I'm fine, ok?

Chapter one: We didn't have to go to the stupid lake David

A/N: My fist fic on here, woop! I assure you I have a grasp on basic grammar though. Today I will be taking our sweet son max and beating him down with sickness. (Haha, you'll never find my address to kill me you fools) don't worry it'll turn to fluff soon. Soon.  This story would be updated irregularly, as I don't have me a schedule to write for here yet, but I won't keep you waiting too long. Tags will be updated, open to suggestions. That being said, enjoy the story ^v^

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It was another day in the miserable camp that max was forced to call home for now.  It wasn't really that bad anymore actually, ever since Nikki and Neil showed up he had some tolerable friends and a lot more stuff was happening around now, but one thing still lingered, the literal bane of his existence. David. That asshole spent every waking hour of his life being a total pain. and yesterday had been no exception. 

Gwen was out doing god knows what again and David decided it was a good idea to take the kids to the lake. Max didn't bring anything to swim in so he just lingered around in his usual yellow shirt and blue hoodie. Everyone else had taken to doing various things in the small amount of sand and slippery vegetation, with Nikki looking for huge crabs, Neil trying to keep away from contact with the water, space kid was building a space ship with the sand and Nurf kicking the sand onto just about everybody else. Max stayed to himself on the side looking into the water, so of course David came to pick on him.

"Now Max," the brown haired adult chided, "everyone else is having fun at the lake, why don't you join them?" Max scoffed and rolled his eyes, "David you fucking degenerate, if you think for one second that I'm participating in this stupid activity of yours, you're wrong." David put his hands on his hips, "Max! first of all, language, secondly the water is fine, just jump in." Max narrowed his eyes and scooted away from the older man. "Come on Max, if you don't want to have fun, then god damn it I'll have to show you the way." with that, David picked up the scrawny 10 year old by the armpits. "What the-" Max protested, stunned by the action, "David you put me the fuck down or I swear to god your bank account will suffer!" Interested by the struggle the other campers started to look on. 'Yeah! Bista Bomb him David!" yelled an over exited Nikki. "Now, now kids, I'm not going to hurt him" David quickly confirmed. Max was pretty light and skinny for his age and David was able to carry him to the edge of the pier despite Max's struggles, "See Max? its not so bad." Max was clearly not amused. "I said let me the fuck go!" Max yelled, this time sending a well aimed kick right to David's crotch area. David abruptly let Max go with a not so masculine squeal. Thus leaving Max to fall right into the water.

The first thing that hit his was how unforgivingly cold the water was. It was the middle of the summer, but that didn't stop the lake from feeling like the other Antarctic. The rain a few days back didn't help his case either because it made the water deeper than usual. "David!" Max yelled furiously, "I will murder everything you love! I'll burn your stupid pet log! I'll-" he continued to shout threats as David eventually caught himself. "Max! Are you ok?" 

"No I am not ok! When for a second did you think I was fucking ok with this!" The water had started to soak into his hoodie, causing him to shiver. He was also starting to struggle to keep his head above the water. "Just get me the fuck out of here!" David looked around him for a stick or something to pull max out, but space kid eventually rose to the challenge. "Deploy water landing equipment!" He yelled as he dived into the water near max. The water couldn't get inside his space uniform, but space kid proved useless anyways because he just sunk to the bottom. "I'm ok!" He assured, giving a thumbs up just before his hand sank.

Max, on the other hand was not ok. By then he had swallowed a considerable amount of the near rancid lake water and already wasn't feeling all right. "D-david" he gasped almost desperately now, trying to get himself closer back to the pier. "Hang on max!" David cheerfully but urgently called, "just a second". Max glared with whatever he had left. Was this guy serious? Would he seriously die here? This was a lame ass way to go. Oh well, the darkness was waiting for him. 

Just as he was about to stop swimming though, Gwen decided to finally make her presence known. Max had managed to get himself close enough to the pier, so Gwen just grabbed him by the soaking hood and fished him out of the lake. "David what the heck" groaned Gwen, "I'm gone for 5 minutes and you're drowning the kids?"  By this time, David managed to catch up with the others and he held a long stick. "Gwen you're back!" David gleamed. "He wasn't drowning, just enjoying all the fun camp activities!" Gwen faceplamed as she set the shivering kid down on dry land. Max glared and kicked David in the shins, "T-thanks for n-nothing retard" Max turned and started to storm off to his tent. "Wait max!" David called, holding his own shin, "the fun isn't over yet!" Max promptly flipped him off, slightly tripping over himself in the processes as he was slightly disoriented after thrashing around in the water. "Let him go David," Gwen said as she got space kid out of the water as well. David looked at max leave, utterly defeated at the moment.

Max had to practically drag himself back to the tent he shared with Neil. His limbs felt like trash and he was overall done with the day. "S-stupid D-david" he said to himself, his voice bitter. He kicked off his wet shoes. He knew he should have taken off his soaking clothes too, but he really didn't feel like it. The lake water had left a weird taste in his mouth and he was freezing. Max heaved himself into his poor excuse for a bed and pulled the covers tightly over himself. Before he fell asleep though, he retrieved his trusty bear, Mr Honey Nuts, from his safe space under his pillow. He pressed himself against the stuffed animal and tried to get deeper into the covers, but he just couldn't seem to get warm. He eventually shivered himself to sleep.

Sometime later at night, max faintly remembers being woken by Neil, who was turning in for the night. Max groaned from under the covers. "Max?" asked the science camp attendee. "You stayed in here all day. Are you sure you're all right?" By this time Max was more awake than he would have liked to be. Throughout the time he was asleep, his wet clothes soaked out his sheets, making it so that he was basically lying in a puddle of moist cloth. Even Mr Honey Nuts betrayed him and was visibly darker with water. Max waved his hand dismissively, "I'm fine, just keep it down" he half mumbled as he curled into an even tighter ball. Neil responded with an ok before getting into his own bed.

Enter the present day, max woke up feeling worse than how he fell asleep. The first thing that hit him was the angry red marks that were on his skin from sleeping in wet clothes. The second thing was how unbearably dry and itchy his throat felt, not to mention his pounding head. "Oh for fucks sake!" He complained, punching his pillow. He immediately noticed how raspy his voice was. Neil seems to have woken up before him, a definite first, as the nerd loved his beauty sleep. Max wanted to just stay in his tent longer and wallow in his own distress, but he knew he already had a long enough grace period and if he didn't get back out there soon David would be up his tail. Sighing, he got himself out of the wet sheets finally and changed into a new set of clothes, the same yellow shirt he was required to wear and the hoodie he continued to don in the sweltering heat out of pure spite. Though he was happy for the warm cloth today. He made his way out of the tent, the bright sun doing his clouded eyes no favors. He made his way to the mess hall with the others, one thing was for sure, this was going to be a total shit show.