Max's P.O.V

“Back so soon sweetheart?”

My mother asked. She knows I was going to lunch with a friend but she doesn’t who that friend is. I didn’t tell her because I wasn’t looking for a lecture on, how not to steal your best friend girlfriend. Knowing my mother, she’d try to get me and Os in a room and make us talk to each other.

My mother is really cool but she can be a bit of an embarrassing sometime. Her favourite thing to say is, “I’m down with the kids.” I mean, who says that anymore. Whenever I bring friend over, instead of say hello like any other normal mothers would do, she’d say, “Sup.” Or “How’s is hanging.”

When I was 15 she sat me and my first girlfriend down and told us to glove up whenever we’re doing the hankie pinkie, or we might get an unexpected bun in the oven. Let’s just say that that relationship did not last very long. The girl I was dating thought my family was too weird.

My mother is cool though. She’s the one that lets me and my 16 year old sister getting away anything. My father on the other is more rich. You might be wondering why I said that. Well, let’s just say that my father behaves like those uptight rich white people you see in movies and read about in books. He not a bad person, he just thinks that everything falls into classes and we should only associate with our own kind. My sister Myka and I take after our mother.

“Yeah. Just thought I come back home and spend some time with Myka.”

A lie I know, but I’m not telling her the real reason why I came back early. Shit! I’m not even too sure what went down in Os’s house. Yeah ok, maybe I played my part in the bitch fit that took place. But damn! Lil mama went all out. Burning shit and firing out insults like it was a buy one get one free day. I’ve seen Melody pissed but that was just a new level. God! But I do love her though.

I know I hurt her. I saw the pain in her eyes, the look of betrayal she gave me. Shit! I did hurt her, didn’t I? Oh man, I’m gonna have to make it up to her, if she’ll be willing to forgive me. I can’t lose her. I’ve seen a lot of beautiful girls before but Melody is not only beautiful. She’s smart, funny, kind, sassy and hot as hell. Girl’s got an ass on her. I mean damn!

She should be treated like a queen and if she was with me that’s exactly how I would treat her. I wouldn’t offer her a no strings relationship and I wouldn’t throw other girls in her face. Os don’t deserve her. He’s made her cry too many times and I should know because I’m the one she was always crying to. I plan to take her away from him and show her what a real relationship should be like.

“That’s really sweet of you honey, she’s going to love that.”

My mother interrupted my thoughts. I took off my coat and hanged it up then start to make my way to Myka’s room.

“Here sweetie, take this into your sister. She’s being a little madam today.”

I chuckled. “When is she ever not being a spoilt brat?”

I took the tray my mother passed me, which was filled with homemade cookies and chocolate milk. I walk to Myka’s room and open the door. I see her sitting up in bed with her laptop on her lap. It look like she’s reading but whatever it is, it must be good. Because she got her face so close to the screen you think she was trying to get into it. Her jaw was dropped and her eyes bulged.

I smiled. I like seeing her happy. She’s such a strong person. It hurts me to know that she’s sick and there’s nothing I can do about it. Shit! I didn’t tell you what she’s sick with. My bad. She’s got Leukaemia. For those of you who don’t know what Leukaemia is… Go f***ing look it up! You illiterate asses should know these things. I ain’t gonna tell you shit! Who the hell do I look like, Wikipedia? I ain’t your dictionary go research your own shit!

Anyway like I was saying, my sister has Leukaemia or to be exact, she has Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. We found out about 6 years ago. It was a very stressful time for my family. We almost lost her a few times over the year, but she’s a fighter she always pulls through.

“Careful there Mikey or you’ll fall right into the laptop and I’ll have to turn your room into the game room I’ve been wanting.”

She turned her narrowed eyes on me.

“Did I say you can come in, Maxine?”

I chuckled. She know I hate it when she call me Maxine. We’ve been calling each other Maxine and Mikey since we were little. I started doing it because she used to think that being a boy was way cooler than being a girl. So I started calling her Mikey just to piss her off. Funny enough, when she started calling me Maxine it didn’t sounds as cute as when I called her Mikey.

“Oh well, I guess you won’t be needing these then.”

I put one of the cookies into my mouth and crunch. My evil witch of a sister picked up a book from her night stand and threw it at my head. I moved out of the way just in time. Shit! That was a close call.

I look over to her, only to see her holding another book.

“Put the cookie down or die! Your choice.”

For a sick person she’s rather violent. I place the tray next to her and she put down the book. Shit, I wouldn’t put it pass her to not try and take me out with that book. I popped myself down next to her, leaning over a bit to see the computer.

“What ya reading, brat?”

She pushed my head away.

“A book, not like you’d understand, you’re too dumb to read.”

So mean for a small person. I put my hand at the back of her laptop and shut it down. She started screaming for my mother.

“Mom!!! Maxine is being mean to me again!!!”

“Maximillian VanBurk Hoskins, be nice to your little sister!”

My mother shouted and I cringed. Yes, you heard right, that’s my name. I know, it’s messed up. I never tell people my full name, it embarrassing watching their reaction. I turn to see Myka laughing. She knows that I hate hearing that name. Oh it’s on now. I’m gonna get her back when she least expect it.

“You’re gonna get it.”

She stuck her tongue out at me and continue reading her book on her laptop. I lean in to get a better look.

“What’s Wattpad?”

She shoved my head away once again. But instead of ignoring me like I thought she would, she turn the laptop so that I could see.

“It’s a site where you can read books for free. It’s like Amazon Kindle but better because not only are there books free, but you can also write you own book and upload it for others to read. Isn’t that cool?!”

I read the name of the book she was reading.

“The God of Alpha. What’s it about?”

Now this got my sister excited. Her eyes lit up and she started talking a mile a minute.

“Ohmygod! It’s like the greatest book ever! At first when I started reading it, I was like, this book is so not for me. You know, because it’s written like way, way in the past and you know I hate to read old book. I mean, their just so boring and I can never understand what their trying to say, but this book is so not like that…”

Like what the F***. I’m sorry I asked.

“…it’s funny, adventurous sad and meaningful at the same. How often can you find a book with all those qualities? Uh, like never! Anyway the story is told by a man a good few years into the future. I mean like way, way in the future. He tells the story about his fri…”

“Ok, ok, I get it. You love the story, no need to kill me with the details.”

Damn! I think she gave me a headache. I wasn’t trying to be mean to her or anything, but if I didn’t stop her she would have carried on talking like that forever. I love her and everything, but shit! She was starting to confuse me with her speed talking.

“Ok, I won’t bore you with the details. I know you’re allergic to knowledge, or books, or anything that might make you stop being a dumb ass.”

Sometime I think she adopted, because she is so mean. I don’t know where she gets it from. Mom’s a nice person, dad’s an ok guy and I’m just downright the nicest person you’ll ever meet. Don’t laugh, I’m not kidding. I’m just freaking awesome! You know you wanna meet me.

“So, how’s Melody? Did you finally tell her how you feel? Are you gonna be bring her over and sneaking her up to your room to have crazy sex?”

What! I think I’ve been spending way too much time with her, because she’s starting to sound like me.

“She’s fine and I didn’t. And what the hell do you know about having crazy sex?”

She rolled her eyes, looking at me like I’m stupid.

“Uh duh! I’ve got a computer and I do have access to the internet. I’m 16, I was curious and I wanted to know so I looked it up. It’s actually pretty easy, I can show you if you want me to?”

She started typing on her computer. Show me? Is she crazy? Like hell I’m gonna be watching or reading about crazy sex with my little sister.

“Uh, hell no!”

She starts laughing and from the look on her face I can tell she was teasing. Spoilt brat!  

“So are you gonna tell her?”

“Tell who?”

I know who she’s talking about but I’m not in the mood to talk about Melody. I told her about Melody, but I didn’t tell her that she was dating Os and that Os and I are no longer friends. That little detail I kept to myself.

“Melody you idiot! Are you ever gonna tell her how you feel?”

Am I ever gonna tell her how I feel? Hell yeah, I’m going to. But I have to plan it right, because I know it’s gonna be a nasty fight between Os and I. he don’t deserve her, I do and I’m going to make her mine even if it’s the last thing I do.

“Yeah, I’m gonna tell her. I’m gonna tell her pretty soon.”