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More Specifically, Me Maxine

No Surprise

Maxine’s POV

I started to get a bit nervous on the ride to my house, anxiety kicking in by the second and my right leg bobbing up and down. My mom has always been highly destructive when the anniversary of my dad’s leaving came, last year she actually barged into my room drunk and punched my lights out, when I woke it had been days later and I had many missed calls and texts from Razor. It was terrifying.

“Scared aren’t ya?” Razor says, placing her hand over mine and keeping her eyes on the road.

“Terrified, you know what happened last year.” I say getting shivers as we park in front of my broken home.

“You got me, I’ll protect you. Come on, lets face the music.” She says and we get out of the car and we walk up to my door, then going inside to face my mom with a grin of anger, fury and anything else beyond scary.

“Took you long enough to get home! Where have you been, whoring yourself out? Is this your toy?” My mother screams at me, throwing a punch at me but missing due to her being in a drunken haze.

“Who are you to talk like that bitch?” Razor screams back at her.

“Always knew she was a lesbian. Who’s you are?” The drunken alcoholic says to Razor, messing up all speech.

“I’m not a lesbian!” I scream at my mom.

She then throws another punch at me, this time hitting me in gut.

“Maxine run, get all that you can now and run to my car, I’ll hold her off!” My best friend screams at me, holding back my destructive mother.

I run up stairs and grabbing my Kon duffel bag from the anime Bleach I got at a convention with my old friend Sky, I haven’t seen her since middle school, she moved away and we lost touch. Maybe we’ll see her on our adventure.

I shove as many clothes and other necessities as I can inside the bag, grabbing my guitar and my letter from my dad I then swiftly run out of my room when I hear a scream, as if matters couldn’t get worse I see my amazing friend being shoved to the ground by my mother.

“Bitch get off of me!” Razor yells and picks herself off the ground, then shoving my into the couch. “Max, run!”

We run straight to the car and then Razor starts the car up, us heading to where ever.

“Text Justin to meet us at the mall at 7:30, I need to pick my stuff up from both of my parents and tell my sister goodbye.” Razor says, going over the speed limit to her moms’ first since its closest and I text Justin about the time, him replying with okay.

We get to her moms’ and we walk in.

“Mom?” Razor says just loud enough for her mom to hear as she’s sitting at the computer desk in the living room.

“Hi Razor, what are you doing here, you're at your fathers’ this week.” She says, turning around. “Why hello there Maxine, I’m sorry about today.”

“Mrs.Gaskarth went crazy so I came to get my stuff and say goodbye, we’re gonna leave today instead of Friday.” She says politely.
“When will she ever learn? Tsk tsk tsk. Well get your stuff, you have a long journey to find your father Maxine.”

“Thanks Mrs. Robins, I’m gonna miss you.” I say to her as Razor heads upstairs to say goodbye to her sister and grab what she needs from here.

“Well its no problem, and if you need anything don’t be too shy to call.” Razor’s short blonde haired mom says.

“Ready to head to my dad's?” Razor says as she gets back down to the living room.

“You two aren’t leaving till I give you some things, hold on a second.” Mrs. Robins says as she runs to get what she needs to give us.

“I can’t leave you two without some goodies. Here you have some cookies and brownies, and I know how much you two love my muffins so I packed plenty of those.” Razor’s mom replies, going through all of the things she neatly packed into a basket as she runs a government job and a tiny bakery on the weekends so she always has goodies at her house.

“Thanks mom, that means a lot!” Razor says, going through the basket and grabbing one of her mom’s double choco-chip cookies.

“Now you two get going, and here’s some cash for the long run, you may need it and keep a few hundreds in your bra at all times, no one will take money from there. Don’t talk to strange men, drive safe, if you're in jail call me and I’ll get your asses out of there. Maxine make sure that Razor doesn’t have more than one Rockstar or Monster’s a day, if she does you're in for a wild ride.” The worried mother says, rambling on about things and what not.

“Mom we need to go, I still need to get my stuff at dad’s, then we’re heading to the mall to meet a friend who’s coming along too.”

“Who is this friend of yours and how old is this person?”

“My long term friend Justin, he was there before my dad left, he’s a college student at George Mason and is twenty” I reply to the worried mother.

“As long as he doesn’t hurt you two, and are you two going to Canada? To see Matt and Leda?” Mrs. Robins says, me not knowing who Matt and Leda are.
“Who’s Matt and Leda?” I ask.

“Not Important, come on lets go. Bye mom!” Razor says quickly, me still wondering who Matt and Leda are as she pushes me out the door and into the car.

“Don’t I need a passport if we’re going to Canada?”

“Nah, I know the guys at the border, my dad’s friends with all of em’.”

“We’re just gonna do tons of illegal shit aren’t we?” I ask, face palming myself.

“Not illegal, plus even if we did need to get you a passport I’d get you one, which is why just in case I’ll get you one.”

“You’re famous aren’t you?”

“Lets see, I’m Ryan Key and Travis Barker’s niece, I’m cousins with Billie Joe Armstrong, Lights, Kyle Burns, and Avril Lavigne. My great, great, grandfather is Walt Disney and I’m friends with all of Boys Like Girls, Fall Out Boy and Simple Plan. Oh and my dad’s friends with Kevin Lyman, founder of the Vans Warped Tour. So yeah, I kinda am.” She says casually, shrugging her shoulders

“Can I meet them?” I ask hopefully as they are my idols and role models. “We are going around the country after all.”

“Sure, and for Kevin? I’ll ask my dad when we get in.” She says as we get to her dad’s once more for the day.

“Dad, we’re back!” She yells to her father, who is sitting on the couch watching Bob’s Burgers.

“Hey, you two are back early.” He says, walking towards us, giving us hugs.

“We’re leaving tonight, Mrs. Gaskarth went too far.” Razor says.


“What happened there?”

“She hit Maxine in the gut and then almost tackled me.”

“Whoa, hold on. She hurt you two!” The father says, concerned with an anger filled rage.

“We’re fine, I took care of her. There was a reason why you put me in self-defense classes at a young age, this was it.”

“Well at least you two are okay, but if you two are leaving tonight I must bid my farewells to you two. So I’m going to give you two one of my credit cards and some cd’s, music is terrible on the radio these days.” Mr. Robins says with a bit of his British accent showing and getting out his credit card, handing it to his daughter.

“Thanks dad, oh do you know if we’ll be able to hang with Kevin for a bit on our journey?”

“Yeah, you know I was actually just talking to Kevin about that before you came here. He said he’ll let you hang in Pasadena with him before Warped starts, plus maybe he’ll also have some information on how to get in contact with your father, Maxine.”

“Thanks a lot Mr. Robins, means a lot to me to know that you care.” I respond.

“No problem, but you two need to get going, its gonna be a long journey. Just let me get your cd’s and I’ll let you be on your way.” He leaves to get some cd’s while Razor and I head to get the last of her items.

We come back down and then her dad gives us cd’s, then we say our goodbyes and we head to the mall to get Justin.


Once we get to the mall we find Justin at the front near Rocket’s Smoothies where he resides at a table with three smoothies.

“Boop” I say, surprising Justin just a tad.

“Hey, I got you two smoothies, both Raspberry Lime. I didn’t know what you two liked so I just got what I thought looked good.”

“Thanks Just, so we have some news. Good and bad.” I say to my oldest friend.

“Yeah, what is it? Bad first.” He says, as always picking bad.

“Well we have to leave right after we go shopping. My mom went too far. Not as bad as last year but enough to just make me want to leave. And for the good news? I’ll let Razor tell you.” I say, letting Razor take over.

“We’ll you know Kevin Lyman right? And how he’s from Pasadena? We’ll my dad is friends with him, so when we visit there Kevin will let us stay at his for a little bit. Also we may be able to stay with my family and some of friends along the way, depending if they’re on tour.” Razor says to Justin as we walk out of the smoothie shop and start to walk around the mall.

“Wait, hold up. Your dad is friends with the Kevin Lyman, the one that founded fucking Warped Tour? And what do you mean if your family and friends aren’t on tour? Are you famous?” Justin says, starstruck.

“Yeah, I don’t lie about that stuff. And what I mean is I’m Razor Robins, I’m Ryan Key’s and Travis Barker’s niece. I’m also Billie Joe Armstrong’s cousin and I’m friends with all of Boys Like Girls, Fall Out Boy and Avril Lavigne. Finally Walt Disney is my great, great grandpa. So I’ll call them tonight, plus you never know, maybe they’ll have some information on Max’s dad.” She says casually.

“Whoa, just whoa. I’m just in shock, I can’t say much. Hey are we going out of the states? I didn’t know so I packed my passport.” Justin says as we walk out of the mall, deciding we didn’t need anything from there and wanting to save as much money as possible for the long run.

“Yeah, I have some friends up in Canada.” Razor says.

“Who she won’t tell me about.” I say, folding my arms and pouting as we walk to Justin’s car and getting his stuff.

“Bug, she’ll tell you soon, just not now, you just gotta wait.” Justin says, throwing me over his shoulder.

“Put me down dick head!” I yell jokingly at him.

“Okay.” He says and drops me down on the cold concrete.

“Justin you fucker!" I yell at him as he opens his car and gets his stuff.
We walk to Razor's car and I hop in shotgun, Razor in the drivers seat and Justin in the back with his stuff.

"So wheres our first stop gonna be at?" I ask Razor.

"That's a good question, but we have no lead, but Martin might. So I'll text him to see if he's in Boston." She says, pulling out her phone to text Boys Like Girls singer.
Five minutes pass and we get a response from Martin.

To: Razor
From: Martin
Sure you can stay up here and of course I'll help you and your buddy to get her dad back. My address is 34906 Brighton Boulevard, Boston,Massachusetts Zip code 33456

"Boston. Here we come!" Razor yells, putting the address into the Garmin and heading off onto interstate 95 to Boston.

Looks like our journey can finally begin. Goodbye Virginia, hello future.

Notes

So you got drama and over 2,000 words. Your welcome
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