Alleviate |billie eilish|

5. "how"

Max's pov--->

I rush to chips house and knock on his door. He opens immediately letting me in.

"what's wrong" He follows me as i rush back to his room.

"remember kole?" I turn around. He nods as we sit down. "he knows, about everything"

"how did he find out" Chip's voice got lower as he listens to me.

"I- i don't know, he said it this morning but i didn't think anything of it. then he said it again before I got here" My eyes dart around the room to try to find something to comfort me but nothing is feeling comfortable.

"i'm going to go" I get up and begin shoving my clothes back into my bag. he nods his head watching my moves.

"be careful, and keep the shoes" He tells me and i nod heading off. I'm not going back to the hell house until it gets dark. They are usually passed out when it gets dark.

i strap my bag for school and my belonging bag on me and get to a big hill taking off through the streets and cars.

Billie's pov--->

Mom told me to go pick up some flowers for a party she is throwing for one of her friends.  I really don't know why she would send me of all people.

"i'll be back" I tell her grabbing my keys. I head to my wife and hop in. The car is my wife. i put the keys in and head off.

I wait at the four way light, bored out of my mind. A person on a skate board flew by through the cars.

that's max

I continue to watch her. Her hair flying with the wind, her knees bent ready for the millions of bumbs with bags on her back.

The light turns green as i press the gas. I speed up to catch up to her.

"hey miss resiliant" I yell out the window. That caught her attention as she looks back.

"grass head, are you following me now?" The light turns red up ahead as i slow down she does to.

"nope i'm getting flowers for my mom, what are you doing?" I raised my brow at her. I left my hand on the wheel and rest my head on my other hand. Max gets closer to my window with her skate board in hand.

"just doing the 'dangerous' thing you were so scared to do" She gave me a sly smile. I roll my eye's.

"get in the car." I look up at her. That caught her attention.

"wait what? why?" She poked her head up to see if the light changed colors. still red.

"because you look tired carrying those bags" I point with my index finger. she let a small 'oh'.

"get in the light's about to turn" She laughs and runs around hoping in. she gets in quickly taking the bags off her back. i notice one was her school bag and the other was her torn up one she had that one week.

"So, how long have you been doing that" I point to the skateboard between her thighs.

"Oh just like 8 or 9 years" Max calmly says looking out the window. She takes a few deep breaths catching air.

"That's sick, i've always wanted to skate" I turn the steering wheel into a parking lot.

"ill teach you" she grabbed her scratched up board.

"That'll be awesome" i give her a smile and get out of the car. "come help me with the flowers"

. . .

"Help me bring them in" I insist. She is hesitant but unbluckes her seat belt and grabs some flowers.

i grab the door knob opening the door.

"mom im back!" Pepper comes up to us and smells max.

"she likes you, she usually barks and growls at new people" I see her get shy as she is in a new house.

"Billie set them on the table and stop talking to yourself!" Finneas tells me from the other room.

"i'm not talking to myself asshole" I set the flowers down and so did max.

"Are you talking about that gi-" He walks into the room, looking at max. He darts his eyes at me as i fold my arms over my chest giving him a 'i told you so' look.

"I'm finneas" He streaches his hand out but all max did was look at it. He cleared his throat taking his hand back.

"max" i heard her mumble. Finneas nodded.

"come on let's get the rest" I turn around walking out.

"i'm sorry" i heard her speak. I turn back looking at her.

"for what" Her eyes traviled up to mine. She looked hurt, scared, anxious.

"i.. nevermind" She shook her head and grabbed another pot. after we finished she just followed me around the house.

"let's go to my room you'll feel better, right?" She just nods staying close by me. I'm glad she feels safe with me. I grab her hand pulling her along with me to my room, opening the door the red lights escaped thtough the lightblulb.

"wow" She strolled through my room looking at everything. I sat on my bed pushing myself to lean on the wall. "this is amazing" She touches the shoes that are on the shelfs.

"Do you like them" She takes one off the shelf and looks at it.

"well yeah, they are amazing" She shakes she shoe as she looks at me. I lick my bottle lip as i watch her.

She soon stops looking and comes back to sit on my bed.

"your face still looks like shit" We both laugh. She touches it but regreats it. "why did you touch it"

"oh i dont know maybe because you pointed it out" We laughed together which filled the room. soon we settled down and sat in silence.

"Remember earlier, when i ran off" I turn my head to look at her, max was already looking at me.

"Yeah that's okay" She nods taking a breath.

Max's pov--->

I feel like i can trust her. I don't usually just tell people but she feels....different.

I take a breath looking into her eyes.

"Kole was telling the truth" I looked away as she rolled her body to face me. I looked back at her.

"So your parents..." I nod. I shifted my body to face her with my hand under my cheek. I hear a sigh slip out of her lips. "how long"

"years" I felt my lip quiver and my nose heat up. I cant fucking cry right now. I take a deep breath looking down.

I closed my eyes and bit my lip. I felt a hand on my cheek.

"You shouldn't be living like that" Her eyes looked at my left eye then at my right eye. Something in my stomach fluttered, i like it. 

"wait what time is it" She takes her hand off my cheek and grabs her phone.

"uhm, 11:38pm" I shot up grabbing my board.

"i need to go, back there" I swallow hard. "Bil, im scared" I look back at her, she thinks for a moment.

"i'll drop you off and go in with you. will you feel better?" I shrug cause i honsetly don't know. Chip always is the only comforting me.

"Alright, I'll be down in a minute" she informs me. I walk to the front door as a lady walks up to me.

"Are you one of billie's friends?" She asked.

"yeah" i murmured. I don't want her seeing my face so i dont even look at her.

"Mom we will be back" Billie runs down in the nick of time.

"stay safe" Her mom says, i give billie a look as we walk out of her house and to her car.

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