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Max started to go over the folder point by point for the class. Though he noticed that he was having some issues speaking because of his burnt tongue. He wanted to laugh at himself. His glasses now on his face though he normally didn’t need them. His headache from not sleeping well the night before was already throbbing. His mouth hurt. His face felt like it was in ribbons. He shin was killing him. He couldn’t shake the feeling that more was headed his way.
Every second was lasting forever. It was like time wasn’t moving at all. He was halfway through the folder when the fire alarm went off for the building. He looked up, and then he nodded, “Go outside and wait by the light by the field. Make sure to check in with me.”
He had to check in with each of them after they went outside. Everyone didn’t listen about leavi
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When the building was cleared for everyone to get their things, a campus-wide alert was sent out as to why people would be late to their classes. Max went into the building and took the stairs up to the hall and then back down to the basement. He overheard the Dean of the department talking about how some of the classes would be changing over the next year.The admin would be reaching out to all the students affected. Max knew what that meant. People would be out three years of work or so. He felt bad for the students. He was wondering what things were going to be cut. He figured it would be something like his classes. The admin had vetoed all the things that he had wanted to do. Though he tried over and over to get his new ideas passed through, nothing seemed to work. He wasn’t good at politics.As Max went to his office and opened it and saw there was no d
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Max left the building later, and though he wanted nothing more than to go home and to bed, he drove over to the town his friends lived in and went straight to their house. As he knocked, he was greeted by a horde of tiny versions of his friends as they all opened the door. The kids all were so excited to see him. It brought a smile to his face.“Max!” one of the twins said. Though Max was a visitor, often, he still had trouble figuring out which one was which. He solved that by calling them both buddy. He really hoped that it wasn’t ever needed that he needed to know how to figure out which one was which. He didn’t think he could do it.“Hey, guys. Is your dad home?” Max asked as he smiled at the horde of children before him.“Let Max in.” he heard from behind the group. He then saw the tiny woman that his friend had married. Though at thirty, she was still lo
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“And I picked her up, and though she was pretty, I could see she really wasn’t the type I was looking for. I did see, though, she was the type my father would want to be associated with.” Max said, and Henni looked at him a little funny, “She had money. My dad was a working type. He was a man’s man from that time. To have his son connected to that family would have made all his dreams come true.”“Oh, I see,” Henni said. “So what happened next? I didn’t go to a prom. I didn’t even go to high school.”“Lucky.” He said with a smirk. “We went to the dance. The more I got to know her, the more I knew this was a one-time thing, but she kept talking about how this was going to last forever and ever. It seemed she had mad
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“I understand how that works,” Henni said. “Even though it all comes out, no one believes you still.”“Yeah,” Max said with a sigh. She was good. He knew that she could see everything. Now came the hardest part. He already knew what she was going to say. He hoped with everything that was in him, Mack came home soon.“Mack when through that, but it was fed by someone else,” Henni said.“I always thought my brother had something to do with it. He was pissed off that my dad picked me to go on that date. I heard someone of the worst things from him.” Max said. “It wouldn’t be out of the normal to be him somehow. Though he was the favorite, I never understood why. He was lazy and never really did anything but start trouble. I trie
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Mack and Max went into the office after Christian arrived, and even though the kids were all outside, the noise was overwhelming. Mack laughed as Max looked at him with widened eyes. “You learn to live with it.”“It is making me rethink the fact I want a few of those monsters,” Max said.“Well, if you want a few of those, you do have to do what Henni said,” Mack said as he looked at the younger man.“I know,” Max said as the thought passed through his mind. He didn’t want to think about how she was so preceptive that she could see the entire thing without even really trying. That was a problem and a solution at the same time.“We all have our issues, Max.” Mack said, “Now, what brought this all on in the first place. Though I know my wife often know
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“I think I know what you're talking about,” Max said with a sigh.“I know that face.” Mack laughed as he looked at the other man. “You already know someone like that, don’t you?”“I do.” He said as he shook his head. “But I can’t do anything about that.”“Why not?” Mack asked as he settled down into the chair. He could see Max getting uncomfortable, and he knew this was going to be good. Though he didn’t want to make the man in front of him feel that way, but it was a way to get the other man to finally open up. He had alluded to one woman for years now but never said anything about her. Everyone was starting to think she was not really real.“She is a student,” Max said as he swallowed. “I had her in my first yea
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Max went back to his house again. The silence met him like an old friend. He started his normal routine of removing his clothes in various places of the house to make it easier to know where they were for the next day’s use. Though it was the weekend, he knew that he never really had any time off. Sometimes on Sunday, he had a few hours to unwind, but this pace of pushing himself was getting old.The words that Mack had said to him were still echoing in his mind. He couldn’t get rid of them. No matter how hard he tried, he kept hearing them over and over. It was when he sat down on the couch in his boxers, and he looked around to the emptiness of the house, and he closed his eyes for a minute he really knew that he wanted something different than what was in front of him.This was stale, and he was tired of it. Though he also knew that that meant he needed to figure everything out l
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Max rolled out of bed in the morning. He had made up his mind the night before. This was it. This was half a life for him to live, and he didn’t want to continue this. Henni and Mack were right. They had put it right in front of him, and he wasn’t dumb, so he saw it clearly. He went to go start the pot of coffee and put something on. As he was the one who could basically handle a case any way he chose, too, he knew that he would be driving out to the small town that he grew up in.That was the only way forward. He also knew that was the last place on the face of the earth he wanted to go to. This was for himself, and on a different level, this was for the victim. He knew that he had to separate the two things. He had to start thinking of the victim as that. She was just the victim of a crime.When he normally caught a case, he had to get to know the victim to understan
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