Can you be my Nightingale?

Chapter 11

Max POV

Riley, Ann, and Maria. They all bully me every chance that they get, they even mess with me online, "M..Mila..?" I stuttered to the now worried Mila sitting beside me on the bench. "Yes sweetie.. Is everything okay..?" "Those..they..they used t..to bully me.. they still do.." I barely managed to say. "Come on, let's leave.." I nodded. "where do you think you're going?!" Maria said, I was yanked back by the hood of my hoodie, making me hitt my head

*Flashback*

"Come here you fat whore!" Ann demanded. They'd caught up with me and started beating me. I cried and screamed, I was shaking and it was getting hard for me to breathe

*End of flashback*

By the time I'd came back to reality, I'd realized that I'd been crying into mommy and we were in her car with all of the girls around me. "Mommy!" I cried in relief. "Yes baby, mommy's here." I clung to her tightly. The hiccups in my crying stopped and I fell asleep in mommy's arms.

Demi POV

I looked at my phone and realized Camila texted me.

C- "Demi hurry, some girls who bully Max pulled her down and now she won't stop crying."

D- "Almost there, I see you."

I ran over to Max, who was sobbing cradled in Camila's arms. She handed her to me and we grabbed all of the bags and ran out to the car with Max. We needed to get her out of there. I opened one door and sat down with max in my arms, she was sobbing hysterically. All of the girls stood around, anxious. Max started curling into me and crying for someone named Riley to please stop. I whispered sweet nothings to her telling her she was safe and that no one was going to hurt her. After a few minutes, she looked up and saw me. Her eyes shot full of relief, "Mommy!" She held on to me tighter, then the hiccups in her cries stopped and she cuddled into me and fell asleep.

Camila POV

Max fell asleep in Demi's arms and it was so precious, but I cant help but wonder why she freaked out like that. Flashbacks maybe, I used to get those a lot, I still do sometimes. "Demi?" Dinah said. "Hmm?" "What just happened?" "Yea.." All of us wondered aloud in just as much confusion as Dinah. "Flashbacks probably" Demi said. I spoke up, "Yea. she did say those girls bully her." A choir of "Awe"s came from everyone in sympathy of how much little maxie has gone through. "how long has she been up Demi?" Marissa asked. "Before she passed out.. well yesterday she was in and out of sleep because of how bad her nightmares are." "I wish I could take her pain away." Normani said. "Me too hun" Demi agreed. Demi placed Max in her carseat so she could sleep and buckled her in. Demi is such a great mom to Max "Guys guess what?" Demi exclaimed "What?" "I got max and I matching lockets and on the inside there's a picture of us two the day I adopted her on one side and on the other the date I adopted her is engraved and our names are on the back" "Awe, Demi that's so sweet" Demi smiled cheekily, placing the locket back in the box. We all put the bags in our trunks because there was so much stuff and stood around Demi's car, "Sleepover?" Demi asked. "Duh" Everyone said. "Yay!!! And if Max wakes up from a bad dream and I'm asleep, please wake me up because I know Max will be too scared or lost in her thoughts to wake me up herself, and If its too bad can one of you please try to calm her and ut her back to sleep?" "Alright, I'll be on nightmare duty if you fall asleep first." I offered, "Thanks Mila you're so sweet." "No problem DemDem."

Demi POV

We all drove to my house and unloaded the trunks. I carried Max in one arm, letting her head rest on my shoulder. "Who wants to stay up all night?" I asked. "All of us, duh." Dinah said, we all laughed. "Okay good, cause I ordered some furniture  for Max's room yesterday and it should be here soon.." "Okay" Everyone agreed. "Do you guys wanna help me organize Max's closet AND I wanna see what you got my daughter?" I said laughing. Everyone laughed then nodded, they helped me carry all the bags up to Max's room and I did the passcode for her closet and we sat in her very large closet and started going through the clothes and putting them on hangers. "Awe, this blue dress is too cute Mila!" she smiled,  "I bought myself one to match. It's a little big on her, but they only sold a 6 so I let her get it because she liked it so much." My heart sank.. "What size is the rest of this then..?" I was honestly scared to know. Camila looked down nervously, "A..a five." I put my hands over my mouth and the other girls gasped. "I think its a good time to tell them now Dems" camila said. I nodded and spoke up, "Max is anorexic, maybe bulimic.. I don't know yet.." Everyone had looks of sympathy on their faces