A/N: Once again, this is embarrassing. I started writing this when I didn't know what to do. And I made Fang talk a lot. I'm serry ;-;
I woke up to a bright light. I was more golden than white, I knew I was somewhere safe. But where was this safe?
"Am I in heaven?" I asked groggily. My voice was sharp and cracked. Like sand paper. "Am I dead?" I stirred in the soft blanket around me.
"No, I'm afraid not." Said a calm, dark voice. It melted into the air like shadows. I smiled to myself.
"Fang," I asked "Am I at your house?" I opened my eyes a little wider, trying to seek out his figure. It burned, I felt like I was a vampire in the Arizona desert.
"Yep." He answered.
My vision cleared up and I could make out him sitting on the chair across from me on his laptop. He was probably on his blog. "Anything I could do to make your day," He looked at his computer clock. "Your five a.m. better?"
I giggled. "This may sound stupid, but I would kill for a Popsicle."
He got off the couch and fist bumped me. "So," He said walking to the freezer. "How did you get into that mess? With the Erasers." He came over and gave me the cherry popsicle.
"Well," I said in between bites. "I went out for some groceries, and I cut through the small forest, just to get there faster." Blood rushed to my face. "And the next think I knew, I was hiding up in a tree from Ari and some other erasers."
He'd noticed my bright red cheeks. "Don't be embarrassed." He closed his laptop. "We got, well we used to, get into that trouble all the time." He smiled his rare smile. "But your safe here."
"I know, but it was a stupid mistake going through there." I finished off the popsicle.
He went to the freezer and tossed me another. "I don't want to make you feel bad but, they would've found you one way or another."
I frowned. Then remembered why I'd went out in the first place. "Dad!" I exclaimed and stood up. Then fell back down. My whole body was sore, and my head hurt like hell. "Is my dad okay?" I asked weakly.
"Of course." Fang looked at me with kind eyes. "Max called and explained what happened. And told her that you have to stay here, for at least a week."
"A week! But what about school! And my other friends?!" I felt so weak and dumb; I had gotten myself in to another sticky situation from not being on guard. I was just walking, being a space captain, not noticing people trailing behind me.
After all, that's how I got my nick-name. Being a space cadet. Not exactly though. When Max asked my name and age, I was so shaken up I couldn't even talk properly. My name is Desiree, but all she heard was Dez. But It sounded like Daze, apparently. And then me, being all in my own world, all of the time, the name caught on.
"Your dad will call you in sick; you will just have to hang with us for awhile. We're good friends right?" He ruffled the thick dark-brown hair on my head.
"Well of course, I love you guys." I sat up straight and smiled. "I love you guys a lot."
"We love you too." He grabbed a blanket and sat back down on the couch. "So, how's your flying?" He asked.
Heat rose to my face. "Um, well…" I gulped. "I don't really fly much… at all." Fang gave me a quizzical look.
"You don't fly?" He cocked an eyebrow. "You have wings, right?"
"Well yeah…" My palms got sweaty. "I, uh… I'm afraid of heights." I could practically feel the heat radiating off my face.
"Daze, you're kidding. Right?"
Well that sure made me feel good. "Um no…"
We stared at each other in silence for a few moments until he said, "Well how'd you get so far so fast?"
"Fight or flight." It was a simple answer. Adrenaline pumping can make you not even feel pain.
"Well," He said. "We're gonna teach you how to really fly today. Pull out your wings."
"They're really full."
I blushed. "Yeah…" I knew they were thick because I didn't fly much. No air to blow them off.
He came over and looked up closer. He smiled at me. The rare crooked one. "You're gonna do great today."
I really like Fang. Not in a crush way, but like a big brother. Same with Iggy and its fun to have Gazzy here too, he's like a little brother. And Nudge and I are close as sisters, I mean we practically are. Max is always there for me too, and it's probably nice to have a girl about her age around. We're only a year apart.
And then Angel and I have a special connection, I think it has to do with our gifts. We don't really talk much, but we're just really close.
"Want anything else?" Fang looked at me.
"Some T.V?" I asked him. I was starting to get tired again.
"Sure." Fang tossed me through the remote and I sat on the floor. I flipped through the channels, and finally found a movie. Pirates of the Caribbean. It was weird to find a good movie this time in the morning. Maybe it was on just for me.
