who: lucas and @zccming what: a bit of a role reversal??? where: max’s place 👀
it had been three days since he’d seen max. okay, that wasn’t entirely true. he’d seen her in group settings since then, but just like after their first kiss, it seemed like she was carefully avoiding hanging out with him on his own. he knew their discussion hadn’t gone exactly how either of them would have liked, but he was starting to get worried. max never stayed away from the sinclair home for long. he needed to check on her.
so, after work, he drove by the usual haunts. he didn’t find her at the palace or family video. some kids at the skate park had seen her, but she wasn’t there. he’d even stopped by the hawk on the off chance she’d picked up an extra shift, but found only bored high schoolers there. that left one spot. he’d been hoping to avoid going there, if only because he knew billy was lurking around, but sometimes you just had to do what you had to do.
lucas arrived at forest hills trailer park just after dark. he parked a little ways down from max’s, just in case, and crept around the back of the trailer. thankfully, the window was open and he lifted himself through, landing clumsily in a heap on the carpet. he sprang to his feet and looked around, immediately disoriented until he realized he’d climbed in through susan’s window. with a muttered apology in the general direction of the lump in the bed, lucas crept into the hallway and towards max’s room, glad for the cover of the loud rock music coming from the living room.
he hesitated briefly outside of her door. he could hear music coming from in there, too, and if that didn’t give her away, the smell of weed did. lucas considered just turning back and leaving the way he’d come. max would never know he was there and neither would anybody else, but even after everything, he just wanted to see her. make sure she was doing okay.
...hang out. whatever it was they were doing, he didn’t want it to change that part of who they were. so, he lifted his fist and knocked three times in quick succession. “hey. it’s just me.”and then he waited.
