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This chapter contains violence and SA, read at your own risk.

Leaning against his locker, the captain of the Sharks played with his silver rings, thinking about how much he had screwed up. He had slipped into old habits rooted in his mind that he had been unable to control, helping Maxine on her way home from the Garage, removing her make-up, tucking her in, calling her by all those affectionate pet names... "Shit," he growled, banging his head against the locker, which caught the attention of several students, but they didn't comment. "Well, you look like shit" His twin's voice made him sit up slowly and look into her eyes. Holly smiled seeing her brother acting like a zombie while Oliver next to her frowned. "No shit, Holly," the brunette replied grumpily, causing his best friend to huff. "What's up?" Zach's chocolate eyes landed on the light skinned and he sighed before looking down the halls, looking for Alina. "I slept with Max"

"What?" As the Martinez twin had just called attention by shouting, the other twin held her down by pinning her against her locker and abruptly putting his hand over her mouth, preventing her from making any sound. Oliver couldn't help but frown upon seeing her and made a remark that caused them to tear themselves away from each other with a look of disgust on their faces. "This feels oddly intimate..."

"Ew," they said at the same time putting a wide distance between them, making Oliver laugh. "So, you... slept with Max?" Zachariah sighed again, then his eyes widened when he realized how misinterpreted his words could be. "No, wait, no, I didn't sleep with her as in we had sex, we just slept, on her bed, with clothes on, and cuddling... And it felt so damn good..." Again leaning against his locker, the curly's gaze was lost in the void, thinking back to that night. "It felt like... like before..." Holly looked at her brother then spoke up. "But how did you get here? I thought you were with Ali yesterday"

"I was but a friend of Max' called me saying that she was in some deep shit. I couldn't leave her like that, especially since apparently she didn't tell her dear friend that we are no longer dating" Oliver sighed then put his hand on his shoulder. "Looking from a certain view, you never broke up," the light skinned couldn't help but tell the curly, who didn't even seem to be listening to him anymore. His gaze was perched elsewhere, on Maxine Miller who entered the school grounds with a white t-shirt, that the brunette had searched for a long time in his closet, baggy blue jeans and her eternal sparkling white platform sneakers. Her long wavy black hair, which she constantly swept back, fell over her back and a few strands blurred her view. " Oh my, my, she's fine," his twin's voice brought him back to earth. Zach watched Holly admiring his ex-girlfriend scrupulously before putting his hand in front of her eyes. "We're in a serious conversation, stay focused. The plan is to avoid her all day."

"I fucking missed your sense of humour," a familiar voice resonated in the living room of Zachariah Martinez's place. The curly frowned and dropped his sports bag on the floor before walking towards the voice. His jaw almost dropped when he saw Maxine sitting with his twin sister and his little brother, Joshua. The latter was sitting next to Max in the couch and his head was on the black haired' shoulder as she stroked his hair. So much for avoiding her, huh. Holly was sipping on her Coke, on the couch juxtaposed to them when she noticed Zach. "Howdy twin," she said, making Maxine and Josh turned their heads towards him. "Ay, Zach, you didn't tell me Max was back," Josh said, smiling from ear to ear. "Yeah, um, I forgot... Max, can we have a chat, please?" Without complaining, the black haired got up and followed her ex boyfriend upstairs, to his bedroom. "Oh, you wanted me all alone, huh? What did you have in mind, Zachy?" Maxine sat on the brunette's bed and smirked, looking intensely into those chocolate brown eyes that she loved so damn much. It was the first thing she had noticed when she first saw him, she fell in love with them at first sight. "What are you doing here, Max?"