Come a Little Closer ((Completed))

Chapter 35

Max

"I'm not asking you to jump off the damn thing Max." Clarissa stands over me holding our three week old baby in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

"Put her down and get out my way."  I say.

She looks at the baby and takes a drag of her cigarette. Her smoke blows in Tinsley's face and I'm not doing a good job and not slapping her face. I hold it back and stand up grabbing Tinsley from her and walking out of the room.

"Max, have you decided to come with us?" Greg asks me. 

I hate looking at him. He was a friend to me. But now all I see is my girlfriend naked in his bed and him kissing her neck. It makes me sick. They make me sick.

"I refuse to be in a car with the two of you. I'm doing good and if I'm forced.to be around the two of you I might kill myself."

Greg looked at my arms. I tilted Tinsley away from him. "Don't." I say.

Greg smiles. "I'm sorry to break it to you Maxwell, but you don't have a choice. Sam is dying to watch the child.. "  He us up to something...

I clench my jaw and do my best not to scream at him. I may be holding a baby, but he is not the type of person to let me put her down before he takes a swing at my face. As he walks away I search for Sam then go jump in the van.

Once we are at the bottom of the hill, Clarissa takes my hand into hers and looks at me. I pull my hand back to my side and follow her, Greg, Blake and Jaxson up.

The hill is steep and the farther we travel the more my cravings start to kick in. Lissa is walking a head of me with the others and I'm watching as they climb one by one to the end. Clarissa has one last hill to climb up and as she goes to climb it she falls and smacks her face, everyone runs to her side but the only thing I'm concentrating on his the meth that has fallen from her back pocket as she stands to walk. I walk up to it and grab it. I've been doing so well, it's been for nothing. I sneak away behind a tree and open the baggie.

When I start to walk again, I can see balls of fire hitting the trees. Greg, Blake and Jaxson lay on the ground surrounded by a demon the same one from last week. I knew she wasn't who she says. The closer I get the more evil she looks. When she turns to look at me a tree behind me bursts into flames and she starts to charge at me. I panic punch her in the face sending her to the ground.

When I look down the demon is Clarissa again. Her mouth is bloody and her eyes are blood shot like she hit her head on something to hard, but her face is pail white and she is limp. I look around and the flames are gone. Unlike last time I can remember my high. I look around and the guys are standing over her dead body. I blink away tears filling my eyes.

I wish I cared she was dead. But I don't. I only care about Tinsley and how she is going to grow up without a mother and it will be my fault.

"Max.." Jaxson walks over to me putting his hand on my shoulder.

I looked up at Greg. My mind blank.

"She killed herself. The last few weeks she has been acting strange and she ran away. As far as anyone knows we haven't seen her today."

My body feels numb as I look at the stick that impaled her body sticks out of her stomach. I knew it was there when I punched her. I seen it and I knew it would kill her, I thought she was a demon, at least that is what I'll tell myself. Even if I knew the truth. I have to tell myself something to keep me from unraveling. She did look like a demon to me, that won't be a lie.