"Flash from the past"

Healing takes time

Davids pov:

Max looked up at me. His face was red with embarrassment. I knew he didn't want me knowing about this but I knew that I had to. He started crying louder. I hated seeing max like this even though this is the first time i've ever seen him cry. Well I guess, second time.

"......m-m-maybe...." he was stuttering, sobbing and hiccuping. It was hard to hear him at first but I knew what he said.

I looked at his arms. The cuts were fresh and oozing with blood. I grabbed the knife from under his pillow and pocketed it. I got up and went out of the tent. I popped my head back in to say something to max, "don't go anywhere. I'll be right back with some bandages." When I walked into the counselors cabin I saw Gwen reading one of her 'magazines.' She quickly threw it across the cabin and plastered a fake smile on her face. "Heeeeeeey David!" I chuckled and went into my desk and grabbed the bandages. "Umm....David?" I looked up.

"Hm?"

"What's in your pocket?"

She saw it.

"O-oh...I umm...a k-knife." i started sweating

"Why do you have it? And why is it all-wait," wait what. She paused.

"Was it Nerf?" i looked her dead in the eyes and said;

"Y-yep! You know Nerf alright! He a-always....umm...knives?"

Well that wasn't convincing. At all. She looked at me. "You have that look in your eyes again. Who really had it?" Crap. she knew. I sighed. I can't lie. I don't want to lie. Especially to Gwen. my best friend. Who I secretly had feelings for but I just pushed those aside. I knew she would never like me back. I didn't care. I only focused on the task at hand. I looked her in the eyes again as i quietly told her;

"M-max.....he had t-the knife." she gasped.

"I-is he o-okay?" she sounded genuinely worried. I didn't like it.

"Y-yeah i just need toooo......" I walked out. Back to Max's tent i go.

While I was walking there, Nikki and Neil came running over to me. They were worried about max. They didn't even tell me and I already knew.

"David?" Nikki asked me. "I-is max okay?"

"I uh-"

"Yeah. I walked into my tent and he was crying on his bed. He had blood on his wrists and wouldn't tell us what was wrong." Neil told me.

"M-max is going to be okay happy c-campers." I knew that as I spoke I had tears in my eyes. Just thinking about what he was doing to himself made me want to go onto the floor and start sobbing. I looked down at Max's friends as the tears rolled down. I was lying. I didn't know that. All the bad thoughts made their way into my brain. I walked to go to the tent.

When I arrived there, I saw Max facing the opposite direction of me. "H-hey M-max." i said in that soft voice. He seemed to like that because he turned around and told me, "c-can you just p-put the bandages on so i can g-get this over with?" I walked over to him. "Of course." I rolled up his sleeves and unwrapped the bandages and wrapped them around his wrists. It took a couple minutes and winces of pain but it was done.

The bandages were on and there wasn't any bleeding. "N-now max? Is there anything you want to tell me before i leav-" before i could finish my sentence he wrapped his arms around me and started crying again. He told me a lot about stuff like his parents and what they do to him. I couldn't believe that parents could just hit their children and not feel a single thing.

How much they smoke, drank and did drugs. I really could not believe what I was hearing. I wanted to say something but when I opened my mouth, nothing came out. He told me that he wanted his life to end and how he wanted to run away from home. I didn't want any of those at all. I knew his parents didn't care, but I didn't know they abused him.

"Holy fuck. I-i'm.....sorry M-max......"

"I-i-its n-not your *hiccup* f-fault."

"I wish i could do something about it....."

He gripped me tighter.

"......I do too..."

WOAH HOLY FUCK! That was spicy as well. I promise that I will have part 4 out tomorrow.

Roses are red.

Violets are prickly

Damn

That escalated quickly.

Heh. sorry for typos (if there are any) this has 786 words right now and i don't want to make this longer so bey.