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Shianne Nodded. “Yes, I'm fine.” She ignored her feelings of shame and disconnection and finally cut her feelings of Wolfgang. He was never hers and it was clear that he was just being nice, too nice.
“Do you mind if I sit with you?” His hand gripped his box.
“That's fine.” Her dewy cheeks pushed up and she was surprised that a man was giving her attention.
Max sat across from her in the booth. “Shianne right?”
“Yes and you're Max.” She began picking apart his appearance in her mind. Not in a bad way, but she noticed his blue eyes and short, curly blonde hair. He was clean shaven and she could see how straight his teeth were. Max was large but solid. He was nothing like wolfgang and maybe that's what she needed. She didn't want somebody who led her on. She didn't want somebody who would make her think there was a possibility and observed as he opened his container, biscuits and gravy.
She looked down at her plate filled with eggs, bacon and toast, this wouldn’t be weird if it wasn’t seven o’ clock at night. Shianne loved breakfast foods though and wondered if Max did too.
Stopping her thoughts, she realized she was getting ahead of herself. She knew Max worked with Wolfgang andlivedwith him. “So,” He caught her off guard. “Your friends couldn’t make it?”
“I-” She paused thinking of what to say and nothing came to mind. “I don’t have any friends anymore.”
“Anymore? A pretty girl like you?”
She blushed as her heart fluttered, “I was mean to them after they lied to me and I moved out.”
“Where are you now?”
“With my aunt, Margaret. She has a room for me until she finds something permanent.” Shianne nibbled her toast, turning away any thoughts of him liking her. He was just being kind and maybe giving her pity, she reminded herself. “Why are you being nice to me?” Her eyes met Max’s bright blue eyes officially for the first time and Shianne’s shoulders softened while her face lifted with a tingle in her cheeks.
“No one should have to eat alone. I do it too often to know what that’s like.”
“Oh, you like breakfast foods?”
He pressed his fork into his cut off biscuit, “ Ilovebreakfast foods.”
“Me too.” She decided before things went further, she would drop it all, “But you know I had a crush on Wolfgang and you even let me into his apartment and-”
Max set his fork down and leaned into the table, “Iknowbut the truth is when you walked into my apartment, I thought you were the prettiest thing to grace my presence and never understood why Wolfgang would turn you down. I couldn’t leave you here alone and crying.” Her mouth closed and her chin slightly quivered. He knew all of that and still wanted to sit with her. So she smiled back at him. “Shianne, what are you doing this Saturday?”
Chapter 23.5
May Fourteenth
Wolfgang
Wolfgang dropped into his seat across from his mother at breakfast. He didn’t want to join her today but he needed someone to talk to about the night before. “I can’t let her leave mom.”
She sighed, unsure of what to say, “I get it Wolfgang but she’s already had the injection. Margaret is not going to let her stay.” Marilyn served her son breakfast in hopes he would eat something.
“June didn’t do anything wrong, why should she be punished? Not just her, me, you, her roommates and anyone that knew her, we all have to grieve for her now?” He argued with himself muttering, “In reality, she’s unconscious in some room in the mountain.”
“I know.” She stared at her son who wasn’t eating.
He pressed the heel of his palms into his dry irritated eyes over his cooled pancakes. “I can’t let her go mom. I can’t. I’m going to talk to Margaret tomorrow, this whole thing isn’t fair.”
Marilyn wiped her lip and placed her napkin on her half eaten plate, “Do you think Margaret is going to let her stay?”
“I don’t think so. I’ll leave if she doesn’t.”
She raised a brow, “That’s a little dramatic don't you think? You’re young and you can move on.”
He unintentionally glared at his mother, “I won’t.”
May Fifteenth
