Counting The Stars and Scars

*Jaime's POV*

When we came back Max had cooked us all breakfast, after we all sat chilling watching movies and having a couple drinks, Max was drinking the most, which was a surprise as Mike would normally be the one to out drink us all, I laughed at watching Max trying to stand up off my lap, "Max where are you going?" I asked, trying not to laugh as she tripped over her feet, "To peeeeeee" she whispered spilling have her drink as she did so, I just watched in amusement, "Where's the toilet?" she asked slurring, "I'll take you" Vic offered as he was the least drunk, she nodded and waited on Vic coming over to take her to the toilet, about 10-20 minutes passed and they still weren't back, I was staring to get worried/suspicious so I went to the toilet and opened the door, Max was sitting there crying as Vic comforted her, they didn't know I was there as I was standing peering in the crack in the door as they didn't close it, "It's okay honey, it's not your fault, you couldn't have prevented that in anyway" Vic comforted her, while rubbing her arm, she nodded and dried her face standing up and flushing the toilet I ran back down stairs and sat in the same position so they wouldn't know I was up.

When Vic and Max came down they were laughing like they were when they were going upstairs, she came and sat down on my lap again, cuddling into me and resting her face in the crook of my neck, I rubbed her back, "Is everything okay?" I could feel her nod as she sniffed, "I think you should take her home" Vic whispered as he looked at me, I nodded, "Come on Max, I'm going to take you home, Vic can you call a cab?" he nodded, pulling his phone out of his pocket and dialling the number, I went and grabbed Max's jacket and bag from the kitchen when I noticed her phone was on the island, I knew it was wrong but I had to know what was going on, I am so worried about her, so I unlocked it and started sifting through her text messages, as I was scrolling it was mostly just texts from her mobile phone operator then I saw she got a new text from Vic?

From- Vic:
Jaime your cab is here, hurry up Max thinks she is going to be sick...

For a minute II got confused and then I realised it was my phone, I laughed at my stupidity and got a move on, she was quiet the whole ride home, "Hey mate can you wait here I'm just going to put her to bed and then you can take me home? I asked, he just nodded as I climbed out carrying Max bridal style again, I took her up stairs and started striping her down to put her pyjamas on again, this is becoming a tradition isn't it? I came out of my thought when I saw a white and blood stained bandage around her arm, I carefully unwrapped it making sure I wasn't going to wake her up as she fell asleep on our way up the stair, I saw 4/5 deep cuts in her arms, "Aww Max, what have you done?" I whispered to myself, I was almost crying at this point so I got up to leave, as I turned the light out and the fairy lights on I felt a hand pull me back down to her bed, "Thank you" she said, slurring of course, "That's alright" I said kissing her head, "Jaime? Why are you crying?" she asked, "Well it's very complicated?" I said hoping she would just nod and go to sleep but she never, "Try me" she said, I sighed and continued, "Well this girl that I love very much hurt herself and I couldn't do anything to prevent it, she is also hiding something from me but I don't know what it is she said she is going to tell me when she is ready but I don't know when that'll be?" I explained, "Does that stop you loving her?" she asked I laughed a little, "No, not at all, I'm going to love her scars or not" I said, feeling tears threatening to fall, she nodded thoughtfully, "I hope this girl gets better so you can grow up together and be in love for the rest of your life!" she said motioning with her arms a circle, representing the world, "Yeah me too, now you get some sleep and I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" I said kissing her head and leaving after getting a nod. I don't know what I'd do without her I thought as I got back in the taxi, drying my eyes, "Rough night?" the cab driver asked, "Yeah well you could say that" I replied laughing a little.

Notes

This is a shorter one and I lied, this isn't the date, the date will be in the next couple of chapters or so, but next chapter is Vic's POV so..