A/N: For a little bit it's going to be a third person POV then it will go to Max, Fang, etc..
Two little kids sit at the table while their parents talk. The girl reaches over to grab the green crayon and winces.
"Are you ok?" The boy asks.
"Yes!" the girl says a little too quickly.
"Then why'd you-," the boy gets cut off by his father yelling.
"Nick, Max, get in here." The man demands. The two little kids climb down from their chairs and walk into the living room where their parents were meeting.
"Yes?" Ask the boy once they enter the room, while the girl just stares down at her shoes.
"Well kids it seems like we have a problem. Our companies have been fitting for many years now and it seems that neither company is willing to sell it to the other company. So in order to have peace among both company's-," Max interrupts, "What company are we talking about? The secrete company or the shoe company?"
"MAXIMUM, you will not interrupt me!" The girl cowers behind the boy which makes his mother smile.
"Anyway, it has been decreed that Maximum Margaret Martinez shall be married, once turned 18, to Nicholas Humphrey Ride, who will become of age a month before Max." The boy's father announces.
So it was set Max and Nick would be married.
Three Years Later
Recess just started and Max is swinging on a swing when Lissa comes over and pushes her off. Max doesn't even cry just screams at the girl and nurtures her bleeding leg. That's when Fang notices the little brawl and comes over to see what's going on.
When he sees Max lying on the ground bleeding he pushes the other kids out of the way and shoves the strange boy that was about to help Max. He takes off his sweatshirt and puts it on Max's cut. He then picks her up, gets permeation from the teacher and then he takes Max to the nurse. Max protests the entire time.
The nurse takes one look at her leg and decides to call the hospital. The nurse tells Nick to go back to class but he refuses.
"She is my responsibility, don't make me tell my father," the nine year old boy states. The father line makes the old nurse shudder and agree. Once at the hospital and Max is all stitched up Fang looks her dead in the eye and says, "Don't ever do that to me again."
Max says she's sorry. Then they go back to pretending the other one doesn't existence. Except for when they need each other like before or the time some guy grabbed Max so Fang beat the crap out of them or when some girl came up to Fang and started pestering him to go on a date so Max came up and kissed him but then walked away.
Max POV (age 16)
Today's my birthday. Most people are excited about their birthday but as you will learn I'm not most people. Now I only have two years till I'm forced to marry him. It's not fair I don't want to marry just anyone; I want to marry the one. I know its sappy but after everything I've been through I think I deserve that right and to make matters worse they're coming over for dinner tonight.
Fang POV
I still can't believe I have to marry her. I mean it's the 21st century. The only reason I'm doing this is because if I don't my parents will kick me out of the house and cut my allowance.
"Fang!" My butler, Iggy shouts. You see Iggy lives here with us because we were best friends when his parents died in a car accident but my dad will not adopt him because he thinks it would look bad. So he lives here and is categorized as my butler but doesn't really do anything. Same with Nudge the maid but her dad died in the 9'11 attack, my mom was best friends with hers so when Nudges dad died her mom said she couldn't look at her so my mom her in.
My real name if Nickolas, Nick for short, but only a few people are allowed to call me Fang, everyone else calls me Nick. Iggy's real name is James and Nudges real name is Monique. I just turned 16 last month and Iggy just turned 16 a couple days ago, Nudge is now 14.
"Yes?" I call back down to Iggy.
"Come on, Your parents said we're leaving in five minutes." Great! Note the sarcasm.
15 Minutes Later
So here we are standing outside the Martinez's house. My father rings the door bell and within seconds Mrs. Martinez's is there welcoming us all in. We take are seats at the table, which are the same every time, and wait for the Martinez's kids to come down. Let's, let the fun begin.
Max POV
My siblings and I come down and get seated; I sit in between Fang and Dylan. The sibling order is just like this Dylan at age 17, me at age 16, Ella at 15, Gazzy at 11, Angel at 9, and then Ari who is just 8 months old. The dinner goes as usual; Dylan glaring at Nick, Nudge and Ella chatting, Gazzy and Iggy talking about who knows what, Ari sleeping in his baby thing, I'll feed him after dinner, then there's me who just watches Angel fall at trying to cut her food. I'm about to help her when dad clears his throat to get us to be quiet so he can speak. We all turn to him and he starts, "Because Max and Nick have not developed any relationship over the past years it has been decided that Max and Nick shall move into gather starting tomorrow. You will both still be going to school and there will be a house keeper to clean for you guys. Also at the end of the month the Rides and your mother and I will be going on a business trip so you two will have to watch the kids because I have plans for Dylan and Ella along with Nudge and Iggy. Nick your things are being moved now, Max your things are going to be moved tomorrow. The house is only about seven minuets away from both houses." With that he finishes.
"What!?" Dylan, Fang and I proclaim at the same time.
"Two years dad, I still have two years! I can't believe you!" I scream which wakes up Ari and makes him cry. Mother goes over and tries to sooth him but he hates her as much as the rest of us do. I go over and take, as soon as he's in my arms he stops crying and calms down. It's not till then that I notice that Dylan and my dad are in a pretty heated argument. Dad draws back his arm and snacks Dylan right across his face. His face starts to bleed because of the ring he was wearing. The blood snaps me out of my daze and into action. I set Ari down and he starts to cry but I have to get the other kids who are also wailing their eyes out over their brother getting hurt I run over and grab Angel as Ella goes over to Dylan and puts a napkin on his bleeding face and ushers him out of the dining room. I pull Gazzy up by the hand out of his chair. I set Angel down to pick up Ari but Angel freaks out about it and starts to cry harder.
For the first time I don't know what to do, I know I have to get them out of there before dad takes his anger out on them. I guess Nick reads my mind because he picks up Ari and walks out the Dylan and Ella did before I could protect. I then pick up Angel again and grab Gazzy's hand, I walk out of the dining room where Fang is waiting with Ari and tell him to follow me.
He does and we go to my room where Ella and Dylan our waiting. When Ella sees me walk in she moves to the foot of the bed were I put Angel on her lap and sit Gazzy down next to her. I then start to clean Dylan's wound, he doesn't even wince anymore when I put the hydrogen peroxide on it, but when I'm cleaning and bandaging it all I can think about is how much I hate my father and mother.
My father abuses my mother, brother and I. He will wipe, cut, kick, hit, and through beer bottles at us. The only reason we don't do anything is because if we do he will do the same thing to the younger kids. I know that with me gone he'll turn his abusiveness on Ella and that just makes me sick. On the other hand my mom is just a hollow shell of a person. She does nothing, not to protect us, or to comfort us, or to even love us. Dylan and I have practically raised the other children.
I finish with Dylan and turn to see Nick still holding Ari and the surprising thing is Ari isn't even crying, shocker he usually freaks out over strangers but he seems perfectly content. I take Ari and turn to Nick.
"Thanks Nick, you can go now I'll be down in a minuet," I tell him.
"It's Fang," is all he says before walking out of the room and back down stairs.
A/N: I hoped you liked the first chapter! Please review!