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I shall try to attempt to stick with this…

Okay, so I'm terrible at sticking with a story. I get an idea, I write it, I publish it, I come back to it a while later and never update. With this one, I will seriously try so bear with me if I disappear for a few days, okay?

Thanks...

Oh, and basic information,

Ages:

Max, Fang, Iggy, Clover: 22

Nudge, Ella, Gazzy: 21

Angel: 10

Pairings:

Nazzy, Eggy, FAX!

I realize there is an OC, but I added her as a way to add to the story not as a way to break anyone up…if you feel as if she is ruining the story, please tell me in a review. I usually add an OC to my story just to add, like, spice to the story. I don't usually make them date any major characters. In this story, the OC, Clover, will be friends with most of them, however she will not be in a relationship with any of them.

Blargh, that was a long author's note, but I just wanted to clarify some things. Annnnway, let me get on with this story.

Max's POV

"Hey, Ella?"

"Yeah," her voice comes from the other end of my cell phone.

"Okay, so I'm on the street, what's the restaurant called?"

"Max," she says, laughing, "I've told you this a million times!"

"Okay, I can just not come…" I trail off, waiting for her frantic relaying of the name.

"Okay, okay, it's called Olive Garden," she says, enunciating the fact that I forgot the name of one of the most popular restaurants.

I groan, she giggles, I hang up. It doesn't take me long to find the restaurant, big letters and a grape adorning the side.

Once I get inside, I immediately spot Ella, sitting with her boyfriend, Iggy. Iggy and I met freshman year of high school and have been friends since. Five years later, when Ella was a freshman in his college and he was a sophomore, she called me saying how she had a new boyfriend.

And, to my surprise, it was Iggy, and well, here we are today, twenty two (Well, Ella's 21) and all out of college.

She waves and I go over to her. "We have, like, five more minutes," she says, indicating the buzzer in her hand. "Oh, and by the way, I also invited some of my friends from college to join us. Well, some of them are Iggy's friends, but we're all a big group. You seriously missed out, Max. I mean, I know you wanted to be a vet, but still."

"I had friends," I protested. "Sam, J.J., Dylan, and Lissa. They were all my friends. Well, Sam moved to England to study animals there, Lissa kind of turned a bit…bad, Dylan was just annoying, but I'm still in touch with J.J...sort of," I finished just as the buzzer started vibrating and blinking red.

Ella gave me a Look, one of those 'sure, you call 'em friends', and skipped up to the desk to give the lady the buzzer.

"I swear she never runs out of happiness," I muttered.

Iggy laughed. I laughed with him. It felt good to just laugh with one of my oldest friends, I hadn't seen him in four years. Ella looked back, broke into a grin, and motioned for us to come over.

We walked all the way to a table in the back, a round table with eight seats.

"Jeez, Ella, how many people are coming? When you said, a few others, I thought maybe one or two," I said, setting my bag down next to me as I sat down.

She and Iggy took seats next to each other, Iggy next to me, Ella on his other side.

"Um, well, there's Nudge, she's really talkative, there's Gazzy, he's her boyfriend, he's like a younger Iggy, I swear, and then Clover, she's really sweet but like, badass at the same time, and then there's Fang." She said that all with finality, and so I didn't ask what she meant by just simply saying 'Fang'.

"They should be here soon," Iggy added. "Nudge, Gazzy, and Fang, I mean. Clover's kind of…her own character."

I nodded, letting this all sink in. I'm not really good with people. It's kind of amazing I landed myself such a good group of friends back at my old college. I had wanted to become a vet, and had therefore gone to a different college than Ella and Iggy. However, my old group basically broke apart. Sam never called me back after he moved, Dylan was always at some party or hitting on some girl (a habit that annoyed me to ends), Lissa well, she mainly just became a bitch, and J.J. and I barely talked.

"Oooh, look, here they are!" Ella squealed and waved to three people. There was one girl. She had mocha skin, brown, curly hair, and sparkling brown eyes. Her arm was linked to a blonde haired, blue eyed boy who in a way reminded me of Iggy. Maybe it was the whole 'mischievous glint' in their eyes thing. The last and final person was standing off to the side. He was wearing all black, had black hair, black eyes (if that's even possible), and olive toned skin.

Well. This is going to be fun.

*laughs* I got through the first chapter!

Sorry, that's a big accomplishment for me. I'm really bad at sticking with stories, and so even if I finish one chapter, I'm celebrating.

*cue le yays*

Anyway, I'm not very familiar with vet work. I know some of the basics, but if I get anything wrong, bear with me.

Ummmm…Oh, yeah, Angel will come in, just not in probably the first two chapters. And I promise not to make the Fax be rushed.

So, do you guys think any of Max's friends should reappear? And if so, who? Leave a review and tell me. ;) I feel like I'm ranting too much.