Author's note: You know exactly what I want. I would like an endless supply of chocolate, a home stereo, to have Nudge be my sister... But in this case, though I would love to, I don't own Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, or Angel. Waaaahhhh! (has small emotional breakdown) anyways on with the story!!!!!

Max's POV

A tear slid my cheek as I soared through the night sky. I couldn't care less about the rest of the world right now. I just wanted to keep going and never turn back to go "home". Where Fang was.

You know he didn't mean it. Go back and talk to him, the voice said.

NO, he did. And STAY OUT OF THIS, I thought back. I just couldn't bother to see Fang's face right now. Not after what he had done to me. And the smile he gave afterwards. I kept shooting forward as the rain poured down and soaked my hair.

He had hurt me. We had gotten into one little argument and wasn't it him that had said that "we just do it for no reason"? But apparently tonight that rule hadn't applied. We had been arguing about how to tell Nudge that she couldn't stay with Ricco forever because we had just narrowly escaped death by cheetah hybrids. That meant that Itex was tracking us and we had to move fast. Big emphasis on FAST.

But Fang, Mr. Most Times Instant Logic, decided to stay on Nudge's side, saying that we should stay here and not try to uproot her. I told him that that was really stupid, because if we did, Itex would destroy us by the end of the week. The pressure in the room kept rising until we were screaming at the tops of our lungs. Finally he got so angry that he lunged at me and slapped me across the face. I stood there, appalled at what had just happened, while as I stared at him, a huge smile grew across his face. Immediately, I ran out and lunged myself into the air. The rain had begun to pour but I couldn't feel anything but the sting of his smack because being a bird-kid made him unbelievably strong.

The voice tried again, You know he didn't mean to.

WHAT DID I TELL YOU TO DO, was the only thing that I yelled in my mind as I kept going at hyper speed, hating Fang and listening to the wind whistle through my ears.

At home

What did I just do? …, thought Fang as he stood staring out the window. Max had been gone for three hours now and after the first 5 minutes of her being gone, the full force of what he had just done hit him. He had just ruined any chance of ever being able to even look at Max ever again, so he couldn't even tell her how he felt.

Worse, it was her birthday in three days. A day he had never forgotten and the day he had planned to tell her he loved her in private. He could kiss all of that goodbye now. She would hate him for life and the pain of what he had just done and the anxiety of not knowing if she liked him back would have killed him.

Jeez Fang, you're such a screw-up, was the only thought that was in his mind and the hurt in that one moment was what had killed him. But now that pain turned to worry as he didn't see her come

back. The moon was shining and she still hadn't come back. After a few moments of half expecting Max to come back, he was so overcome by worry that he took off into the night… and the oncoming typhoon.

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