I picked up another meaningless stone from the sand beside where I sat on the empty beach and pulled my arm back and threw it with all I had. I fell back into the sand muttering to myself.
"Moron. What did you expect?"
There was no reason that she should have waited around for me; especially not if I went around and kissed other girls, not just any girls either, human girls.
"MORON!" I screamed at the top of my lungs into the endlessly dark sky that was pressing down on me. My voice cracked as silent tears began a journey down my face. "Moron…" I drifted off into a dreamless sleep watched by Max, although I never knew this.
"She loves you." A voice woke me up.
I opened my eyes and saw Angel looking down at me. I sighed , nervously running a hand through my hair. She really needs to stop reading my mind, especially when I'm asleep and don't have control.
"That's when it's most fun though! I get to know the things you really care about." She paused as I shock my head and she looked out at the sea. We were both quiet for a while then she continued, "You should tell her. And don't worry about Iggy, he likes someone else." And with that, she got up and ran into the water and went under.
Even though she was young, I wasn't worried about her, even when she didn't resurface for about ten minutes. I got up from my spot on the beach and walked over to the rest of my 'family' was. Angel skipped ahead of me and got to everyone first.
"Hey Fang!" I looked up and saw Max smiling at me. "How did you sleep?"
"Ehh… how about you? You sleep well?" I replied. She doesn't love me.
"Yes she does!" Angel said at the same time as Max replied with, "I slept great, but I missed you. Where were you last night? None of us could find you."
Ignoring Max, I turned on Angel. "Get out of my head Angel!"
"No! And if you're not going to tell her then I will!" My eyes widened at this comment of hers and I mentally pleaded with her not to say anything to her. Unfortunately, Angel had taken that moment to decide to get out of my mind and didn't hear my pleas to her. Angel turned from me to face Max and opened up her mouth. "Fang loves you, Max!"
Complete silence. Max's face was unreadable. Angel turned back to me with a smug look on her face. I heard Nudge and Gazzy snicker, and saw Iggy rolling his eyes. Angel turned back to face Max, waiting for a response.
"I know he loves me Angel." I looked up hopefully, but Max continued, "He loves you, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy and me. And we all love him." I couldn't move. Angel was wrong; Max didn't love me anymore than a brother, which is what I should have been. It was wrong to want more from her. I looked back down at my black converse high-tops. They were falling apart, and had quite a few holes present. I'd have to get a new pair soon.
Max began to speak again but I didn't look up, "Go feed Total, sweetie." Angel skipped away and the others followed her lead and went away to leave me alone with Max.
I still didn't look up at her. Finally, I got enough courage to look up at her before I spread out my wings to fly off. I wanted to get away from Max, if she didn't want me as more than a brother I couldn't bear to stay and watch her love someone else.
Suddenly Max spread her wings and gently taped the edge of mine then silently pushed off the ground and hovered a few yards above me. I looked up at her and felt my face turn hard as I turned away and flew off as far as I could. I didn't want her sympathy. I didn't want to listen to whatever she was going to tell me. I didn't want to hear how loving me would be like loving a brother. I didn't want to hear that I would have had a chance if I hadn't kissed that girl when we went to school. (Not the evil school, the normal one.) I really was a moron. And dam Angel for interfering. Dam her dam her dam her!