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

Lonely "lunch" (&more) (maxneil)

(This will probably be short) "Useless, that's what you are. Nothing but a waste of space. You are exactly like your father." Were the words spiraling through Max's head. Brian had told him that while they were alone in the hallway 5 minutes before lunch. Max walked into sams office knowing he wouldn't be there and choked back tears. He didn't care about name calling, but never compare him to his monster of a father. Max tried to be everything he is not. What he never would be. He tried so hard to never be like him. But after everything, Max could still hear his voice, the yelling, the screams, the blood. He'd have nightmares about certain nights with his father. He couldn't escape. It's like he was haunting Max even though he was in prison. That's when the door opened, and neil walked in.

Neil had seen max run in, and followed him. He'd never seen max run like that, not even a hi from him. He followed max to sams office and was greeted with the door almost slamming in his face. He looked through the window and saw maxs arms around his knees, it looked like he was..crying? He couldn't just leave him there, so he opened the door.

"Max?" Was the only word that Neil could say at that moment. "Neil! I- uhm-" "hey its fine, what are you doing here?" Neil sat down next to max. The only other time Neil saw max crying was during camp, him and Nikki were backstage trying to find max to tell him what happened when they saw him crying, not knowing what to do they walked away. "Brian just triggered me, said I was like my father." Max said without looking at neil. "Dont listen to that piece of shit, you are nothing like your father" neil heard small sobs from max after saying that. Max just hugged him, and they just stayed like that. Neil ran his hand through maxs soft hair as max silently sobbed. He wanted to help, but he didnt know how.

Max was overwhelmed with what Brian said, all of those bad thoughts that max was rid of flooded back into his head. Luring him into the darkness. Pleasing those horrible thought was always the last thing max would do in these situations. But now, he just wanted to do all of them. He'd rather die now than grow up to be a monster, a predator and overall the worst person max knew.

"Do you wanna come to the cafeteria with me? If Brian says anything, I'll stab a spork in his eye." Neil asked as they finally pulled away. Max nodded, wiping his tears. For some reason, people cant tell if max just cried two seconds ago, his eyes dont get puffy and he's really good at hiding it. Neil helped Max to his feet and they walked over to the cafeteria.

Once they sat down with the group (including Adam who asked where max was) they asked where they were. "You guys missed the fight with Sasha and pikemen!" Nerris almost screeched. Adam asked if max was ok, since he was the only one that noticed something was wrong. Max just said Brian triggered him and he went into sams office to calm down.

Then, Brian walked to their table. And this time, looked at Nikki. "I cant believe you guys are friends with this nature weirdo-" Brian was interrupted with death stares from the entire table, and Nikki was just drawing on a notepad with gel pens. He silently walked away with his hands up, and they went back to doing whatever they were doing.

Max felt something creep onto his hand, he looked down, and Neil was holding his hand under the table.

After lunch was over, Neil took max to get something to eat, they skipped their classes but it was worth it.