Beyond The Storm (Lumax/MUCAS)

Chapter 4

Max began to grow tence as the second hand on the clock ticked towards the 12 making it 2:30

Fuck I'm so screwed
max thought as her head pounded from the anxiety.

And bell ringing felt like hammers to her skull. Kids rushed out the classroom hurriedly while max slowly pushed her chair in and walked to the door.

"Max make sure to do that assignment......" her teacher started a supposed long lecture. If blurry was a sound that's what she'd be hearing. Her mind was out of focus.

When the teacher seemed to have stopped taking max let out a shrugged smile and subtle nod. She then exited the classroom.

Max dragged her legs to her locker as best she could. She slowly placed her books inside and slammed it shut.

Max shuffled her feet outside to the roar of happy students. The smell of dust and rubbed from the busses stung the air making her sneeze.

"Bless you"

Max jumped and then turned around to see her newly back together boyfriend..

"Lucas you scared the shit outta me" max yelled, throwing Lucas a light but playfully aggressive shove.

"Sorry I was just being polite" Lucas replied in a macho sarcastic tone.

"What a dweeb" max shook her head with a smile.
Oh I Lucas began to think. His then almost faded smile brightened up again.

"Can this dweeb take you home." Lucas shrugged his shoulders with a bright smile.

This time it was Max's turn to lose her smile.

"Lucas my step dad is really racist. He would like kill you if he saw you" max explained seriously

"Well wouldn't he be at work right now" Lucas implied with Devios smile while shimmying his shoulders.

"I mean...." max sighed "yeah but...."

"Then I could come over right." Lucas asked hurriedly with excitement.

"Well my mom will be home and she doesn't really...."

"Then I can sneak in through your window and we can......"

"Lucas stop." Max told him sternly making his smile fade and his eyes soften. Max then put her arms in her shoulders uncomfortably. "Your acting like you did when we first started dating. It's making me claustrophobic if you know what I mean." Max furrowed her eyesbrows and gulped.

Lucas' eyes widened. He began to scratch the back of his neck.

"Sorry I just don't wanna screw it up again." Lucas shyed away in embarrassment..

" well you doing a pretty shitty job so far" max told him aggravated. She grabbed her scare board that was in her locker and began to scare off to her home leaving Lucas in a puddle of his own disappointment.

Max didn't mean to be harsh. She couldn't exactly help it either. She was just like that. Brutally honest as she would say. She was already tence enough and Lucas was smothering her. I mean for fucks sake they just got back together that day and he's putting her on a fucking pedestal. She almost missed his smugness before their last breakup. No she did miss it. They clicked that way. She just also wanted that deep sweetness to him. Not the desperate Lucas.

As much as she wished that Lucas was the least of her problems it wasn't. She had her step father to think about. When she got home her mother asked her how her day was and max told her it was fine expecting that she didn't hear about her tardy ness to class. The teacher did call. Maybe her mother was out. Which means there is a voicemail. Fuck.

Max found herself in her room when she heard the front door slam shut. She began to shake knowing the first thing her step Douch of a dad did was check voice mail. Now something like this wouldn't piss him off if billy were around. Cause he would be to focused on him to give a fuck but now he is abusive to just everyone. All his anger was no longer put on billy. Every little mistake. Weather her mother dropped a plate or there wasn't an extra beer for him in the house. He went bad shit crazy.

Max heard the faint noise of the schools voicmail explaining that she was tardy. This wouldn't be so bad but it was the first day of school. And for some reason that would make everything a lot worse.

Max heard the angry steps coming towards her room. Her door whipped to the back of her wall ferociously.

"You were tardy on the first fucking day of school." Max's step fathers voice roared over her.

"I lost track of time." Max sputtered our shaking.

"Oh really." He slammed his hand on her desk making him jump. "And how did you lose track of time. Huh. With that little peice of shit." His face was red in angers

"How do you know about him" max asked shaking intensely.

"What do you think I'm fucking blind.. and billy told me shit before he died." Neil boomed.

"He's just like any other boy" Max's face began to scrunch.

"Oh so billy didn't lie I geuss. And you were with him" Neil screeched.

"No that's not what i said." Max stuttered trying to take back her words.

Soft steps came running towards the door.

"Neil please she's just a child" Max's mom tried to step in..

Neil looked and her furiously. His hand raised and though flinching, Max's mother was met with a hard slap across the face.. this resulted in her hitting the side of a wall and her passing out.

"YOUR A FUCKING PHYSCO" max yelled through her tears.

Neil looked back at her. His eyes were like daggers piercing into her soul.

"Well well Well. Seems like you and your mother tend to talk out of line." Neil said calmly in a terrifying way..

Max gulped as more tears rolled down her face. She was dead.

"Maybe I need to teach you about talking out of line again." He said in an assertive way while closing the door and locking it..

Word count: 1013
7/22/19

Thanks for reading. Can't believe how much cussing there is in this chapter. I make it sound like I'm 10. It's so good not to have to censor it. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Well I mean in the best way. If you enjoy this chapter in that way stop reading and see a therapist. Anyway I'm rambling. Thanks for all the reads. BYEEEE