#hss max

When Mia invited me over to a party at her house, I was not expecting to see Hearst students partying as well. Music was pounding so hard that I swore I felt the floor shaking as well. “Sunny!”, I turned to Mia. “Uh, Mia? How many people did you invite?”, looking around the house was packed with other teens who were either dancing, talking or just drinking. Mia glanced across the room where Max was. “I did not plan to invite hearst students here, but you can thank my brother for that. Look at the mess! I’ve been going crazy because if anything gets broken in here, I’ll have to answer to dad since the party was my idea”, Mia slumped her shoulders. She looked tired and I saw Katherine who was approaching us in a hurry. “Mia! Some guys are going into the bed rooms upstairs”, Mia’s eyes widen. “Oh god, nope. Not. Happening. Sorry Sunny, but I have to go take care of things”, Mia left with Katherine in a hurry and I could not help but to feel bad. 

I watched as Max started to hype the crowd and not surprisingly, Lacey was with him too. “Gross”, I felt myself cringe from the sight of Lacey kissing Max. I was just glad that no one from Hearst knew it was me because of the clothes I had on. I blamed Payton for making me get all dressed up. 

Making my way to the kitchen, I saw Autumn and Payton who were just as stressed as Mia was. “Whoa, what happened in here?”, the room was filled with red plastic cups and when I looked closer....”Were they seriously playing beer pong in here?”, I nearly slipped on the alcohol that was on the floor, but thankfully Wes happened to be around and caught me by my arm. “Careful. Max really went and done it now. The kitchen isn’t even the worst part”, he walked over to the window and looked outside. “The backyard is filled with people swimming and I’m not surprised at the fact that the cops haven’t arrived yet. Max got them wrapped around his pinkie”, Payton sighed as she picked up more cups from the floor. “We’ll never be able to clean everything up at this rate! Plus look at what they did to the streamers I put around the house”, she furrowed her brow in annoyance when she saw that all her streamers were either stepped on or thrown out. Autumn slumped her shoulders. “No offense Payton, but I think what we should really worry about is what Julian will do when he gets here”, I pictured Julian and Max getting into a fight and it would be really bad if someone got hurt. “I’ll go try to talk to Max, maybe he’ll listen if the beer hasn’t gone to his head yet”, I made my way back to the living room and tried to look around for the plug that was connected to the music. I started to get annoyed at how packed it was in here. Where is the stupid plug?! It was not long until I found the cord and unplugged it. The sound of hears students saying ‘awww’ filled the room. To be honest, It was kinda funny.

“Hey! Who turned off the music?”, Max parted through the crowd and once he saw me, he stopped in place. He looked at me in a strange way before grinning. “Who’re you?”, I felt other people staring at me. “Take a guess”, I was not in the mood for his games. Max took a step forward and when he finally realized it was me, he got angry. “Sunny?! You really cut the music just to get me mad, didn’t you?”, he continued to glare at me until Mia came in. “Max! This has to stop. Do you know how long it took for me to kick down the kids from your school who were in our bed rooms?”, I could tell that Mia was not having it anymore. She looked pissed. 

“Aw, looks like the losers are scared of a little fun”, Mia and I watched as Lacey walked next to Max. Where the hell are her clothes? She’s barely wearing anything! I rolled my eyes. “Lacey, you would look really good in orange again”, I brought up what happened to her during the Pandora incident and that ticked off Lacey a bit. “Shut up! You think you’re so cute trying to play the good guys, but this is Max’s party now. So why don’t you leave?”, Lacey threatened back. Suddenly, Julian came in and he looked just as shocked as I was when he came inside.

“Whoa! What happened in here?”, I watched as Julian made his way towards us until a slice of pizza that was on the ceiling fell to floor by Julian’s shoes. “Well there goes a perfectly good slice of pizza”, he frowned sadly until he saw Max near me. He stepped in front of me in a protective manner. “Did you do something to you Sunny? Cause if he did, I wouldn’t mind repaying him back”, Julian had his fists balled and Max mirrored as well. They’re both about to brawl in here! I gotta put a stop to this before someone gets really hurt. “Wait! Look Max, we’re not asking you to stop partying but we don’t want this to end up being like a sequel to spring break”, I referenced the movie to try and lighten the mood. I hope this works. “Can we at least try to get along for one night? This is your sister’s party too”, Max looked at Mia and felt a little guilty. Maybe because of how tired she looked. “Fine, but don’t think we’ll be all buddy-buddy in here”, Max glared at Julian before getting pulled back by Derek. I exhaled a sigh of relief.

Payton approached us with a smile. “You guys, I have the perfect idea of what we can do to make things more fun! Seven minutes in Heaven”, I could have sworn I heard someone spit out their drink. Why do I have a bad feeling about this? Katherine looked at Mia and started to blush. “I wouldn’t mind”, Katherine smiled lightly as Mia returned the gesture and held her hand. Julian shrugged, “Are you guys forgetting who’s in the room?”, he looked at Max who was silently watching from the side lines while talking with Derek. “I’m with Julian on this one”, I said. Max elbowed Derek before letting out a chuckle. He approached us again. “Is Sunny scared of a little kiss? Don’t worry, I’m sure no one would want to kiss a loser like you anyways”, he taunted at me. “Whatever happened to the last guy you were with?”, he brought up what happened on that day when he forced my old boyfriend to pick up his fries and poured salt on him. That really got to me because that was also the day that he and I broke it off because of Max’s bullying. “Fine Max, let’s play. Unless you’re all bark and no bite”, I spat. We glared at each other before a circle started to form. One by one, pairs were sent to the closet for seven minutes. Mia and Katherine went in, Nishan went twice; once with Sakura and the other with Kara. He looked extremely uncomfortable. Autumn went in with Derek and when Julian spun the bottle...it landed on me and Max!

“GROSS”, Max started to laugh in a obnoxious way this time. His friends started to laugh and Lacey looked angry. “You’re not really going to go in with her for seven minutes?”, I could hear her suck her teeth from the disbelief. This is really pissing me off. Getting up, I walked towards the closet. “Let’s just get this over with. Feel free to back out if you want”, I looked over my shoulder to see Max get up, clearly annoyed. “Whatever loser”, we gave our phones to Payton and I heard the door click, locking us in the closet for seven minutes. We stood in silence.

Max’s eyes trailed on me, taking in the image of my wild brown hair that I usually kept in a pony tail, now loose. He could not help but to stare, he really hated how I looked decent in a short black lace dress. Shit. He tried to snap himself out of whatever weird trance he thought he was in and started to annoy me. “Hey, you never said what happened to that loser boyfriend of yours. Did he get tired of you yet?”, he didn’t know why he bothered to ask but he was curious. Not because of how insanely hot he thought I looked at the moment. No! What is wrong with you?! You’re Max Warren, king of Hearst, not the king of losers. She’s just a loser. He cursed under his breath until he saw I remained quiet. Too quiet. Looking closer, he could have sworn he saw a tear. “Uh-..”, I cut him off, finally just snapping. “No Max, he did NOT break it off because he was tired of me. He was tired of YOU! So, yeah, thanks again for the fun trip down memory lane”, I spat angrily. Max stood still before cracking a smile, he laughed. 

Is he for real right now? He really finds this to be funny? I watched as he continued to laugh and I slapped his arm. “Are you seriously laughing about this? It’s not funny Max!”, he really got to me. In more ways then one. “Yeah, It’s funny”, he stopped laughing as his grin widened. “He really broke it off with you?”, he asked again knowing fully well the answer. “You’re unbelievable. It’s times like this that make me realize how much I can’t stand you”, I glared at him as he broke out in laughter again. “Oh man, haha! Can you blame me? He was pretty stupid for doing that”, he looked straight at me and I looked back confused. “What?”, I watched as he took a step closer to me. “I’m saying he was pretty stupid for dumping you”, he said. Did I hear that right? What the hell? “Max, you’re pretty messed up for making a joke out of this. Are you drunk?”, I couldn’t believe him. I didn’t want to believe him. “No, but you’re intoxicating”, even Max couldn’t believe the words that started to escape his mouth. He started to question if someone actually spiked his drink. “I really hate you”, this time he spoke with such anger and frustration, yet his eyes were glossed over with a look of wanting. He didn’t want to feel this way, but even when he was with Lacey he thought of me. Things would have been different if you were in Hearst, with me. I felt my insides twist as he lifted my chin up. “I hate you too”, I returned back harshly, swatting his hand. He found the way I got pissed at him to be interesting. “You look hot when you’re mad”, I looked at him. I really looked at him. “I HATE you”, this time my tone was cold. Why is he like this? Why does he gotta confuse me so much? “You can leave right now if you want to, unless...”, he watched as I looked at the door and back at him. I didn’t want to.