Max's POV

I stared at my timetable and frowned.

What a shit day, I thought to myself. Today I had double geography, I.T, double math's, then double P.E. The only good thing was the large amount of stars on my sheet.

Early this year I had marked a star next to the classes I took with my best friends. I know, it sounds pathetic, but I value my friends over everything and they made my day livable.

My friends included Leslie Fang, James Griffiths, Monique Nudgeman, Lisa Ronda and Zephyr Gaz. I also hung out a lot with my sister Ella, even if she was a year younger then me. So let's describe my friends. Leslie hates his name, and you can probably guess why.

So he is known as Fang by everyone. He is tall and has longish black hair that falls over one eye. He is very quiet but very stubborn. He is funny and I've known him most of my life.

Then there's James Griffiths. Ever since he was a little kid he had been different from everyone else, but not in a bad way. I'm talking about in 7th grade when we were asked what we wanted to be he stood up and said "Ballet dancer" and did twirls and ballet stuff. When the teacher asked him if he was serious he said "Nah, but I always thought it'd be cool to wear a pink tutu" and then he got this look in his eye. Sure enough the next day he rocked up to school in a pink tutu. Ever since he was small we had said that James was too much of a boring name for such a "unique" guy, so he became Iggy.

Monique Nudgeman is very talkative. And I mean VERY. She had dark skin like a mocha color. She has frizzy dark hair and dark eyes. She hates her name and is always teased for being Nudgeman, so she just goes by Nudge. She is very pretty yet unpopular like us, for she hangs out with us, and she gets in a lot of fights from her last name.

Lisa is one of my oldest friends, just older then Iggy but not quite as old as Fang. She has red hair and is a show off with the guys, but I still love her (in a friend way, I'm not lesbian to all you out there that just read that in a dirty way. Tisk tisk same on you)

Zephyr Gaz has sticky up blonde hair and blue eyes. Like the rest of us he is 16 but his face is baby faced and he is usually mistaken for being younger. He is always getting in trouble, he and Iggy are partners in crime, and he isn't very popular. He wears worn out clothes and skates around on a skateboard causing trouble. He felt out of it by not having a nickname so we gave him one and he is now known as Gazzy.

Ella my sister has brown hair. She wants to be tough and strong, but inside she is too kind and soft to be that. So that's our gang.

I grabbed my books and headed to class. I sat down in my normal seat and rested my head on my books. I had sat two seats down from the end because I knew Fang would sit at the end and Iggy would sit next to him. They walked in and like I had predicted that's how they sat.

The teacher handed books out and told us to work from page 25 to page 34. I started my work and was on page 28 when I finally spoke.

"Where's Africa?" Iggy asked looking at his map. "There" I pointed at the map and he frowned. "They should make it bigger" he declared and I rolled my eyes. "Maybe you should wear your glasses" I suggested.

"Someone's not in a good mood" Fang said. "Someone should shut up" I snapped. "Are you going to make me?" he asked. "If you don't shut up soon, why yes I am" I threatened. "I'd like you see you try" he wriggled his eyebrows. I ignored him but he kept talking to me. I reached across Iggy and wrapped my arm around Fang's mouth. He tried to pull my fingers off but I held them there.

Then I felt something warm between my fingers and I saw him lick and slobber all over my hand. I shrugged and kept my hand there. I had his saliva on me before, I thought. Then the memories came back and I pulled my hand away.

He grinned thinking he had won, but he had no idea why I had really pulled away. The memories still hurt and my eyes stung with tears so I turned away from them and continued with my work.

So your probably thinking, 'If Fang brings you to tears why are you friends with him?' Well it's because after everything Fang was my friend and no matter how bad he was for me I couldn't stay away from him. It was really bitter sweet. He caused my misery, but he made everything better.

I felt someone poking me in the ribs and looked up at Iggy.

"You ok?" He asked. He was one out of three people who knew what had happened. "I'm fine" I said turning the page and not looking at him. He pulled a sad face at me then continued with whatever he was doing.

I shook it off; no way was I going to let Fang know that I was still hurting. I paid attention to my work and before I knew it I had finished. I closed my book and looked up at the clock. I still had ten minutes to go so I began to entertain myself with talking to Iggy.

"Na ah" I said. "Ah ha" he argued. "Na ha. Jacob" I said. "Edward" he said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Bella and Jacob would be so cute together. He is sweet and truly loves her" I said. "Hello? Did you not read the books? Edward loves her and is totally right for her" Iggy said. "Dude I let you read my books. Plus, Edward is dead." "Well Jacob is dangerous." "And Edward isn't? At least Jacob doesn't sparkle." "Well at least Edward won't get angry and accidently rip Bella's face off. Plus imagine how good a vampire would be in bed" Iggy wriggled his eyes and I slapped him in the back of the head.

"Well at least…." I started when Fang threw his pencil at me. "Don't finish that sentence. All I hear about is how good this person is or who's cute with who. Enough, it's enough to drive a guy crazy" he exclaimed.

"Iggy doesn't mind" I stuck my tongue at him. "Iggy's gay" Fang said and Iggy hit him. "I am not!" Iggy said going to hit Fang but missed.

"Iggy put your god dam glasses on" I told him. "Don't tell me what to do" he poked his tongue at me. Iggy had really bad eyesight and had to wear these big black glasses that didn't look that bad on him, but he didn't like them.

We packed up our books and headed to I.T. Unfortunately the internet was down so we spent the whole lesson watching Miss Gina run around trying to get it to work. Just as she brought in the expert, the bell ran and we all headed out. I chucked my stuff in my locker and headed out to where we usually hung out; near the only tree we had at school. Lisa and Gazzy were already there.

I watched Gazzy's eyes widen as Lisa pulled her skirt up so high you could almost see her underwear, and ask Gazzy if she had a bruise on her thigh. "Keep it in your pants Gazzy" Iggy called as he came skidding up to us.

Gazzy just rolled his eyes and deliberately kept his eyes away from Lisa's legs. We were aloud to wear whatever we wanted at school.

Lisa wore a mini skirt with roman sandals and a blue tank top.

Gazzy wore jeans and an orange and brown hoodie and Fang wore jeans and a black shirt with a skull on it. Nudge, who had recently headed down, wore skinny jeans and a pink shirt with spaghetti straps. Iggy wore ripped jeans and a white long sleeved shirt and a dog tag necklace.

I wore ripped jeans and a black shirt that said "Legend has it when I was born the Devil said 'oh shit, competition" on it. I watched as Ella stormed up to us and I guessed she hadn't had a very good day so far. "I hate Miss Carrow" she growled. "Everyone hates Miss Carrow" I said.

"Plus Ella you're too little to be able to hate anyone" Iggy teased. "I'm not little! You're just really tall" she pouted. "Aww, she's so cute when she's angry. It's like talking to a pissed off smurf, but she's red" Iggy told me and Ella hit him. The rest of the day went by normal, soon to be repeated tomorrow and the day after that, it was like one big circle. I hate school.