Chapter 27:

Max Henderson:

Damon gave me a confused look and said, "what do you mean you guys meet again?"

Zara laughed from above us and walked around the side, sitting beside where I sat and I replied to Damon.

"When I was walking here, I saw her walking with your other two cousins." I explained and Damon's mouth formed an o shape causing Zara to laugh beside me again.

"Oh Zayn and Zoe?"

"Is that who they are?" I asked.

From beside me Zara smiled and begun to talk.

"Yeah there my brother and sister, we're called the zed trio." She rolled her eyes in this cute manor and I smiled at her feeling my pocket vibrate from where my phone was kept.

I ignored it and asked Zara what movies she liked.

"Ooh hard question, but what about nightmare on elm street?" She responded.

I gasped loudly and my pupils extended and my mouth was left a jar.

How could she like that movie?

Nightmare on Elm Street was the stupidest movie ever with the way he invaded their nightmares and killed them through sleep, driving them all insane because they were scared to sleep.

"Eww that movie sucks Zara, have you even studied how bad and unrealistic it is?" I asked her and she put a hand over her formerly closed mouth but now I was sure it was open slightly in shock.

"What!" She screeched, standing up and staring at me intently.

"It's true like come on Freddy invades their nightmares and kills them all in their sleep because he manages to manipulate them. Can you not see how stupid that is?" I pondered.

She stood in front of me with her tiny hands on her hip bones and she just gave me this blank face looked which caused me to tilt my head to the side.

"Or maybe your a little scardy cat and can't watch scary movies." She jokingly glared at me.

I hid my face using my left hand as I grew a deep red.

How did she know.

that was when I heard her clapping her hands together and laughing so loudly that the whole neighbourhood could most definitely hear.

I looked up at her glowing red face from laughing so much and she pretended to sip a tear from underneath her eye.

"Aww you poor baby." She cooed and I frowned.

Oh the embarrassment of a girl finding out that I was scared of scary movies like a girl.

Beside me I turned to see that Damon was laughing as we'll and I so sped his shoulder causing him to shriek loudly.

"And you were laughing at me Damon?" I asked him as he rolled his eyes and rubbed his shoulder in pain.

He pouted and said, "alright, alright I guess I can't talk." He admitted.

I laughed.

"Too right you can't."

Zara burst out with another fit of laughter and ended up on the ground just sitting there looking as though she was going to start rolling around.

"Oh god, oh god you guys are too funny." Zara gasped out through her fits of laughter.

I rolled my eyes and couldn't help but think that she looked cute rolling on the floor out if laughter because Damon and I were amusing her but I shook off the though; she was Damon's cousin, I couldn't think about her like that.

Damon coughed and looked up at the lounge room door to see what I gathered to be Zayn and Zoe who lent against the frame if the door with a look of bewilderment.

"How much did you see?" Damon asked.

"All of it." The girl said and fiddled with one of her blonde locks.

"Damn!" Damon pouted from beside me and I laughed in embarrassment.

I can't believe all three of Damon's cousins had experienced our weirdness and not to mention that one of them was extremely pretty, wait no, naughty Max I can't think of her like that.

"So Damon whose your friend?" A gruff voice asked and I looked at the tall boy beside Zoe.

That must of been Zayn.

His dirty blonde hair was side swept to the side and he had these icy blue eyes.

His triangular face was smooth without any pimples or facial hair in sight.

The guy looked like a male model, one of those guys that every girl would fall head over heals for but then he'd break their heart and leave somebody to pick up all the pieces.

He reminded me a bit of Lincoln Xavier, the player at our school.

"Oh that's Max and Max this is Zayn and Zoe Pollard."

"Nice to meet you." I smiled and they both smiled back.

"Nicks to meet you too." Zayn said.

"Oh by the way Zoe won't say much because she's a little shy." Zayn said with a flick of his hair.

I felt another vibration coming from my pocket and I rolled my eyes and grabbed it out to see two new messages from Maxine.

Oops.

-Guess what!?-

-Okay then you're not replying, I'll just tell you instead of making you guess like the cruel person I am. I'm officially dating Lucas and going on a date with him :D-

My eyes widened and I clapped my hands together, typing a message in reply to her exciting news.

-Oh my god, Maxine that's awesome! I'm at Damon's house, as you know and his cousins are here :D-

I slipped my phone back in my pocket and stared around the room and everyone had sat beside us on the lounge while I was texting Maxine.

Beside me Zara and Damon were sitting there while Damon was in my other side, then next to Zara was Zoe and next to Damon was Zayn who staring at his phone screen.

"Talking to your girlfriend." Damon nudged Zayn's arm.

Zayn rolled his eyes and tapped away on the phone with a half smile on his face and I raised an eyebrow.

I thought the guy was a player, whoops my mistake.

"Yep. Alright if she joins us?" Zayn asked and Damon nodded in reply causing Zayn to smile more.

"Thanks cous and Max don't say anything mean to her." Zayn warned me.

I shook my head and answered with, "don't worry I'm not a mean person, just weird and what's she like?" I asked him.

"We'll she's the most beautiful girl ever, she's so kind and always sees the good in people. Also when I say she's beautiful that's my opinion and it's most certainly true but nobody else ever sees it and they all tease and bully her, they also wonder how the eff she got with someone as good looking as me, like no I'm not some cocky bastard who thinks that, it's just I know because people always say so." He frowned.

I muttered a wow.

That was pretty deep and I had this new found respect for the guy, maybe I shouldn't have judged him to be a player so quickly.

Looks doesn't represent the person you are.

Look at me.

I was what girls called hot but yet I was the weirdest guy ever, a big put off for girls.

I was often called gay because go how weird I was, like they all made jokes since I was popular but I knew that's really how they thought of me.

People often thought Damon was gay too and they didn't understand why I hung our with him the most.

My thoughts started making me feel guilty that I so quickly judged the guy.

I was interrupted by a knocking to the door and Zayn got up, a smile on his face.

He twisted the door open to reveal a short girl who was a little to the chubby side with long, died, wavy hair.

Her skin was near clear with two dotted pimples on her forehead and she had these large brown eyes that also had these really long eyelashes.

Her face was freckle and pale but I could see what Zayn meant.

Sure she wasn't the most beautiful girl on the planet, but she was her own kind if beautiful, inside and out.

"Hi." She said shyly and gazed at the floor while her two feet lifted off the ground, or at least the soles of them.

"Come in gorgeous." Zayn smiled and she blushed, shuffling in the house with her head still staring at the floor.

Zayn's arms wrapped around her waist and he bent down to give her a peck on the lips.

They pulled back with a smile on each of their faces, suddenly making my body run with jealousy.

I wish I had a girlfriend.

One who gave me cuddles when I was down, someone who was beautiful on the inside (I couldn't care less about outer appearance) someone that liked the fact that I was super weird and someone who didn't give a shit about about the fact that I was this popular guy.

"Aww you guys are so adorable!" Squealed Zara with a bright smile lit up on her face.

The couple looked over at her with a large smile forming on their lips and Zayn's girlfriend rushed over to Zara, pulling her into a hug.

"Whose Damon's friend?" She asked shyly.

"I'm Max Henderson, you?" I asked her politely with a smile.

From behind Zayn wrapped his arms around his girlfriend once more causing her face to light up with happiness and Zayn stared at her lovingly.

"I'm Clair Brydon. Nice to meet you Max." She said more confidently.

"Nice to meet you too Clair." I said and then Zara opened her mouth and blurted something out.

"He's a weirdo Clair, but a good weirdo." She smiled at me and I smiled back at her, suddenly feeling butterflies grumble in my stomach as I studied her face which her dimple had appeared once again and she twirled a piece of her beautiful hair in her finger.

Wow I have to stop thinking about her like this.

"Oh, is he just?" Clair asked with a laugh as Zayn kissed her cheek.

"Yes, yes, he is."