give me love ✧ max mills

nineteen | rely

g r a c e

i woke up to someone's arms wrapped around my waist. who in god's name would ever—max. i quickly get up without waking him and stare at his sleeping figure in my sheets. i watched as his body moved up and down. my eyes moved up to his face. i ran my eyes over every inch of his annoyingly hot features, cursing in my head—cursing because he's perfect.

after a few moments, i shook my head and left the room. i knew for a fact that if i stayed any longer, i would come to find more annoyance at myself rather than at max.

i walked downstairs quietly and heard multiple types of noises coming from my kitchen. squeaking, dropping, moving, shifting, and multiple other strange noises that made me nervous to see what was going on.

i peered over my kitchen counter into the rest of the kitchen, keeping a safe distance away from whatever was happening.

just then harvey walked out of my pantry with a variety of different snacks in his hands, plus a poptart in his mouth. of course.

i rolled my eyes and laughed as he slowed down and smiled with force because the poptart would fall if he smiled too carelessly.

"harvey why are you here?" i asked, hugging him from the side.

he sighed.

mumbling noises came from his mouth as he 'explained' his presence at my house. i laughed and took the poptart out of his mouth.

"better?" i asked.

he nodded. "much." he simply replied.

"okay. now tell me why you—and your brother—are here." i replied, hopping up onto the counter to sit.

"grace! be careful!" harvey exclaimed, practically running over and making sure i was fine. "harvey i'm fine." i said with a. small laugh. the fact that he really cared about all of this was cute.

he laughed a little. "sorry." he shortly replied.

"max came to apologize—and i came to supervise." he explained.

"supervise?" i asked, furrowing my eyebrows.

he nodded as if his job was obviously important. i'm pretty sure he made it up on the spot, but okay.

"you see, i came to make sure you took him back, and nothing 'intimate' occurred because of—well—everything. you know, i'm pretty sure that i keep everything running. i'm the core of this whole relationship. it's crazy." he said with a small amazed laugh.

"harvey oh my god." i stated, laughing.

he smiled warmly at me.

"i need to admit something." he said, unusually serious. this scared me.

i nodded, waiting for him to get whatever he was holding in off of his chest.

"when max told me about your..um..situation, i was a little heartbroken. and i know that this is weird, but it's the truth. when he told me about everything, two things popped into my mind and i haven't been able to shake them. 1) the fact that this is the way we became friends again honestly just crushed my heart. and 2) max was so set on just letting all of this go and not dealing with this—or you—and not helping out with anything; when he told me, i knew you deserved better. i thought that you needed someone else to help because i thought i knew who max was. but i actually didn't." he said.

he took a short pause.

"max is so much more than a prick who gets with a girl and leaves and then does is again and again and again. and before you came along, that's just who he was and he did things the easy way. he just switched off his emotions and just went on with fake relationships and loveless situations...but then you came along and he just changed out of nowhere. one day he was a selfish prick with tons of fake friends, and the next, he was a new person who really cared about something for once in his life." harvey sighed and paused.

"and i know i have no place apologizing for him, but i feel like i need to tell you that he's just learning so many new things about actually having someone that he really loves. and he was drunk and had absolutely no clue what was going on. he went to the party to cover up your situation so no one would find out about it." harvey explained.

"harvey i know. and i'm so happy that he changed and actually cares and it's amazing to see him happy, but he's trying to cover up something he says he's happy about harvey. how does that-" harvey cut me off.

"grace! he's so happy about everything. he's literally the happiest i've ever seen him when he's with you! he's only trying to cover it up because he's scared that if someone found out, they'd hurt you. he's scared that you won't want to be with him if someone finds out. he told me the other day that all he wants to do is tell the world about you and the twins. he just wants to be with you."

my heart dropped in that moment. i finally realized that everything that's happened so far, is max's way of protecting me. max has been putting me first in every way possible.

i got off of the counter and hugged harvey so tight, because harvey had fixed this. harvey had taught me how to view what was going on, and i'd be able to rely on him.

-

im so sorry i haven't updated :( but to be frank i haven't had time/ i've been so stressed and just not okay, but here you are x