Love Conquers All
Summary- Maximum Ride, Iggy Griffiths, and Fang Jones have been best friends forever. On September 15 that all changes, when one dies, will the other find their happiness in eachother? Or are the memories of the best friend that once was too much….? Miggy. Don't like don't read. AU, AH. May have other pairings.
MPOV
"Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Max! Happy birthday to you!" A bunch of voices sing. I blink my eyes open to find my best friends Fang, and Iggy, my mom, dad, and little brother Gazzy and Ari
"Go away!" I moan into my pillow. I hate birthdays. I think they're a big fuss over nothing.
"Ain't you just the most cheerful birthday girl ever" Iggy says cheekily.
I throw my pillow at him and everyone laughs.
Iggy runs over and grabs my hands and Fang grabs my feet, they start swinging me.
"Stop! I'll get up!" I yell as I crash into my desk.
Laughing, they drop me.
"Get ready Max, Iggy and I are taking you for breakfast" Fang says nudging me.
I nod sleepily and push everyone out of my room.
I pull on black skinny jeans and a red shirt and run downstairs.
"NO I'M DRIVING!" Iggy is screaming at Fang when I walk into the living room.
Fang just shakes his head and grabs the keys. Iggy complains the whole walk to the car.
"Ig shut up" I groan.
"NO!" He exclaims, and continues complaining.
"SHOTGUN!" He yells.
"WHAT? NO!" I exclaim.
"Neither of you get it, you both sit in the back" Fang says with an eye roll.
We nod grudgingly and get into the car.
We start the drive to our favorite breakfast place IHOP.
"Why are you going this way?" I complain
"There's a wreck on the freeway, I'm going around it" Fang explains calmly.
"I wish I was as smart as youuu Fang" Iggy says in a high pitched voice, I laugh.
"You know you-" Fang never finished his sentence because at that moment we went straight into a giant truck.
If you want to know the worst part about the crash, other than what happened next, I'll tell you. It was that I was awake the whole time. I heard Fang's screams as he was burned to death under the car that had caught fire, I heard Iggy's moans of pain as he clutched his arm. Everything. Every single detail of that night is permanently etched into my brain.
So when the truck driver called the ambulance, I knew.
When the ambulance got there I knew. I knew everything.
The EMT's pull me to my feet. The talk to me but everything they say is a buzzing.
Fang was screaming his head off. He's dying. I turn towards the car and see the firemen putting the fire out. They pull a blackened Fang out. I scream and run over to him. I drop to my knees.
"Fang, Fang" I keep repeating hugging him and sobbing. I feel someone else next to me and I see Iggy clutching his bloody arm, tears in his eyes.
"Don't leave me. You promised" I whisper, as I think of a memory, from long ago.
3 years ago. (14 years old)
"Look it is" Iggy spits out at Fang.
"Yeah what do you want?" I ask coldly. Ever since he had made the football team and started dating the most popular girl, Lissa, a month ago he stopped talking to us.
"I'm sorry" He says, after a moment of silence.
"Oh really?" Iggy asks rolling his eyes. "Hear that Max? He's sorry" He says sarcastically
"I really am!" Fang protests.
"Oh really?" I say, my voice stronger than I felt.
"I broke up with Lissa, and quit the football team" He blurts out. Iggy and I's eye's widen
"I miss you guys" Fang whispers. I run up to him and hug him. I feel his shock as he hugs me back.
"Never leave me again Fang" I whisper.
"I won't Maxie. Not ever. I promise" He whispers back.
I cry harder as they pull Fang away. Iggy comes over to me and wraps me in a one armed hug. We stand there, crying into eachother until the doctors took us to the hospital.
Time pass to funeral.
I look at myself in the mirror. I was wearing a black dress that went just above the knees, I had a cast on wrist, cause I had broken it in the car accident. It never hurt though. Probably cause all I could think about was Fang being gone.
My mom calls me downstairs, saying it's time. I walk downstairs slowly and into the car slowly. My mom drives slow, and when we get there it's starting. The funeral of Fang Jones. My best friend.
Mrs. Jones has asked me and Iggy to sit in the front row. I see the whole football team, paying their respect to the beloved quarterback, who joined again after his promise. I see various teachers who adored the quiet level headed nerd. I see girls that obsessed over the hot jock. I see every person that Fang ever talked to in that church. Because Fang was like that. Everyone loved him. It was hard not too.
After the funeral part it's time for me and Iggy's speech. We wrote some of it together, but others I'm just saying what I think. Iggy doesn't want to talk, but he's going up there with me. I walk on the stage, and look away when I pass the coffin. I can't look at him so helpless.
"Hi. My name is Maximum Ride and this is Iggy Griffiths. Fang was our best friend. I don't think you would ever see us without eachother. He was my rock. He kept me stable." I feel tears pricking my eyes as I continue.
"Fang was the type of person that you would meet once and remember forever. I loved him with all of my heart, and I'm sure a lot of you do too. It was hard not to. I can't imagine living my life without him.
I remember one time when we we're about five Fang, Iggy, and I we're at my house and it was quiet time. My mom and Iggy had fallen asleep and Fang and I we're bored so we left and went a small cliff that's right by my house. I wanted to jump off but Fang kept saying no. Finally he said okay, but he had to jump with me, I agreed and we jumped. I broke my wrist and Fang broke his too. Our moms were so mad at us. But we never regretted anything. I guess that's what saying goodbye is like. Jumping off a cliff. That's the worst part. Making the decision. But once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go" I choke out, tears running down my cheeks. Iggy takes my hand and squeezes it.
"He was the smart one out of us three. The one making the best decisions. Iggy and I always listened to him. No matter what. We never fought with him, only with eachother" A couple people laugh and Iggy smiles at me, his face sad.
"He always broke us up though. Rolled his eyes and said we we're idiots. Which to Fang meant I love you guys. I just miss him so much" I pause and look at Iggy.
His eyes ask me if I want him to finish. I nod, knowing his fear of talking in front of people, but also knowing I can't finish. He gently squeezes in.
"Fang" He says shaking his head. "I love that idiot like a brother. When we we're little we used to tell people that's what we were. He was the best friend any one could ever ask for. But I felt like Fang always knew he would die young. He always watched sad death movies and listened to sad music. Whenever I asked why, he would shake his head sadly, as if imagining Max and me without him. Which obviously in his scenarios were never pretty" I smile at Iggy sadly.
"I think he always thought we would blow up the world or something. Once Fang was super sick and his parents were working so Fang asked us if we could pick up his medicine. We said yes, and went to the pharmacy. But then, Max remembered this list she found on the internet which we're like crazy things to do in the store and we did them all, and eventually got kicked out, we completely forgot why we were there and we went to Fang's to tell him all about it. When we got there Fang was asleep on the couch his medicine on the table, he scribbled on a note
"My mom dropped it off, said she saw ya'll there. Thing next time you idiots"" Everyone laughed.
"But I think the thing I learned from Fang was, Maybe some people can afford to wait, maybe for some people there's a tomorrow. Or one thousand tomorrows or three thousand or ten. So much time you can roll in it, bathe in it, let it slide through your fingers like coins. So much time people can waste it. But for some people there's only today, and the truth is, you never really know" I know Iggy has finished cause he leans away and looks at me. We both walk off the stage, and I turn my head, at the very last second. And take one more look at my best friend.
Soo yeah. Should I continue it? Or just not write another chapter? Tell me in a review!
Fly on!