hello people! thanks 4 all the awesome reviews from last chapter, sry 4 da wait, but here is the next chapter, sorry if its short, i've wrote it all in little time, i've been busy with all da bak 2 skool crap. anyways, review! n da next chappy will b at the mall. flames r accepted, suggestions r loved!
I didn't know whether to be excited or creep-ed out. "What?" I asked, totally unable to understand Iggy's idea.
"Look, we pretend to like each other for a while, until Fang gets so jealous, he explodes and tells you his true feelings! I'm a genius!" Iggy cried, and I half expected him to start hugging himself.
"That's a totally crazy idea! Plus, it'd be super awkward for us to act like that. No thanks."
Iggy's face fell. "Come on! You'd get Fang, I'd get back at him for the beach, and it'd be totally fun and hilarious! It's a win-win…win."
"I don't know Iggy, I still think it'd be totally weird. Plus, what about the rest of the flock?"
"Come on Max! It'd be totally funny! We'd fool them all and laugh about it later."
"I don't know…"
"Come on Max! And Fang's coming! I hear his footsteps."
"Um…okay. I guess it wouldn't hurt to try." I said uncertainly.
"Okay, and I won't mean anything I do or say until next time the flock isn't around." Iggy whispered half amused.
"Okay…but-"
"Oh man Max! I really missed you. It's not the same without you around." Iggy breathed and I had to keep myself from smacking him in the face for his tone. We're supposed to be doing this. I reminded myself.
My eyes widened until I actually saw Fang coming. Then I knew what was going on, and knew I had to play along. I took a deep breath and said, "Oh Iggy! I missed you so much too! Life's not the same without my little pyro." I said dreamily. I mentally reminded myself to puke later and to tell Iggy that my words didn't mean he could blow up stuff just for fun anymore.
Fang walked up to us. Confusion written all over his face. "Uh…" he began.
I looked up at him innocently. "Oh hey Fang!"
Iggy nudged me with his foot under the table. "You're supposed to like me." He muttered under his breath.
I nodded to myself. Right. "Um, why don't you round up the kids? We want to leave already." I said to Fang with less affection this time.
He blinked then gathered himself again and nodded and walked to the play section. "You're being too nice to Fang." Iggy said while sliding out of his seat.
"Sorry, I'm just not used to pretending to like you."
"I know. Really, you guys act like you're married already. You should've gotten together long time ago. But hopefully this will make Fang confess. If it doesn't, I'll beat him with his own foot for being so dumb."
"Why do you care so much if we get together?"
"Because, it's obvious you both love each other so much. And to not get together is dumb. You're wasting precious time. We don't know how long we have. If I knew I had found my soul mate like you and Fang have, I wouldn't waste any time." He said seriously.
And I was touched. Iggy wasn't so sexist after all. He just did that to play around. But he wanted someone in his life. Wanted to love. "Wow. I would've never expected that coming from you."
Iggy shrugged. "Yeah, don't get used to it though. As soon as you and Fang get together, I'm going back to my sexist pig self." He said smirking.
"I'm rolling my eyes, Ig." I said getting up. I threw out all our trays while the flock came back to us.
"Alright guys, let's go." I said smiling.
"Aren't you happy?" Fang muttered before walking outside and jumping into the sky.
"What?" I asked, though he wasn't there anymore.
Once we were all in the air, Nudge and Angel started a tag game, but you know, in the air. "Tag you're it!" Gazzy shouted, he jumped on me, making me loose altitude.
"Oh crap!" I said. I caught a wind current and raced after him. No one was getting away from me when I used my super speed. The flock scattered. I looked to my left and saw Angel giggling. I made a dash for her.
"Ah!" she cried still giggling. I caught her, and she folded her wings in. Leaving me carry her.
"You know, you're not the 20 pounds you were 3 years ago bud. Get your wings out!" I said tickling her.
She laughed harder and I let her go and she snapped out her wings.
"Max, I'm tired." Nudge said a few hours later.
I nodded. I looked down and found a local park. Let's hear it for tree huggers. They have a point. What would bird-kids sleep on if it weren't for trees? Then again, I don't think they were trying to save the trees for flying kids, but hey, the thought counts!
We all landed and spread out on branches on a big oak tree.
Iggy, Fang, and I stayed up late again, Iggy sat in a branch below me, Fang on one next to me, and I was in the middle. Yeah, this was really ironic.
Eventually, Iggy fell asleep, leaving me and Fang in silence. The bad thing? It was those awkward silences. Oh boy.
"So… how were things, without us around?" Fang asked after a while.
I looked up at him. "They were… lonely."
"I'll bet." I heard him utter, though I think I wasn't supposed to.
"Yeah. It was hard, taking down Itex without half my flock."
"I'm sorry we left." He said stiffly.
"I know." I said. I felt uncomfortable. I knew Fang was mad. I couldn't get why though. "Well, take first watch, I'm wiped." And I pretended to fall asleep, though we all know that was a useless attempt.
"Hey Max!" I heard someone call my name, then I felt someone kick my leg.
"WHAT?" I muttered angrily.
"Max! It's working!" Iggy said smiling.
I rolled my eyes. "What are you talking about?"
"Our plan, stupid! Fang's getting jealous."
"He is not. I still think this is completely ridiculous." I muttered. I slid down to his branch.
It was morning. I'd say about 5-6 in the morning.
"It is not! Its gonna work, but we need to do more things to make him angry. Yesterday was only an intro, but if we keep things out, he'll blow his top in less time than you can say 'I love meatballs.'"
"Why the heck would I say, "I love meat balls?""
"Oh you like them too? Gee we have so much in common!" Iggy said nicely.
Oh God. Fang you better like me, and you better tell me you do soon before I kill you for making me do this. I thought to myself. "You're totally right. We should hang out more often,"
I heard shuffling in the branches above us. "Yeah, we should. Hey, look, I think we should add this move to when we stack." Iggy demonstrated a complicated combo with one hand.
I tried it, but couldn't get it. Where the hell did he learn that? "Uh, I can't do it." I said after many failed attempts.
Iggy reached over and took my hands and moved my fingers and showed me how. Just then, Fang jumped down to my branch above, saw us, sitting together on the same branch and saw Iggy still holding my hand. Oh.
"What are you guys doing?" he asked.
"Not-" I began to answer. But Iggy cut me off.
"Just showing Maxi here a new move. Try it Max." Iggy then said turning back to me.
"Um, okay." I tried it. "Dang it! I still can't get it."
"Its not so hard once you get your two fingers in the right position." Iggy fixed my hands again while I felt Fang's eyes boring holes into the back of my head.
I did it again and it worked. Fang gasped. "Dude, is that the gang's sign?" he asked Iggy. (AN: I forgot the name of the gang Fang and the boys stayed with while separated from Max, so I'm calling them 'the gang. Okay, sorry!)
Iggy nodded. "Yeah, I remixed it." he declared.
"I think its cool." I said sincerely. Then- "Wait, GANG?" I yelled.
"Yeah, we stayed with a street gang while we were in LA."
"You what?" I yelled furious. Didn't they know how dangerous that was?
"They were cool, and they gave us a place to crash for a while." Fang explained shrugging.
"Iggy, you are never doing that sign again, we don't need street gangs chasing us too."
"Okey dokey." he said saluting.
I rolled my eyes. "Okay, let's get the flock up and Iggy, you can go to the store to buy some food."
"Hey that sounds swell, but I'm blind!"
"No really?" I asked in mocking astonishment. "I meant take Fang, doofus."
"Can you come? Fang never talks to me and sometimes let's me run into trashcans." Iggy said sounding like a child.
"I only did that once." Fang said rolling his eyes. "I'm rolling my eyes, by the way." he added.
"Fine, I'll go. Fang wake up the flock and get a fire started; we'll be back in a few."
"Whatever." said Fang, and he jumped off the tree and landed silently on the ground.
"Okay." I said sighing. "Let's go."
**OMF!**
Fang landed silently on the ground and went to look for wood for the fire. He could do this alone and the flock could sleep a little more.
What, he asked himself. Is up with Max and Iggy? Fang felt his gut turning in his stomach. He hated to see Max sitting so close with Iggy, and he was holding her hand!
Fang was so in deep with his angry thoughts he didn't notice he'd snapped his stick of wood in half until he heard the snap.
"Crap." he said to himself. I gotta get a handle on myself. It was okay to feel angry when Max was kissing Sam the wiener; it wasn't okay to get mad over Max and Iggy talking. Plus they weren't doing anything. He added to himself. Like that makes it any different. He thought before he heard another branch snap.
**OMF!**
Iggy flew beside me, the wind blowing his strawberry blond hair into his eyes. "What was Ella like?" he asked all of a sudden, it surprised me. "Well she was nice. She has dark long hair, and brown eyes like mine. She's really cool."
He seemed to be thinking for a moment, then- "Yeah, she seemed very...nice."
Hmmm, I wonder what was going through his bird kid mind.
We got to the store and I got a cart and pushed it as Iggy trailed behind me. "So what's next? I was thinking telling everyone we're like going out, or something. That will really get Fang pissed. Or how about hand holding? I could tell he was angry when I was teaching you the move this morning." Iggy laughed.
"Uh… how about we give it a few more days?"
"Fine." Iggy said, "But don't take too long, or the effect will wear off.
"Whatever. Plus, I need to get used to pretending to like you if we're gonna pretend to go out."
"Fine." Iggy said stiffly. "Hey Max! Can we tell Fang separately, like be like, "Hey Fang, Max and me are going out, but we don't know how to tell the flock? Do you have any ideas?" Oh God he'll really be mad then. Oh and I could stay up late talking to him, telling him how hot you are or something."
"If you're gonna do that, make sure I'm completely knocked out or I will come and punch your face, no matter what we're pretending."
Iggy threw his arm over my shoulders. "Chill Max. We both know we don't like each other, so no big deal."
"I'm gonna kill Fang if this doesn't work, and I had to do all this for nothing." I muttered.
*************
"Fang?" Nudge asked.
"What?" Fang snarled without intending too. Great, he thought. Now I made Nudge upset.
"Um, well don't get mad or anything, I'm just asking here, you know cause asking questions is the only way people learn, you know that's probably why people have to go to school-"
Fang raised an eyebrow at her. Nudge stopped short. "You were saying?" Fang asked.
"Well, is it just me, or do Max and Iggy look, I don't know, closer?"
Fang sighed. Nudge had noticed too. What was with those two? He asked himself. Ever since they'd reunited, they'd been talking a lot, and being closer. "I don't know Nudge. Maybe they have."
"Oh." She said thinking. "Hey, do you think they like each other?" she popped up.
That caught Fang unpredictably. He hadn't even given that possibility a chance. Could it be? "I, I, I don't know Nudge. Maybe. We'll see in time." Fang left the fire to burn, and went to sit on a log. Gazzy and Angel were on a branch in the trees, playing with the leaves. Nudge now went up to them and left Fang alone on the ground.
Fang couldn't imagine Max with anyone. Nobody seemed to fit right. He thought maybe he had a possibility, but he was wrong.
Sam looked like a total looser next to her, because she was so graceful, and he just looked like crap next to her.
But maybe him. At least he could fly too. But maybe she was looking for another bird kid. Iggy was funny, confident, and a chick magnet. He was fun and exciting, and enjoyed himself despite his blindness.
Fang was silent, and although he had many girls from his blog asking him out, none of them were Max.
"Max." he said to himself. Max always gave him a lot to think about.
**OMF! **
"Hey guys! Get down here! We brought donuts!" I called to the young ones up in a tree branch.
"Donuts!" Nudge cried as she jumped down. "Oh so cool! Real donuts!"
The flock ate happily. "So where to now?" Gaz asked while stuffing his face.
"Well, I think we all need some new clothes."
"Oh great! Shopping!" Nudge yelled excited.
I smiled at her. "Yep. We're going to fly to this mall Iggy and I saw while flying back."
"Iggy saw the mall?" Gazzy asked sniggering.
Iggy glared in his direction. "You know what I mean." I said rolling my eyes.
"Okay, let's get a head start." I said jumping up. I snapped out my wings, and jumped into the air.
"So we're cooling it for a while?" Iggy asked.
"Yeah." I said. "I need to get used to all this before we move on."
"Okay, so can I flirt with the cashiers?"
I glared at him. "No Iggy. You cannot flirt with the cashiers!" I said exasperated. That would be just what I needed.
"Fine. But you better get used to things soon; I wanna have some fun soon."
"I'm rolling my eyes Ig."
******
Fang was flying behind Max and Iggy and I heard Max specifically say that he couldn't flirt with any cashiers. Were they going out already?
Fang felt a monster build inside him, one that had been creating himself all morning, and when Iggy said he wanted to have some fun soon, the monster inside him growled.
alrighty, datz deh 2nd chappy! review! flames r accpeted n suggestions r loved! next chapter should be up by tuesday da latest hopefully! n now its time 4 my song obssesion of the day! "I'll keep you my dirty little secret. (dirty little secret) who has to know?" lol im listenin 2 dat song nonstop, okey dokey! ya'll kno wat 2 do! review!
peace out n thnx 4 reading!
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