Max Hella Caulfield

Rachel Hella Amber...?

Chloe's POV

"What the hell. Where am I? Woah. Why does my voice sound different?"

I'm standing in the middle of a road under a green lamp post. I don't remember getting here. Last time I checked, Max and I were heading out from the pool. Shit. Max. 

I start to call out for her. "Max?......Max?!........MAX!" Nothing.

I look down and notice that I wasn't wearing my boots and patches jeans, but sneakers, jeans that weren't patched up, and a black sweater. I bring the longest strand of my hair into my point of view. It's my natural hair color. My phone starts to buzz and I reached in to grab it. 

"Rachel Amber?"

I look up from my phone and jump back, for she appeared right in front of me. That blue feather earring and her red flannel. No no no. This cannot be happening. 

Rachel smiled. "Hey! I was looking for you!"

"No, you hella weren't." I continued to look around for Max.

Rachel added. "Chloe. If you're gonna use hella, you need to use it correctly. You can't just go around inserting it in places were it doesn't even make sense."

Not paying attention to anything she has to say, I blurt out, "Yeah, that's what she said." A snort to myself and look behind me, where I see the road leading to the woods. Huh that wasn't there before. "Well, Rachel, thanks for the lecture, but I gotta get going now!" And I start running for the forest. 

I start to hear footsteps running behind me. It's Rachel. "After all we've been through? You swore! You swore that we were going to run away together!"

I try to ignore her and focus on Max. "MAX?! MAAAX?! MAAAAAAX?!"

Rachel then popped up beside me and kept popping up every foot I was running. "Max left you remember? She abandoned you. Look at your phone Chloe! SHE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOU...but I do."

"Fuck you."

 I keep running calling out Max's name until hear a voice not too far away from me. Max. "Chloe? Where are you?" I start to call out for her again until I reached the speck of pink in the forest. 

I finally reach her and a hug her tight. "Excuse me Miss but I don't... Wait... Chloe?"

"Yes Max. Chloe. It's me. Don't worry."

"I don't know where I am and my head doesn't feel so great." 

Fuck fuck fuck fuck. I pick her up and cradle her in my arms. "Okay Max. I don't know where we are either, but I'll find a way out."

I start to run again in what seems to be a never ending forest. Minutes later, I see a sign. 'Welcome to Arcadia Gay'. Alright then...

Suddenly I hear Rachel's voice behind me. It slowly begins to sound louder and I start running faster. Max picks up her head a little "Who's that?" She starts to lean up from my arms. 

Shit she doesn't have to see her uhhhhhhhhh...... with both of my arms supporting Max I can't cover her eyes, so I lean down and brush my hair in her face to blind her. "An old friend."

"OH! Is it Justin?" Max loopily says. What the fuck? Is she high or something? Haha. My girl. 

My attention is then directed to Rachel calling out again. Max adds, again, "Woah he sounds like a girl!"

"Max! Just go to sleep please!"

"Naptime!" And just like that Max falls asleep, which isn't easier for me since I have to carry her dead weight now.

I look back and see Rachel still running after me and the Arcadia Gay sign still at the same distance it was before. Fuck me. I put Max down and find something to stop Rachel. I place my eyes on a large log that I can push down the hill into Rachel's path. "Wow. That's hella convenient." I give it a large push and send it running down Rachel's way. It places itself right in front of her so she could trip on it and give me and Max some time to get away. "That was hella fucking convenient as well." Rachel runs towards the log, but as she was running her face started to look different. Almost as if she was melting. Once she approached the log she hunched over it and fell right on top, her body slowly becoming deformed. "That's hella disturbing."

I run back to Max, who was now awake. "Chloe," she said weakily, "I can't - I can't move. Chloe  please help me. CHLOE I'M SCARED PLEASE HELP ME." 

I wrapped my hands around her head and elevated it a little. "Max come on. We're gonna get out of here."

"Chloe. Can we just stay here for a little bit."

I look back at melting Rachel. "Ehhhhhh nope. Let's go."

"Chloe, why do you hate me?"

"What? Max I love you. What are you talking about?"

"You swore that we were going to run away together."

"Uh what Max?" Suddenly Max's eyes rolled to the back of her head. "MAX?!?!" Her nose started bleeding like crazy. After a couple seconds Max's body went limp. My eyes started to water. I held Max close and kissed her on the forehead. "I'm so sorry." I look up to see a white light.

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I open my eyes to see my room lit up by the sunlight. All of posters, the flag, the mess, the graffiti everywhere. I start to smell bacon and eggs coming from downstairs. I touch my hair and bring the longest bundle of hair around to the front of my face. Blue. I turned to my right and see a faded pink head glistening in the sunlight. "MAX!" I jump on her and she grumbles and nudges me off.

"Chloe please! I'm so tired!"

I jump back in to hug her anyway and she just endures. "Max. I hella miss you. I'm never leaving you, ever, okay?"

Max giggled with her back still turned to me. "Yeah. That's what you said last night after you proposed."

My eyes widened and my body stiffened. I what? How long was I out last night? What did we do? Did I really...? How did I even get the money for a ring? Oh I probably gave her a ring pop because those are only a dollar. Wait I'm still hella confused though. Were we on something? We were definitely on something. Damn that must've been some hella strong shit then because I don't remember fucking anything! But I'm sure I would remember if I proposed to Max or not. I wonder if there were fireworks, like I planned in my head. "OH right! Yeah! uhhh.. congratulations!" Congratulations? Dude what the fuck?

"I'm fucking with you!" Max turns around and pushes me back down on the bed and gets up. "Unless you wanna stay here by yourself and starve, I'm gonna go downstairs and get some amazing breakfast that Joyce made."

"You're hella gonna get it, Max."

{Now that I've gotten all of this Before the Storm stuff out of my system, I'll continue with the actual story I was writing hahaha}