecraft.)

I shift around so that my feet aren't sticking off the edge and ask "where's David?" Harrison jolts a bit from the sudden noise, but quickly calms himself. "Oh, he left to see if he could legally adopt me, apparently he's been registered to adopt for a while now. But, anyways, he also mentioned meeting up with an old friend after that, so who knows how long he'll be gone. " I don't respond, I just lay back down and stare up at the pastel green ceiling.

a few seconds later I hear Harrison turn off the tv. "So, max.. " he starts. "Yeah?" I reply. "Tell me more about yourself. I never got to know you that well back at camp." . .. "Oh. Uh." I then realize how little there is to me other than the fact that I'm an asshole and have very pathetic excuses of biological parents. "Uh.. "

...

"Okay, New plan!" He says. " 3 truths and one lie, you say four things about yourself, but one of them is a lie, and I guess with one is a lie! " he states, slowly building in excitement. Is this one of those dumb icebreaker things they make you do at the start of the year? " uh, okay... " I say thinking of a few things I could say, the most depressing ones being forgotten at the back of my mind. "Uh, I have no idea what you were playing just now, I hate cats, my bear's name is Mr. HunnyNuts. " I say. Harrison chuckles, "obviously the first one, everyone has at least heard of minecraft! " he says. "Wrong" I reply "I love cats." Harrison's face goes dead serious. "What? You've never played minecraft!" He exclaims. "Grab that controller, I'll get the other, I must fix this at once!"

After almost an hour of him teaching me, I'm starting to get it. The strange cube thing I saw earlier is a crafting table, and the pop up thing is just my inventory and all the stuff I can craft. For the most part it's just a normal survival game, so I was pretty surprised when Harrison said it's the most popular video game out there right now. "Ohhhh! What's this cute lil' green thing? " I say walking towards a strange looking green creature. "WAIT, MAX DON'T!" he yelled, but it was no use. I got blown up by my own curiosity. This is why I usually let Nikki do all the adventuring and save all the chaos for myself.

after like, four hours of playing minecraft we ended up in our room, Harrison was on the floor, but because of my ribs current condition, I think it would hurt too much to bother trying, so I layed on the bottom bunk instead.

"So, why are you're parents afraid of you anyways?" I ask. " Oh, I uh, I kinda made m brother disappear, and since I don't know how to bring things back when I do that.... yeah.. " he says softly. "Danm, man, you're parents are pussys." I say , he snorts, "what about you Max, what happened with .. That. Stuff.....You don't have to answer, if you don't want to." He says, adding the last part on quickly. "..., Nah, I'll answer, ... To be honest,.. They've just kinda always been like that mom used to be a lot nicer, she's the me who gave me Mr. HunnyNuts, but now that she's always high off her ass, I think she's forgotten how to think for herself. I'm pretty sure the only reason they even agreed to have me in the first place is so I could clean the house for them. And I don't want to talk about dad. Conclusion? Parents suck." I explain, trying to keep it as light as possible. I don't want him to pitty me, I just want to talk to him. ... "Hey Max?" He says sitting up. " Yeah? " I reply. "Do you think you'll be ready for the trial?" . .. "No." " Do you want to watch The Promised Neverland with me? " "Hell yes!"