Chapter 4 // Suspicions and Stubborn...

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(Max POV)

It was the next day and I was still suspicious about yesterday. It felt like me and Lucas was sharing a moment until my brothers rudely interrupted and pushed him against the wall. Even though it was not the hardest push I've seen Mike do Lucas groaned loudly in pain. He even lifted his shirt up that revealed a large purple bruise on his rib cage. He tried to make up some bullshit story about falling a twig his way here but I'm good at reading people and I can tell when there lying and he was for sure lying or more like hiding something. I'm going to see him today and I will confront him about it until I get the answers out of him. One thing about me I'm super stubborn. I know I've only known him for a whole day but the nice little back and forth we had yesterday was actually the first in a while I enjoyed having company around. Plus he's super attractive...

I walk into school with my brothers standing by my side. I roll my eyes and I walk away from them and towards my locker where El was waiting for me like she always does. "Hi Max" El says as I walk towards her. "Hey Bestie" I say indulging her in a big hug. "How did yesterday go?" She asks. "Just the same same bored writing in my diary listening to music" I answer her opening my locker. "What about Lucas?" El suddenly asks. I look at her as I knit my eyebrows together. "What about him?" I counter her question confused. "Mike told me last night that he was hanging out in your room with you on the bed" El explains throwing a wink at me. I feel my cheeks burn as I blush visibly. "Omg your blushing" El squeals. "El shut up" I say putting a hand on her mouth. "Ok fine yes he was on my bed last night we were just talking and asking each other questions" I explain myself as I release my hand from her mouth. "And..?" El says. "And nothing else happened" I say closing my locker and looking at her. "That's not what mike was saying..." She says. "What did Mike say?" I say furrowing my eyebrows in confusion. "He said that Lucas was going to do something to you so he pushed him against the wall" El says. "What?! Lucas was not doing anything to me and Mikes just being his same old overprotective brother thing" I say annoyed. "I figured" She responds as we start walking through the hallways. 

(Lucas POV)

I look at the time on my phone as I'm biking to school. It was 9:10am. Shit I'm late. I barely had any sleep last night. So now I'm rushing to get school. I finally arrived after a few minutes and I rushed to the science room. "Shi- I mean sorry I'm late again Mrs Samantha" I say barging in the room. Everyone eyes made there way to me and I put my head down slightly embarrassed. "It's fine but that's two times now one more and your getting ten minute detention after school" Mrs Samantha warns me. I nod as I walk to my seat. I see Max glaring at me as I sit in my chair next to her. "Why were you late?" Max whispers to me. "Just slept in" I say sending her a small smile next to me. "Ok but we need to talk about yesterday" She whispers. "What about it?" I respond to her. "Why did you actually have a purple bruise on your rib?" She asks surprising me. I look at her shocked as I gulp. I shake my head as I turn towards the teacher. "It's nothing Max..." I whisper. "Yes it is and your going to tell me at lunch of els-" She says. "Care to share with the class what you are talking about Max and Lucas" The teacher says interrupting Max. Everyone in the class now was looking at us. "Umm no sorry Mam" I say speaking for Us. The teacher just rolls her eyes as she continues to teach. I sigh as I lean into the desk with my arms stretched out.

Class was boring and to be honest I was zoning out for most of it. I was scared Max was seeing through my lie. I hope she was backs off but the tone of her voice was saying different. Class ends and I quickly run out the classroom trying to ignore Max. I know it's mean but I can't have her finding out my abusive dad. It will ruin everything and my mum would officially hate me if my dad got locked up. I shake my head as I walk towards my next lesson. I have Maths with the brunette girl that seems to be Mikes boyfriend. She seemed nice so I decided to sit next to her. We had a good talk and actually became friends. Her name was El and she was Max's best friend. I could see why Max was her best friend. Class ends and now it was lunch time. Me and El decided walk together as we were both heading towards the cafeteria.

"So why did you move here?" El asks as we continue walking through the hallway. "Umm well I used to live in Chicago and it was a hellhole so my parents decided to move me to a much safer place and plus my grandma lives here so she suggested we move here as it's a peaceful little town" I respond to her question. El nods as we enter the cafeteria. We look around and see the boys and Max already sitting at the table. "Ok you go ahead I have to get some food" I say to El. El nods and walks to the table greeting them. Being honest I didn't really want to get food I just wanted to ignore them as I know Max would still question me about the bruise. I can't not have them finding out. No matter the cost.

(Max POV)

El walks to our table and I see Lucas in the lunch line getting food. "Hey El why didn't Lucas come over here?" Mike asks her as she sits next to him. "Oh he said he's just getting some food" El responds pointing at Lucas getting food. "Oh ok.." Mike says. "I thought he was still mad at me about yesterday" He adds on. "He probably is..." I say speaking up. Mike rolls his eyes. "Well it's not my fault he was trying to screw my little sister..." Mike mumbles but I still hear him. "How many times do I have to tell you that we were just having a friendly talk?!" I snap at him. "Yeah a bit too friendly" Dustin speaks up. "Ugh I fucking hate you guys so much!" I say standing up and walking out the cafeteria annoyed. I feel my face turning red as I walk through the hallway. As I continue walking I see Tara and her bitchy cheerleader friends. I swear if she messes with me right now I'll turn back to my old self. "Hey loser!" Tara says as I stop in my tracks. "What do you want?!" I turn around looking at her. Everyone in the hallways turns there eyes towards us. Tara looks at me shocked. "Who do you think you talking to?!" She says walking towards me whilst her bitchy friends watch. "I'm talking to a stuck up whore who thinks she's perfect when in reality she's a little cry baby and hates who she is deep inside..." I say meeting her half way. Everyone gasps in shock. "You hold on to your little reputation of the most popular girl when in reality it doesn't mean shit" I add on. I smirk as I see her face. She was now red and looked angry. "YOU FUCKING BITCH!" Tara says swinging at me. I laugh as I dodge her punch. Little does she know I've been fighting my whole life. This is going to be fun. She swings again and this time I grab her wrist and twist it nearly breaking her arm. She screams in pain. While her arm was in a uncomfortable position I kick her stomach sending her crashing to the floor. She sits on the floor and holds her stomach crying in pain. As I was about to kick her bitchy face I feel arms wrap around my waist picking me up.

"Hey let me go asshole!" I punch the persons back. "Nope Max you need to calm down" Lucas says. "I don't care Lucas let me kill that bitch!" I shout as I continued punching his back. As I keep shouting at him to let me go he leads me out the school and finally lets me down. He was still grabbing my shoulders. "Hey Max look at me" Lucas says. I shake my head saying no. He grabs my chin and slowly lifts my head forcing me to look into his brown caramel eyes. "I need you to calm down ok" he says. "Deep breaths" He continues. He does a deep breath and tells me to copy him. I copy him and I feel myself calm down. After a while I was finally calm and he let go off my shoulders. "You ok now?" Lucas asks me. I nod as I look up at me. He smiles and I smile back. My smile quickly fades away when the lunch bells go off.

(Lucas POV)

Max finally calmed down and now here we were smiling at each other. The lunch bell goes off and I see Max smile fade away. I go to walk back into the school until Max grabs my arm turning me around. She suddenly pulls me into a hug. "Thank you Lucas for calming me down..." She says into my shoulder. "It's honestly no problem Max" I say rubbing her back. We pull away from the hug and we walk back into the school. I walk her to the class being a gentleman. But before she walks in the class she turns towards me. "And Lucas don't think we're not talking about that bruise later.." She says walking into the class. I shake my head as I walk towards my class. This girl is too stubborn...

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