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Iggy sighed lacing his hands behind his head while Fang clutched the sheets on his bed to keep himself from kicking Iggy's butt.

"No there isn't." Fang muttered to himself. He looked at Iggy who was smirking again. God he was so annoying!

"Why don't you sleep on it?" he said, Fang just wanted Iggy out of his room.

"I think you're right. Well night Fang." Iggy said. He held out his hand, and Fang bumped it, accidently, extra hard. Iggy winced and rubbed his hand then waved as he left.

Fang watched as the door shut behind Iggy then clenched his fist. He called Max hot. Hot. What the hell!? Max wasn't hot, she was beautiful, and she was so graceful and awesome. Max would never like him to call her hot, Iggy just didn't know her.

"There's nothing hotter than that." Iggy's voice kept ringing in Fang's ears.

"God I hate him!" Fang kicked his bed. His hands clenched into tight fist. He wanted to punch something, hurt something, hurt Iggy for being such a jerk. Max deserved better than Iggy. Max deserved Fang.

Fang picked up his pillow and screamed into it with all his fury.

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I woke up the next morning and began to pack up my things. I decided to wash all our old clothes to have as an extra pack. I picked up my clothes and went to get Nudge's and Angel's clothes. I dreaded Gazzy's socks, but I sucked it up and went in. Gazzy laughed at my expression and handed me his clothes. I held it at arms length and then dumped it in my basket I'd token from the hotel and then went to Iggy's and Fang's rooms.

After I got everyone's clothes, I went down to a laundry room the hotel offered. I started checking the pockets for any colored things. Last time Gazzy left crayons in the white, and we all looked like rainbows for months. Fang was furious.

Speaking of Fang, I had just found a piece of paper in one of his jeans. I unfolded it slowly. It wasn't like Fang to leave things in his pocket. I gasped.

It was a freaking phone number!

"Call me?!" I read furious. "From Lora! I'd love to talk, Nick" What the hell!" I threw the rest of the clothes in the wash without checking it and got it going then marched up to Fang's room, fuming. I could practically see steam coming out of my ears. He had flirted with other girls! I'll bet Lora was that red-head at Auntie Anne's! God! I knew it was too good to be true! He doesn't like me!

"He only likes red-heads!"

"Max?" I looked up and Iggy was walking towards me.

"What?!" I snarled.

"Oh. It is you. What's wrong?"

"What's wrong? What's wrong? What's wrong is that this has all been a waste! It's all been a stupid waste of time! Fang doesn't like me! He only likes red-heads! He only likes red-heads Iggy! He had some girl's number in his jean's pocket! He only likes red-heads!" I yelled punching my two fists against Iggy's chest.

Iggy lost his breath and gripped my two wrists and stopped me from hitting him. "Max, stop! You're hurting me!" he shook his head and lowered my wrist to my sides. "Look, I don't know who's number that is, but I know Fang loves you. And I know you love him. You have to believe in that. Its not faith if you use your eyes."

I looked up at him. "What?" I asked confused.

"It means just because you guys don't show you're in love with each other doesn't mean you're not. You have to be trust and be faithful to your love. If you don't believe it, then nobody will." I raised my hands again against Iggy's grip, I was so angry. I couldn't believe he'd been talking to some girl, he'd been flirting. How else could he have gotten her phone number?

I looked up at Iggy and let my hands drop. "I just don't want to loose him." I admitted in a small voice. My voice cracked and Iggy's eyes widened. I could count on the fingers of my hand how many times these kids had seen me cry….or in Iggy's case, heard me cry.

Iggy pulled me up against his chest and let me cry into his shoulder. He patted my head. "It's okay Max. You're not gonna loose him. You know we're doing all of this to get you guys together. Don't loose faith now."

I pulled back. I wiped away my tears and sucked in a huge breath. I let it out trying to control myself.

"I still think it was a red-head's number." I muttered. Iggy laughed and pulled me into another hug.

"You okay?" he asked gently. I was glad Iggy was being so sensitive right now. Only Fang had ever seen me so weak, but since Fang was the one causing my problem, I couldn't exactly go to him.

I nodded. "Yeah. I don't know what's up with me." I said shaking my head.

"You're PMSing." Iggy said chuckling. I pulled back and punched him.

"Shut up! I am not!" I said rolling my eyes. "I'm rolling my eyes by the way."

"Whatever." He said I smiled and hugged him back. Just then, a door opened and we turned to the direction of the noise.

Fang's door had opened and Fang stepped out into the hallway. He saw us and stopped. We were still hugging. He seemed to take a deep breath then stomped right back into his room without a second glance and slammed his door shut.

"Uh I think he's mad."

"No shit Einstein." I said smacking Iggy over the head.

"I gotta give him this number. Red-head or not. Its his." I said.

"Maybe you should wait till he cools down a bit." Iggy said pulling at my arm. I stopped to think about it.

"You're right. He's already in a bad mood. I don't get why though."

"Because he's jealous!" Iggy said walking down the hall. I followed.

"Jealous? Yeah right." I snickered.

Iggy rolled his eyes at me. "Really, you call me the blind kid? Can you see Max? He's jealous. He likes you. He's afraid he's loosing you. God, for such a smart person, you're actually pretty dump." I stuck out my foot and tripped Iggy. He shut up then.

I smiled to myself. Then I felt inside my pocket and found Fang's note, and my anger built up inside me again. I looked over at Iggy.

"Iggy, I'm gonna go give Fang his note now." I said marching away.

"Uh okay, but calm down Max!" Iggy called.

"Whatever!" I yelled my anger rising again.

"Fang, I found this in your pocket, wouldn't want to smudge the ink, right? Then how would you call your little girlfriend?" I said trying my hardest to keep my voice from breaking. I had swung Fang's door open and he'd been shirtless, in just his jeans. I don't know what the big deal was; I'd seen Fang shirtless hundreds of times. But I couldn't help the blush that rose to my cheeks.

Fang turned to me slowly. "Uh Max, what are you talking about? I don't have a girlfriend."

I threw the paper onto his bed that was standing between us. Fang raised his eyebrow and picked it up. He read it then understanding spread across his face. He knew her. He liked her. This wasn't something left by mistake. I felt a knot tie in my stomach, a budge come to my throat and tears rising to my eyes. Oh God, not here, not in front of Fang!

"Seems like you do. Enjoy talking to her, she seems eager." I managed to choke out before turning and leaving and slamming the door behind me. I raced to my room across the hallway, locked the door and stomped into the small bathroom, turned on the shower as loud as it would go, and screeched into a towel.

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Fang was confused about Max's behavior. She seemed pretty upset about the whole note situation. Fang didn't understand why she would even be upset. He walked back to Max's room. He knocked but heard the shower going, so Fang walked back to his room and decided to wait.

Fang did not get Max. First she was going out with Iggy, the she got mad about him having a girl's number in his pocket, like what the hell? Max needed to make up her mind. Maybe she didn't really like Iggy. Fang sat down on his bed to think about it.

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I stomped out of the bathroom as a knock came from my door. I yanked it open. "What?" I snarled.

Then I felt guilty about my tone because Angel was there. "Oh sorry sweetie, didn't think it was you, uh what's up?"

"Hey Max. um, I know how you and Iggy are pretending and everything, well unless you guys do something extreme, Fang is starting to realize that you might not really like Iggy."

"Oh no! That could ruin the whole plan!" I said sinking into my bed.

Angel nodded and jumped onto the bed next to me.

"Yeah, it could, so what are you gonna do about it? I think you guys should do something like really extreme to prove you are going out, even though you're not…"

"Extreme like what?" I asked.

"I don't know. I'm not an expert. I guess you can't get married…"

"Married! Angel! I'm only 14! I can't marry Iggy!"

"No, I thought you'd say that." She said thinking.

"Max, how about kissing?" she said giggling.

My eyes widened."NO." I said at once.

"Well what else can you do!? Fang's gonna notice you aren't going out if you-"

"Angel no, please, can't you mind- no never mind. Don't mind control anybody!"

"Okay fine, but you have to come up with something, I'm just warning you. Well bye Max!" she hopped off the bed and skipped out the room.

Sometimes, I just didn't get what was going on with the world. Why did I have to go through all this just to get Fang and I together. Why can't I just build up the courage and go up to him, and say, "Fang I love you, I love you with all my heart and have since I met you when you used to sit in the cage next to mines. I love your personality I love your hair, I love everything about you." If only it were that simple. I sighed and sat down on the floor and leaned my back against the bed.

I got up and headed for the door. I had to talk to Iggy. We had to decide what we were going to do next.

"Iggy," I called, walking out into the hall.

Iggy was walking back towards his room then, and Fang was coming out of his room with Gazzy and Nudge, Angel came out of her room right then. I raised an eyebrow at all of them.

"I called Iggy, not the whole flock." I said mostly to myself.

"Hey Max, why don't we tell them all, now that we're all here?" Iggy said walking towards my voice.

"What do you mean?" I hissed.

"You know, about how we're going out now." He said and put his arm around my shoulder. I managed a smile and nodded.

"Oh, yeah, right." I muttered. I looked at the flock. Nudge gasped and Gazzy's eyes widened and he pretended to puke. Angel feigned surprise and Fang's jaw tightened; his chest rose and sunk as he took deep breaths. Maybe this was extreme enough. I really hoped I didn't have to kiss Iggy. That would be just weird.

"You guys are going out?" Nudge asked gasping. I nodded.

"Oh my god!" she said, a huge grin spreading over her face.

"Oh gross!" Gazzy said. Angel giggled. She came and put her arms around my waist hugging me.

"Well I think that's great!" she said happily. She tapped Iggy's hand and he ruffled her hair.

"So what are we gonna do now?" Nudge asked. We had all gone into my room to talk.

"I don't know, I was thinking we hang tight for a while, see if Itex is coming back, if not, then I guess we can take a break and find somewhere to settle down for a while." I said rubbing my temples. I half expected Fang to rub my shoulders right now, like he used to. I sighed. I missed Fang. Iggy was great, I mean he is such an awesome guy, but he's no Fang.

"That sounds great Max!" Nudge said nodding.

"Great. Look guys, I'm really tired, I guess we can stay just one more night, then we can head out and try getting in a safe distance of where they'd usually attack." I yawned and held out my fist.

We stacked and the flock filed out to their rooms. Except Fang.

"So it's official?" he said with his arms crossed over his chest, leaning against my wall. I sat up in my bed.

"Yeah. I guess." I said forcing a smile.

"Hmm. Who would've thought." He said.

"Yeah, seems weird. The people we fall for. It's always…unexpected."

Fang nodded. "Well you're sure happy about it." Fang said raising his eyebrow.

I shook my head. "No! No, no! I am! I'm just tired right now. But I'm happy, cause," I swallowed. "Cause I really like Iggy. He's awesome. He uh- he's really cool and supportive."

"Nice for you." Fang said rolling his eyes. I got up from my bed and walked over to him.

"What is up with your attitude?" I asked.

Fang raised both his eyebrows, AKA completely confusion. "Me, attitude? I'm not the one who made a fuzz over a stupid phone number." He said towering over me. I sucked in a deep breath. God I wanted to kiss him right now.

"You're the one with an attitude. You're always slamming doors and running away when you see Iggy and me together. What is your problem? Can't you handle seeing us together? I expected that kind of behavior from the younger ones but now from you. You're supposed to be more experienced here!"

"How the hell am I supposed to be experience?" Fang said, his voice rising just a little.

"You've had girlfriends! Girls always ask you out! This shouldn't be anything compared to that."

"I've never had a girlfriend, and I never say yes to anyone." He said through his teeth.

"If you don't want to see me with Iggy then say something about it." I said my anger rising again.

"I don't have anything against you two being together." He said moving towards the door. "In fact, happy anniversary, it's been two days." He said then he yanked the door open and slammed it shut behind him.

I threw my pillows and a bunch of other stuff at the door. God why couldn't he just admit he was jealous!? Or maybe he really didn't care. Maybe he was starting to see through me. Oh god. Angel was right. I had to do something extreme to prove to Fang I was with Iggy. I shook my head. "God Fang, I hate that I had to fall for you!" I muttered to myself as I yanked the door open and marched down the hallway.

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Angel knocked Fang's door. "Hey Fang." She said smiling up at him angelically. "Can you take me out for ice-cream? There's a mini-cafe downstairs, but Max said you had to take me cause she's busy." Angel gave Fang another warm smile.

"Uh sure Ange." He said shrugging. He put down the magazine he'd been flipping through. Angel took his hand and led him out the door. Fang looked out the hallway and gasped.

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