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More Specifically, Me Maxine

Demons Follow Fate

Maxine’s POV
*A day and a half later*

“What do you think this text means? There’s so many errors. Is it trying to spell something?” I ask Leda, as we became good friends on the ride to North Dakota to meet up with my old friend Sky, I found her on Facebook when I was scrolling through things and she messaged me.

“I remember looking at an old code book a while ago, sometimes things like that mean you have to use the uppercase letters to form a word. Here I’ll write an example.” She says, writing a sentence that says “Matt Opened the Purse.”

“See when you connect M, O and P, it spells “mop.” So lets connect the uppercase letters.” She says, connecting letters B,A,C,K. “But sometimes the sentences to form a new word won’t make sense.”

“You’re awesome!” I say.

“Hey Martin how far are we from Bismarck?” Leda asks.

“We still have another ten hours, we’re in Wisconsin now but I’m pulling over for a rest stop now and switching with Razor.” He says.

“I’m what?” Razor says, waking up from her sleep.

“You get to drive, I’m tired.”

“Buy me food and I’ll do it.”

“Deal.”

We pull over at the rest stop near a Cracker Barrel and everyone gets out.

“Food!” Matt yells, making everyone look at us.

“Carry on peoples, nothing to see here!” Leda yells.

“This is gonna happen a lot won’t it?” I question aloud.

“Oh yeah, this isn’t even close to insane though.” Leda replies

“Ahhh! Human peoples!” Matt screams again, ripping off his shirt.

“Matt!” Razor and Leda yell.

“I don’t know these people so they can’t get mad at me.” Matt replies.

“That doesn’t mean we need to rip off our shirts! No more being weird until after lunch.” Leda says.

“So I shouldn’t have taken off my shirt?” Martin says, shirt off.

“Shirtless guys!” Matt says, giving Martin a high five when two slutty looking come up to them.

“You two are hot.” The short blonde says to Martin, then Razor and I get mad.

“Get of my boyfriend bitch or there will be hell to pay!” I yell at her, shoving her to the ground.

“Come with me.” The tall red head says to Matt.

“What the hell? Matt shove her off of you!” Leda says.

“This is really weird, could you just get off of me.” He says.

“Matt I give you permission to be insane.” His girlfriend says.

“Get off of me foul creature. Gahh!” He says, flailing his arms around and doing crinkle hand.

“Eew! Freaks!” Both of the girls say and run off scared.

“Matt, I want you to be weird for both our sakes. Never change for anyone.” Leda says, hugging Matt.

“Never, not even for Jojo. Dang it! Leda we forgot to get a cat sitter! Jojo can’t die yet!”

“I’m on it.” Razor says.

“How are you going to get a cat sitter? Plus they wouldn’t be able to get in, I didn’t give anyone a key to my apartment.” Matt says.

“Remember last year when I came to visit and stole your keys and lost them?”

“Yeah and then I got mad and bought pizza.”

“I didn’t lose them, I gave them to your mom and Jay.”

“You’re the best friend I could ask for, do they know they need to cat sit?” Matt says with relief.

“Yeah, I also told Jay you’re going to pay him five hundred dollars a day too.” Razor says with innocence.

“I’m a YouTuber for a living and I don’t make that much!”

“Don’t worry, I’ll help pay for it. Martin give me money.”

“How long are we going to be gone for?” Martin asks.

“Another two weeks or so maybe.”

“Here you go Matt, it’s about 8,000 dollars.”

“That’s like a thousand more than I need to pay Jay though.”

“Buy Leda the ring already then!” He shouts.

“Soon, soon. Now I’m starving, can we get food?”

We end up going into the restaurant and having a waiter that keeps hitting on Martin. He ends up getting annoyed to the point where he can’t take it so when she comes around to give us the check he kisses me gently and with passion that he loves me.

“Hmp!” The waiter named Regan says.

“I’m sorry I’m in love with Maxine, I won’t cheat on her or give her up. She’s my other half and loves me for me, I think you just want me for my looks. She’s never going to change and leave me for anyone and vise versa. Don’t respect it if you will but I’ll be with her forever. So to prove it to you, I’d like to give this to her, not a engagement ring yet though, a promise ring. Maxine would you take my heart as much as I love you?” Martin says.

“Mar- Martin. Of course.” I cry as he puts the ring on my hand with his name, then slipping on his, mine saying Martin and his saying Maxine.

“Have fun, slut!” Regan says to me.

Martin, Matt, Leda and Razor stand up to defend me. I love them all so much, they have done so much for me in such little time. I owe them all so much.

“Hold up! Maxine aint a slut and how do I know that? Because she hasn’t even done it yet! Don’t judge people fucker!” Razor yells.

Regan comes nears me and slaps me, scratches up my arms and yanks out a part of my hair, part of it in her hand. I cry out in pain. It hasn’t even been two days since Justin grabbed my arm and made me bleed, now this?

“Bitch why are you such an ass. You don’t even know her or what she’s been through so before you go yanking out hair I’d check your attitude.” Leda counters.

“What’s your issue for standing up for her? She’s pathetic!”

Matt and Martin look her dead in the eye and start yelling good things about me, like how I’m beautiful and that I’m an amazing person. That brings a smile to my face, but the big thing is, is that what Martin says next.

“I don’t care who you are but I do care that if you hurt my girlfriend you won’t hear the end of me. I can easily get you fired and locked up. I know people that can make you not even exist in this country. You’ll be forgotten so before you go calling a slut and screwing around with Maxine I’d check yourself. You go near us again and I won’t be scared to get the rest of my buddies to help you out, but they all have girlfriends so don’t go near them either. Got me?”

“Fine, whatever.” She says, sashaying away from us.

To: Maxine
From: Unknown Number
I warned you with a hint darling. Something was going to go wrong, but don’t cry, you got a spark in your eye that says to keep going. We all have that spark in eye. Not everyone though, family wise. I bet you miss everyone back home don’t you? But keep going, I’d want you to. Keep moving on kid, you can do it, keep looking for that thing on the journey and we’ll let you fly.


“Martin did you mean it? Everything?” I ask him, hands on his chest and looking up into his eyes.

“Of course I did sweetie, now how about we get going? Everyone ready?” He asks.

“Before we go I want to get something okay? I’ll meet you in the van.” I say.

“Okay, but don’t be gone too long cutie. Razor you’re still driving.” Martin says.

“Dammit, I’d thought you’d forget.”

“Not that stupid Raze.” He says and they walk out the restaurant portion as I walk into the store part.

I look around trying to look for the perfect gifts for everyone until a hand touches my shoulder and I instantly freak out.

“Let go of me!” I shriek.

“What’s a cutie like you doing here alone?” The man asks with a familiar voice I haven’t heard in years.

“Nothing of your concern, now let go!” I say, yanking out of his grip and to look at his face, Damon.

“You ruined me Damon.” I say in a whisper.

“Oh come on, it was a mistake. I didn’t mean it.” The brunette says.

“You did and I know you did, you took everything away from me and you said you would never do it! Not then, you told me you would wait until I was ready! But you didn’t, you took it and bragged to all your friends!” I say, trying not to tear up.

“Please babe, come back to me, I promise I won’t hurt you.”

“No, I have a boyfriend.” I say, getting a bit scared as he comes closer.

“He means nothing, he’s using you.”

“Damon he’s not, please get away.” I say, walking backwards.

“But I love you.” He says right before forcing a kiss onto me, but I don’t respond, just shove him away.

“And I don’t Damon, why can’t you see that?” I say as I cripple to the floor, wishing

Martin or someone will save me from the monster in front of me.

“You were always a weaker one.” The twenty three year old beast says, picking up and throwing me over his shoulders and walking out with me.

“Martin! Save me!” I cry as I get taken away.

I see Martin rush out of the van with a bat.

“Get away from my girlfriend!” Martin yells once he’s close enough and swings the bat at Damon.

“Your girlfriend? Sir you are mistaken, Oliva is my girlfriend.” Damon says, using the name I haven’t heard since we dated. He used that name because he didn’t want people to know who I was. Olivia was my alter ego, she was twenty one, blonde hair and blue eyes. She loved to party and have a good time. She liked Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears. She wore short, skimpy outfits like Hooters girls. Hell she worked at Hooters on Sundays and got hung over a lot. She is my former “self” and I can’t go back there. There is so much about Damon I can’t forget that haunts me so dearly and why I’m up so late, the past haunts me, it kills me.

“Thats bull Damon!” I cry and kick his neck, forcing me to plop on the ground and I hide behind Martin.

Razor drives the van near us and quickly Leda and Matt pull me in, leaving Martin to fight my demon.

I see Martin throw a punch at Damon, square in the eye.

“Her name is Maxine, now leave her alone!” Martin yells.

“Why should I?” My demon says, smacking Martin upside the head.

The beast waits for a response, but doesn’t receive a response, just kick to gut and hit with a baseball bat to knock him over for enough time to hop into the van.
I didn’t realise I was bawling tears until Martin holds me close, whispering sweet nothings to me.

“I-I-I was jus-jus-just looking for gifts to give you all and the-then he came!” I cry harder into his chest.

“Who is he?” My boyfriend asks.

“He-he’s my ex boyfriend and he hurt me so much! He lied so many times to me! I was just a little girl Martin! I shouldn't have felt that pain!”
“What did he lie about?”

“His age, and everything Martin!”

“It’s okay, shush, shush.” He says, trying to calm me down.

“We need to go to cops.” Razor says.

“No! He’ll hurt me!” I instantly decline.

“Maxine, please we need him arrested.” Razor tries again.

“We can’t Razor! He’ll find me and hurt me again! I don’t want to go there again! Don’t let me!” I cry, fidgeting in Martin’s arms. “Damon let me go!”

“I’m not Damon. Please babe, calm down.”

“Stop it! Please no!” I cry.

“I’m not doing anything. See my hands aren’t on you.” He say, but me smacking his hands away.

“Don’t touch me!”

“Razor what’s going on with Maxine, she’s scaring me.” A light voice says, clinging onto another man that isn’t Damon. One of his friends who will hurt me I think.

“I don’t know Leda, I think she’s suffering from something in her past with Damon. We need to get her to a doctor fast though. She’s quickly losing all sanity.” The blue haired girl says.

“I don’t need a doctor!” I yell.

“Maxine, calm down.” Damon says.

“Who’s Maxine? I’m Olivia.” I question.

“Razor, step on the gas. Maxine isn’t here anymore.” The other man says, he looks like Kyle.

“Kyle shut up!” I yell at him, playfully smacking him on the arm.

“The nearest hospital is like half an hour away! Will she last that long?” The driver asks, her name was Shelly.

“Of course I will Shell Bell!” I say, using the nickname I gave her a while ago.

“It’s Razor, I don’t know who Shell Bell is.”

“Your funny! You forgot your name, it’s Shelly. S, h, e, l , l, y.” I say, spelling out her name.

“Razor, you need to step on it, please!” Kyle says.

“Maxine, come here.” Damon says.

I go back to him and plop myself on his lap, kissing his neck, knowing he likes it.

“Maxine, no, stop. You’re not in a normal state right now.” He says, pushing me away.

This isn’t normal. He enjoys it so I try again.

“Maxine, seriously.”

“Goodnight Damon.” I say, falling asleep on him.

I wake up half an hour later being picked up by someone.

“Damon!” I say. “Where are we going?”

“Maxine, I’m not Damon, I’m Martin and we’re at the hospital.”

“Why? Did Kyle break Valerie’s nose again?” I ask as it happens all the time.

“Who’s Kyle and Valerie?”

“Duh, your friends!” I point at Kyle first, then Valerie. “See Kyle has the emo hair you hate and Valerie, Kyle’s wife.”

“No that’s Matt and Leda.”

“Where’s Shelly?”

“You mean Razor?”

“No, Shelly, the girl who was driving.”

“That’s Razor, she’s over there, see?” Damon says as we walk into the hospital and Shelly talks to the receptionist.

“My friend is going through some sort of shock and hallucination, she keeps thinking that we’re part of the past that she had when she was younger and won’t come out of it. It’s never happened before and has been like this for about forty five minutes.” Shelly says to the lady.

“A doctor will be with you in just a moment. Are all of you with her?”

“Yes.”

“Okay, if I can just get her name I’ll be happy to help.”

“Maxine Gaskarth.”

“Middle please.”

“Note.”

“Okay, now put this bracelet on her and I’ll call you in just a sec.”

I get a bracelet put on my right wrist and then shortly after I get put into a white room.

“A doctor will be in in just a second.” A lady in pink says as I lay down in a bed.

A moment later a tall man with short grey hair comes in.

“What seems to be the problem?” He asks Damon.

“She just saw her ex-boyfriend from years ago who did terrible things to her that she won’t tell us. She thinks that I’m him and I’m not, same with our friends, she thinks that their part of that time too.”

“But Damon, you’re my first and only boyfriend.” I say.

“Is Damon her old boyfriend?”

“Yes and I’m her current boyfriend, Martin.”

“Do you mind I ask what all happened before she went into the hallucination?”

“We were at Cracker Barrel after driving for about seven or eight hours. If you ask what we’re doing we are on a road trip to find Maxine’s father who has been gone for ten years. After the incident with the waitress flirting with me I gave her a promise ring and then she smacked, scratched and yanked Maxine’s hair out. After that happened I had to stand up for her so I did, then she wanted to go to shop part of the restaurant and get little goodies for us as a thank you, the rest we were not there for as she wanted the gifts to be a surprise. When Maxine came out she cried my name to save her, so I ran out of the van with a bat. Damon had her over his shoulder and called her Olivia, that I do not know why. I did end up saving her, she kicked Damon’s neck hard enough to let her go, but she fell on the concrete. She got up quickly though and ran behind me, Matt and Leda helped her back in our van-”

“Correction my van” Shelly says.

“I’m sorry, Razor’s van. I knocked Damon hard enough just to get him in some sort of shock or fall and ran into the van before he could get up. Maxine was crying so I helped her calm down and told me little about Damon, like how he lied about everything to her. I don’t know what the lies are though. When Razor said we should go to the cops that’s when everything started to happen, she thought I was Damon and instantly thought I was going to hurt her, which makes me think that while he lied he was also abusive towards her. While that was going on she thought that Matt-.”

“Hey.”

“As I was saying was a man named Kyle, who Maxine playfully smacked him on the arm and Razor-”

“If I get my hands on him he won’t have a face anymore!”

“Razor, calm it. Lastly she thought that Leda, Matt’s girlfriend was someone named Valerie and that we were here because Matt aka Kyle broke Leda aka Valerie’s nose again. But from my concern Leda has never broke her nose and here we are now.” Damon says.

“Well it looks like that Miss Gaskarth here is having a hallucination along with PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is nothing to big but we will need to put her on medication, more specifically nefazodone to prevent these from happening again. Does she have issues sleeping at night?”

“I remember back in tenth grade when she would sleepover she would grumble words like “Damon” and “No, stop please no” in her sleep. I didn’t know what that meant so I didn’t bother with it. Sometimes I still hear her say those words and when I’m driving I’ll look over at her cuddled with Martin in the back of the van moving around a bit too.”

“Then I want her on clonidine too, to help with the sleep disturbances. I can get you a prescription that can be ready at CVS in under an hour so that you can go back on your journey. Also I want her to take the clonidine one tablet right before bed and the nefazodone one in the morning and one in the night. Where are you heading on your next journey?”

“North Dakota, Maxine has an old friend that moved there.” Valerie says.

“Well I hope you have fun, also Maxine’s new medication will take action instantly so she should be back to normal.”

“Also is there a way to get Razor a refill on her medication?” Damon asks.

“Yes, you just have to ask the pharmacist for a refill. I’ll just write up a script and then you should be on your way.”

The doctor writes up the script and then Damon picks me up and gets me to the car safely.

“Damon?” I ask.

“Yes Maxine?”
“Where are you taking me?”

“Well we get to go buy you candy but only one piece okay?” He says, that’s weird, he never lets me have candy. He tells me it makes you fat and that I’m pretty the way I am, skinny.

“Damon you never let me have candy, why this time?”

“Everyone deserves a treat every once in a while, right?” He says, kissing my nose as we get to the store. “Matt can you get Maxine the candy? I want to stay with her.”
“What candy?” Kyle asks.

Damon raises his eyebrows, showing dominance towards him.

“Oh that candy. Yeah okay.” Kyle says, getting out of the van but I stop him.

“Kyle isn’t Valerie coming with?” I ask.

“Only if she wants to, I didn’t see the need for her to come but only if she likes or if she wanted anything I could get it for her.”

“Matt can you just get me a Monster and Pocky if they have any?” Valerie asks.

“Yeah, sure. Hey Martin who's paying for this stuff?”

“Matt just take my credit card, don’t blow it on sea monkeys and toys though. Also both of the prescriptions are under Robins-Johnson, with a hyphen.” Shelly says.

“Got you, but no promises on the sea monkeys.”

Kyle goes into the store and then he comes back ten minutes later with the candy.

“I bought coloring books and crayons!” Kyle says, handing a bottle of candy to Damon and I.

“Only one, and you need to swallow it whole, no chewing okay?” Damon says.

“Okay Damon.” I say as he puts it in my hand and swallow it, feeling a new reaction, like normal.

“Martin? Why do you have pills in your hand?” I ask, totally confused on what’s going on.

“Maxine, you suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and hallucinations.” He says.

“What are you talking about?”

“Damon came.”

“I never told you about him, why and how do you know? You aren’t supposed to know that Martin!” I say, freaking out and hitting his chest.

“That’s why you have PTSD and the hallucinations, you saw him when we were at Cracker Barrel. He tried to take you away and then when Razor wanted to take him to get arrested but you went into the hallucination and thought I was him and everyone else were his buddies.”

“I just don’t know what to say, I really don’t.”

“You can tell me what Damon did to you?”

“Not yet.” I say. “Who bought the coloring books? I want the princess one!” I say, changing the subject and grabbing the princess one, looking for a picture of Cinderella and Prince Charming to color in, pretending I’m Cinderella and Martin is Prince Charming.

“You are so cute.” Martin says, kissing me as I color.

To: Maxine
From: Unknown Number
you did so much TOday, from dealing with the girl at cracker barrel to seeing your ex and landing yourself on medication, but I’m happy for you. you kept strong while you weren’t completely there. keep looking for me. also you might want to call jack, he misses you very much.


“Martin can we call Jack?” I ask.

“Well of course we can, do you want to tell him what happened or should I?”

“You, I can’t remember much.”

We call up Jack and he picks up on the second ring.

“Hi Jack!” We yell into the phone on speaker.

“Hey Maxine, Martin. What’s going on?” Jack asks.

“So much stuff happened today. Martin wants to tell you since I can’t remember anything.”

“Martin I swear if you hurt Maxine I will find you and you won’t be able to see anything anymore.”

“Why does everyone think I’m the bad guy! Well I’ll start from the beginning…” Martin says, telling Jack everything.

“But Maxine is okay right?”

“Totally. We just need to keep her on the medication.”

“Well that’s good at least. Hey I got to get going now, my little prince calls.”

“You have a kid?” I ask.

“No, my husband, but I call him my little prince because he’s shorter than me and I just think prince is better than king.”

“Well okay, have a fun time with him!” I say.

“We will! Oh and he says good luck on finding the person you’re looking for.”

“You too! Bye.” Martin and I say.

“Bye you two.” He says and hangs up.

I yawn and then almost fall asleep on Martin but he stops me.

“Meds first.” He says, plopping two pills in my hand so I take them, then I fall asleep with no nightmares of Damon for the first time in a while.

Notes

It's been a few days but I started school a few days ago, it's okay. I still don't really like it but I got to deal, no Hustlers at my school :(
Also you may just see Damon in later chapters or hear about him, but that's all I'll say.
Till darkness completes us,
Sarah's Butterflies

Comments

@dizzy-hurricane

Thanks so much! Stay tuned in for the sequel that should be up by next week!
This was so good! I don't usually read fics like this either but it was still really great !
dizzy-hurricane dizzy-hurricane
10/12/13
@Sarah's Butterflies
I know how you feel!
Peace_Love_Jalex Peace_Love_Jalex
10/12/13
@Nothing-Personal

Plus I was bored and felt the need to get the story finished, I just don't have the time to write all these updates for the amount of stories I'm producing at the moment
@Sarah's Butterflies
smart idea that is
Peace_Love_Jalex Peace_Love_Jalex
10/12/13