camp camp comedy trio one shots. |~| idea by yours truly

When Adam and Max met.

(Max is 16 here, Adam is 17.)

"You should honestly just kill yourself max." Said Brian, chuckling. He had been bullying max ever since he got to the High school. No one knows why but Max is one of Brian's main targets. But max and Brian knew exactly why.

"You know what, Brian? You know how easily I could tell everyone about what happened between me and you?" Max finally snapped, he was so tired of getting pushed onto a locker or receiving death threats daily. "Excuse me?"

"You are so mean to me and my friends for absolutely no reason whatsoever, you are the reason someone killed themself, when are you gonna stop??" Max started, "you need to know when enough is enough, and it starts today. I'm not giving you the satisfaction of seeing my day ruined because of your shitty insults."

Brian was shocked. He couldn't think of an insult in time, but then he remembered..

"Well atleast i don't cut myself when any minor inconvenience happens." He blurted out. Everyone heard it. They started whispering to each other and max stood there, completely shocked. He didn't even know how Brian knew that. "Cmon, Let's see those pretty little scars." Brian reached for maxs arm and tried to pull up his sleeve, he only got to half way when someone pushed brian off of him. "Really, fuck off Brian. What he does is none of your business." They said. While everyone was focused on Brian arguing with them, max was able to slip away from the crowd and into a bathroom and just sat there.

how did he know about that? Everyone already seen most of the scars, but it didn't matter since he's been clean for a month, right? What if Sam finds out? It suddenly got hard to breathe, his hands were shaking and it was so cold. Everything started to blur when the person who defended max ran in. He kneeled down to max and tried to calm him down. "It's alright, just breathe, Brian won't bother you anymore, alright? I dealt with it." He said. After a few minutes, max finally calmed down and was able to speak. "That was the worst one I've had this month." Max said. The person sat next to max and showed max that he was listening to him. "I don't even know how he knew that.."

"What's his problem with you?" The person said. "We used to date, he's mad because I broke up with him because he was refusing to call me his 'boyfriend' and ended up cheating on me with the captain of the cheer team." Max explained. He didn't know why he was giving this information to a random stranger. "I'm Adam, by the way." The person said. "I'm max, aren't you in my chem class?" Max introduced himself.

"Yea! I sit next to you from one of the other tables!" Adam smiled, trying to cheer max up. "I'm really not looking forward to the project, I got paired up with the cheer team co-captain." He sighed. "I mean, I got paired up with my best friend so I'm not really complaining." Max replied, smiling at the mention of Nikki. "Is that a smile I see? It's the girl who sits next to you right? Isn't her name Nikki?" Adam teased. Max scoffed and started explaining the situation.

this is how Adam handled Brian:

"It really isn't fucking funny. People could be going through some shit and you seem to love making it worse, do you know when enough is enough?" Adam spat, he didn't care about getting a detention, he didn't like when Brian hurt people who couldn't defend themselves. "Who even are you? His boyfriend?" Brian smirked as if what he said was worth laughing about. "You know, being a dick won't make yours bigger." Adam just walked into the bathroom he saw max go into, leaving the stupid situation brian got himself in.

End of flashback

"You should defend yourself against that prick." Said Adam. "I do! But he keeps bothering me to the point where I don't even try."

Adam truly felt bad for Max, even after not knowing him all that well. He'd only know him from a chemistry they took at the end of the school day. "I wish I met you sooner, there's a couple questions I wanna ask." Adam sighed, he was afraid these questions will make max uncomfortable. "Me too, but I am able to answer your questions! I know what you're gonna ask and it doesn't affect me anymore so I'm completely open to it!" Max seemed..eager to answer such violating questions? Adam felt bad for asking, but he couldn't help it. "What happened to your wrists..your arms?" He asked, Max already knew what he was gonna ask, atleast he didn't pry the answer like others did. Max rolled up his sleeves. "This? Well, speaks for itself, right?" Max still seemed completely unbothered by looking at the scars on his arms. "They aren't just on my arms, there's a scar on my back that starts at my shoulders and goes all the way down. That's from my dad."

"Growing up, my family wasn't all that great, yea I had a rich dad but it was like a glam metal situation, he hated me and my sister so much. Because just a few months after my sister was born, he accidentally killed my mom. We looked so much like her that he decided to hurt us so much that one day we'd die too. Me and Lexi are in different homes now. But when I first got used to a new home, little things used to remind me of my father. So that's when I started to..just a little. It was light at the start, but I got carried away. Until I got caught by my other friend Neil. He really cared about me and made me swore that I'd stop. I never went back on his word. A presentation came up about human beings or something and I got the idea to do mine on self harm.."

"This is my presentation on something more so serious then the last 3 people who made theirs. My presentation is on self harm. Self harm is an act, people purposely stop caring for their health, their lives and they find ways to just..hurt themselves. It's not always cutting, it could be not eating, sometimes people don't take care of their appearance. If you do these things it's perfectly normal. I did too." Max stopped, remembering the painful nights he went through. Neil smiled in the back row. And max continued. He rolled up his sleeves and showed them the scars on his arms and wrists, it even went up to the back of his hand. "No, we aren't immune to the pain, it hurts a lot. But again, we don't have care for our health and lives. A couple weeks ago, one of my friends caught me in the act and that's what stopped me. It could be other things for others. We dont do it for attention like some people think those people are honestly assholes for assuming, people have shit that they deal with. Mine was my dad, being in a new home with new people, being reminded of people who can't be with me anymore. I thought I deserved it. So I gave myself more pain. So if you are hurting yourself, starving yourself. Just know you aren't alone." max was content with his presentation on self harm. When he finished, he noticed the cheer co-captain smile a bit, looking down at her wrists. Nikki never knew that max hurt himself, she was so shocked and asked him about it after class.

"..so yea, I relapsed a few weeks after but have been clean for a whole month!" Max rolled down his sleeves, and for some odd reason..smiled. "You actually answered all of my questions, so uh I have nothing else." Adam smiled awkwardly.

"Holy shit- we've been in here for almost an hour!"