Hey guys! I had a solo and ensemble contest today! I sang a solo and ensemble, and I got a 1 on both of them! (1 being best, 5 being worst) YAYAYAYAYAYAY! Here's chaptah threeeeeeee!
We went real estate shopping the next day, and found a nice house in a neighborhood with like, a kagillion kids running around, so that worked out well. We even paid the full price! So really, we aren't going to go to jail anytime soon. Angel's mind-controlling-ness came in handy since they weren't going to believe that me, Fang, and Ig were over 20. We could maybe pass for 16, tops. So now, we were shopping at Target for some cute clothes.
"Oooooh, Max look at this top!" Nudge squealed, holding up a frilly pink dressy shirt. Oh jeeze.
"Uh, Nudge honey, sorry but no. That's a little dressy." Her face fell. Angel said "Nudge, that pink isn't your color. Try this blue one!" She held up a cute light blue plain ribbed tank top that would, indeed, look very good on Nudge. She winked at me and I winked back.
"Max," Gazzy groaned, "I'm bored."
"Gaz," I said seriously, "We are shopping. We aren't bored. You are standing staring at cosmetics that I am sure you don't want, and you are bored. Go try on a few outfits." He looked at me like 'Did you seriously just say that shopping is fun? What are you smoking?' I sighed.
"Ok, just throw a few things in the shopping cart and then go look at toys or something. I don't care." His face lit up and he ran to go find Iggy.
That left me and Fang. Great. I turned on my heel and went to the juniors section. Fang followed. I snapped around to face him and said "Quit following me, Fang!"
"The guys section is right there." He pointed to a section right behind girls juniors. Oh. I stalked off grabbing random articles of clothes off the racks. I heard a snicker, and whipped around to see who was laughing, but there was no one there. Just then a small black fuzzy head popped out of a jeans rack and said "Max, Max, Max, you cannot be thinking that the green V-neck would go with the purple cami."
"Total! How did you get here?" I demanded.
"I was sleeping in Iggy's backpack," he answered truthfully. I rolled my eyes and stalked off to the dressing rooms. I tried on the purple/ green outfit, and Total was right, it did look hideous. Since when do I get fashion advice from a dog? Ugh. I tried on a light yellow tee that said "Little Miss Sunshine" on it and had a rainbow and circle-ish girl on it. It was faded and actually looked kinda good. I threw on a pair of jeans and surveyed the results. Hmm, a bit too big. I put on the other pair and they fit a lot better.
"Max, are you in here?" I heard an angelic voice call.
"Yeah," I answered. "3rd door on the right." My door opened and Angel peeked her blond head in. She gasped, and I immediately got self-conscious. I bet I looked ugly. Nudge looked in and she gasped too. I could feel myself turning red.
"Wow, Max! You look totally hot in that outfit!" Nudge gushed. Oh, ok, that was good.
"Thanks." I said. They took that as an invitation to come in and so they threw their clothes on the bench and started to try stuff on. We were there for at least a ½ hour before we ran out of clothes. I was about ready to scream by that time. Nudge had been talking non-stop, and it was really starting to bug me. Finally we went out and put our clothes in the shopping cart and went to find the guys. They were in the electronics department- what a surprise. They had their cart full of clothes, and so we went to find backpacks and school supplies. Angel grabbed a white backpack with a angel on the front pocket, Nudge grabbed a purple one that had blue, green, and pink polka dots on it, and I grabbed a light blue and green plaid one, the only good one left other than the black sling bags that Iggy and Gazzy had eagerly snatched up. That left Fang staring at a pink My Little Pony backpack. He groaned and shot a death glare at Gazzy who looked innocently back up at him with his big round eyes.
"I'll use my old bag." he said.
"Um, no you won't," I retorted. "Your old bag is grimy and holey and utterly disgusting. Besides, what if you dropped a book while we were flying to school? It could fall on some poor kid's head then you would be a murderer." The idea of seeing Fang in that 'gorgeous' backpack was just to good to resist. He growled and glared at me and it almost made me cower back in fear. I quickly composed myself and then I pointed to the cart. He flashed me an evil grin, and I knew something was coming. Just great.
After we were done with our 5 hour, 1000 shopping spree, we went to the Starbucks across the street. Fang messed around on his laptop and I sat there thinking about how dreadful the next couple months were going to be. I heard something shatter and looked up to see Gazzy looking surprised at the broken plate.
"What did you do?" I said to him. He looked at me sheepishly.
"Um, accidentally broke the plate," he offered. I groaned and then checked to make sure no one was looking and scooped the pieces into the trash. 5 minutes later we took off as fast as we could, with an angry manager running after us. Luckily we were faster that your average human and the guy was unnaturally fat.
We got to our house dumped out stuff in our separate rooms (Fang had his own, Nudge and Angel shared one, Gazzy and Iggy's rooms had a door in their closets that connected them, and I had my own.) and then all met in the kitchen to brush up on our wonderful academic skills. Total was our tutor and after 5 minutes of our insolence he was ready to quit.
"Ok. You guys are obviously not going to be the brightest kids there. One last time. Does anyone know what 4+ 5 equals?" Total glared at us fiercely and wiggled his paws.
"Um, 8?" Iggy answered.
"No, its… 1, 2, 3, 4, plus 5, 6, 7, 8….9!! It's nine!" Nudge squealed.
"Thank you! Ok, next question. 10+5." I raised my hand. "Max," Total said.
"15." I said it confidently.
"Good. Now get out your calculators. 12753 divided by, 39 times the quantity of 14 times 56 equals what?" I punched in 12753/ 39 (14x56) into my calculator but Fang was already shouting out the answer.
"256368," he said.
"Thanks braniac," I said sarcastically. "If anyone needs help with their math, just go to him. I guess we know who will be the only one getting A's." I muttered under my breath.
"Well you would be happy to take your own advice wouldn't you Max. Because you love me this much!" he crowed, a grin on his face. I was boiling mad.
"Shut up you freak!" I screamed and dived on him, tackling him to the floor. I punched him in the stomach and he shoved me off of him and I flew, like, 3 feet in the air and landed on the ground with an audible 'oof'. Soon after, our study session deteriorated and Total just went and sulked in the corner. Fang and me were taking swings at each other and the other kids were cheering us on from the other side of the kitchen. I punched him but he blocked it, and kicked the back of my knees causing me to fall onto the floor. I felt a heavy weight settle on my back and I realized it was Fang. He was sitting on me in order to keep me pinned to the ground. I clenched my teeth together and pushed on the floor as hard as I could, trying to get up. Nothing.
"Angel, Nudge! T.A." I shouted. They eagerly hopped up, and ran over to Fang, and my count of three started tickling him. I felt him go stiff, then a chuckle escaped his lips, and pretty soon he had rolled off me and was clutching his sides, gasping for air, laughing, on the floor. I joined in tickling him, and pretty soon Ig and Gazzy started tickling him too. I looked up when his face started to turn purple, straight into a camera lens. Angel was taking pictures! I shot her a thumbs up, and pretty soon we had to stop, or he probably would have passed out. Yes! Now I had blackmail supplies!
Angel, you are a genius! I thought.
I try. She looked at me and giggled.
"I hate you guys." Fang said as he stomped off to his room. I grinned.
"Well, I'm going upstairs too." Iggy said. It turned out that we all went up into our rooms and got ready for bed. I tucked Angel and Nudge in first. As I tucked Angel's covers up under her chin, I felt a pang in my heart, remembering our old Colorado house. I tucked them in every night, and I guess I hadn't realized how much I had missed doing that. I kissed her forehead, and she smiled at me. I moved on to Nudge and she looked like she had a bazillion questions to ask me, so I told her to save them for tomorrow. I went across the hall and reached for the doorknob to go into Gazzy's room, but it swung open. I lumped back, and Fang stepped out. He glanced at me but then went into his room, locking the door behind him. I shrugged and stepped into the room. After tucking Gazzy in I went to my room figuring that Iggy wouldn't want me to tuck him in. I turned on some music and crawled under my covers. I fell asleep and woke up to a bucket of cold water.
Ooooh, cliffie! Now you have to wait until next weekend!! HAHAHA!
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