*8*

🔥CHAPTER 8🔥

*-*Third Person's POV*-*

Lucas's mother has asked Meliah to babysit for her, because she and her husband wanted to have a little date night, so the teenager agreed, after school she waited for Lucas, so that she could walk with him to his house, when she saw him he was busy talking to a red head girl.

From where she was standing, she could tell, the girl wasn't very happy with the Sinclair boy, when the girl walked away from, seeing her get into Billy's car. Meliah approached the boy who didn't have a cheerful expression on his face, like he usually would have.

"You okay, Lucas?" Meliah asks, placing her hand on his shoulder. "I hate that we are suppose to be keeping so many secrets." Lucas says with frustration, the teenager knew what he was pointing at, making her smile sadly. "But if you say anything you and the person you told could end up getting killed." Meliah reminds him of the threats all of them were given a year ago.

Billy watched as his sister walked away from the boy, shockingly he saw Meliah approaching the boy talking to him. "That kid you were talking to, who is he?" Billy asks, putting out his cigarette, walking around the car to the drivers side. "He's no one." Max says getting in the car.

"No one?" Billy asks, staring at her intently.

"This kid from my class." Max says, showing no emotion. Billy watched Meliah who had her arm around the kid's shoulder as they walked in the opposite direction, he couldn't understand why she has been ignoring him the entire day.

"Why was he talking to you?" He asks, still watching them walk away.

"It was just about a stupid class assignment." She tells him, not wanting her stepbrother to take out his wrath on someone for just talking to her. "Then why're you so upset?" Billy asks her, after lighting another cigarette.

"I'm not!" Max says, not daring to look at her stepbrother.

"He causing you trouble?" Billy asks, his eyes never leaving the place Meliah disappeared too.

"Why do you care?" Max asks, not sure what she was feeling at the moment. "Because, Max, you're a piece of shit, but we're family now whether we like it or not, meaning I'm stuck looking out for you." Billy states, a memory of his dad ordering him to look after Max or he'll get punished.

"What would I ever do without..." Max says, but got cut off by Billy grabbing her arm, making her look at him. "Hey! This is serious shit, okay? I'm older than you. And something you learn is that there are a certain type of people in this world that you stay away from, and that kid, Max... That kid is one of them. You stay away from him, you hear me? Stay away." Billy warns her, letting go of the girl's arm, starting his car.

Max looked out her window holding in her tears, hoping for some sort of miracle to happen.

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