My Understandings. (Of Mice and Men love story.)

Where Art Thou Romeo?

Austin ran to the corner store down the street and picked up some snacks. Including Ben and Jerry's ice cream, energy drinks, and some cut up fruit. I sat with my legs crossed in his jacket, my underwear, and bra, feasting on the red velvet ice cream he bought knowing it was my favorite. He sat across from me eating his cookie dough ice cream. 

"You never told me the story behind Max." Austin said. "Whats there to tell?" I asked, trying to avoid the question. "You obviously loved him. How'd you meet and stuff." he asked. I shrugged. "Middle school." 

"And." 

I sighed, "You want the whole story?" I asked getting up and putting my ice cream in the mini fridge's mini freezer. I laid back down on my back, with my head in Austin's lap. "Yes." he said moving my messy hair from my face. 

I took a deep breath. "Okay, so Max and I had a a lot of classes together in Middle school. I was really dorky, and you know like nerdy. My mom was never around and my dad is in the Military, but I came from money so I could get new clothes and a new hairstyle, but I chose not to because I didn't really care. Anyways- did I say Max was a new student? Whatever. He was, and we ended up getting a lot of classes together. I'm really good in math and language arts, so i'd go to his house and help him all the time.

"The end of 8th grade rolled around, and I ditched the metal framed glasses, got eye surgery so I didn't have to wear contacts, and I got my braces off. I developed a friendship with Jenna who showed me how to put on makeup, and curl my hair. So during the summer we tanned and pretty much she made me really hot. Jenna introduced me to her good friend since grade school, and that was Melanie. At the time she had some crazy hair color so I asked her if she could lighten my natural hair, which is like a dark blonde, to an almost white color and she did. 

"Going into freshman year I was confident about the way I looked. I got invited to parties a lot, but I went on occasion. Its kinda a shame people started liking me after I changed my look. But the time I did go to a party, Max was there. We didn't have classes freshman year since I was in all advanced classes. So anyways, he came up to me and was like "Abby is that you?" 

"Abby is that you?" I heard behind me. I turned around with a smile plastered on my face from the conversation before. An older guy, senior maybe, was hanging on my hips, whispering the things he was going to do to me. There he stood. Mop headed, blonde hair covered his freckled, tanned skin. He moved his hair out of his eyes so i could now see his angry blue-green orbs. "Max?" I smiled. "I haven't seen you in forever!" I laughed, a little tipsy from the spiked drinks. I tripped and grabbed onto his shoulder. 

Okay, a lot tipsy.

"I got it." Max hissed at the senior when he pulled me up. "Do you want me to take you home?" he asked, laughing. "No, no. I'm good." I smiled. He took the cup out of my hand and set it on the glass table in front of us. "C'mon." he said, throwing my arm over his shoulder. On our way out he grabbed his skate board he left by the door. "Can I ride it?" I asked, pointing to the board. We walked down the steep drive way, and he put the board on the ground. I sat down crossing my legs. He pushed me from behind down the street. "I don't know where you live."  he said when he pushed me over the bridge. "Then take me to your house, silly." I laughed. "Your folks don't mind?" he asked. "My dads in the army and my mom is probably at the bar." I said, smiling up a storm. "Okay, we're almost there. Do you think you can walk? My arms are tired." he said. I rolled off the board on my knees. He helped me up, and I trudged down the road with him. 

He unlocked the front door to an empty house. His house was pretty much empty all the time since both of his parents travel for their jobs. "Nice house." I smiled. He laughed. "You've been here before." he opened the door to his room, and led me to his bed. I collapsed, and he unlaced my shoes, and threw them to the side. "Here." he said throwing me a shirt. I may have been a little drunk but I remember that night clearly. "Help me" I said with a helpless look on my face. He laughed, "You're a big girl." 

"But not sober." I cracked myself up. He rolled his eyes, then grabbed the shirt. "Sit up." 

"No." 

"Sit up, I can't get it off when you're laying like that." I looked at him, and bit my lip. "Well try." he looked at me. "What are you trying to do." i moved my hair from my eyes. "I want you to touch me."  he shook his head. "You can sleep in that. I respect you, Abigail." he started to get up but I grabbed his hand, and pulled him back down. I sat up. He slipped my tight tank top off, and threw his big black tee on, and slipped my black shorts off. "Lay with me." 

He held me from behind, and it wasn't long before I fell asleep. 

~

The morning after my head was pounding. All I smelt was bacon, and toast. I looked around the room knowing where I was. "Max?" I yelled. "Why am I here?" I asked. He came in with a plate of food and a cup of coffee. "You were drunk. I brought you here because you didn't know where you lived." I looked at the food. "We didn't" 

"No, but you sure wanted to." he laughed. "Here." he handed me an asprin and the coffee. I swallowed hard, and he put the plate on the table. "Wanna roll a few? It would take the headache away."  he smiled, his dimples indenting deep into his cheeks. "Yeah, im going to go wash my face."

 I got up and washed my face in the bathroom connected to his room. My boyshort underwear peeked out from under the shirt Max lended me. I looked at him smiling on the edge of the bed, before I opened the door wider, and bent over the sink. Pretty soon I felt his hands on my hips, and his hands up the back of my shirt. 

"Is that is?" Austin asked, his finger tangled in my red velvet locks. "When did you guys make it offical?" he asked. "It was more of a friends with benefits type deal until he took me on a real date, but we were both stoned as hell. I don't remember it much." 

Just wanted to give some background on Max. Max on the side.