More Specifically, Me Maxine
Chapter 17: This Real Life just isn't Right
Maxine’s POV
“What.” I say to Kyle.
“I know where your dad is, come with me.” He says.
“How do I know you aren’t lying?” I counter.
“Because I don’t lie, now follow me.”
“No.”
“Yes.”
“Kyle, I said no, now leave me alone so I can get to my sick fiance!” I scream at Kyle.
He grabs my arm in a grip so hard I instantly cry, blood flows over my arm and the familiar feelings come back to me. It’s been years since I was hurt like this. Not since Damon.
“You are coming with me whether you like it or not Maxine!” He says, then putting a rag under my nose and I feel a shadow of darkness come over me. I try to stay awake but I can’t, I just can’t.
“Goodnight Maxine, see you soon.” Are the last words I hear before I dip into darkness.
Martin’s POV
“It’s been hours since Maxine left! Where is she? She said she would just be going to the Rite-Aid!” I say, pacing worriedly.
“Martin you know how Maxine is, she looks around for hours and then makes up her mind after finding candy. She is a girl, not a fast robot.” Razor says.
“But it has been four hours! People don’t take that long to get medication!”
“If you are worried go look for her and call Kevin but do not get on my ass.”
“Do you care about Maxine at all?”
“I do, but I also know how she is. She once took two hours just to pick out what pizza topping she wanted but then after picking out some candy she figured out what she wanted.”
“Am I the only one with a sane mind today?”
“Yes Mr. Asshole, because I’m the dumb one.” Razor says, rolling her eyes and using sarcasm.
“Fine, I’ll look for her.”
“And I’ll come with.” Matt says out of nowhere from his bunk.
“Take my card and be back soon, I need to meet up with a buddy of mine.” My blue
haired friend says.
“You care more about that buddy then you do your own friend?” I scream.
“No, I do care about Maxine but like I said before, I’m not the dumb one.”
“Oh god Razor.” Matt says as we walk off the bus to find my missing fiance.
“What do you think happened to her?” Matt asks me.
“I honestly don’t know, she was just going to get me some cold medicine for me but then she never came back.” I tell him as we reach the Rite-Aid where I see cops laying out bright yellow tape around the perimeter.
“I’m sorry but you can’t come near here.” The cop in the uniform says.
“Why not?” Matt asks.
“A girl was just chloroformed and taken away, we are securing the perimeter.”
“But my fiance was just here! Where is she?” I say, getting nervous.
“Was she wearing a yellow skirt and a Vans Warped Tour shirt and a ring?”
“Yes, that’s her.”
“That was the girl who got taken away.” He says, making my whole world crash down on me.
“She’s gone. She’s gone and I didn’t protect her. We were going to meet someone today that she hasn’t seen in years and now she’s gone. Matt is this a dream?” I say as I crumble to the ground.
“Martin, this isn’t a dream and I’m sorry. First my girlfriend dies and now your fiance is gone. What is this mess and why are you just standing there cop man? Go find her!” Matt yells at the cop and hugs me.
“Call Jack.” I tell Matt.
Matt doesn’t say anything, just grabs my white iPhone with the custom case with a picture of Maxine and I in it and calls Jack.
“Jack, this is Matt, Maxine’s friend.”
“Everything isn’t all right. Maxine’s gone.”
“I mean she’s gone, someone kidnapped her by using chloroform.”
“Martin is on the ground crying. He misses her.”
“I believe we are going to look for her. We had something big planned for her today but it looks like we’ll have to cancel it.”
“It’s not important now. Don’t worry about it.”
“Okay, talk to you later Jack” Matt says, hanging up the phone.
“What did Jack say?” I ask, sniffing.
“He said that he wants us to find Maxine before it’s too late. Also before he hung up he said that he knows we’ll find her and that someone was visiting him and his husband.”
“Let’s go tell Kevin that we need to go look for Maxine and that we need to leave Warped, also to get people to keep an eye on the perimeter. Or just get news action about it.” Matt says, as we turn to walk back to the bus.
“Hold on, don’t you want to know what this man looks like?” The cop asks.
“That would be nice.” I say to him.
He shows us a picture of a man I haven’t seen in years, Kyle William Burns. Drummer of my most hated band, Forever the Sickest Kids.
“Kyle” I say between gritted teeth. “That bastard.”
“You know him?” The cop asks.
“He stole my girlfriend in high school and was always a big jerk to me. No wonder he took Maxine. Everything I had he took out of my hands and now he took my fiance. Kyle you will pay!” I yell.
“Martin calm down.” Matt says.
“He stole Maxine how can I calm down? She’s going to be brainwashed again and then I’ll have to pick up the pieces again! She was broken, then I fixed her, and now she’s going to crumble again.”
I end up walking away and back to the bus, mad and angry that Kyle ruined my life, my world once again.
Razor’s POV
I already knew something was going to happen to Maxine, something was feeling off from the beginning and when I saw Kyle’s car when I was driving to see the All Time Low dudes I knew he was up to something. Kyle and I know each other pretty well, my parents hate each other and we are arch enemies.
“Hey Alex, Jack.” I say when I get to their bus and see them.
“Hey Razor, how’s my little Maxy?” Alex asks worriedly.
“I got bad news for you Gaskank, Kyle’s up to something because I swear he’s been stalking us. That ass hole I know wants your daughter and I don’t care why he does but he can kiss my ass if he lays a hand on her.” I tell him.
“Why does Kyle hate us so much?” The scared father asks.
“Because my family has more money than his and he’s just a jealous fuck.”
Before Alex can respond I get a phone call from Martin. What the fuck does he want. I’m in an important meeting dammit.
“Martin what the fuck do you want?”
“Maxine has been chloroformed.” Martin says, making me pause in shock.
“I swear to you if you’re lying I will rip your head off.” I tell him dead seriously.
“Why the hell would I lie to you? Maxine. Is. Gone and it’s all Kyle’s fault.”
“When I see that bastard he won’t have a head anymore do you hear me?” I yell into the phone.
“Razor what’s going on?” Jack asks.
“Maxine is gone.”
“What.” Alex says in shock, jaw dropping.
“Martin hold on a second.”
“How is my daughter gone? I thought Martin had her in safe hands!”
“She went out to Rite-Aid where she was getting medication where she must have been chloroformed by Kyle.” I say as calm as I can without getting a panic attack. I haven’t had one in years, that's why I was put off the medication.
My breathing goes faster and I start to lose feeling in my legs, falling to the ground I cry because before I know it the attack comes and I start to not be able to breath.
“A-A-Alex!” I say, out of breath. “M-Matt”
“Jack, get Matt to give her her old medication, we always keep a fresh bottle of it on the bus.” Alex says, holding me and petting my back.
Jack runs off to get Matt who comes out a few minutes later with my Paxil and some water. I take it and after a few minutes it kicks in and I start to feel normal once again.
“I haven’t had one in years, I don’t know what triggered it.” I say.
“It must have been the fact of Kyle hurting Maxine, that’s exactly how I get when I start thinking of Harper touching Maxine.” Alex says.
“Okay Harper is a bitch and I need to kick her ass. Can I please?”
“Just as long as I get to come along. It’s a day off and I don’t mind going back to old grounds. Plus I feel like I need to anyway. I haven’t been back in Meadow Brooks since I left actually.”
“Awesome, plus I can see my parents. Matt and Martin won’t die without me.” I tell him, then texting Martin I’ll be back in a few hours and to tell Kevin I’ll be back soon and code word: Somewhere In Neverland; Kevin told me in private that if I ever know something and that is important, say Somewhere in Neverland to him and he will understand what's going on.
Alex and I end up getting a cab to Maxine’s house where we stand currently in front of in the dead grassy lawn.
“Looks the same as it did ten years ago to be honest with you.” Alex says.
“Do you have a key?” I ask him.
“If I did something right I should have a spare on my key ring. Never felt the need to get rid of it.” He says, then finding the silver key to the house as we walk up the stoney driveway.
“Here goes nothing.” Alex mutters under his breath and unlocks the door and walks inside.
“Nothing changed in over ten years, not even the smell. God it smells like the day I left. Fuck Harper has really been lazy hasn’t she?”
“I heard she spent the child support on booze and cigarettes.” I tell him.
“How did Maxine live in this hell hole?” He asks as we walk into the deserted living room.
“Justin helped out by getting her what she needed like clothes and stuff from what she told me. When I met her I gave her a lot of my things too. When you left Maxine fell apart from what she also cried about and when she opened up to me and let me read her diary when she was scared to tell me. That’s why her and I have a strong latch, because I know everything about her and kept her safe. Same with Justin. We love her a lot and I know that when Martin gets Maxine back from Kyle, Martin won’t let go of her. He really does care Alex.” I tell him.
“You know I’m a terrible person right? Does Maxine even want to see me?”
“I wouldn’t have dragged her on this journey for nothing. Alex she still wears the necklace you gave her and the sweatshirt everyday. She doesn’t let anyone touch that guitar either. She misses you a lot and just wants you back. Sometimes at night when Martin is sleeping I hear her in the bus bathroom crying and wishing you were back in her life and I’m not stupid when I see small cuts on her arm. Alex she wants you back, she thinks its her fault you’re gone. She thinks that she needs to hurt herself as a punishment because you aren’t there. She just wa-” I say but get cut off by a slurred voice. Harper.
Alex’s POV
“Petey babe are you here?” The voice I haven’t heard in years says.
“Harper stay away from me, I am not here for you.” I say, standing my ground.
“But Pete!” Harper wails.
“You know I’m not Pete and you get away from me now!” I yell at my ex-wife who gets closer to me.
“Alex? Why are you doing here? Maxine is dead!”
I ignore her and follow Razor elsewhere around the house, leaving Harper to stumble around the house I used to live in until I hear her say something I will hate her forever.
“I sent Kyle to go after Maxine! She’s going to die!”
“What did you just say?”
“Kyle is going after Maxine! I didn’t want her around anymore. She’s worthless.”
“Razor, call the cops.” I say to my little girls best friend.
“On it Mr. Gaskarth!” Razor says.
“Don’t sass me at this time, Harper is the cause of a murder just waiting to happen.”
Razor shuts up and calls the cops as I hold Harper away from Razor. I can’t let something happen to her too. Not today, not today.
The cops come minutes later and we tell them what's going on, they pull handcuffs over Harper and then take her down to the station. Before they go one of them asks us questions like how we know her and such things.
“Why did you marry that bitch?” Razor asks me as I walk up the old stairs to visit Maxine’s old room.
“I really thought I loved her. She was everything I could imagine at first. She really cared but after I started going on tour she just whored herself out to people. I should have know, the strange texts in the night always weirded me out but I just let them go. The only good thing that came out of it was Maxine. She was the daughter I always dreamed of. I told myself I’d love forever and I still stay true to that.” I say, picking up a cracked photo of Maxine and I off the floor. It shows me pushing her on the swing in the back yard. She always loved it.
“Girls can be so unpredicting but that's just how we can be. Our job today though is to find Kyle and I just know who to call.”
“Who?”
“My parents and their government friends.” Razor says, she just knows who to call.
Man this is why you have to love Razor, I’m glad she contacted me back in April. I’d never find my daughter without her. She still won’t tell me how she knew I was related to Maxine though. God please tell me she didn’t go through secret files.
“If that’s what it takes to find her Razor then I’ll do anything.” I say to her, meaning every word. I want my little girl back and I’d kill just to have her in my arms.
“What.” I say to Kyle.
“I know where your dad is, come with me.” He says.
“How do I know you aren’t lying?” I counter.
“Because I don’t lie, now follow me.”
“No.”
“Yes.”
“Kyle, I said no, now leave me alone so I can get to my sick fiance!” I scream at Kyle.
He grabs my arm in a grip so hard I instantly cry, blood flows over my arm and the familiar feelings come back to me. It’s been years since I was hurt like this. Not since Damon.
“You are coming with me whether you like it or not Maxine!” He says, then putting a rag under my nose and I feel a shadow of darkness come over me. I try to stay awake but I can’t, I just can’t.
“Goodnight Maxine, see you soon.” Are the last words I hear before I dip into darkness.
Martin’s POV
“It’s been hours since Maxine left! Where is she? She said she would just be going to the Rite-Aid!” I say, pacing worriedly.
“Martin you know how Maxine is, she looks around for hours and then makes up her mind after finding candy. She is a girl, not a fast robot.” Razor says.
“But it has been four hours! People don’t take that long to get medication!”
“If you are worried go look for her and call Kevin but do not get on my ass.”
“Do you care about Maxine at all?”
“I do, but I also know how she is. She once took two hours just to pick out what pizza topping she wanted but then after picking out some candy she figured out what she wanted.”
“Am I the only one with a sane mind today?”
“Yes Mr. Asshole, because I’m the dumb one.” Razor says, rolling her eyes and using sarcasm.
“Fine, I’ll look for her.”
“And I’ll come with.” Matt says out of nowhere from his bunk.
“Take my card and be back soon, I need to meet up with a buddy of mine.” My blue
haired friend says.
“You care more about that buddy then you do your own friend?” I scream.
“No, I do care about Maxine but like I said before, I’m not the dumb one.”
“Oh god Razor.” Matt says as we walk off the bus to find my missing fiance.
“What do you think happened to her?” Matt asks me.
“I honestly don’t know, she was just going to get me some cold medicine for me but then she never came back.” I tell him as we reach the Rite-Aid where I see cops laying out bright yellow tape around the perimeter.
“I’m sorry but you can’t come near here.” The cop in the uniform says.
“Why not?” Matt asks.
“A girl was just chloroformed and taken away, we are securing the perimeter.”
“But my fiance was just here! Where is she?” I say, getting nervous.
“Was she wearing a yellow skirt and a Vans Warped Tour shirt and a ring?”
“Yes, that’s her.”
“That was the girl who got taken away.” He says, making my whole world crash down on me.
“She’s gone. She’s gone and I didn’t protect her. We were going to meet someone today that she hasn’t seen in years and now she’s gone. Matt is this a dream?” I say as I crumble to the ground.
“Martin, this isn’t a dream and I’m sorry. First my girlfriend dies and now your fiance is gone. What is this mess and why are you just standing there cop man? Go find her!” Matt yells at the cop and hugs me.
“Call Jack.” I tell Matt.
Matt doesn’t say anything, just grabs my white iPhone with the custom case with a picture of Maxine and I in it and calls Jack.
“Jack, this is Matt, Maxine’s friend.”
“Everything isn’t all right. Maxine’s gone.”
“I mean she’s gone, someone kidnapped her by using chloroform.”
“Martin is on the ground crying. He misses her.”
“I believe we are going to look for her. We had something big planned for her today but it looks like we’ll have to cancel it.”
“It’s not important now. Don’t worry about it.”
“Okay, talk to you later Jack” Matt says, hanging up the phone.
“What did Jack say?” I ask, sniffing.
“He said that he wants us to find Maxine before it’s too late. Also before he hung up he said that he knows we’ll find her and that someone was visiting him and his husband.”
“Let’s go tell Kevin that we need to go look for Maxine and that we need to leave Warped, also to get people to keep an eye on the perimeter. Or just get news action about it.” Matt says, as we turn to walk back to the bus.
“Hold on, don’t you want to know what this man looks like?” The cop asks.
“That would be nice.” I say to him.
He shows us a picture of a man I haven’t seen in years, Kyle William Burns. Drummer of my most hated band, Forever the Sickest Kids.
“Kyle” I say between gritted teeth. “That bastard.”
“You know him?” The cop asks.
“He stole my girlfriend in high school and was always a big jerk to me. No wonder he took Maxine. Everything I had he took out of my hands and now he took my fiance. Kyle you will pay!” I yell.
“Martin calm down.” Matt says.
“He stole Maxine how can I calm down? She’s going to be brainwashed again and then I’ll have to pick up the pieces again! She was broken, then I fixed her, and now she’s going to crumble again.”
I end up walking away and back to the bus, mad and angry that Kyle ruined my life, my world once again.
Razor’s POV
I already knew something was going to happen to Maxine, something was feeling off from the beginning and when I saw Kyle’s car when I was driving to see the All Time Low dudes I knew he was up to something. Kyle and I know each other pretty well, my parents hate each other and we are arch enemies.
“Hey Alex, Jack.” I say when I get to their bus and see them.
“Hey Razor, how’s my little Maxy?” Alex asks worriedly.
“I got bad news for you Gaskank, Kyle’s up to something because I swear he’s been stalking us. That ass hole I know wants your daughter and I don’t care why he does but he can kiss my ass if he lays a hand on her.” I tell him.
“Why does Kyle hate us so much?” The scared father asks.
“Because my family has more money than his and he’s just a jealous fuck.”
Before Alex can respond I get a phone call from Martin. What the fuck does he want. I’m in an important meeting dammit.
“Martin what the fuck do you want?”
“Maxine has been chloroformed.” Martin says, making me pause in shock.
“I swear to you if you’re lying I will rip your head off.” I tell him dead seriously.
“Why the hell would I lie to you? Maxine. Is. Gone and it’s all Kyle’s fault.”
“When I see that bastard he won’t have a head anymore do you hear me?” I yell into the phone.
“Razor what’s going on?” Jack asks.
“Maxine is gone.”
“What.” Alex says in shock, jaw dropping.
“Martin hold on a second.”
“How is my daughter gone? I thought Martin had her in safe hands!”
“She went out to Rite-Aid where she was getting medication where she must have been chloroformed by Kyle.” I say as calm as I can without getting a panic attack. I haven’t had one in years, that's why I was put off the medication.
My breathing goes faster and I start to lose feeling in my legs, falling to the ground I cry because before I know it the attack comes and I start to not be able to breath.
“A-A-Alex!” I say, out of breath. “M-Matt”
“Jack, get Matt to give her her old medication, we always keep a fresh bottle of it on the bus.” Alex says, holding me and petting my back.
Jack runs off to get Matt who comes out a few minutes later with my Paxil and some water. I take it and after a few minutes it kicks in and I start to feel normal once again.
“I haven’t had one in years, I don’t know what triggered it.” I say.
“It must have been the fact of Kyle hurting Maxine, that’s exactly how I get when I start thinking of Harper touching Maxine.” Alex says.
“Okay Harper is a bitch and I need to kick her ass. Can I please?”
“Just as long as I get to come along. It’s a day off and I don’t mind going back to old grounds. Plus I feel like I need to anyway. I haven’t been back in Meadow Brooks since I left actually.”
“Awesome, plus I can see my parents. Matt and Martin won’t die without me.” I tell him, then texting Martin I’ll be back in a few hours and to tell Kevin I’ll be back soon and code word: Somewhere In Neverland; Kevin told me in private that if I ever know something and that is important, say Somewhere in Neverland to him and he will understand what's going on.
Alex and I end up getting a cab to Maxine’s house where we stand currently in front of in the dead grassy lawn.
“Looks the same as it did ten years ago to be honest with you.” Alex says.
“Do you have a key?” I ask him.
“If I did something right I should have a spare on my key ring. Never felt the need to get rid of it.” He says, then finding the silver key to the house as we walk up the stoney driveway.
“Here goes nothing.” Alex mutters under his breath and unlocks the door and walks inside.
“Nothing changed in over ten years, not even the smell. God it smells like the day I left. Fuck Harper has really been lazy hasn’t she?”
“I heard she spent the child support on booze and cigarettes.” I tell him.
“How did Maxine live in this hell hole?” He asks as we walk into the deserted living room.
“Justin helped out by getting her what she needed like clothes and stuff from what she told me. When I met her I gave her a lot of my things too. When you left Maxine fell apart from what she also cried about and when she opened up to me and let me read her diary when she was scared to tell me. That’s why her and I have a strong latch, because I know everything about her and kept her safe. Same with Justin. We love her a lot and I know that when Martin gets Maxine back from Kyle, Martin won’t let go of her. He really does care Alex.” I tell him.
“You know I’m a terrible person right? Does Maxine even want to see me?”
“I wouldn’t have dragged her on this journey for nothing. Alex she still wears the necklace you gave her and the sweatshirt everyday. She doesn’t let anyone touch that guitar either. She misses you a lot and just wants you back. Sometimes at night when Martin is sleeping I hear her in the bus bathroom crying and wishing you were back in her life and I’m not stupid when I see small cuts on her arm. Alex she wants you back, she thinks its her fault you’re gone. She thinks that she needs to hurt herself as a punishment because you aren’t there. She just wa-” I say but get cut off by a slurred voice. Harper.
Alex’s POV
“Petey babe are you here?” The voice I haven’t heard in years says.
“Harper stay away from me, I am not here for you.” I say, standing my ground.
“But Pete!” Harper wails.
“You know I’m not Pete and you get away from me now!” I yell at my ex-wife who gets closer to me.
“Alex? Why are you doing here? Maxine is dead!”
I ignore her and follow Razor elsewhere around the house, leaving Harper to stumble around the house I used to live in until I hear her say something I will hate her forever.
“I sent Kyle to go after Maxine! She’s going to die!”
“What did you just say?”
“Kyle is going after Maxine! I didn’t want her around anymore. She’s worthless.”
“Razor, call the cops.” I say to my little girls best friend.
“On it Mr. Gaskarth!” Razor says.
“Don’t sass me at this time, Harper is the cause of a murder just waiting to happen.”
Razor shuts up and calls the cops as I hold Harper away from Razor. I can’t let something happen to her too. Not today, not today.
The cops come minutes later and we tell them what's going on, they pull handcuffs over Harper and then take her down to the station. Before they go one of them asks us questions like how we know her and such things.
“Why did you marry that bitch?” Razor asks me as I walk up the old stairs to visit Maxine’s old room.
“I really thought I loved her. She was everything I could imagine at first. She really cared but after I started going on tour she just whored herself out to people. I should have know, the strange texts in the night always weirded me out but I just let them go. The only good thing that came out of it was Maxine. She was the daughter I always dreamed of. I told myself I’d love forever and I still stay true to that.” I say, picking up a cracked photo of Maxine and I off the floor. It shows me pushing her on the swing in the back yard. She always loved it.
“Girls can be so unpredicting but that's just how we can be. Our job today though is to find Kyle and I just know who to call.”
“Who?”
“My parents and their government friends.” Razor says, she just knows who to call.
Man this is why you have to love Razor, I’m glad she contacted me back in April. I’d never find my daughter without her. She still won’t tell me how she knew I was related to Maxine though. God please tell me she didn’t go through secret files.
“If that’s what it takes to find her Razor then I’ll do anything.” I say to her, meaning every word. I want my little girl back and I’d kill just to have her in my arms.
Notes
Who's a shitty updater? THIS GAL!I have one excuse, I keep forgetting that I have to update because I have every chapter written so I think that I'm done with it.
This is coming to a close in just 2 chapters + an epilogue. I feel sad about it ending, I wrote this story all around me and my best friend who I'm portraying as Razor and most of this stuff is what she would say and do.
I don't know if I'll still be writing fanfiction when I am older but I hope I will. This has become a passion of mine and when I don't write or read the stuff I feel as if something is missing in my life.
I love every single on of you who read and comment, you may not seem like you do much but it really makes me smile to know that people are reading the content I produce for everyone to read. I've made so many friends from just writing and it makes me happy.
Without this bandom I'd never find my passion for writing, I know that seems stupid or generic but if I never found it thanks to my best friend, Nickie aka Razor.
I can't explain how much I love you all, it's amazing to be in this bandom and I feel as it more as a family than just a bandom. We all care for each other and want all of us to be happy and safe.
I'm always there to talk about anything, it doesn't matter if it's just a "What's up?" or a "Help!" message, I'll try my best to help you all in a way we can both work through it.
Now to this chapter, Holy shit Razor has connections to Maxine's dad. Were any of you surprised? Did you know Alex was her dad or what? Also where is Maxine and what happened? I'd like to know your comments and thoughts in the comments or in my inbox.
Till darkness completes us,
Sarah's Butterflies
Thanks so much! Stay tuned in for the sequel that should be up by next week!
10/12/13