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I followed Fang into Ella's house. I guess it was his too but that was weird to think about. As he dropped his keys in the dish on the counter he went to turn towards me, but stopped like he heard a noise.
Just then Ella came out of the living room. She didn't have her glasses on though so she squinted at me.
"Oh, hey Max. I didn't know you were coming over," she said. I felt bad because obviously she hadn't gotten my text.
"Yeah, sorry. I texted you. I was supposed to go home with Nudge but she left before me."
Ella nodded and just said, "I'll get the sleeping bag. Night Fang," and went upstairs.
I was hoping that maybe I could go upstairs without being chewed out by Fang, but my hopes were short lived. He turned to me, about to say something but he stopped. And then he just stared at me.
I squirmed under his gaze, uncomfortable. I just wanted to go to bed. Then I noticed that he wasn't staring at me in particular, but my cheek.
As I lifted my hand to my cheek, Fang's gaze hardened and he walked towards me. Slowly, he lifted his hand and tilted my head away from him. He lowered my hand and studied my cheek up close.
Suddenly, he dropped his hands and started to pace. As he turned back my way he said so quietly I could barely hear him, "I would've hit him if I hadn't gone after you. I wanted to so badly, but I went after you." He started pacing again.
After another minute Fang stopped pacing and leaned against the counter. He went back to studying me. Finally he spoke, "You should go to bed, it's late. You're going to have a bruise tomorrow, so you might want to come up with what you're going to tell Ella and your parents. Unless you planned on lying?" With that he raised an eyebrow and continued to look at me.
In truth, I didn't know what I was going to do. I had to think about it. So I just walked past him to the stairs. I thought that he'd say more to me than that. None the less, I was grateful. With a foot on the first step, I turned to look him in the eye. "Thank you, Fang. For everything, but please don't tell anyone anything."
All he did was nod, so I went upstairs and washed the makeup off my face and got ready for bed. When I went into Ella's room, I saw that she was asleep so I just crawled into the sleeping bag and tried to fall asleep.
Here's the fourth chapter. Its kinda short but, eh. What's your guys' favorite song? Right now mines either Say Something by A Great Big World or Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance. Review please.