Yay new chapter up! Sorry it took so long again, I really did try to post it before but I couldn't get it done.
Thank you everyone reading this, specially if you reviewed or favorited or put the story on alert!
Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride, yet, but I'm coming up with an evil plan to get it from JP. I only need either a few billion dollars or some kind of mind controlling machine thingy. It's that simple.
Oh and the song's not mine too. I had to put it in here, cause I'm addicted to All Time Low's new album, and the song reminds me of Max. It's called Walls and it's awesome. Seriously, if you haven't heard it, you should.
ON with the chapter!
Max's POV
I was walking down the hallway to my room when I saw it, sleek and black on his bed. It was lying there in Fang's room, inviting me to come in and get it. Don't ask me how, it just was. And I was so tempted to do it.
Imagine having full access to Fang's deepest secrets, hidden away somewhere in the vast memory of its hardware. Being able to finally find out what he was hiding from me. It was all there, a few steps away from me, beckoning for me to give in to temptation.
It was all there, in Fang's laptop.
Better yet, Fang was nowhere to be seen.
But what if he caught me snooping through his stuff? He would probably be really mad at me, and not speak to me for days. I didn't want to have a fight with him already – we had only just gotten together. And what if I don't like what I find, and regret ever seeing it?
I was in the middle of this mental argument with myself (yes, I do need to say that the mental argument is with myself, because honestly in my case it usually isn't), when a pair of strong arms wrapped around my waist. Fang. There goes the best chance I ever had to discover any of his secrets.
"Max, why are you standing in the hallway looking into my room?"
"Um, you see, uh, I was… I was, um…" I stuttered, trying to come up with a good excuse.
"You were…?" Fang prompted.
"Max can you come here, please? I have something to show you," called Angel from her room a few doors down. Wow, saved by the mind reader. I'll have to find a way to thank her later.
"Uh, I'll go see what see wants," I muttered quickly before I all but ran to her room.
Angel was bent over the stereo thingy, probably setting it up. "You owe me," she stated, with a mischievous grin on her face. Uh-oh. Angel may be the sweetest kid in the world, but we all know she can also be a creepy little devil.
"Don't worry Max, it isn't anything bad," she said, reading my thoughts. "Anyway, I was listening to that new CD that Fang bought and there's this song that reminded me of you. Just the chorus, though, but it's totally how you feel."
"Oh. Alright then, let me listen to it."
She put the CD into the player and skipped the first few songs, till she reached number eight. The song had a short introduction and then the guy started singing. "Wait and listen to the chorus, Max," said Angel. I did what she told me to, and realized it was a really good song. Then there was the chorus.
I'm gonna break down these walls I built around myself,
I wanna fall so in love with you and no one else
Could ever mean half as much to me as you do now.
Together we'll move on, just don't turn around.
Let the walls break down.
It truly did remind me of how I felt. I had built walls around my heart to try to not fall in love with Fang, to try to keep him out and hide my feelings. The walls had crumbled when Fang kissed me in the desert when we were at the Day and Night school. Now, I was desperately in love with him, and I knew it would always be this way. I was glad that my walls were gone.
"Good thing they're gone too, 'cause you and Fang are soul mates," piped in Angel, obviously having heard my thoughts. "Took you long enough, though. But you're together now, so that's OK."
"It didn't take that long!" I exclaimed, outraged.
"Max," she said solemnly. "It took you at least four years. That's almost all my life."
Well, when she put it that way…
"You should go now. Fang's in his room, and he wants to talk to you. In fact, he's been trying to tell you something for some time already. Maybe you should go for a walk with him, you know, to see if he tells you. Unless you want him to know what you were thinking of doing with his laptop… and it would be a good way to thank me for earlier…"
"You're blackmailing me?! Seriously? And just so I go on a walk with Fang?" I asked skeptically.
"Fang only needs a little push, and then he'll finally blurt it out," she said. "So, I'm going to give this little push, and hope he does it during the walk."
"Whatever. I'll go out with him. We could use some alone time anyway," I said.
I left her room and walked straight to Fang's room, knocking quietly on the door before coming in without waiting for an answer. He was typing away on his laptop, updating his blog.
"Wanna go out for a walk?" I asked.
"Sure," he replied, closing his laptop and grabbing my hand, leading me out of the room.
"Me and Fang are going out for a bit," I told the Flock, Ella and my mom, who were all in the living room watching TV.
"Come back on time for dinner," said mom.
I nodded. "We will."
"Don't do anything naughty," added Iggy. I whacked him on the head. "Fine then, if you must, but use protection!" I smacked his head again and Fang punched his arm.
"Sexist pig," I muttered as Fang dragged me away from him.
Hand in hand, we stepped outside into the cool night air.
