Max's POV
Something was shoved in my face; I could feel the person's hand holding it there firmly. Someone was trying to kill me, I was going to die. And then I took a step back to see it was only Nudge shoving what looked like a flyer at me.
"What is that?" I asked, squinting at the paper.
"It's only the most amazing, wonderful thing that has ever happened in this school in like a million billion years!" she squealed. Maybe if she stopped jumping up at down I could read the paper, but Nudge wouldn't stand still.
Then I noticed the school lockers and walls were plastered in them so I walked over to the nearest one.
Noklan high school is holding the biggest event here this school has seen, and you will be a part of it. The masquerade/costume ball will be held here on the 2nd of September. Come as your alter ego, come as your opposite. Be whoever you want to be.
All that followed was useless information about the ball. How cliché.
"Aren't you excited?!" Nudge screamed.
"Do I look excited?" I asked rolling my eyes.
"On the inside?" she asked and I couldn't help but laugh.
"MAAAAAXIE!" I heard someone scream from down the hall and I turned to see Iggy running towards me, flyer in hand, people giving him eye rolls again.
"Iggy" I sighed as he stopped in front of me.
"Did you see it?! Did you see it?!" he asked shaking the flyer in front of me.
"Yes Iggy" I rolled my eyes.
"What are you going as?! I'm going as a cowboy. No! A spaceman. No! Spiderman. No! A ballerina. No! I don't know!" He shouted. I grabbed his shoulders and shook him.
"Iggy. Calm down" I said, shaking him until his eyes rolled back.
"You're no fun Max" Iggy pouted.
"Aww I know" I said pinching his cheeks and he grinned.
"Max!" I heard Ella call, running up to me, looking slightly retarded because she was trying to hold onto her bag which most of her books were trying to escape out of.
"I know about the ball and I'm not going" I told her before she could open her mouth.
"But it's compulsory" she said.
"Well I'll take the detention" I told her, poking out my tongue and she rolled her eyes.
"So what are you going as?" she asked Iggy. I slapped my hand over his mouth before he could start his ramble again.
"He doesn't know" I answered for him. Iggy frowned at me, his dark blue eyes were still shining with Iggy happiness though. Iggy was tall but built strongly with strawberry blonde hair and the maturity of a 5 year old.
Ella was shortish with dark brown hair and light brown eyes. Nude on the other hand had dark skin, dark fizzy hair and brown eyes. And then there was me. Plain old me. I was tall, not as tall as Iggy of course, and I had wind-tossed brown hair and plain brown eyes.
"You girls excited for the ball?" Mr Pinto said as he walked past. Iggy frowned at being referred to as a girl, but he did act like one.
"Sure are. Well everyone but Max, she would rather the detention" Nudge said rolling her eyes.
"I figured, that's why if you don't come and don't have a good reason then you're on clean up duty and internal suspension for a week, it's the same for everyone" he said giving me a sickly sweet smile before walking away. What, a butthead.
"Now you have to come Max. We can go shopping soon, it's going to be so amazing" Nudge said linking arms with me as we left for class. Amazing isn't the word I'd use.
Fang's POV
"Oh my god Fangy" Lissa said, running chills down my spine. And not the good kind. I looked over at her as she broke away from her posse to come over to me. She linked her arm with mine and gave me a small kiss on the lips, her bright red lipstick probably rubbing off on me.
"What's up?" I asked her.
"Did you read about the ball? Oh my god we can totally go together as like a couple from like a movie or something" she said. She continued to ramble on for ages. She then gave me another kiss and skipped off to her group again to talk about when they were going shopping.
"Dude what's wrong?" Sam asked flinging an unwelcome arm around my shoulder. Don't touch me. He saw me looking at his arm and moved it like he hadn't seen me looking.
"Huh?" was all I said.
"You're like a robot now days. You walk over here. Kiss Lissa. Go to class. Kiss Lissa. Walk somewhere else. Kiss Lissa. Go home. When's the last time you went to a party or even did anything fun?" He asked.
He was right. I used to have this school wrapped around my finger, I used to be top dog. And I still was, I just wasn't feeling it.
"I don't know dude, I don't think I want to take Lissa to the ball" I told him.
"So you're gonna break up with her?" he asked, puzzled.
"I think so" I said.
"Well you have to get someone else soon. What about Tess, or Annie?" Sam asked looking over at the other girls with Lissa.
"Maybe" but none of them sounded like what I wanted.
I started heading off to class when Lissa caught up to me.
"I won't be able to talk tonight babe. I'm going shopping with the girls" Lissa giggled
. "Ok" I said leaning down to kiss her as she left for her class.
I knew what I wanted, I wanted someone real.
