"Hi! I'm Max!" It was the first day of Kindergarten and Max thought she found a new friend. He was sitting alone at the end of the room with a sad look on his face. She wanted to see what was wrong.

"I'm Nick." The boy said smiling at her. He smiled at Max, showing her his teeth.

"WOW! Your teeth are so white and sharp like fangs! Hey, you know what, I'm gunna start calling you that, Fang."

From that day on, he was known as Fang. It was his special nickname that his new best friend Max had chosen for him. They did everything together; eat their snack, play at the playground, they even lived close to each other so they went to each other's houses often. Max had a brother one year older than her, and Fang had two younger siblings.

One day, Max came to school with a sad look on her face. Fang could tell she had been crying because her eyes were puffy and red. When Fang asked her what was wrong, she told him that she was moving to California because her mom got a job offer there that she took. Max was most upset that she was going to loose her best friend.

The day they were leaving Fang and his parents came to say good-bye. "Will I ever see you again?" Fang curiously asked. "I hope so. I hope we do see each other." Fang gave her a small box and Max opened it. Inside was a small necklace with the letter M for Max.

"I want you to have something to remember me by. I thought that you would like this."

"OHMYGOSH! I love it so so sooo much. Thank you!" Max gave him a long him before her mom called her over to get in the car. When she was in, she looked at Fang and waved good-bye at him until she couldn't see him anymore. Fang promised himself that he would see her again.

JUMP ABOUT 12 YEARS LATER. THER'RE IN THEIR JUNIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL. FANG HAS MOVED TO CALIFORNIA BECAUSE HIS PARENTS GOT A JOB THERE, BUT LATER DIVORCED. I KNOW I LEFT A LOT OUT, BUT I DIDN'T REALLY FEEL LIKE TYPING THE WHOLE THING. I'M SICK AND I FEEL LIKE SHIT.

"FAAAAANNG, COME ON! IT'S THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!"

"Coming mom." Fang had just gotten out of bed to see that he had only 10 minutes to get ready before he had to start walking to school. "AW SHIT!" He ran to his closet and put on a black pair of pants, a black shirt, and you guessed it, back sneakers. He ran his fingers through his hair, hoping that it would still look like he'd brushed it. Fang ran down the stairs and grabbed his backpack.

"Iggy's is waiting for you outside. I'll see you when I get back from work." His mom said as he handed Fang a piece of buttered toast. "By mom." Fang said, and started heading out his door to meet his best friend.

"Sup man." Iggy said. He was about 6 foot 2, nearly as tall as Fangs 6 foot 5. He had met Fang the first day he moved here and they instantly became friends. They lived in the same neighborhood and it was close to school, so they walked together everyday with his friend's Nudge and Maya. Nudge talked way too much, the boys called that the Nudge Chanel.

"Hey guys. You ready?" They started walking to school when Iggy said. "Oh hey, do you guys remember that guy named Dylan Ride?"

"Capitan of the varsity football team?" Maya asked. "What about him?"

"Uhh HELOO! He's freaking gorgeous! No, he's beautiful. And he's dating Ella Martinez, ELLA MARTINEZ FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! They make the cutest couple at Middletown High and everyone knows it. They have been going out for, like, 2 and a half years. Gosh I wish I had someone like that. That's just so sweet to have someone care about you like thsjfbnv-" she was cut off by Maya's hand covering her mouth.

"Anyway, what about him?" Fang asked.

"I thought about joining the football team and he gave me some advice. We started hanging out over the summer and he's pretty cool, so is his little sister. Well, she's only one year younger than he is but she is THE BEST!" Iggy wanted to say more, but they arrived at school.

Since they got there early, they had to wait in the gym with the rest of the students that got there early. After about 10 minutes, they hear small cheering. If gradually grew louder and they noise entered the gym. All of a sudden, everyone was paying attention to the heard of hyper varsity football team, and excited cheerleaders. They were all dressed up in their jerseys and uniforms with school colors.

"Hey, you see that big guy over there? That's Dylan." He pointed at a tall guy with a well-built body. He was very muscular with shaggy brown hair, similar to Fang's hair and was about 6'5''. Each football player had a girl with them wearing a black shirt with orange words that said 'girlfriend', 'sister', or 'best friend'. Dylan had a girl next to him that looked exactly like him. She had a shirt that said 'sister'. Why does she look so familiar?

The girl grabbed a mic and stood up on the bleachers. "HHEEEYYYY KNIGHTS! (School's mascot. I'm using my school, so just pretend it's in California.) Okay so who's excited that we're going to states?" Everyone screamed. "Okay okay okay, don't hurt yourself. The coach said I should say some words about them, but I really don't feel like doing that cause I don't waaant tooo and bllahhh blah blahhhh blah blahhhh." Fang couldn't help but smile at her. She was just so funny and out with herself, not afraid to give her opinion. But why was she so familiar?

"So anyway, today's Monday and no one likes Monday, obviously 'cause even a fat cat doesn't like Mondays. So to cheer up this sad Monday, well it's sad for me, PARTY AT MY HOUSE ON FRIDAY!" Every person in the gym cheered at loud as they could. "Oh and Iggy, where the hell is that toothpick of a person?" She looked around the gym and finally found him. "I'm only letting you come…IF YOU DON'T STEAL MY FUCKING NUTELLA! That was the last jar of Nutella I had and you made me get up, during the RAVENS GAME MIGHT I ADD, and go to the store AND GET ANOTHER ONE!" Every one was bursting out laughing and Iggy turned a light shade of red. Fang had to laugh at that, and he decided he like this girl, whoever she was.

"Well next time you go riding on your four-wheeler you should invite me Max! Oh and can I borrow your car?" "Not until you buy me more Nutella!"

MAX! It's her! It started making sense, she was Dylan's sister, and his last name was Ride. This was the same Max he had met in kindergarten, the same one who had walked up to him and started talking to him. Fang was shocked. She had really changed. Fang was sure she had the longest legs he'd ever seen. Her once frizzy, out of controlled light brown hair was now smooth and sleek, reaching past her shoulders. Her brown eyes help bring our her sparkling white teeth. She barley needed any make-up for her beautiful face. Fang just stood there, with his mouth slightly opened staring at his first best friend.

Dylan stepped next to his little sister, laughing so much his face was red. "Hahaha. Oh good god Max. It's amazing your still single!" Max stuck her tongue out at her brother and he grabbed her sides to pull her into a hug. She's single? "Now go away, these kind people are here to see the Capitan of the football team, not the volleyball team." Max punched her brother on the arm, and left the bleachers.

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"Where's my cute klutz of a friend?" As she got closer, he held her arms out as Iggy walked into them and lifted her off the ground. "I'm right here, you stupid angle." It was lunch and they ran into Max as they were finding a table.

"Who're your friends?" She draped her arms around Iggy's shoulder as he introduced them to her.

"This is the talkative Nudge, the purtty Maya-" "Purtty?" "Deal with it. And this is the mysterious, emotionless Fang." Max studied him for a while. "Jezz, why do you look so familiar? Did I crash one of your windows?" She sarcastically asked him. He smirked at her and looked at the silver chain around her neck. It was the necklace that he gave her when she moved away. He couldn't believe she still had it, after all these years. She doesn't remember me, well at least she recognizes me. And she still has the necklace. He decided to have some fun with his. He was going to give her clues as to whom he was. He wasn't going to tell her anything about him and his past, until she figures it out.

"Hey Fang, gunna sit down or are you just gunna eat your lunch standing?" He realized that everyone had sat down at a circular table holding 6 people to a table. There was a seat next to Max and Fang slowly took it. "Gimme your schedules." Max demanded. They all handed in their schedules and she studied them. "Fang and I have art together. Nudge, we got theater together."

"I gotta question. Why do we only have four classes a day? Is it like…a weird western thing or something?" Maya asked. Max stared at her like she just heard the most stupid thing in the world. Fang couldn't help but smile a bit at her facial expression. Iggy joined in before Max could say anything.

"In a total we have 8 classes all year. But the school bored thought it would be a good idea to have four classes a day and switch in the middle of the school year." Iggy responded to the confused Maya.

"But…why? That's really weird. Back at my old school we had all the classes everyday and-" Maya was cut off by Max

"I don't mean to sound rude or anything, but where are you from? You're obviously new here cause you question the scheduling. Don't get me wrong, I praise you for that, but it's obvious you're not from here."

"New York. I'm from New York." Maya was glaring at Max as she said it. Fang thought that Maya didn't really like Max as much.

"Where? Brooklyn? Queens?" Max asked hopefully

"Manhattan."

Max sighed stood up and scanned the room for her brother. When she found him sitting at the football table, she screamed out using her New York accent. "Hey Dylan! We got ourselves another mad hatter over here!"

"At least she's not a Buffalo!" He retorted back between his laughs.

"Sorry, we're also from New York and we like to make fun of people that are from there too. Dylan and I are from-"

"Brooklyn." Fang said before she finished her sentence. Max looked surprised he knew where she was from. "How'd you know that?" "I…uuhh…Iggy told me. And that accent was a Brooklyn accent. I live there 'till I was 14." Fang instantly regretted telling him where she was from. He looked at her and noticed that she was holding on to her M necklace. Max noticed him looking at it. "It was a gift from my friend I knew in Kindergarten. Before I moved, he gave me this necklace, promising that we would see each other again. Bet he forgot about me."

Fang felt a pang of guilt as she explained her story to him. He knew it too because he was there. He felt so bad that they didn't stay in touch. If he had, she probably would recognize him. But he still thought to himself She still remembers that?!

Before he could say anything Dylan came up to them and sat on her lap, crushing her. "Hello my great sister."

"What do you want?"

"*Scoffs* I'm hurt that you would ever think that. Cant I just walk over to my little sister, say 'Hi' to her friends and not want something. Why would you ever in your lifetime-fine I'll spill it. Can I borrow five hundred dollars? I need to get Ella something for her birthday that's on Sunday. Pleeaaaseee? Please please please pleeeaaase?"

"What happened to your money? Spend it all on condoms or something?"

"NO!...maybe. Can I please have it? PPPPPLLLLEEAASSSEEE!

"Okay okay! If it get's you to shut up, I'll give you the money." She sounded a bit annoyed. Fang wondered why they would just have the money with them, and why they have so much. As Max wrote Dylan a check and hugged her 'till her face was red, the bell rang and they had to go back to classes.

"Come on Fang. We got art next. You'll love the teacher, Mrs. Ayott. She'll let you do whatever you want." She grabbed his hand and they walked of together. When Max grabbed his hand, he felt a jolt run through out his body. He never had that feeling with anyone else. Well, he knew Max for a long time and he had a small crush on her back in the day. He wondered if deep down, he still had that crush. Max smiled at him as they both walked into the art room.