章 19: 19. Clean up (Lumax and the Sinclairs)
A/N: Hey, cuties! This chapter is a continuation of chapter 10, in which El and Max get into a fight with the mean girls; this is for M. April Bloom and Emily (guest) who wanted Max getting cleaned up by Lucas. I added more Sinclairs into the mix bcause I love the boys' families a lot.
PROMPT: Continuation of chapter 10, Max goes to Lucas' house and he helps her get cleaned up.
Lucas was doing homework in his room when Erica popped her head in.
"Hey, nerd, you've got code red."
He furrowed his eyebrows in confusion as he stood up from his desk and followed his little sister downstairs to the basement. Max didn't mention anything about stopping by when he saw her a few hours ago in school.
"You might need the first aid kit." Erica threw over her shoulder as she opened the door to their basement.
"What?! Why?" He questioned in concern as he descended the stairs.
The answer to his question was plainly stated as his mouth hung open when he saw his bruised girlfriend on the couch.
"Hey, stalker." She lifted two fingers in a salute.
"What the hell happened to you?!" He asked her as he walked hurriedly to her, a little freaked out.
"Shhh!" Erica shushed him as she threw a pointed look at the door, reminding him that his mother was somewhere upstairs.
"I was reading a book in the library and then poof! Maybe I'm allergic to studying." She told him as he inspected her bruised face.
"I'm serious, Max!"
"As a heart attack?" She asked teasingly, but her face fell at his flat look. "El and I—"
"Oh, of course El and you! Don't tell me," He lifted a hand to pinch the crease between his eyebrows." "Katherine and her stupid sidekicks."
"Yup." She answered flatly.
"Of fucking course." Lucas muttered darkly. He dragged a hand down his face with a deep sigh, and then turned to his little sister. "Can you go get the first aid kit? Please." He pleaded when she threw him an incredulous look.
Erica raised an eyebrow and then looked in Max's direction, thinking it over, before nodding and walking upstairs. Thank God she loved Max.
"Are you okay?" He asked her softly as soon as they were alone.
"Been worse." She mumbled with a tired smile.
He sighed again, leaning down to kiss her hair gently and smiling against his will as her hands took his face and pulled him down to kiss his lips.
He hissed when he saw her sliced knuckles. "You got her good, didn't you?"
"You know it, baby." Max tried to wink but grimaced instead when her bruised eyebrow burned.
Erica returned just in time and she handed the kit to her big brother as she sat down next to Max.
"So, what happened to you, for real?" She asked the redhead, knowing that her library joke was an actual lie.
"Some girls decided to mess with El and I. You remember El, right?"
"Holly's sister-in-law." The younger girl answered as she remembered a pretty brunette who was dating Holly's brother and who the blonde couldn't stop taking about.
"Uh, yeah, her." Max answered with a smile as Lucas began soaking a cotton ball with alcohol.
"This is going to hurt." He warned as he took her hand.
She nodded, watching curiously along with Erica as he pressed the cotton ball to her knuckles, and then she hissed loudly as her skin began burning.
"Ow, fuck, Lucas!" She exclaimed without caring if her young sister-in-law heard her curse. She was in pain, damnit!
"I told you." He shrugged, gently rubbing her raw knuckles to clean the gathered blood from them.
She pouted as her knuckles throbbed, grimacing and squirming when he moved to the other hand and she hissed again when the previous process was repeated.
He proceeded to patch her up, reluctantly agreeing to let an eager Erica help when Max threw a glare at him for refusing the younger girl, and he pressed a loving kiss to her bruised cheek once he was finished.
"You want to go upstairs with me and do homework?" He asked her as Erica rearranged the first aid kit in place again.
"Ugh, why do you hate me?" She groaned, rolling her head to rest against the back of the couch. "I'll go upstairs with you if..." she mouthed the rest of her sentence to him and laughed amusedly as his eyes widened and he looked at his little sister in alarm to see if she had caught the redhead's mouthed words.
"You're terrible." He threw a look at her as he extended his hands to help her stand up.
"I didn't hear a no." She raised an eyebrow in amusement.
"No! You're all bruised up!" He shook his head, placing a hand against her back to lead her to the stairs as Erica walked in front of them to open the door for the redhead.
"You're no fun." Max pouted again, yelping a little when he pinched her butt.
"Hey, Mom." Erica said, and Max stopped short as Mrs. Sinclair appeared in the hallway to the stairs.
"Oh, hey, Max!" The older woman smiled as she realized her son's girlfriend was with them, but her smile dimmed when she took in the redhead's bruised face and taped knuckles. "What happened to you?" She gasped.
"I, uhh— Well, I—" Max rummaged through her brain to answer, not wanting to admit that she had gotten in a school fight. She liked Lucas' mom, and she didn't want her to start thinking she could turn violent, too.
Lucas coughed behind her, saving her from answering. "Mom." He threw her a look, and the older woman widened her eyes as she 'understood' her son's implication.
"Oh, sweetie," she sighed with a slight downturn of her lower lip, walking until she was in front of Max and then hugging the redhead to her chest. "Are you alright?"
"Yes, Mrs. Sinclair, don't worry." She answered as she happily returned the woman's warm hug; she really liked Lucas' mom, and she felt loved when the woman cared for her. Even though nothing related to her home life had happened now.
The older woman separated them and took the redhead's face in her hands, inspecting her tender cheek and bruised eyebrow. "Did you help her get cleaned up, Lucas?"
"Yes, Erica helped me." Her boyfriend answered behind her, and Mrs. Sinclair turned to look at her daughter who was watching them from her place on the second step of the staircase.
"Good," she nodded, turning back to Max. "You're welcome to stay for dinner, sweetie; you know you're always welcomed here."
"Thank you, Mrs. Sinclair." Max smiled warmly.
"I'll even make that cheesecake you like so much, how does that sound?" Her mother-in-law smiled down at her indulgently as Lucas grinned at them, enormously pleased that they got along so well.
"That sounds amazing." Max sighed dreamily as her mouth watered.
"Perfect, then!" Mrs. Sinclair clapped lightly. "Erica, will you come with me to buy the ingredients?" She turned to her youngest, and frowned when Erica shook her head. "You're coming with me." She told her, leaving no room for arguing.
Erica groaned as she handed the first aid kit to Lucas and dutifully followed her mother to the front door.
"Why do I have to go?" Lucas heard his sister whine as he guided Max upstairs by the hand, and he snickered when his mom began snapping at Erica.
"And don't make that face at me." He heard his mom say before she closed the front door.
Max walked inside his room and he marched down the hall to place the kit back into place in the bathroom, and then returned to his room to see Max watching herself in the mirror inside his closet.
"That bitch got me good." She huffed as she touched her puffy cheek.
"Stop touching your face." He chided as he took a seat on his desk chair. "Come here."
Max walked to him and he smiled when she sat on his lap, making the chair groan under their weight.
"Oh," Max laughed with raised eyebrows. "We're too heavy! If you make me fall again, we're going to have a problem here."
He laughed, shaking his head as he brought her face closer and kissed her chapped lips.
"I love you." He told her as he ran his fingers through her red locks.
She grinned slowly. "You cheesy idiot." She chuckled when he threw his head back in a laugh and then she leaned down to press their lips together again.
"I love you, too." She whispered softly, his heart beating wildly at the vulnerability in her eyes and the honesty in her voice. "And guess what?"
"What?" He mumbled as he kissed her again.
"We're alone now." She whispered with a mischievous smile.
"Max." He groaned amusedly as she laughed against his neck.
A/N: If you haven't checked my new story, please go and do it! Tomorrow is update day in 3 Steps Above Heaven! Spread the wooooorddd! :)
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