This is my first fanfic, so I hope you like it!! Please R&R at the end!

Half of the credit goes to my friend, Caroline. We used to role play and so I decided to take one of our role play ideas and turn it into a fanfiction. I did change it up a bit, so it is not the exact version. And James Patterson owns Maximum Ride, not me.

Thanks!

~xX9Music-Lover9Xx

(Vivian)

The Argument

FANG POV

I was bored. I finished all the homework for this whole week, and my cat wasn't in the mood for doing anything. (Just to let you know, Max and the girls decided to stay with Dr. Martinez and me and the boys decided to find our own place, since we were now about 16, and we found a nice family that were friends of Dr. Martinez to stay with. I mean, we still went to the same school and everything so there was no problem with trying to see each other.) Iggy and Gazzy were doing their thing, and I was left staring at the opposite wall. I decided I would go to Max. It's never boring with her. I told my cat where I was going, but I think she ignored me anyway. I flew out the window and headed towards Max's house. Once there, I entered her room silently. She didn't hear me, her back was to me. I walked up to her and stood beside her, just out of her peripheral range. I was trying to decide what would be the best, and funniest, way to announce my arrival.

Hmm............

Let's see, she was doing her homework, and seemed pretty frustrated…. I didn't want to waste too much time thinking of the perfect surprise, so I just leaned over right next to her ear and breathed, "You have number 10 wrong." She HATES it when people that she doesn't know are there are right next to her. Its just paranoia, anyone brought up in cages and hunted down for their whole lives would feel the same. But still, that doesn't mean I can't take advantage of that every once in a while. I quickly leaned away, just in case Max would decide to whack her new "enemy" or something like that.

Yup, there goes the whack.

"Damn it, Fang!!!" Max yelled as she turned around to see me. "You know I HATE that, so why do it???? I'm already frustrated enough…and number ten isn't wrong!! You multiply the two, and then bring over the factor and find the square root which is…! Oh…," she muttered the last part quietly to herself.

I smirked at her, and then went to sit on her bed. I glanced around her room absentmindedly until I heard her say, "I hate you." Normally I wouldn't have heard her, but with the improved hearing that the freaking scientists gave me, I heard almost everything she said, even when not intended for my hearing. I doubt she expected an answer, but I gave one anyway. "No you don't," I said back, loud enough so that she could barely make out what I'm saying, but it was still possible.

"Excuse me?" I already knew that no one talks back to Max, but whatever. "I hate you, so just shut up."

But according to Angel... "What do you want anyways?" Entertainment. Duh. That was the reason in the first place. But more importantly, you... "Look, I should be finishing all of this shit, so if you don't mind, just be quiet or leave."

Neither appealed to me. "I'll help you finish it. I can't believe teachers make kids waste half their lives doing such a non-practical thing as homework," I replied, standing up and then stood behind her chair, looking over her shoulder.

"Kid?? Did you just call me a freaking KID????" she said, somewhat pissed.

"I didn't mean that you were a kid. I was just saying it in general. And I know you can't finish it by yourself, but I just want to speed it up so that we can actually do something. Do you WANT to waste your time doing homework?" I asked. Max just loved turning my words around to make them seem insulting toward her. She makes thinking before speaking a necessity. If only I knew what was going on inside her head, but then it would be considered cheating. She would so hate me for digging around in her head. If she gives Angel long talks about it, she would probably kill me for it. So I try to stay out of her head unless it becomes absolutely necessary. And yes, I had developed mind reading powers as well. Hah, you should've seen the look on Max's face when she first found out.

I kneeled down onto the ground and rested my arms on the desk so that now I was just a little under Max. Well, that's new. I'm a good few inches above her when we are both standing up. Heh. Maybe it'll it easier for Max to talk to me when she doesn't feel...I don't know, threatened or something. How would I know how she feels about my height in comparison to hers?!?!? Though some girls find it attractive when a guy is a few inches taller, but I doubt Max finds me attractive. I laughed inside my head. Point being, maybe she'll talk to me differently if psychologically she feels better in being slightly taller than me for a change. I wouldn't know. Maybe that kind of stuff is just beyond her. Who cares about height anyway? Okay, maybe I'm getting a bit off topic…heh.

"Do you really think that I'm dumb enough to not be able to finish my homework? Oh, right, you always thought I was a 'dumb bird', so I'm sorry, that must have been a 'dumb' question, since to you I'm so freaking dumb!" she told me.

Gosh, do I have to enter her room with a white flag to let her know I'm not trying to provoke arguments?? But fine. "Oh, so you want to have an argument with me again? Can't you at least try to get along with me?? Try to understand what I'm always trying to tell you? You just HAVE to argue with me about something that can be dealt with in just conversation. But no, you always have to ruin it," I said in an infuriated and frustrated voice. I realized that I talked the most when we were in arguments. Heh, curious...

She stood up, and I stood up too, trying to stretch myself out to the fullest to become EVEN taller than her so that now I was looming over her. Don't get me wrong, she was tall, I mean, taller than average girls her age, but I was just taller, hah. "You know perfectly well the message that I've tried to send. What I don't understand is why you are so stubborn about your own feelings!" I said back, talking at a reasonable volume, as to not attract any attention from any people in the house, but still at a quite mean and angry voice. "Oh, right, because our oh-so-intelligent Maximum Ride is afraid," I continued, staring her down, but of course she was trying to stand her ground.

Excuse me?!?! I am not afraid!! I'm just trying to stand up for the Flock you idiot! Isn't that what leaders do?!!?! Stand up for whom they are leading!!!!?" she said annoyed, angry, frustrated, etc. "And there you go again, commenting on how dumb you think I am!! Well let me tell you something, just because you're a freaking arrogant guy with no life doesn't mean that you can go around telling people they're dumb, only because they may not be as smart as you!!!!" she said, yelling now. She must've thought that she was going to win this argument. Hah, dream on.

"AHA! So you just admitted that you aren't as smart as me! And how the hell is shying away from your heart called standing up for the flock and leading?? And if you knew me better, you'd know that my actions are not out of arrogance," I countered; now raising my voice to hers. Now I really didn't care if someone heard us. If they did, they probably didn't have the guts to interrupt us. Both of us are just on the verge of pouncing and ripping someone's throat out, figuratively speaking of course. At least I hoped Max didn't want to rip my throat out, no matter how angry she is..... Either way. Back to being extremely mad at Max.

"I did not freaking admit that you are smarter than me! And how the heck would you know how to stand up for the flock and lead?!? For all I know, you don't even CARE!" she yelled now, also bringing her arms up a bit.

I thought I heard Angel waking up and pressing her ear against the wall. I'm sure we were making quite some noise right now. But, hey, it was not my fault. "I do care! I care a lot! But I don't deny that you care more than I. The flock is ALL you care about. Would it hurt you to extend your care a little beyond that?? Maybe to me???" Yes, I finally realized I could not stand being with the flock anymore, especially with the heartless Max in the center of it all. I hoped she caught my implication. Since I wasn't yet in my calm state yet, I felt extremely tempted to insult Max right now. "Dumb chick," I said right to her face. Not that I wasn't arguing to her face the whole time, but still, NO ONE outright insults Max to the face.

Max POV (A/N Really short switch to her POV, will be back to Fang's then longer Max POV)

"Dumb chick," he insulted me. Right to my face. My eyes widened. No one, I repeat no one, insults me right to my face! "How completely sexist pig of you!?!?" I yelled at him, I think shoving him in the process. "And guess what Fang, you are part of the Flock! Just because I care for the flock doesn't mean I don't care for you! I love each and every single one of you!!" I said. My mind was still going crazy about the whole 'dumb chick' thing. "And don't you EVER call me that again, sexist arrogant pig!!!" I said, fuming now!! What was wrong with him?? I hated hated HATED him right now! "Crazy...," I muttered to myself, really quiet, but what I thought was not quiet enough. What? He was crazy!

Fang POV

Sexist arrogant pig??? SEXIST ARROGANT PIG????!?!!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!? How could she?? I'm not any of that!! That's just what happens when she provokes me!! And now she really was annoying me. So much, that I could just slap her. Which I think I did, because in the next second, I heard the back of my hand smack against her left cheek, leaving not only a horrible disfigured mark, but also the owner of the cheek sprawled all over the floor. I guessed that Angel had seen me about to strike Max, and she wasn't quick enough to take control of my mind to stop the blow.

"I don't consider myself as part of the flock anymore, Maximum," I decided to add, to finalize that tiny fact.

She was sitting there, unmoved from when I had sent her to the floor, when I realized that something on her face glistened. I focused my vision on the small flash of light that it reflected, and realize that the thing I saw was a tear. A tear?? Right, I had made her cry. Max never cries. Ever. Especially in front of anyone. I bent down onto my knees in front of her. "Max, Max, I didn't mean to do that. I honestly didn't. I'm sorry. I didn't want to hurt you. I wasn't in the right state. I'm really sorry. Max, please..." said I in a hushed manner, and I realized I was practically begging for forgiveness. I knew I had gone way too far with this. I mean, WAY too far. "Max...." I murmured again, using my thumb to wipe away the tear that was falling down her cheek inane large droplet.

Max POV

Did he slap me????? HE FREAKING SLAPPED ME!! I can't believe he slapped me!!! Then he apologized because he was Oh-so-sorry about slapping me and he 'didn't mean it to go this far'. I wanted to bad to hit him back right then and there but there were only two problems to that. A – Angel was probably up by now, eavesdropping outside the door because I heard a quiet sniffle. And B – I would never hate Fang enough to hurt him, but he had hurt me. I mean of course he hurt me, duh he slapped me. But that's not what hurt; I was mentally hurt that Fang would say such things. I was mentally hurt that he would even go far enough to hit me. I was mentally hurt that he said he was no longer part of the Flock. What did he mean???

A tear rolled down my cheek. Dang it Max, don't cry! You can't cry, not in front of anybody!!! I had to stay tough. But you know what? It's not like Fang cared anymore, and if he did it obviously didn't seem like it. Did Fang really mean what he said about leaving? I mean, we argued a LOT but it never went this far. Never.

I pushed him away quite weakly, but he backed off anyway. "Leave. Me. Alone," I said, and he gave me a pleading look. I stood up and walked towards the window, opening it and flying away. "You hurt me Fang, both physically and mentally. But guess which one hurt more."

Thanks for reading!! Again, this is my first fanfic, so I'd appreciate it if you guys gave me any advice. Did you like it? Did you hate it? What can I fix? Any suggestions for next chapter? Should I keep writing?

Thanks a lot!

~Vivian