Sorry peoples! I was going to answer your questions last time but I forgot soooooooooo…

tearsXsolitude: yep!! But its going to get more complicated for Max

Starr33: Thom, well I needed a name and I decided on Tom but I thought I'd spell it that way. It's spelt that way in The Song of the Lioness. Well you know from last chapter that Max is the leader of the West but Fang and everybody else in the East has never seen her face. As for Iggy and Fang you will have to wait. = P

paro4peace: Okay well she punched some guys jaw but the actual identity of the owner will be revealed soon when she goes back to school. Oh and in regards to her step-father there is a reason for what he did. You learn that later.

I was lying crashed on Elliot's bed. Everybody else was lying on the floor crashing as well I presume. Ouch. I tried to sit up but my healing ribs shot an arrow of pain through my body.

"Don't." A hand landed on my shoulder and pushed me back onto the bed, "Lie down and stay still."

I looked up to see Andrea, Thom's sister. Andrea is in Med school. She knows all about us and the Gang. She's our home doctor. We all hate the hospital, it raises questions that we prefer not to deal with. So if we get injured we come to Andrea. She doesn't tell anybody about the gangs and in return we don't tell anybody that she works at the local stripper club.

It's a good deal.

"How is it?"

"Pretty good. You didn't stuff anything up too badly, although you should never again get into a fight when you are already injured. You idiot!"

She gave me a quick hug, happy that I hadn't injured myself too badly. She wrinkled her nose though as she looked down. My clothed were crumpled, dirty and covered in dust from the squat as well as some of Jane's blood.

"You wanna borrow some clothes?"

I nodded. I really thought it was a good idea until I looked in Andrea's closet.

Fang POV

"Nate get up! We are going to Valencia's!" My mom yelled as she knocked on my door.

I just rolled over and went back to sleep, trying desperately to hold onto the image that was imprinted on the back of my eyelids. Max. She was so beautiful.

"Don't make me come in there!"

I continued sleeping (and trying).

"Don't make me put Goose on you!!!!!!"

That got me up.

"I'm up Mom!!!" I yelled just as the sound of quacking filled the air.

Yeah you heard me right. QUACKING. That's what I said. Goose is our pet duck. We were going to call him Duck but we thought that was too unoriginal. So we picked Goose. Dr M ran out of places at her vet so she asked my mom to take him in while his wing healed. He got WAY too attached to us so he never left.

Iggy came into the room laughing, "She threatened to set Goose on you did she?"

I nodded. He was used to my silence.

"Any idea what's going on?" Iggy asked as Mom propelled us out the door.

"Not a clue."

So that was how I ended up on Dr M's porch at 11 o'clock at night, with my Mom continuously ringing the door bell.

Ella opened the door, a worried expression plastered on her face.

"My mom's in the living room," she said opening up the door and letting us in.

Dr M turned her head at the sound of the door opening and we all saw her worried tear streaked face. Mom immediately ran over to her best friend and started comforting her.

"What happened Dr M?" Iggy asked.

"It's my daughter I don't know where she is."

"Maybe she's just out late." I offered.

"She hasn't been here all morning. According to Gazzy they both fell asleep on her bed but when he woke up she wasn't there. Nobody has seen her since."

"I'm scared that she left because I left her Jeb's when she was one." Dr M said breaking out in a fresh wave of tears.

A honk and the drunk shouting of teenagers shattered the serious atmosphere.

"Hey pretty thing!"A boy yelled his, words slurring.

We all rushed to the window. Max was standing with Jon, Thom and some random older girl I didn't know. They stood on every side of Max protecting her. It reminded me of a gang, it was like they were watching and guarding her against danger.

"Ditch those guys and come with us."

They all just started walking ignoring the drunk idiots.

"We can have lots of fun." The guy said grinning, in a so-called seductive voice. The silver scar on his cheek gleamed in the moonlight and I immediately recognized him.

Ty.

Ty was in the gang until he deserted and formed his own gang. He was apparently the higher race of people. Just think of a teenaged boy with Hitler's attitude then you get Ty.

"No thanks." Max said.

A man grabbed her arm pulling her against him. His smile was warm and friendly but he couldn't hide the eyes that were as cold as ice.

Ice. He too was part of the gang until he followed Ty.

Jon's arm snaked around her waist and tugged her back. Only I could see her wince and the pain in her eyes as they touched her ribs and forced her to put weight on her leg.

Ice yanked her back, throwing a punch to Jon's jaw and knocking him to the ground. Max snatched up her crutch and swung it into his balls. Ice fell to the ground groaning in pain and Max punched him swiftly across the face, knocking him out. Thom struck Ty in the stomach and he hit back striking his nose.

The woman that was with Max held her back as she frantically tried to intervene.

"Max! No! It was a miracle you weren't hurt worse last time!"

"Then I can use my-" Max was cut short as Thom overheard their conversation.

"Max! Don't! Who knows what they will do to you?!"

Ty got his hands around Thom's neck while they talked and was slowly squeezing the life out of him.

"Drop him." A chilling voice said. Angel was standing behind him.

"Ha! I don't think so."

She brought up a gun and pressed it against his back, "You want to rethink that?"

A dagger flew through the air and embedded itself in Ty's leg. Everybody including Ty looked around in confusion. Who the hell had thrown that dagger?

"You might want to listen to her." Max growled.

"Nope! Not unless you have some fun with me." Does this weiner ever give up? Nope he never ever gave up in a fight for as long as I knew him.

He twirled around, ripping the gun out of Angel's hands. He took aim but before he could fire a dagger spun through the air and landed in Ty's hand. With a roar he dropped the gun and he dragged Ice back to the car.

"You'll pay for this bitch!" he spat.

As the car drove away I saw somebody incredibly familiar. Blade my second in command was in the car. Just sitting there, not doing anything. He raised his right wrist to me. The tattoo that should have been there had been burnt off. Blade was now no longer part of the gang. He had deserted. He was part of Ty's gang.

A flash of black caught my eye. The woman was helping Jon up and there was a tattoo wrapped around his wrist. A dragon. He was in the West gang.

I was going to stop here but I'm not that cruel : D

Max pulled Angel into a tight hug and told her never to do that again.

"Where the hell did you get a gun from anyways?!" She cried.

"Trunk." She stated simply. Max nodded as though that made sense to her. Well it sure didn't make any sense to me. "Besides there weren't any bullets in it."

"Still!"

Angel started to tear up and Max hugged her, "Sorry sweetie. I was just so scared that you would get hurt."

"Love you Sis." She whispered.

"Love you too."

"MAXIMUM RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Dr M came stomping down, practically steaming in her anger.

"Where were you?!"

"Jeez calm down Dr M. I couldn't sleep so I went to Andrea's. We went to the movies and I guess I crashed on the couch." She shrugged her shoulders.

"Why don't you show everybody else around?" We all knew a dismissal when we hear one and this was definitely a 'we don't want you here' dismissal. We all trudged up stairs.

Max disappeared into Gazzy's bedroom and lay down on the bed next to him.

"Gazzy?" Max questioned. "I'm sorry."

"Go away."

"I'm sorry sweetie."

"You were supposed to be there when I woke up! You weren't! I thought you hated me!" He cried flinging his arms around her shoulders.

"I could never hate you." She dropped a kiss on his head as she tucked him in. "Night sweetie."

"Will you be here when I wake up?"

"Of course." She smiled a smile that dazzled me and made my heart race.

I followed her to her room. She was rummaging around in her chest of drawers looking for something.

"That wasn't the truth." It was a statement not a question.

She shut the drawer. "If you think I am going to tell it to you, you got another thing coming."

Wow. She was like the only girl that would refuse me something. ME.

"Leave."

"Whaa?"

"Yeah I'm kicking you out. Leave." She started pushing me out of the door using her crutch.

"Why?"

"I need to get changed."

It was only then I saw the skin tight girly clothes that looked soooooo good on her. She was wearing a denim miniskirt and a revealing red halter neck top that accentuated her curves.

"Right." I muttered my face as bright as a lobster. I didn't need to see her expression to know that I had been staring for too long.

I kind of wish I had looked up because then I would have seen the pretty blush that graced her cheeks as well.

"You can come back in." She called.

She was sitting on her bed dressed in shorts and a t-shirt saying Coheed and Cambria. She looked more beautiful than ever dressed like that. She looked like her.

"You like them too?" I said pointing to the shirt.

"Yeah."

That night was full of firsts for me.

It was the first time that I talked and talked and talked without having to be prompted.

It was the first time that I found someone who liked the exact same things as me.

It was the first time that I spent the night with a girl just talking not doing anything else.

It was the first time that I wished the night wouldn't end.

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