Max Hella Caulfield

Miss Chase

Max's POV

"Geez Chloe! If you're going to be directing me on where to go, can you at least push me in the right directions?!" 

Chloe stopped pushing me along. "I already have. You're with me now."

I roll my eyes under the blindfold. "Chloe really? You know that's not what I meant!"

Chloe laughed and continued pushing me up the stairs. "I know, I know. I'm just fucking with you."

"Chloe..."

Chloe finally stops; I could feel her walking around to face me. "Messing Max. Anyway, we're here." 

"It's about time. I was getting tired of you pushing me into bushes and other various plants." I say while scratching my legs, which were irritated from them brushing against the branches.

"Fuck sorry about that." Chloe took off my blindfold and my eyes started to adjust. My vision finally comes into focus. Why are we at Blackwell?

"Chloe what are we doing here?" She reached into her pocket and took out a set of keys. "God Chloe! Are you cereal?! I'm already suspended! I don't need to get in any more trouble!"

"Damn try not to act too excited please. You might draw attention!" Chloe said sarcastically, while unlocking the main building door. "Come on Max. Just think of this as one of our pirate adventures.... hmmm... we have to... search the ship for the booty, steal it, then make our way out before we get caught... if we do."

"Sounds more like a job for a ninja."

"Today we're pirate ninjas. The Blackwell pirate ninjas."

I giggle at how childish Chloe sounds. "You're so corny sometimes.... most times... but it's cute. So how am I supposed to say no to that?"

"Hella yes!" Chloe grabbed my hand and pulled me into the building, locking the door behind us. 

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We walked down the dark hallways of the empty school with our phone flashlights on, when suddenly we see something move in the darkness. "Hey! Who's there?" Chloe yelled at the moving shadow.

No answer. I decided to speak up. "Hello?"

We then heard a soft voice answer, "Max?" Oh fuck. I can't get caught now. Before I held out my hand to rewind to before we walked down the hall, the person said, "Max, I know it's you. Please..." I put my hand down and look at Chloe. Chloe had an uneasy look on her face because not only would I get expelled if we got caught, but Chloe would get in some deep shit with David if he found out she stole his keys and broke into the school after hours. Chloe shrugged her shoulders and held out her right hand to tell me to use my powers. I hesitated for a bit. I wanted to see who it was and why they were there. I put my hand on Chloe's shoulder to tell her to wait where she was and I walked up to the person at the end of the hall. 

"W-who is it?" I called out as I was slowly approaching them. They said nothing. "Are you okay?" Still no answer. My light finally flashes on them, rolled up in the corner by a locker near Jefferson's classroom. Wearing black leggings, a red/orange oversized hoodie, and sneakers, hair messed up, and no makeup or jewelry, and with a healing bruise on her face was, "Victoria?"

"What the fuck?" I hear Chloe say in the distance. 

"Victoria," I say while crouching down next to her, "how... why are you here?"

"I could ask you the same thing." she snarked.

"Victoria. You're the one who called me. I didn't call you, so you're big headed remarks and whatever else you have going on in that head of yours are irrelevant to me because I could just walk away from you right now and leave you by yourself in the dark, when I know you need someone to talk to by the look of you right now. Who knew you owned a sweater like that?"