Els POV
I wake up to soft sniffles, Max is crying. I stroke her head,
"Max it's okay, I'm right here" she starts to cry harder. I roll her over so she is facing me, her face almost looks deformed, her black eye lumps out.
"Max you can talk to me" She moves closer into me and hugs me, she cries into my shoulder.
"I'm so embarrassed El, I- i didn't want anyone to find out and know everyone knows and I'm such an idiot I am a horrible person I'm so sorry El"
"You are not a horrible person it's just that horrible things happen to you. You do not deserve this, you deserve the world Max, I will never let something bad happen to you again" She slowly stops to cry but she stays hugging me, I feel awful, Max is the most amazing person I have ever met. Steve, Robin and Nancy enter the room,
"Hey El, do you mind if we talked to Max alone for a bit" I shake my head, I don't want to leave Max,
"Please El we just want to talk about grown up stuff" I get up and leave, why won't they tell me what happened to Max.
Max's POV
I stay faced away from the group, I don't want to talk about anything with them, Steve comes over and sits beside me.
"Max can we talk" I don't move, Steve rubs my back, I sit up and face them,
"Holy shit" Robin looks disgusted at the sight of my face,
"ROBIN" Nancy pushes her,
"Max can we talk about last night" I don't say anything,
"What happened to you Max?" Steve brushes the tears off my cheek,
"Max you can talk to us no one else is here, it's just me, Robin and Steve" Nancy grabs my hand, I sigh,
"well my stepdad came home really drunk and he kicked my door down and then he started attacking me and then I don't know I can't really remember the rest and I don't want to."
"Max has your stepdad hit you before this?"
"I mean like yea? a couple times" I feel Nancy squeeze my hand tight,
"It's not like bad though I am fine"
"Max how come you didn't tell us?"
"I know it was just hard like I didn't know what to do and I didn't want to get my mom in trouble, I mean like after Billy died Neil stopped working so my mom had to work more and then she started drinking more and- " I stumble on my words and start to cry, Steve hugs me, his hugs are nice and warm, like hugging a big teddy bear. I hear the door shut and someone cry from outside the room, I can already tell it's El. I stumble to the door as fast as I can, I open it to see her crouched down in a ball, all the boys are around her. When they see me they back away in awe , I can tell they're looking at my face, I'm disgusting. I sit down and hold onto El,
"El? Are you okay" I cradle her and she looks up at me,
"Max why didn't you tell me about your Stepdad hitting you?" shit did she hear everything?
"I- I'm sorry El"
"Max?" It's Lucas, the pain in his voice stabs me right in the heart.
"Your step dad hit you?" I can see a tear roll down his cheek. Nancy steps out of the room,
"Everyone calm down" I get up go to the bathroom, I lock the door. I see an open window, without thinking I jump out of it and run.
El's POV
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Mad Max
FanfictionMax Mayfield has addiction in her genes but she has no intentions becoming anything like her parents so she avoids anything to do with the substances, that is until she goes through great pain turning her to the dark side where she plans to stay. TW...
