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manng was all standing around in a circle as max was explaining what had happened to marcus. "he took a corner too fast, slide off the road." max explained. "so now he has a concussion."
"oh my god that is just so scary." abby said.
norah nodded agreeing, "i had a concussion once when i went skiing, it was the worst. did he black out or throw up?"
"do the hokey pokey? turn himself around? yeah he got the whole fun concussion grab bag." max huffed.
"but he's gonna be okay, right?" ginny asked. abby looked at nicola and noticed how upset she looked by this whole thing. nicola looked as if she was going to throw up.
maxine shrugged, "he should be back to normal but it could take a few months, so. its just so stupid. why would he ride his bike? he doesn't have his license or know how to ride. he could've been killed. what would possess him to do that?"
when max said that nicola felt horrible. she felt like this was all her fault. if she didn't push him away. she should have just let him in. tell him how she has been feeling but she didn't want to burden him with that though she knows he would understand. she knows he has been through depression like that and she was there for him when it happened so why wouldn't she let him be there for her?
max scoffed, "i blame toxic masculinity."
"why?" abby quickly asks.
"i.. i dont know." max stammered. as sophie ran up to max, the rest of the girls sit down, nicola placed her head on abbys lap.
"how are you doing?" she asked quietly. nicola just shrugged. abby knew her best friend was going through a lot with her depression and now with marcus. "im here if you wanna talk."
"thanks abs." nicola smiled slightly.
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during all the mess that had happened this year nicola had decided to get a job at the blue farm so here she was closing with joe. "so i need all of those tables reset with cutlery before you take off, please." joe told nicola who just absentmindedly nodded. "oh look sing sing." joe sarcastically said. "a musical with all white people behind bars! a work of fiction. yeah. also have you seen my pens? i don't know where my pens are. i feel like i just restocked them. its like just this very mundane episode of the twilight zone."
that made nicola look up, "did you just reference the twilight zone?"
joe laughed, "yes but come on what's going on with you?"
nicola took a deep breath, "nothing."
she walked with the empty tray towards joe. "nothing. okay." he said clearly not believing her. "would you like to talk about nothing?"
nicola sighed looking at joe, "what do you do when you possibly messed something up?"
"ah is this a skateboarding, t shirt wearing, secret boyfriend possible mess up?" joe clicks his tongue.
"how did you-" nicola started to say but joe cut her off, "come on, nico i see stuff."
nico chuckled, "i just i think i really fucked up and then he got in his accident and i guess it made me realize how i could have lost him and i would have hated myself for not apologizing to him."
"listen, i think he would appreciate if you went and saw him. you are done here so go." joe said.
nicola nodded, "bye joe!"
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marcus sat up slightly hearing his window open and looked over to see nicola coming through the window. "you taking a note from my book?" he asks with a small laugh. nicola looked at him sadly, "hey no." he said to her. "im okay." she shuffled over sitting on his bed.
"i'm sorry." she whispered.
"nico-" he started to say but she cut him off, "let me apologize, dummy. i'm sorry. i shouldn't have yelled at you. i know you were just trying to help but when im liked that i lash out on people and i'm just so sorry because then you got into that accident and it was all my fault."
"hey." marcus whispered placing his hands on her face wiping away the tears, "don't beat yourself up. its okay."
"i love you." she kissed the palm of one of his hands.
"i love you. today. tomorrow. forever." he smiled. "now i'm gonna lay down cause my head hurts." as marcus laid back he pulled nicola with him asking her to stay for a bit. she did just that.
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nicola was sitting in max's room with norah, abby and ginny. "i don't understand i thought she loved me back." maxine cried.
nicola pulled her into a hug, "oh babe i dont know. shes just immature. okay? shes doesnt know whats shes missing. she's not on your level."
"i want her on my level." max said as nicola let her go. "my level is like lonely without her. i can switch levels right? like what level does she want?"
"max she sucks." ginny says.
"yeah she is so sucky." norah agrees.
"you know what. i've already forgotten about her. sophie who?" abby sasses. "isn't she that basic bitch that posts thirst traps on social media?"
max gasps, "her thirst traps god she was so hot! i'm never gonna date someone that hot ever again. is that what you think? you dont think im hot enough for her?"
"what?" norah was offended maxine would even ask that. "no no no no no. not with your cheekbones."
"max you shouldnt even be sad. you should get mad instead." ginny suggested, "mad is healthier."
nicola furrowed her eyebrows, "is it?"
"mad." max whispered.
"screw her! who does she think she is? im... im just over it. shes dead to me." abby exclaims.
nicola nodded pointing at abby, "dead. buried."
"bottom of the ocean." norah adds.
"fish food." abby states. max started to cry again when abby all of sudden told norah to get the oreos.
"i feel like there is just this pit" max cried as she licked the frosting of the oreo. "in my chest. and like i cant stop thinking about her and wondering if she's thinking about me. and she just bailed. she bailed. i just didn't think love was like this."
abby scoffed, "really? hang out with my family for a bit. see why i've never had a boyfriend. goddamn."
nicola rolled her eyes, "ignore abby. look, max, love is not always liked that and when the right person loves you, you'll feel it."
"see?" norah asked. "this is love." ginny had excused herself to the bathroom while the other girls tried to comfort max.
"im gonna go get ginny." abby said. "make sure she doesn't try to call sophie." as abby headed towards the bathroom she stopped when she saw that ginny was in marcus's room and he had just pushed her away when she tried to kiss him. "ginny, you are literally one of my girlfriends best friends and i have told you twice now i do not see you other than a friend." marcus ran his hands threw his hair.
"uh hey guys." abby looked between the two giving marcus a look that said i saw what you just did so i dont have to beat your ass cause you didnt cheat. "max is trying to call sophie so we should go."
"abby... abby-" ginny started to say.
"no. you know he is with nico yet you still made a move on marcus. i am not going to tell her right now because she doesnt need one of her best friends hurting her like that. that is the boy she loves, okay? and since i saw him push you away this is on you." abby cut her off. "and on top of that max doesnt need to know because she is feeling betrayed right now and finding out that you tried to kiss her brother would make it worse and then she would have to find out about nicola and marcus which would make it so much worse so shut up. if you were to tell either of them i would lose manng and i cant. my parents divorce is already bad enough ginny."
"i am so sorry, and i appreciate the time that we had together." max said on the phone as nicola was trying to get it from her.
"max stop." nico says but max pushed her away.
"i do and i dont bear you any ill will. i just need to know why." max continued.
"guys i told you to stop her!" abby yelled.
nicola huffed in annoyance, "im trying!"
"she bit me!" norah exclaimed. before abby and nicola both this time jumped on max taking the phone from her.
abby pinned max to the floor as nicola hung up, "you good? you got that out of your system?"
"yeah." max cried.
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"interesting entrance." marcus laughed as nicola once again came through his window.
"listen, im just becoming you." she smiled.
marcus nodded slightly at her, "i mean you are wearing my shirt."
nicola looked down forgetting that she had it on, "oh yeah i stole it from you the night of max's party." she lightly kissed his lips which he smiled at.
"you staying tonight?" he asked. nicola nodded before laying down next to marcus.
later that night, max went in to marcus's room to see how he was doing but she was not expecting to see what she did. nicola was there, wearing marcus's shirt as the two were asleep and cuddling. that's when maxine baker put two and two together. the secrecy from both of them, all of a sudden they were talking again, the hickies both of them would have. they were a couple again and had kept it from max.
"what the fuck." max mumbled under her breath. maxine baker was pissed off.
authors note
slay so max knows
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