It All Started With A Ride

21. Crushes & heartbreak

"Are you ready yet?" I asked Max, leaning on the frame of her bedroom door as I watched her search the drawers underneath her step-sister's bed.

"Give me five seconds-" Max began and then picked something up and shrieked, "Ew, Maddy!"

"What- what'd you find this time?" I asked- finding this amusing since she had been searching the same spot for at least ten minutes and kept screaming "Ew, Maddy!" Whenever she found something moderately gross underneath the bed.

"She has a fucking sex toy- where the fuck did she find a vibrator???"

I laughed and scrunched up my nose, "think she uses it?"

"I hope she doesn't!" Maxine gave me a look of disgust and I laughed.

"Maybe she used it when you're awake" I teased, "or on your bed-"

"Tabitha!"

I could help but smile, folding my arms over my chest, "What are you even looking for?"

"Her preteen stash of coke" Max replied sarcastically.

"And here I was thinking you were nice"
I huffed, "guess I'll have to find Maxine 2.0" I joked.

"Ha ha," she said sarcastically, and then pulled up a whiteboard, "sneaky bitch" Max smiled and sat up on the bed.

"You can't call a kid a bitch"

"This time- I mean it with good intention" She placed a bag on her lap and reached inside of it, her hand coming out with snack cakes and candy bars.

"That's what you were looking for?" I asked.

"Well, I promised your drunk ass candy so" she placed the bag back underneath the board and put things back where they were before closing the drawers, "here it is" She hoped off the bed and gave me a horrified look, "oh the horrifying things I do for you" she sighed dramatically.

I wrinkled my nose and took the chocolate bar out of her hand, "because you love me" I wiggled my brows.

Max rolled her eyes and squeezed past me, I followed behind her and watched as she pet her super cute dog Piper.

Growing up, I always wished I had a pet. I remember when I was six I had a bird.

But then the neighbor's cat killed it...

Either way; there were a lot of things I wish I had when I was younger...

But those things, are easier said than done.

I watched Max get a bag of dog food, and Piper spin around like a tiny hurricane as Max struggled to get past her to the dog bowl sitting near a gray armchair in the living room.

"Stop- hold on Piper-" Max laughed, "Tabitha please grab her," she said over her shoulder.

"Eh I think I'll let her trip you up" I joked but still found myself picking Piper up, the white and brown spotted dog began to lick my face and shack her lower half rapidly.

I smiled and started to giggle, "This all she does- lick people"

"Careful" Max walled over and took Piper out of my arms, "she might be taste testing to see if she wants to eat you".

"Ah" I nodded, "I always knew I was a snack".

"Oh yeah, totally," she said sarcastically, bending down to place the dog on the ground. When she did, her skirt lifted just enough for me to see her underwear- I quickly looked away and my heart started to race .

Nope- stop thinking gay Tabitha! I yelled at myself.

"Okay" Max sighed, "I think that's all".

"Finally" I groaned happily, earning a smile and a nose wrinkle from Maxine, I smiled at this reaction because well-