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"Fuck." I say while walking to my last class with Nudge.

"What's wrong?" She asks, cocking her head. She is so gorgeous. If only I could be as effortlessly pretty as her. I have the effortless part down but not so much the pretty.

"I left my keys at home! I'm an idiot."

She laughs, "No you're not. I'm sure Fang will drive you home."

I groan. We are standing at her locker now and someone leans in behind me, their arm above me on the lockers. Nudges eyes look up. I turn around to see Dylan. I roll my eyes.

"What's up?"

"I can give you a ride home, if you need. Fang sounds pretty scary."

I laugh. "Yeah, to most people he is. Are you sure? You don't have to."

He grins, "I want to."

I am starting to like Dylan in a weird kind of way. He is different than most of the guys here. He's definitely not Fang but he's a nice change.

"Okay, I can meet you at your car. What do you drive?"

Our parking lot is quite small so I should be able to find him.

"'94 red Camaro."

I make a face and he laughs. "Awh, '90s are the worst!" I say, still making a I'm-about-to-barf face.

He nods, "Yeah well it's still a good car. Just not the prettiest thing. Not like you." He shrugs and smiles. I blush at his comment. My stomach feels all light and fluttery. Just like the way Fang used to make me feel when we were friends.

"Ok, I'll see you there." I smile at him.

Nudge stares at me as we walk to class. "There is no way I'm letting you chose him over Fang."

I roll my eyes. "I'm not choosing anybody."

We get to class and we don't say much to each other the rest of class.

When I walk out of class I get a text from Fang.

Meet me at the front of school

Me: ok

I wonder why?

I get to the front of the school and look around and immediately spot Fang.

"Hey," I say to him.

"I can drive you home and then bring you back here. Nudge told me that you forgt your keys."

I groan. "Nudge. Ugh. I already have a ride home though."

"Oh." He looks down and when he looks back at me he is expressionless.

"Max!" I hear Dylan yell behind me. I turn and see him waving his hands.

"With him?" I turn toward Fang.

"Yeah. Why?"

"You're into him aren't you? He's bad news, Max. I've heard some rumors-"

"Yeah? Don't believe everything you hear Fang. If I did that, we wouldn't be speaking at the moment."

"What?"

I roll my eyes. "Just- I'm gonna go. We can do something tomorrow though?" I ask, hoping I wasn't being too harsh. This is just so frustrating. He's lucky I'm being friends with him again and he's going to try and tell me what to do? No, I don't think so. But I really can't lose him again.

He shrugs. "Maybe. Unless I'm hanging with Lissa."

My heart drops. "Screw you, Fang. I can't believe you. He's just giving me a freaking ride home!" I start yelling. Now people were looking at us. "We're not hooking up or something. I can't believe you'd say something like that." I'm really hurt. He know's how I feel about Lissa.

He sighs, "Max, I'm-"

"Save it." I turn and jog to where Dylan is standing, planting a fake smile on my face.

Dylan slings an arm around my shoulders and walks me to his car. "So, who was that guy?"

"Let's not talk about him, okay?"

"Is he an ex-boyfriend?" He asks casually.

"No." I say. And it's not a lie. "Just an old friend. We're just kind of fighting."

"Okay, well if he gives you any trouble, just let me know."

I laugh and sink into his car. It smells like weed and I instantly regret not going with Fang.

When he gets in I say, "You should probably vent your car out. I can smell pot so bad in here." I inform him.

He winks and buckles his seatbelt. After a moment he says, "Do you smoke?"

"No." Never have, never will. I don't want to be in here anymore. I feel uncomfortable.

"Me neither."

I narrow my eyes at him. "Just like you aren't a virgin."

He laughs.

"You lied about both! I'm getting out." I go to open my door but his hand grabs my free one.

He's smiling when he says, "I am a virgin, baby. But I have smoked. But I don't smoke. This is my bro's car. I haven't smoked in at least a month."

I cross my arms and sit back, still not seeing the difference. I spot Fang walking across the parking lot, staring at us. When he sees me looking, he looks at the ground. He looks really pissed.

"Where do you live, sweetheart?"

I give him my address and we small talk about music. He seems like a good guy but I don't know. I don't think I want to hang around him.

He pulls up in front of my house and I notice Fang's truck. What the hell, Fang.

Dylan doesn't seem to notice though and he shuts off his car.

"Oh, you can't come in, Dyl. Sorry."

He stares at me and bites his lip. Like he's holding something back.

"Max I wanna try you out."

"What?" I choke out. "What the hell does that mean?"

He looks dead serious. "I want to see if we can take things further. Like go on a date and stuff."

I laugh, uncomfortably. "I barely know you."

He smiles. "That's why we would go on a few dates first and then we would decide to 'officially' date."

"I think we can just talk in school for now and then decide on going on a date. That's how it usually works. Plus I'm kinda into someone right now."

His smile fades. "The guy in that truck in front of us? Fang?"

I bite me lip and nod.

"Well I bet if you took me inside, he'd get jealous."

"I don't want to make him jealous."

"Or I could just kiss you. I'm sure he's watching." He starts to lean toward me.

I start unbuckling my seat belt. "No, really. I'm no-" I'm stopped by his lips. My stomach twists. From fear and from the fact that Dylan is extremely gorgeous. But I don't want him like this. Especially not now. I push him away. "Dylan."

He pulls back and looks at me dreamily. "You're beautiful, Maximum. Come to a party with me on Friday." He states.

I shake my head. I hear Fang's truck start. Don't leave. I will Fang silently.

"Think about it. That guy doesn't seem worth the time you're giving him but I don't want to intrude. Just know I'll wait for you."

I roll my eyes mentally. "Okay, Dyl. Thanks for the ride." I jump out before he can say anything else and jog to my car.

I hear a car speed off as I fumble with the lock. It's probably Fang. I slam my front door shut and lock it. I sink to thr ground and sigh. A knock interrupts my thoughts. Not just any knock. Our knock.

My heart jumps and I leap to my feet and open the door. Fang stands there with a red face and shaking hands. I just stand there staring at him, taking a shaky breath.

"I'm sorry." I say.

He just stares at me. "It's okay. I'm sorry too."

"How come all guys can't be like you?" I mummer. He steps into my foyer and shuts the door behind him.

"I cheated on my last girlfriend." He says dryly.

My shoulders slump.

"But," He says slowly, "Only because I was with the wrong girl. It's you Max. It's always been you. You are my number one girl."

I sigh. "But you were right about Dylan. As always."

"What happened?" We made our way to the kitchen, me leaning into him. He lifts me up and sets me on the counter, grabbing two mugs from the cupboard behind me.

"He wants me to give him a chance because he thinks that I might be the one and blah blah blah."

He nods. "Understandable."

I bring my feet up to the counter and rest my chin on my knees. "And he kissed me when I told him no." I see Fang's grip tighten on the mug that he was pouring milk into. He doesn't say anything. He puts the mugs into the microwave for one minute.

"I'm going to kill him." He says calmly.

I roll my eyes. "It's whatever, I don't think he understood and he was polite about it and told me he'd 'wait for me'." I roll my eyes again. Thanks for coming to my house."

He nods.

After the hot chocolate is done, we go to my bedroom and watch some Netflix. I sit there next to Fang, his arm drooped lazily around my shoulders. It feels so... right.

"Mmmm." I moan randomly without meaning to. I just got so comfortable.

"Mmmmm?"

"Mhm."

"Hmm."

Those are the best conversations. I giggle.

"Are you into him?" Fang asks suddenly, after minutes of silence. It's dark outside now.

"Who?" I ask. Unsure whether he was talking about the sexy actor in this movie or Dylan.

"Dylan. Every girl is into him." He doesn't look at me. He just stares at the TV. But I know he isn't paying attention to it.

"Only if you're into Lissa." I say grumpily, still mad that he would say that to me.

He shrugs and I hit his arm.

"You better be joking, Nick. What you said hurt me earlier."

He looks at me now. His obsidian eyes are looking right through me. "Well it hurts me that you chose some new guy over me."

I groan and push out of his arms. "Fang. I didn't choose anyone. You need to prove to me that I can trust you 100% before I want to be anything other than friends."

"So until I prove that I'm worthy enough, you're going to play with Dylan? Or is that why you wanted this 'lets be friends again first' thing? So that you could be with Dylan without hurting my feelings?"

"Fang. Calm down. I'm not into Dylan."

He laughs. He's being reallyweird. This isn't like him at all. "Yet. Mr. Popular is every girl's dream guy."

I turn to sit on my knees and face him. I've never seen him like this. "Fang." I tilt my head and reach out to touch his face. When my fingers lightly trace his jaw line, he closes his eyes. I so badly want to treat him the way he's treating me but I know that he is hurting and scared and I don't want to fight with him.

"Maximum. You are the only person I have left." He whispers.

My breath catches in my throat. "That is not true, Fang. You have Iggy and Angel and Gazzy and even Nudge now. And all of your other friends that you made. You know, the ones you ditched me for a year or so ago?" Okay so that was a low blow but whatever.

Fang clenches his jaw. "Max, I don't know why it happened. I'm sorry. But you made no effort to contact me either."

My mouth drops open. I was going to say something but decide to just stay silent. I clamp my mouth shut.

"Should I go home?" Fang asks, after a moment of silence.

I shrug. "If that's what you want."

Fang groans at the stiffness in my voice. "You are what I want, Max! When will you get that through your thick skull?"

I lay back on my bed so my feet are by his face.

"Fang I just need time." And the old Fang back.

"Well Max, you know that life is short. So don't take too long, okay?"

I nod.

"Let's finish this movie. Then I'll leave." He says quietly.

I sit back against my headboard and we watch the movie in silence.

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I wake up and my pillow feels uncomfortable. Except my pillow isn't a pillow. It's Fang's wide chest.

"Oh shit." He says, sitting up. He looks at his phone. "It's 3AM. I might as well stay for another 3 hours til school then, huh?"

"Uh-huh." I say sleepily. Turning on my side, my back to him. I grab the remote and shut my TV off.

"G'night." He mumbles. The only parts of our bodies that touch are our feet. I smile. I've missed this. "Love you." He says quietly.

We used to always say "I love you" and never thought anything of it. But now it's different. Everything is so different. Those two words make my body tingle. Because now I know that he means them. He really does love me and I know that he will be loyal to me.

But I can't just let him win that easily, can I?

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