Hey, sorry I had a crazy weekend, I was planning on updating on Saturday, but I went to theme Park with my best friend. Sorry this is a little short, but i had to stop it here because the next chapter is super long. Oh and I realized I was forgeting the Disclamier.

I don't own anything that is already owned =)

_Max PoV_

I'm so happy to be home. I hate school, and I have to go back tomorrow! Ugh. Today passed by boringly normal and fast. Nothing exciting happened, so there is not much to say about my school day, except that at lunch I made Iggy squirt milk out of his nose, which was probably the best part.

I am currently up in my room playing on my computer when I got a text from Fang at 7:30

Hey. Can I ask you a question?

You just did. Sure.

Why is Lissa… you know, Lissa?

I don't really know how to answer that. She changed a lot over the summer between 7th and 8th grade. We used to be pretty good friends actually. Then she went to a summer camp and when she came back to school she was completely different. She dressed and acted different. She started dissing all her old friends and became a jerk. Soon enough she started going through boyfriends every week and I lost all respect for her.

Oh. So it's normal that she basically stalks me?

Yea… so what are you doing?

Sitting on my couch, Bored out of my mind.

You can come over. I can text Ig and Nudge to come over too.

Sounds fun. Be there in five.

Okay.

I texted Iggy.

Hey you want come over? Fang says he is bored out of his mind and is coming over. Nudge can come.

Sure. Be there in five.

I should probably tell my mom. I walked downstairs to find mom and Jeb in the kitchen, cutting coupons; I bet they just watched "Extreme couponing". It's crazy.

"Hey mom, Iggy, Nudge and Fang are coming over."

"Okay." She smiled mischievously.

"Please don't say anything embarrassing." I pleaded.

"Oh I never do that." She said sarcastically. Yea I got it all from her; I just have better come backs. Just then someone knocked on the door. I walked over to the door and opened it. Fang was standing there in the same attire as always: Black.

"Hey." I gestured for him to come in. We went into the living room and I set up Netflix on the Wii. I sat down and Fang sat down literally, right next to me. Mom walked in…Oh no.

"Hello Fang, it's nice to see you again." She said with a smile. Jeb walked in behind her.

"Fang." Jeb nodded. He offered a kind smile, and sat down on the love seat.

"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Martinez." he nodded at Jeb. While they made small talk, I got a text.

OPEN THIS STINKIN DOOR OR I WILL BOMB YOUR HOUSE!

Iggy….

I laughed. Fang looked at me and I threw my phone at him. He caught it and looked at the screen. He smirked and tossed it back. I got up and walked to the door, just staring at Iggy through the window part.

He just stood there expectantly. I saw him pull out his phone. I pulled out mine.

OPEN THIS DANG DOOR! OR I WILL SNEAK IN AND SECRETLY KILL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP, BRING YOU BACK TO LIFE AND PUT YOU IN MY POSTION WHERE I'M INSIDE AND YOU'RE NOT THEN I'LL OPEN THE DOOR AND KILL YOU AGAIN!

Wow he sounds desperate. Fang saw me laughing and told me to let him in.

"Fine." I said grudgingly. Once the door was open, Iggy ran in and picked me up. He ran through the house, stopping at the couch. He threw me on it beside Fang and started tickling me.

"Ig….please….. Stop." I choked out between laughs. Iggy was the only person I let get away with tickling me, because he was my best friend, and I also couldn't be mad at him.

"Not until you apologize for making me want to kill you." He grinned.

"Never!" I yelled. He continued to tickle me.

"Fine, I give up! I'm sorry for making you want to kill me!" I yelled, which didn't help my out-of-breath situation. I looked up at Fang and he was chuckling.

"Hey it's not funny!" I complained, punching his leg.

"Hey, I didn't do anything!" He yelped, rubbing his shin.

"You encouraged him by laughing!" I argued.

"Everyone was laughing Max." said Nudge from behind the couch. She backed up out of my reach. Smart girl, I thought. Nudge learned early not to make comments that could get you kicked and/or punched.

I sat there lying on the couch, trying to get air back in my lungs. I sat up straight and was smashed between Fang on my right and Iggy on the left. Nudge went upstairs to find Ella.

"Hey Ari." I heard her say on the way up.

Dang it.

Ari walked into the living room and smirked at my situation. He sat down in the chair, beside the couch.

"Fang, Iggy." Ari nodded his hello.

The nodded at each other. What is it with the nodding? If I tried that, I'd just look like I had a weird twitch.

"So what do you guys want to watch?" I asked, scanning through the lists of movies.

"I don't care." Fang and Iggy said at the same time. "But nothing girly." The latter added, he'd learned from previous situations like this where he said that and I picked Hairspray. I personally dislike the movie but it was hilarious to watch him squirm.

I was flipping through the queue and stopped on Batman: The Dark Knight.

"Is this okay?" I asked Iggy nodded and Fang shrugged. So I started the movie.

_ Two hours later_

I was leaning on Iggy's shoulder and my legs were stretched on the foot stool. Ari went upstairs about halfway through the movie. I looked up at Iggy, but he was asleep. I just lay there, and then I remembered Fang. I looked over at him and he seemed to be closing his eyes. It was 10pm and we had to get up in the morning. I looked up and poked Iggy's cheek several times, he finally grabbed my hand, after the tenth time my finger collided with his face.

"What?" he grumbled.

"I was going to tell you to go home." Nudge had gone home an hour ago, saying she had leftover homework she needed down for tomorrow.

"Ugh fine." He agreed grumpily.

"Good." I said sleepily. I poked Fang's arm.

"Hmm?" He groaned. I chuckled. He opened his eyes and glanced at the two of us. "What?" He asked.

"Go home; you can go through my window." My room was at the back of the house and I had a window big enough to get out of, it led to the roof where I could walk to the side and jump to Iggy's roof, and to Fang's.

"Okay." he said. I got up and walked to the kitchen to find my mom.

"The guys are going home; both are going out of my window." I slurred, sleep trying to overcome me.

"Okay, just make sure they are careful." She noted, not taking her eyes off of her laptop.

"Okay. Good night mom." I hugged her.

"Good night, Max." she smiled. I walked into the living room to find the boys were almost asleep again.

"Hey you two, wake up enough to go upstairs." I ordered. Fang barely pulled himself up off the couch, Iggy on the other hand; I had to pull him off the couch. He fell to the floor with a thud.

"What was that for?" He whisper-yelled as he jumped up.

"You wouldn't get up on your own." I chuckled. He mumbled something I didn't understand. We walked upstairs to my room and I climbed onto my window seat and opened my window for them, they could easily slide through the window, onto the roof, reverse that order to their room. We all climbed on to the roof. I hugged Iggy and said goodnight. He waved night to Fang, who looked like he was about to fall over.

"Come on." I chuckled, gesturing him to follow me. I picked up a board that Iggy sometimes uses, and walked to the other side of the house. I put the board evenly on our roofs, connecting them.

"Well, night." I said.

"Night." He yawned. I watched him walk over, making sure he didn't fall because of his sleepy-ness.

"See ya in the morning." I called over my shoulder.

"Okay." He said, and with that I went inside, I closed the window, and closed my door. I loved my room, it was so Me. Black, purple and white. All my favorite colors. I changed into my PJs and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

_Monday Morning_

I woke up, feeling tired still. I grabbed my IPod to check the time, 6am. I groaned. I really do hate going to school. I got up and stumbled to the bathroom, beating Ari once again. Ha. I mentally laughed.

10 minutes later.

I walk down stairs, to smell some kind of food cooking; I walked over to mom and waved, getting a cup for some juice. Ari walked in and sat down, where I was going to. I glared at him and stood up beside mom. Ella came down the stairs and walked over to me; she hugged me and just stayed there leaning her head on my shoulder.

"You okay?" I asked her.

"Just tired." she said, unlike herself, and shrugged. I gently pushed her off of me and got a plate. Mom made eggs and toast. BZZZ, my phone went off.

You want to go to the mall after school? Iggy had texted me.

"Mom, Iggy wants to go to the mall after school. Can I go?" I asked.

"Sure just be back by six." she responded.

Sure. I texted him back. My mother looked out the window and saw the bus.

"Alright-y guys, off to school." She said.

Ari, Ella and I, got up and grabbed our backpacks. We all walked outside and went over to the bus and saw Iggy and Nudge. They walked over to us and waved. Ella and Nudge hugged, Iggy put me in a headlock, making me laugh. Fang walked over to us, and waved. We exchanged greetings and all climbed on the bus, I sat next to Fang. Iggy sat next to Ari, awkwardly, beside us. I just stared at Ari, taking in his appearance, He was tall probably 6ft or 6'1 Brown hair spiky hair, a little longer than Iggy's, he has quite a bit of muscle. I had heard a few times that he was the third hottest guy in school. The first being Fang then Justin.

"So do you want to go to the mall later, with me, Max, Nudge and Ella?" Iggy asked Fang. He just shrugged and said "Sure."

I opened my backpack pulling out my iPod and earphones; the bus was so loud it was giving me a headache. I put the earphones in and set my music to shuffle, leaning my head back against the seat. I looked up at Fang and pulled my earphone out handing it to him. He accepted it, looking grateful. The bus ride was annoyingly loud, although I almost dozed off.

We finally arrived at school. Everyone got off and departed different ways, except for Fang and me, considering we have the exact same schedule. We walked over to our lockers and dumped our junk in them.

"Come on, let's go to homeroom." Fang said shutting his locker. We walked into homeroom and sat down. I heard sighs, like I did every day. I ignored it and pulled out my drawing book. I decided to try drawing a pair of wings. When I was done I looked at my art, the feathers looked in place rather than just messy scribbles. I colored them with colored pencils, the top was a deep brown fading in to white at the bottom, with white speckles throughout the browns.

I looked up to see Fang looking at my drawing; he nodded at my paper

"Those look nice." He said.

"Thanks. If I had wings they would look like this." I smiled, looking down at my paper.

"If I had wings, they would be big and black." He smirked.

"Probably." I returned.

I was out of it for the next couple of classes. Fang and I walked into the cafeteria and towards Iggy and Nudge, I wondered where Ella was. We sat down with our food and started eating. My mom made lunch for me so I wouldn't have to eat the junk they call food, as the LGMs say in Toy Story: You saved our lives, we are eternally grateful. I laughed at this, and everyone looked at me

"What?" I said with a mouth full of food. Iggy shrugged. Nudge started jabbering again. Fang just smirked. Why does he do that so much? I asked myself. I turned around for no particular reason and saw Ella talking to a boy. I looked forwards to Iggy and sighed.

"What's wrong?" Fang asked.

"That kid she's talking to is a jerk, and judging by her face, she's flirting with him." I told him with a hint of sadness.

"Want me to do something about it?" said Iggy, flexing, excuse me, trying to flex his muscles.

"Go ahead but I had nothing to do with it, got it?" I said. Ella would be mad.

"I got it." Said a voice from behind me, I turned around to see Ari standing there. I just sat there and looked at him, as if to say 'really? Now you're acting like a brother?' He nodded. I turned around in my seat to watch what was going to happen. Ari walked over to Ella and stood between her and the kid, Ari being quite a bit taller than him. Ella looked at Ari in surprise.

"Dude, what are you doing I was talking to her." Said Jack Carson. He's a sophomore, and on the football team. So basically, he's a jerk.

"I don't want you to talk to her." Ari said, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Who do you think you are to tell me what to do?" He fought back.

"Her brother." Ari growled and clenched his fist. He was wearing a tight, short-sleeved shirt so his muscles were showing, making him look all the more threatening.

"O-Okay" said Jack, backing away and sitting at his friends table. Ella walked in front of Ari with an upset look on her face.

"What did you just do? I think he was going to ask me out!" she whisper-yelled so not everyone could hear her, but they were just close enough that I could. Ari shrugged.

"That guys a jerk Ella; I didn't want him to hurt you." He said with compassion on his face. She looked up at him and sighed, still annoyed.

"Thank you." she said softly. He smiled, and put his arm around her.

"I'm sorry I haven't acted like an older brother, but it's still new to me, give me some time to get used to being in a family of more than two and I'll come around." She smiled up at him. She stopped and hugged him, he hugged her back willingly. They walked over to us smiling. Ella sat down beside Nudge and Ari sat beside her. I raised an eyebrow at him and he shrugged half smiling. We sat in silence until Nudge couldn't take it anymore. She sucked in a breath… and she was off. We ended lunch, everyone's ears hurting from the non-stop chatter, and random screaming from Iggy.