"What the fuck, Max?" I said.
I stood there in shock. Max? Max Helyer? THEE Max Helyer? Get charged? With assault? This didn't make sense.
"I-I-I- did something terrible, I guess." He said to me and Hayley.
"Max, what the fuck have you done?"
"W-W-When you two come back here, we went back into the pub to finish our drinks and th-th-then it happened.."
"What exactly happened?"
Max started to shake, he looked a mess. You could tell he felt terrible too.
"He started it again! I ended it!!"
Max started to cry again, soaking his jacket in tears.
"Who started it!? Tell me already!"
"Okay. Okay Okay. We went back to the pub to finish my Guinness. Y'know how much I love my Guinness. Anyway, I walked in and Joe started his shit again so I might of hit him.."
"Max, it's not that bad! I done worse."
""N-N-No you didn't. I got really angry. He wouldn't stop his abuse. He was calling me all sorts of names and bringing up things that I didn't want mentioned. I grabbed the closest chair and smacked it across his head."
"Y-Y-YOU DID WHAT!?"
Max looked to the ground in disappointment. When I heard what he did, I felt my stomach twist. It wasn't because what Max did was bad, it was because I heard Joe's name again.
"I feel terrible, Jack. I shouldn't have done it."
"Don't be silly, Max! He deserved everything he got. No need for treating you like shit. How're you getting charged with assault?"
"Well, once it happened, he blacked out. The ambulance came and then the police got called and told me I had to come in tomorrow for questioning and he knew who I was because he's seen me on TV and shit."
Max nodded and walked to his door. "Night guys, I need sleep."
"Night Max"
We walked to our door and once we got in, there was an awkward silence.
I got in the covers, and spread out as wide as I could taking all of the covers.
"Urm, excuse me!?"
"What now?"
"THOSE COVERS ARE FOR SHARING!"
I couldn't be arsed sharing so I pulled Hayley towards me and she lay on my chest until she fell asleep.
"Goodnight, I love you." I whispered.
"I love you too, Goodnight" Hayley replied.
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BANG! BANG! BANG!
"What the fuck?" I groaned as I woke up.
"JACK! JACK! JACK! LET ME IN!!" A voice called from the other side of the door.
I turned round to see Hayley still asleep. Her eyes fluttered and her bed hair made her look so sexy. I didn't want to wake her.
I limped up from the bed and walked to the door. Max barged in.
"Good morning to you too, Max." I said, sarcastically.
"I've been." Max said as I was walking back to the bed.
"And what did they say?"
"They let me off with a warning, after I explained what happened to them. They understood. i fhink they're actually on the look for Joe now."
"Why are they looking for him?"
"I don't know. Inappropriate touching and shit."
"Oh, good. What time is it?"
"12PM."
"FUCK!! WE WERE MEANT TO LEAVE FOR DUBLIN BY NOW WEREN'T WE!?"
"Shit! Yeah! SHITT!"
I got Hayley and said "HAYLEY! ITS 12 O'CLOCK, COME AND GET IN THE SHOWER NOW!!"
She nodded and ran to the bathroom with me and we both jumped in the shower. It was double headed. "We'll be half an hour!"
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"Sorry we're late guys." Max said as we all ran to the bus.
"We wondered where you's where!" Matt said.
"Max was just telling us about the interview and shit." I said.
"Talking of Max, look who's in the paper.." Dan said holding up an Irish newspaper.
The title of the paper read: "Pop-punk guitarist in pub brawl."
"Max, everything will be okay. Your fans will still love you. Explain everything when we're at Dublin to have the concert. And when we get back to London, magazines and newspapers will want to talk to you to see what happened." Ilona said.
She spoke so much sense. It's like, everything she said, you knew that things were going to go right, and the way she said it.
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This was it. The last stop on the Sinners Never Sleep tour. The same routine continued as last night's, but we were in Dublin. Hayley didn't want to sing Stay With Me with Josh as it was the last show and she wanted him to have it to himself.
"Good evening Dublin! My name is Josh Franceschi and this is You Me At Six! I just quickly need to analyse something before we go on with the show tonight. Everyone knows our little Max, Maximus Helyer. Has been in trouble with the Police. Max hasn't done anything wrong before you guys start judging him. He only done it for self defence. So, Dublin. We're going to cheer him up tonight. Okay?" Josh continued.
The crowd roared. 2,900 people just stood there chanting for Max. You could tell who couldn't keep the smile back any longer.
It was good to see Max smile again. Then You Me At Six, continued their show.
After the boys played The Dilemma, Dan stood up and made his way back to Josh. Josh seemed confused about what was going on.
"Er, hey Dan? You alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fucking perfect actually. I just have an anouncement to make." Dan said, smiling.
