She's One in a Million

Twenty-eight

"Max. Hey, Max. Maaax!" Casey waved her hand in front of Max. She has been calling her attention for while but it seemed that Max was drowning in her thoughts.

Max looked at Casey, finally awake from her thoughts. "What?"

"What's going on with you today?" Casey asked, her face was very worried.

"N-nothing." Max quickly answered.

"Are you sure? You've been poking your salad for like 5 minutes now." Sophia said.

"I'm fine, really." Max said, looking at her uneaten salad. She looked at everyone in the table and all of them were staring at her.

"Did you hit your head or something?" Brittany joined.

"No. No. I'm not really hungry." Max said, grabbing her plate and went to the sink. Seriously? Have I been spacing out? She gave a sigh. She knew she wasn't fine. She knew there was something wrong with her. She couldn't stop thinking about last night: the scene, the ache in her chest and that kiss.

That was the first time she was kissed in a way like last night. It was gentle, pure and intimate that not only did she feel the kiss on her lips but it went through her soul. Her heart ache when he went deepen such kiss. She shivered when he brought her closer to him, his arms gripping her tiny waist.

But even such wonderful moment couldn't stop from making Max wonder, was that for her?

"Are you sure, you're not sick?" Emilia asked, already beside her. Max looked at Emilia's gray eyes-for the first time, Max could see that she was concern of her.

"I'm not." Max answered, looking away. She shouldn't be feeling this way but, she was angry with Emilia. Doesn't she know how lucky she was that there was a man so in love with her and she just threw it away?

Her hand was about to turn in to a fist but she stop. You can't do this, Max. She's your friend.

"Did something happened last night perhaps?" Emilia asked, her voice soft and gentle.

"No. Everything was fine. In fact, last night was great. Really great." Max couldn't help but let out a slight anger in her voice. "In fact, both of us let out a piece of ourselves-of what we really felt inside and do you know what he let out?" She couldn't stop it anymore. "That some ungrateful bitch broke his heart once-" She stopped when she saw Emilia's eyes widen. Everyone in the room let out a soft gasp and Max looked around to see that everyone was already staring at them-in disbelief.

"Max." Casey called out to her and Max knew she went too much. Emilia looked away and turned around, walking away from the kitchen and went upstairs.

"I'm sorry. I-I'm really sorry." I said too much.

Casey entered the room and saw Max sitting on the bed, embracing her legs. There was quite a tension that happened during brunch and it was sad to see the two-who just recently became friends-had such a scenario.

"Hey, Max." Casey said, trying to have some enthusiasm in her voice but it didn't work for Max. She still sat on the bed, embracing her legs-a thing she does when she gets worried about something.

"I said too much, didn't I?" Max said.

"Well...uh..." Casey sat beside her, coming up with some words that wouldn't sound agreeing.

"I know I did." Max sighed. "I should have kept my mouth shut but my emotions got the better of me."

"Hmm..uh.." Casey couldn't think of any other things to cool everything down.