Disclaimer- I don't own Max or Fang. Or Iggy. James Pattison does? The rest I pretty much made up….
Yes, they are all human I apologize in advance if you think that Max/Fang/Iggy are a bit out of character but hey I'm sure you'll get over it
I guess you could say that parts of the story are loosely related to my own life but on the whole most of it is made up.
So yeees, enjoy reading and review please!
Chapter 1
I smile as I look out of the car window, Paramore playing through my earphones, chewing on a Snicker bar and a bottle of coke in my hand. We'd been travelling for five hours already, only another hour left until I got to Cornwall, where I would meet up with my best friends Ros and Beth and a bunch of others, where we'd be camping all by ourselves for the next few weeks. I can't wait!
This is going to be the best summer ever! I look out at the fields passing me by. Not only can I not actually wait for a whole two weeks with nothing to worry about apart from what factor sun cream I'm using, I'm also going to go to be learning how to surf and going out basically every night to various parties. And I get to do it all with my best friends- nothing could possibly be better.
When we finally arrive at the campsite (i.e. a field on a cliff, owned by Ros' Uncle), I jump out and stretch my legs. The sun was shining down and my face lit up as I saw a familiar face, brown hair flying around, running towards me.
"Ros!" I yelled as she threw her arms around me.
"Max!" she replied. "It's been ages! How are you?"
"I'm so good" I grin. "This is going to be such a great summer. Who else is coming, besides Beth? I couldn't really hear when Beth was saying down the phone, bad signal and all". I get out of the embrace and step back.
"Well", Ros rushed on, "Of course Beth's coming, she said she'd be here in the next half hour or so, also Luke and his cousin James, and Rachel and Sam from my school coming too." I was intrigued; Ros had moved down to Cornwall half a year ago and I hadn't seen her since. I couldn't wait to see her new friends.
"And, erm, there's also, erm.." Ros started to look uncomfortable. This is a bit strange, I think. What's she trying to say?
"Ros?" I push on.
"Erm, well… FangandIggyarecomingtoo." She blubbered out in a mashed up sentence. I froze. Iggy and… Fang?
"Fang's coming?" I exclaimed, horrified.
"Erm," Ros looked down and started picking at her red nail polish. "Yeah. He rang the other week saying he'd heard about the trip and asking if he could come? I didn't really see anything wrong with that, besides me and him are still quite good mates and all…" she trailed off.
I put my head in my hands. Fang is going to be here? I groaned silently. Of all people…
"Max?" Ros asked.
"Hmm?"
"Are you ok? I mean, I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner, but I really think that you two need to get over this and put it all behind you. This was the perfect opportunity.."
I glared at her as if she had just suggested that I grow wings and start to fly. I mean, really? I plaster a fake smile onto my face.
"Yes, I'm fine, thank you for asking. Now if you don't mind me I'm going to go say goodbye to my mother." Then I turn and walk back towards our Toyota. Well this certainly is going to make things interesting! Don't get me wrong here, Fang and I used to be really good mates. Best mates, in fact. Ever since he poured that bucket of sand over the kid who was picking on me for having a guys name in reception in the sand pit, we couldn't be separated. He even was my first kiss, in year 8. Having Ros getting her first boyfriend (some jerk who dumped her a few weeks later as it "wasn't working") and started boasting about how great kissing was, we both felt rather out of place. So when we were walking home from school one evening, we started talking. It went a bit like this:
"So, erm, what do you think to all this hype about kissing Ros is going on about?" Fang asked me.
I nervously giggled. "Well, I guess if it must be pretty cool if she's that hyped up about it. Not that I would know", I say as I glance up towards Fang. He already had had his growth spurt and was at least 2 inches taller than me.
"Yeah." Fang replied. There was an awkward moment of silence. "Erm, Max, I hope I'm not being too forward here, but as we both have never had our 1st kisses, would you.."
".. like to kiss?" I finish off his sentence. We both blushed furiously.
"Well yeah, but only if you wanted" he replied, looking down. "not that it would mean anything, just to, you know, see what it's like.." he trailed off.
I looked up at my best friend. "ok".
He looked at me. "Erm.. ok then.. here goes..". We both stopped in a tiny alley way just round the corner from my house. He gently put one hand on my shoulder, and used the other to brush his floppy black hair from his eyes. Then he lowered his face to mine and put his mouth over mine, for just a few seconds. When it was done, he looked straight at me, grinned, and said "Well, that wasn't that bad was it?"
I hit him with my bag. "Oh shut up", I grin and stick my tongue out. And that was that.
Well, it was until a year later he got a girlfriend, Amber. And for some reason I could not stand her. She was a nice enough girl, but I really did not like her. I guess I thought she was taking Fang away from me and I was insanely jealous. I acted up around them, and Fang got so annoyed at me. We then had a massive argument about why couldn't I just accept the fact that he had a girlfriend now and get over it? I blurted out after about half an hour of yelling at each other, "maybe it's because I fancy you and want you to be my boyfriend!". We both froze, and then I turned and ran. He tried calling after me, but I was too embarrassed to say anything to him. The next few weeks followed of us avoiding each other, and basically our friendship was over, just because I was stupidly jealous. Now it's a year later and he recently dumped Amber. Not that I care, of course, we still go to the same school so I do hear things. Even though we don't speak to each other.
And that's why I am so horrified that Fang is going to be here. Two weeks, with me, him and seven other fifteen year olds- this was going to be interesting.
Once I got to the car, I dragged out my suitcase from the boot. Me, Ros, Beth and Rachel were going to be sharing Beth's tent so all I needed to bring was my stuff. I hugged and kissed my mum, and waved furiously as she drove off. I sighed, then smiled as I started to lug it towards where we would be setting up our stuff.
All of a sudden I heard some voices behind me, voices which I recognised. I swallowed, then slowly turned around. My eyes met with a pair of dark brown eyes, black hair poking through into his eyelashes. A figure in black skinny jeans, all star converse, a gray t-shirt and black hoodie stared back at me. I blinked. Fang.
