FFI//Carziger//Completed

Trauma Talk

"Can we talk... for a moment?"

"Sure, I need to speak to you about something too," Maxx looked at the snoring bodies passed out on the floor then back at me and signaled me to follow him. I followed him to his room and sat on the bed. "You go first," I told him, he nodded. "Please don't tell anyone else, I'm not ready to tell Dan and Zach," "I promise," Maxx sighed and took a deep breath, "We all know Austin was extremely abusive towards me, right?" I nodded. "Well, as a child my mother had died minutes after I was born so it left me with my sister and abusive father who beaten the crap of us, with this bruises and cuts rumours we're going around saying that my sister was a depressed emo that cut herself to the point it actually caused her to go into depression, which lead her to kill herself, and this was hard for me knowing I was only six at the time and I was left with my father for twelve years til I moved out with you guys, and this has caused some form of insomnia, scared that my father or Austin would break in a drag me away, from home, from the boys, from... you," I stay silent for a slight moment. "Why didn't you talk sooner?!" I apparently yelled judging by his sudden movement. "Please don't scream at me, it makes me think of my childhood and ex," "Sorry," He nodded with a short smile that disappeared to a frown. "I didn't mean to hold it in for this long but I didn't know when I should," I gave him a weak, apologetic smile. "And this explains why I don't speak a lot," We both stayed silent as our hands slowly collided. "You wanted to tell me something?" He asked. I shook my head. "Forget about," "If you say so," He sighed slightly hugging me tightly which I returned. "Please talk to me if you start feeling the way you did," He nodded burying his face in my chest and started crying.

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