Fang sat slumped against the wall, head feeling exceptionally heavy, resting in his hands. Iggy sat leaning back against the wall next to him, still smirking. Fang's head fell back against the wall as he let out a sigh, "God!"

Iggy's smile didn't vanish completely, but he slowly grew more serious, "Soo…" he prompted, before being interrupted by Fang.

"Don't say anything," he said, eyes squeezed shut.

"C'mon, it's not like we have Nudge or Max listening."

Max had taken Angel, Nudge, Gazzy and Total swimming, while Fang had elected to stay behind. Iggy, knowing this would give him the privacy he needed to talk to Fang, jumped at the opportunity and decided to stay behind with him.

Fang sighed again, "Fine then. We'll talk."

"So are you and Max officially an item?" Iggy asked putting air quotes around item, grinning more broadly again.

"I duno," shrugged Fang, concentrating on trying to get dirt out from under his fingernail.

"Well do you want to be? 'Cause it sure looked like it," Iggy said with a small chuckle.

"Yeah," Fang said fingers still for a moment, "Yeah…"

Iggy allowed Fang a few moments to ponder this before pressing on, "Is she good?"

"What?" Fang said, brow furrowing as he was brought out of his own world.

"You know, is she good? Is she a good kisser and…" Iggy trailed off.

"Why are you asking me this?" Fang replied, glaring at Iggy.

"I have no love life so I live through you," Iggy responded simply.

Fang glared at him, before realizing it had no effect, "Yes. Max is… is…" He struggled to find the right word.

"Amazing, Stupendous, Super de Duper?" Iggy said nudging Fang in the ribs.

"I was looking for something less cliché and umm… less stupid maybe?"

"Stupid? I thought they were genius."

"You are truly hysterical, Ig." Fang said, once again slamming his head back against the wall.

"On a serious note though, and I really am being serious this time; I think you need to talk to Max. Get some clarification, stuff like that." Fang punched Iggy in the shoulder. "No, I didn't mean it like that!" Iggy exclaimed, "It's just, it's been weird for the rest of us with you and Max not quite together, not quite the same… It's just weird ok? So do us all a favor and officially become a friggin couple already! I can't stand this crap!"

Fang sighed for what seemed like the fiftieth time that day. "It's not that simple."

"With you nothing ever is."

Fang raked his hands through his hair, staring at the toes of his Vans. Silence reigned.

"What happened to Fang, man?" Iggy said suddenly.

"He got rejected fifteen effing times."

"That wouldn't have stopped you before."

"Who said I stopped?"

"I didn't say that. But I will say one more thing."

"Then will you shut up?"

"Yes."

Fang cleared his throat as Iggy took a long pause.

"When Max comes back. I don't know how, but I will manage to get everyone out of this room, maybe ice cream or something… I duno, but I will, and when I do, you are going to do one thing," Iggy paused, Fang listening intently, "Kiss the crap outta her."

Fang's face of stone cracked as he smiled, looking at a completely serious Iggy. "Sure Ig, I'll do just that," Fang said with a chuckle.

"Excellent."

A/N: yay for dude bonding! Wow that took a really long time. I had this whole creative streak… but it all died when I saw my homework from the past week. So friggin much. School sucks. But anyway… I shall try to be better about writing more quickly, but no promises (stupid school) just stay with me folks! Well I'm not sure what to do next so if anyone has anything they really really super de duper (what is it with me and that word lately?) want to see something in the next chapter, please oh please request it of me, because I will not know. Also sorry for any typos. I am tired and have proofread too many papers for school and am waaaaaaay to lazy to go through all this. Yeah. Wow. I rant a lot…. If you just read all of that you get a kudos. Shutting up now.