XO -Max || h.s a.u

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December 3 2017

Mum,

Today was different. Something weird is going on with Ty. His birthday was yesterday and he's 29 now. Mine was last month and I'm 19.

Anyway, Tyde hasn't been talking all day. He claimed that he couldn't et a shift at work so he's mad and grumpy about it.

He works at a factory now. His hours were steady most of the time I don't understand why it would be off now. I'm just scared.

I'm working at the Observatory now. I've always grown up loving stars and astronomy. Now I can work with it. How cool is that? My boss wants to promote me but he's not sure. I hope he does. Then my pay will be better and I can help more with rent.

I approaches Tyde today about his strangeness.

I walked up to his room and knocked on his door.

"Tyde?" I asked. Slot creaking open the door. His was sitting on his bed staring at nothing in general.

I snapped in front if his face like I always had to get him back to earth. But this time when I did it, he grabbed my wrist.

"Don't do that. You're 19. Shouldn't you have learned that it's rude?" I was takin back a bit. He's never snapped at me.

"Tyde we've always done that. It's never been rude to us." He finally let go of my wrist. It had his hand in a red mark on it though.

I'm so worried about him and I don't understand what's going on.

"Tyde what's wrong? Why are you acting like this?" I sat down on his bed beside him with my feet dangling off the side.

Tyde looked up at me with a face I didn't grow to know.

"Why me? Why you? Why us? Why now?" A series of 'why's flowed from his mouth as he grabbed on to me and hugged me and cried like I was a pillow.

"It's okay Tyde. There is worse out there. Infact we are lucky in some ways. What's going on?"

Sometimes I feel like I'm the older one in our relationship. It's weird to think about because we are 10 years apart. Edelle was the one in between us.

He let go of me and angry cried.

"We are not lucky Max. Far from it. If we were lucky, dad would've survived. If we were lucky, we would be able to pay our dos no problem. We would both have good jobs that kept us going we-"

I cut him off because that threw me off. 'we would be able to pay our dos no problem. We would both have good jobs that kept us going'

"We do have jobs that keep us going. Don't we?" Tyde wouldn't reply or look at me even. "Tyde? Don't we?"

He stopped crying and shook his head. "No. We don't anymore. I got fired and the bank wants money in a week or the house is theirs."

I gasped. The house as the banks.

"Why are you still here Max? You're 19. Why haven't you moved out and lived your life without me?" He's not exaggerating.

The sad thing mum, Tyde was suicidal two months ago. I'm afraid that he may be again.

"So what. Let the bank take the house. Didn't your friend say that our home was his if something like this happened? If not, Granny's there for us too. I haven't left because I can't leave you alone. Not after what's happened especially."

Tydes friend is his only friend and vid met him once. His names Neil I think. I'm not sure.

"Call Neil and ask him. I have to leave for work in 15. I'll be back late as usual. Call if you need me."

Tyde laughed. It felt good to see him laugh.

I stared at him with a confused look I used a lot. Tyde said I look like you when I do that.

I asked him what and he laughed again.

"What?" I was starting to laugh a bit myself.

"It's Niall. And you reminded me of mum again." He said smiling. "I'll call. Go to work don't be late. Love you."

I said it back of course.

Tyde told me about how you would say that you loved him forever. He gets upset when it comes up. If you loved us, why'd you leave us?

xo

-Max

Okay. So. Harry comes in next chapter. Whenever Max mentions something as 'you' it's her mum she's talking to because these are like the letters that she wrote to her mum I guess. Ya. And the picture on the side is Max.

Thanks for reading :)

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