Counting The Stars and Scars

*Vic's POV*

We were all drinking and surprisingly Mike wasn't the most drunk, it was Max. She was stumbling as she was trying to make her way to the stairs,"Where's the toilet?" she asked slurring, "I'll take you" I offered since I was the least drunk, she nodded as she waited at the bottom of the stairs for me, I thought trying to get her to the top of the stairs was bad, but trying to get her to stop talking was worse, "Yeah well I was an ugly child anyway so.." she slurred on showing me a photo of a cute blonde haired girl, "Yeah now look what happened to you" I said gesturing to her being all grown up and beautiful, "I know it's awful" she started to cry, I hope she didn't take that in the wrong way, "What do you mean?" I asked calmly, "I'm a murderer Vic!" I looked at her, she didn't look like one although who am I to say what a murderer looks like?,"No you're not?" I said laughing a little to try and lift the spirits, "I am I killed my parents" she said continuing to cry, I looked at her with my head turned a little to the side, "What do you mean? I asked but she shook her head, "Come on I won't tell anyone, scouts honour!" I said, saluting, he laughed and continued, "About three years ago, I was going out with Jason Dayes, Molly's current boyfriend, and he used to physically, mentally and sexually abuse me and my way to deal with that, because I couldn't tell anyone was by self harming, he ended up noticing them as I was getting changed one day and I wouldn't tell him why I done it because I knew he would kill me, so I just kept saying that I didn't mean it and I was sorry, so he literally beat me black and blue, fracturing 3 ribs and breaking my leg, so my parents were coming to see me in the hospital but there was a storm and there car got blew off the road into on coming traffic, then a massive lorry came and hit the car, killing them basically immediately, it was all my fault, if I ended it with Jason when they told me to, they would still be alive today, but me and my stupid brain was convinced I was in love with him adn he was in love with me, but he wasn't not at all" she trailed off.

After 5 minutes of us crying together over that story I finally composed myself and spoke up, "You shouldn't blame that on yourself, Jason had you in to deep, you were younger, you thought you were in love?" I said trying to comfort her, but she shook her head crying even more, I grabbed her face making her look at me, "It's not Max, honestly!" I said, she pulled away, "It is!!" she screamed crying inot me I started trying to comfort her again, rubbing her arm and back "It's okay honey, it's not your fault, you couldn't have prevented that in anyway" I cooed, she looked up at me and nodded, drying her tears. We went back downstairs and she curled up on Jaime's lap, soon they left and Tony turned to me as Mike was putting away all the drink, "What happened up there, when you came down your eyes were red and look like you'd seen a ghost?" he said, laughing a little, "Oh nothing, I don't feel well and I was laughing at Max because she kept falling off the toilet" I lied, trying to force a smile, I don't think he was convinced but he didn't say another word about the subject. As I was laying in bed I couldn't help but think about everything Max told me, that girl has been through a lot, 3 deaths, bullying, eating disorders and so much more, she never told me she ahd an eating disorder but it wasn't hard to guess, I had a girlfriend with an eating disorder and she behaved exactly like Max except she would point blank refuse to eat meals and when I told her she had to eat she wlould go looking for attention saying something like, "You know I have an eating disorder" and then go and explain her disorder to one of the guys, god I hated and still do hate her.

Notes

So guys, what do you think about Max's secret? Tough isn't it?