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28. The Scratches and The Lime

After Baku Liv did not fly back to Monaco with Max. Instead she flew with Lewis to London for the next Fashion Week. Ava met her there, she did love the new challenge of dressing Liv for all of her new fashion related events. Now that she was dating Lewis, she was getting more and more invitations to these sort of events every day.

Ava even coordinated Liv's outfits with Lewis' stylist, Law Roach, so that they would match on their next Fashion Week appearances and the fans were loving it.

As for Max, he had been feeling hopeful after Olivia's birthday, but it all started crashing down when her pictures with Lewis in London started appearing everywhere. They were the 'it' couple of the sports world. In reality the were the 'it' couple in general. Every time he saw a new coordinated outfit or a picture of a romantic dinner his heart shrunk more and more. Even pictures of Liv walking Roscoe would make his mind start racing and his stomach drop.

After a week of that he was completely hopeless. He barely answered his texts, he hadn't trained in days and he refused to go out. It was a depressive spiral no one saw coming, not even him. Even the first time his heart had been broken, when he saw Liv with Noah outside the movie theater years before, it hadn't felt quite like this. This black hole of nothingness caused by his sorrow of seeing the person he loved be in love with someone else.

Since Liv was out of town and busy, she had no idea this was going on until Sunday when she received a call from Charles.

"Hey what's up?" She asked as she had lunch with Lewis.

"Hey Liv" his voice was hesitant "hey have you talked to Max at all?"

Liv's brow furrowed "Uhm no not really. He hasn't really been answering my calls. He answers my texts though" she shrugged "why?"

"I don't think he's doing so well" said Charles "he's been completely missing and he was supposed to come over to play mario kart and Cod yesterday but he never showed up" he said " there's something wrong".

Liv was immediately alert, Max never missed a chance to play video games "do you know what's wrong?"

Charles hesitated again "Uhm I think he's a a bit heart broken. I went to see him today, Liv I had never seen him like this, it's bad, I need you here".

"I'll be on the next flight" she said right away. In all the years she had known Max, nothing like this had ever happened.

Once she had hung up with Charles she called Max, but it sent her straight to voicemail. She turned to Lewis "I have to go Lew, something is going on with Max"

"Everything okay?" He asked confused.

Liv shook her head unconvinced "I hope so, I'll see you in France alright?"

"Sure, text me" said Lewis as Liv hurried up to grab her things and gave him a quick kiss before leaving the restaurant.

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A few hours later Liv had arrived to Monaco, and after running a few quick errands she arrived to Max's apartment. She entered the place with her key and placed her things on the entrance hallway before walking in. The place was completely silent.

"Max?" She called out as she walked over to the living room, where she found Max laying on the couch, staring at the nothingness in front of him by the TV. "What are you doing?"

"Watching TV" he said dully, not even turning to look at her.

"Max the TV is off" Olivia pointed out slowly, getting increasingly worried. Max's hair looked greasy and messy, his clothes looked like he had been in them for days and his beard was bushier than it usually was.