Saving Max (2020 Edition)

Saving Max -Remake (2020)

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I think I assumed silence would invite silence.

That maybe for the first time in my god-forsaken life I would have some quiet.

But no.

Silence does not invite silence.

Silence invites noise.

People have a constant need to fill the space around them. Silence makes people deeply uncomfortable, so they fill it with their own chaos.

And I hear everything.

That another thing. People think if you don't speak then you don't hear-as if my vocal cords and eardrums are all the same thing.

Or maybe if you're quiet enough people just forget you exist at all. So they talk and talk, and I listen, and I hear it all.

So I heard the stirring around me. The clues came from fragments of whispers from he nurses in the halls. I could feel the excitement stirring among the other patients at breakfast in cafeteria. Something was different about today.

Today was not a normal day.

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Max is a 15-year-old resident of a mental health treatment center for troubled youth. Max has not uttered a single word since she was 10 years old, the day she became a ward of DHS. Her life since has been an unstable chaotic story of foster homes and treatment centers, and she is about to reach the end of the line. The world has given up on her. The question is, is there such a thing as too broken to be fixed?
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This is an original character fan fiction. You do not have to be a fan or know of Demi Lovato to enjoy this story. This story is highly focused on an original character.

** TRIGGER WARNING FOR GRAPHIC CONTENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, PM WITH CLARIFICATION **