Maxine rushes into her first class, her intro to human biology class as she's already 10 minutes late to class. Everyone looks up at her as she walks to her seat in the back as she gets closer to her seat she notices that someone had taken her seat from yesterday, the next open seat in the back row is next to Chris Cerulli. Maxine hesitates as she walks to the seat to the left of Chris she pulls the seat out and takes a seat and tries to not make any eye contact with Chris.
"Miss Argo, how nice of you to join us" professor Mitchell says with a snarky tone in her voice.
Maxine rolls her eyes at her professor.
"I don't need your attitude after coming into my classroom later Miss Argo"
"Can we just fucking get on with this shit!" Maxine looks up in surprise after hearing Ronnie Radke speak up from three rows in front of her to the professor.
"Excuse me Mr. Radke!" Professor Mitchell yells at Ronnie with her anger directed towards him now.
"No! We pay to be here so just get on with it" Ronnie replies angrily.
"Leave my classroom Mr. Radke!"
"I gladly fucking will" Ronnie yells as he walks out slamming the classroom door.
Maxine is stunned in shock over what just happened. First she has to sit next to Chris and then Ronnie goes off on the teacher because of Maxine being late.
"Everyone follow along with the slideshow and copy the notes" professor Mitchell says after Ronnie walks out of the classroom. Maxine starts copying down the notes from the smart board.
"I'm sorry about my cousin he gets pretty irate sometimes"
Maxine looks up with her brown eyes widened at the sight of Chris Cerulli looking at her waiting for her response.
"Umm it's fine, everyone has a short fuse from time to time" Maxine responds trying to not sound nervous in her voice.
Chris's face is so beautiful looking to Maxine his long jaw with his tattoos running along it and going down his neck. His hazel eyes looking at her kindly, his hair hanging right by his chin. Maxine was mesmerized by him.
"Is this your first year here" Maxine asks acting like she doesn't know he's a junior.
"No. I've been going here for a while now" Chris says directly.
"Ohhh okay, I'm Maxine by the way"
"I'm Chris"
Maxine doesn't get the intention that Chris wants to continue their conversation, so she looks down at her laptops keyboard and keeps copying the notes.
Once Maxine got home from her second day of college she was super exhausted and passed out on her bed not long after she got home.
"Maxine!!!!" Connie screams after barging into Maxine's room.
"Dude what the fuck!?" Maxine yells back opening her eyes and pulling her head from her pillow.
"You should be studying! How long have you been asleep!!! You know you probably already have assignments to start working on!" Connie screams.
"Get the fuck out of my room! Get out! Get the fuck out!!!!" As Maxine walks Connie over to the door and slams it in Connie's face.
Maxine is furious with her grandmother, she doesn't even want to be going to college but her grandparents are forcing her. Maxine quickly grabs her keys and her purse and opens her bedroom door walking to the front door of the house.
"Where do you think you're going?!" Connie yells
"Our!!!" Maxine yells slamming the front door of their home behind her.
Maxine gets into her jeep and backs out of the driveway and takes off. Maxine is crying she wants her old life back with her parents, she hates living in a place where she feels like an outcast and never good enough. Maxine decides to take a drive down some of the country roads and play music to relax her mind but she is still hysterical, she starts to hear her cell phone ringing coming from her purse that's sitting in the backseat as she goes to turn around quick and grab it a cow is in the middle of the road that Maxine hits head on. The car flips onto the drivers side, the cow flew off into the ditch on the side of the road, Maxine is passed out laying on the horn of her car, there are no houses or businesses for miles.
After a few minutes of being knocked unconscious from the accident Maxine and wakes up to cuts on her forearm from the glass and she's stuck in her drives seat and has a cut on her forehead right below her hairline. Maxine starts yelling for help as she isn't able to move much to try and find her phone that most likely went flying out of the window when she crashed.
Maxine try's to take some breaths in between her screams as her voice starts to get weak.
Suddenly Maxine hears crunches of glass coming from the outside of her car. She starts to see someone walking around the car but all she can see if their black shoes.
"Who is that?! Help me?!" Maxine's yells
"Well what happened here" a man bends down to Maxine's window. Maxine widens her eyes in shock, it's Ronnie Radke the asshole from class today. She could not have ran into a more horrible person at this time.
"Just help me! I got a cow! I'm stuck and I can't move! I'm bleeding" Maxine yells sternly at Ronnie.
"Jeez relax! Give me your arms" Ronnie commands.
Maxine reach's her arms towards her shattered windshield as Ronnie leans towards her and pulls her out slowly trying to avoid the shards of glass that remained around the car. Once Ronnie removed Maxine from her car she backs away from him sitting on the pavement of the road.
"I can't go to the hospital my grandmother is going to freak the fuck out" Maxine says grabbing her head
"I don't think you need a hospital, it looks just like a few minor cuts" Ronnie says.
"Let me take you to my house and you can get cleaned up so she won't know I live right down the road" Ronnie says.
Is Ronnie Radke actually acting like he wants to help me right now Maxine thought to herself.
"Uhhh okay....where's your car?"
"I was walking, come with me I live right down this road" Ronnie reaches out his hand for Maxine to take it, she grabs it and begins walking with him. On the way to Ronnie's house the two don't talk much Ronnie is very quiet and always looked enraged with anger.
They start walking through a path in the woods as Maxine starts to seem a gleam of light and they walk upon a big colonial home in the middle of the woods.
"This is your house?" Maxine asks.
"Yeah, I live here with my cousin and uncle" Ronnie's replies as he unlocks the front door.
As Maxine walks in the house looks very Victorian on the inside with read and black colors all over the walls and furniture with some rustic gold accents.
"A shower will help your cuts, I'll grab you a towel give me a second" Ronnie says to Maxine.
Maxine nods in response as Ronnie goes upstairs.
As Maxine is standing in their living room waiting for Ronnie to get back with a towel she hears a door creak open to the left of her.
"What? What are you doing here?" Chris says after he opens his bedroom door.
" I got into a car accident up the road and Ronnie was walking and found me I didn't want to go home looking a wreck, my grandmother would kill me and I'll probably be in so much trouble for totaling my car" Maxine explains.
"Ohhh....okay" Chris says with a concerned look on his face.
Ronnie comes down the stairway with a white towel for Maxine to use.
"The bathroom is through that door" Ronnie says as he points to the door across from Chris's room.
"Okay thanks" Maxine's says with a half smile as she walks into the bathroom.
As Maxine is standing in the shower washing the blood from her wounds off of her a few more years fall from her face, she knows how much of a mess she has got herself in and is regretting leaving her grandparents house earlier this evening. As she finishes washing up she shuts the water off and hops in front of the bathroom mirror above the sink drying off her hair in the towel and looking at the cut on the forehead. As she drying herself off she hears Chris and Ronnie talking in a hushed tone. Maxine leans her ear towards the door to try to make out what their saying.
"Why would you bring her here Ronnie, this isn't fucking safe" Chris says sternly.
"Would you relax, it's fine. She just needed to clean herself up a little bit it's no big deal" Ronnie says in a condescending tone.
"No big deal?! If Michael finds her, she's fucking dead" Chris says angrily.
Maxine's stomach turns. What is Chris talking about? Who is Michael? What does he mean dead?
"It's not my problem is Michael finds her, whatever happens happens" Ronnie's says to Chris in the same condescending tone.
Maxine wait a few minutes after their conversation ends until she opens the bathroom door, when she does she sees Chris leaning against his bedroom door he has black jeans on and is shirtless she can't see any piece of bare skin as he's covered all the way down his arms and torso in tattoos.
"Umm where's Ronnie?" Maxine asks
"He went upstairs to his room, I was surprised he brought you here. It's not like Ronnie to go out of his way to help people" Chris says with kind eyes
"Ohhh well I'm just glad he heard me screaming I don't know what I would've done" Maxine says to Chris.
"Your clothes ummm their all bloody, can I give you some of my clothes to wear for now?" Chris asks
"Yeah....thank you I appreciate it"
"Follow me" Chris says
Maxine follows Chris into his bed as he grabs a black t shirt and black sweat pants out of his black dresser drawer. Chris's room is very dark and mystic like Maxine's it's all in muted colors with a black bed set as well, his bed has a huge wooden head board attached and his bed looks like the size of a California king.
"You can ride with Ronnie and I to school tomorrow, if you want you can sleep in my bed and I'll sleep on the couch tonight"
Maxine's gets nervous she knows her grandmother is probably wondering where she is but she's twenty one years old she can do what she wants. Maxine debates the offer in her head she's very exhausted from the trauma of the accident and it's almost midnight.
"Sure, I'll stay here. I really appreciate this Chris"
"No problem, I'll give you some privacy and I'll see you in the morning" Chris replies.
As Chris chute his bedroom door behind him Maxine stands in the middle of Chris's room, nervous and confused still replaying the conversation between Chris and Ronnie over and over again in her head. Maxine moves towards Chris's bed and gets under his black comforter and shuts off the bedside lamp on his night stand and lays her head on his pillow, she's so exhausted that she could fall asleep at any moment.
