A hand shakes me awake. I open my eyes slightly looking up at max. 'Sorry about waking you but we're about to get company' he whispers in a low husky voice.
I jostle around in his arms as he lifts me so he can stand up, when his up he places me down onto my feet. 'I never got a name for you' Max whispers before there's a loud echo of a bang. The door to the fire escape has definitely just opened, we're about to get caught, we're going to be in much trouble with the head teacher.
'I'm Hope' I whisper quietly, Max smiles down at me then grabs my hand 'run hope', I can't help but chuckle and run along the rooftop with max as the pounding of footsteps reach the top.
'Oi you two stop where you are' an officer bellows across the rooftop. I hesitate but max pulls me along whether I like it or not.
We're running full speed towards the end of the roof. My heart's hammering in my chest, my blood is pumping fast through my veins, my adrenalines racing sky high.
We don't stop at the end though! I scream as Max pulls me off of the roof, he wraps his arms around me as we free fall quickly descending. I'm so dying today!
When we hit another rooftop, we roll, max bracing the fall as he rolls with me, he has himself curled around me. I've basically cocooned myself into him.
A few moments later we stop rolling and Max laughs heartily, I can't help but join in.
'Fuck I can't believe you jumped with me' he sighs out.
I scamper up as quick as I can and then scream at him. My highs dwindling, I'm so angry right now.
'You could have gotten us killed! What fucking planet are you on! You don't jump from a height like that!' I scream pointing from where we just fell from. My breaths start coming short and fast and I start gasping for breath. I'm panicking! I can't breathe!
Max is quick to react as he cradles me to his chest and speaks softly, coaxing me to calm down
'Breathe hope, breathe for me, deep breaths, in and out, in and out, well done, that's it' he soothes.
As soon I've caught my breath I pull back from him, causing him to frown at me
'I'm sorry I didn't know you would freak' he says
'It's a come down, I'm not on my meds at the moment, not had any since I got here' I explain, max looks a little lost as I wrap my arms around my body trying to comfort myself.
'I have ADHD Max, I loved jumping with you it was fun and exhilarating and I'm thankful we got off the roof but after we jumped I freaked on the way down, I didn't know there was another rooftop, I don't like not knowing' I look down at my feet in shame. This is usually laughed at or I'm called awful shit, because I'm different. People are too judgmental, especially when they don't understand or something is not seen as 'normal', but was is 'normal'?.
When Max grabs my face and places his lips delicately onto mine, I'm a little shocked, I was not expecting this reaction, especially from him, but in the end, I relax and kiss him back.
When he pulls away my cheeks flame scarlet, Max places a hand on my cheek then whispers 'you're perfect for me'. I have no clue what his on about but I don't say anything, I don't want to ruin the moment.
Max grabs my hand and he pulls me to a set of stairs, leading into a building.
We walk down the stairs hand in hand until we get to the door. Max lets go and pulls at the heavy door to open it. I scurry through then max slips in behind me. The door closes loudly behind us. Wherever we are it's bloody dark.
'Just put your arms out Hope, feel the walls' I reach out hesitantly and feel on either side of me, both of my hands finding walls.
'Just walk normally but keep your arms up, this leads us to the gym' Max reassures me.
I start taking steps forward and max follows close behind after a little while I start to see a little light half way down. We keep going.
When we reach the end of the tunnel there's a door, I pull the door open and step out, Max follows closely behind. We stand there for a moment before max pulls me down to the floor
'What is it?, why we on the floor?' I whisper
'Security' max whispers back.
He points towards the gym's doors. I look down and see security officers piling in.
Fuck! They know we landed on this buildings roof! They had a bloody Birds Eye view of where we landed from the school roof.
I watch as Mr Tiz walks in with an officer.
'You best find them now!' he shouts at the officers.
We're so fucked!