The Calm (Austin Carlile Love Story)

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~Time Jump~

Austin's P.O.V

It's the last day of tour and I can't wait to go home with Maxine. "Baby can you help me close this suitcase?" I stare at the suitcase then at her "Erhm Max that's not our suitcases." She rolls her eyes and grabs my arm dragging me to the bag. "I know that Austin. It's Phil's he doesn't know how to close it so I'm helping him." I shake my head and kiss her temple "Well your aren't you such a handy helper." She laughs and sits on the bag "Just zip it up Carlile." We eventually get the bag closed then go to one last hangout with the bands before its time to go. We walk to Pierce The Veils bus and find everyone sitting outside the bus. "Oh hey look it's the love birds!" Jack yells from Alex's lap. Maxine yells and runs to Jack and plops her self on top of both of them. She's such a child sometimes and it was adorable. Ben walks up to me with a beer and drags me away from the girls.

I've been with the guys for about an hour and I was missing Maxine. "Guys I'm gonna go look for Maxine. I'll be back." They just nod their heads while I look for Maxine. I walk up to Thalia who is playing her guitar "Hey Lia where's Max?" She points to the bus and goes back to playing. "Thanks." I walk into the bus and here talking from the back room. I can only make out Maxine's voice but not the other. "Why can't you just do it? I love you alot!" I hear silence then she talks "Tony I love Austin okay. I've been thinking and you kissing me was a mistake." What the fuck Tony kissed her? She hid this from me, why? "Max please I love you so much just give me a chance."

I couldn't take it anymore I open the door violently and take two quick strides to Maxine's side. "Tony get the fuck away now. She said no ok, enough is enough now leave her the fuck alone." I say between gritted teeth. Tony looks down at the ground then looks back up and smirks "Or else what Austin?" I walk right up to his face and shove him "You really wanna do this Perry?" He shoves me back harder "Lets go then Carlile." Maxine tries to get in between us "Guys get the fuck away now, like I'm not even kidding." Tony shoves Maxine out of the way and she falls down.

I take a violent swing at Tony cracking him right in the jaw. We begin fist fighting as I see Maxine run out of the room. That's when he punches me in my stomach knocking the air out of me. I get back up and hit him in the mouth with all my force, feeling a crack in my hand. I get on top of him and we begin throwing punches back and forth until I feel a few people pulling me back. "Let me fucking go right now. I swear to god let me go!" I turn around and raise my fist only to see Maxine standing there. I drop my fist and see Mike, Vic, Danny and Tino standing behind her. "You were gonna hit me Austin." I tense up "No baby I wasn't. I promise I wasn't." She turns and walks off the bus.

Tino walks over to me and pats my back "Lets go buddy it's time to go home. Talk to her there." I turn and look at Tony who is wiping the blood from his mouth. I shake my head and walk to our bus. I see Maxine sitting down in the front lounge with her headphones in really loud and I can hear what she's listening to. Princeton Ave by Issues. I walk past her and she doesn't even look up. I walk to the bathroom and look at my face. I have a split lip and my eye is swelling up. I look at my knuckles which are a mix between purple and black which means they are probably broken. I wash the blood off my mouth and crawl into my bunk waiting for my turn to get home.

~3 Days Later~

Maxine hasn't talked to me in three days. She started going back to work and that was basically it. She never ate dinner or anything for that matter and I was really worrying about her. She would basically come home from work walk to the room, take a shower, play some songs then goes to sleep. Today I was putting an end to this. I sat in the living room after band practice except Alan decided to stay behind because him and his girlfriend just broke up and needs somewhere to stay. I hear her walking up the porch and I turn off the tv and look at Alan. "What dude?" I point to the stairs and signal my head towards it. He sighs and walks up the stairs just a Maxine walks in. She drops her keys in the bowl and tries to walk upstairs but I run and block her way. She says nothing and walks to the couch and sits down not looking in my direction. I walk over and sit next to her. "Maxine." She says nothing. "Maxine look at me please." She still says nothing and just sits back. I realize I have to be a little harsher to get her attention. "Maxine Fucking Blaze look at me right now god dammit." She looks up at me and speaks harshly "Why Austin so you can try and hit me again?" I hear footsteps the moments later Alan is downstairs "Dude you almost what!" He practically screams. "Alan calm down it was a misunderstanding." He stares at me then sits next to Maxine. "Explain how Austin because I want to stab you." I sit down on the love seat.

"Okay the last day of tour I was tired of hanging out with the guys and I went to look for Maxine so I asked Jaime's girl Thalia and she pointed to the bus. I get on the bus and here talking from the back lounge." I see Maxine shift in her seat and Alan stares at me with the same glare "Fucking finish Austin." He says. "Okay so I knew for a fact that I heard Maxine voice and I was about to walk in when I heard her and Tony talking about how he kissed her & from the sounds of it she kissed him back. So I told Tony to lay off then long story short we started fighting and I felt someone pull me back I was so angry and I had my fist raised but I swear I would never hit her. Ever Alan." He takes a deep breath then nods his head. "I understand Austin but please just control your anger please. Now on to something else." Alan sits on my side of the couch and glares at Maxine. "Explain Maxi. Right. Fucking. Now." I sit next to him as she takes a deep breath "okay.......