Max rolled over in her bed and looked out the window up into the dark sky. Max guessed she had Angel's teacher to blame for not being able to sleep. What kind of teacher in their right mind would teach kids that stuff when they didn't have too? A shadow flickered through the light coming into the room from downstairs but Max did not notice and jumped as she heard Fangs voice nonchalantly saying,
"Maybe something came up and she had to explain 'it'."
Scowling Max rolled over to see Fang leaning against her door frame.
"What are you a mind reader too now?" Max could see the hidden smile at the corner of Fangs lips in the semi-darkness.
"No," Fang answered as she pushed of the doorframe and softly closed the door with his wing as he walked over and sat on the bed beside Max. "You were just talking out loud."
"Oh," Max replied before pursing her lips together in thought for a comeback as she sat up. "Why would you care anyway?" she challenged. Fang just shrugged, "It was the logical answer and it's not like it has no relevance to us. Any of us." The last part was added in quite quickly after a pause that did not go unnoticed by Max.
Involuntarily Max's eyes ran over Fangs body and suddenly the space between them seemed to have shrunk. And it kept shrinking until they almost touched noses. Fang's eyes were fixed on Max's as she licked her lips trying to find a sane thought in her mind that was not screaming to do something that made her glad Angel was not allowed to read her thoughts.
"And you've been thinking about this?" Max taunted, attempting to draw her mind away from how good Fang looked in his white cotton shirt. But only finding part of her voice it did not seem to work and it sounded as if Fang was having the same problem as he answered,
"You have too," before their lips found each other, tongues immediately gaining access into the other's mouth.
The kiss seemed to go on forever, not that either was complaining, but all too soon they heard the front door shut as Jeb came in and Max unwillingly pulled back giving Fang a breathless smile as she heard him give a small groan. Sliding away from Fang, Max gave him a lite kiss which kept being passed between them as she said between kisses,
"You had better get out of here before dad gets up here."
Max could feel Fang smile as he kissed her again making a trail of kisses down to her shoulder, leaning over her so she was lying back down.
"Or," he replied kissing a sensitive spot on her neck, "I could stay in here and just be very quiet."
Max smiled, her head was off in a cloud of bliss.
"As good as that sounds." She caught his lips into another kiss.
"I've got to go." Fang finished and Max nodded sadly and watched him get up and leave the room.
Max listened as she heard him shut the door but he was only a few steps away when she heard him talking to someone. Max let out a large breath as she figured out that the voice belonged to Jeb; that had been close.
x
Fang closed quietly shut Max's door and turned around only to take a few steps and see Jeb at the bottom of the stairs. Fang went to creep past but just before he got past Jeb looked up and saw him giving him a smile hello.
"Didn't think you guys would still be up this late," Jeb said looking from Fang to Max's door. Fang panicked inside but tried to still look calm as he shrugged.
"I guess but we're used to it."
Jeb paused for a moment and then smiled apologetically. Fang guessed he was thinking about what they done at the school again so before Jeb could, and would, apologize again Fang slipped into the shadows and into his room.
As Fang slipped into his bed he smiled to himself remembering that he had actually gone out there for a drink. Oh well he'd gotten something much better instead. Just as long as Max didn't regret it in the morning, Fang knew he wouldn't. Man he'd been wanting to do that since, well for a long time.