Chapter Six
Sorry for not updating sooner guys, but I'm super busy with school and assignments and exams and stuff. Here's chapter six and I hope you enjoy it. Can't wait 'till the sixth book!
It was pretty late – around ten o'clock – when we arrived back to the house. So when we walked into the lounge room, we were pretty shocked to find the Flock still up waiting for us. We didn't know they were there, because they had the lights off, for some reason. We walked past trying to be quiet, not making any noise as we walked down the hall, thinking we could make it past their rooms – as mine and Fang's were at the end of the house – without them discovering us. Until we heard this –
"Ha-hum," Iggy's voice echoed through the darkness. Someone turned on the light. Fang and I squinted at the light.
"You've finally decided to come back," Nudge said in a disapproving tone.
"What? I've left all of you alone before," I argued back. No one had a come back for that.
"That's not the problem," Angel said in a very cute, but serious tone, "the problem is since when were you and Fang together?" She pointed to our entwined fingers.
Fang and I looked at our hands, oops.
"Have you guys been sneaking out, behind our backs?" Nudge asked her voice still in the disapproving tone.
"No," We said at once, in sync.
"I swear to you guys, this just happened today. We were planning to tell you in the morning." I said still holding Fang's hand tightly.
"You swear?" Angel asked still unsure. I nodded.
Angel face turned into pure happiness, and ran up to give both of us hugs. Fang and I looked at each other, then down at Angel.
"Yes! Finally." She beamed at us, "I can read your thoughts you know."
I grinned at her even though I told her never to read anyone's minds. The rest of the Flock stood up, faces changed from frowns to grins.
"Congrats dude." Iggy slapped Fang on the back. "You don't know how long we waited for this to finally happen.
I gave the whole Flock looks, everyone shrugged sheepishly.
"We were," Nudge smiled, guiltily. I rolled my eyes at her.
"Come on guys, lets give the too love lovebirds alone." Iggy ushered everyone out, and turned to us and wiggled his eyebrows. As much as I wanted to punch him right then, I laughed at the sight of Iggy's eyebrows. Fang chuckled quietly.
Fang and I made our way upstairs, to say goodnight to everybody. First was Iggy, Fang came in with me, arms around my waist. I felt…normal. Like his arms belonged there. I smiled at the thought.
"Goodnight Iggy."
"Night, Igs."
"Night mummy and daddy," Iggy said in a babyish voice. Fang and I looked at each other, a nodded. At the same time, we grabbed a pillow and hurled it at Iggy, hard enough to hurt him.
"Ow! Aren't mummy and daddy gonna tuck me in?" He asked, laughing.
"Shut up Igs." I walked out with Fang and slammed the door closed. Fang chuckled at Iggy's little stunt. I rolled my eyes.
Next was Gazzy, he had already tucked himself in, waiting for me to say goodnight. I walked into his room, Fang still behind me.
"G'night Gaz." I kissed his forehead.
Gazzy smiled sleepily at me. "G'night Max."
Fang ruffled Gazzy's hair, "Night Gaz." Gazzy smiled, eyes closed.
"Night Fang…" He drifted off to sleep.
When we were outside, I turned to Fang. "I have never seen you show so much emotion to the Flock before."
Fang shrugged, "I do it every night, after you say goodnight to everyone else."
"Really?" I asked. I wrapped my arms around him.
"Really," Fang answered. I quickly, but softly kissed my lips.
I smiled into his lips. He smiled back.
Nudge was next, snuggled already into her covers, waited patiently for our goodnights.
"Night Nudge." I kissed her forehead.
"Night Max," She said back brightly.
"Night Nudge." Fang smoothed her tangle hair. It sprang back to its tangled ness again.
Last we went to Angel's bedroom. It was painted pink and her whole bed was covered with stuffed toys.
"Goodnight Max, goodnight Fang." She beamed at us – she looked so cute – and showed her missing tooth, which she lost a few weeks ago.
"Goodnight Angel." I leaned down and kissed her forehead.
"Goodnight Angel." Fang sat in the chair beside her bed. "What do you want to read today?"
"I want to read…Hansel and Gretel." She pointed to her bookshelf.
"Okay, let's start." Fang started reading. I sat down in the chair in the corner of Angel's room, listening to Fang's gentle voice. He read like a good narrator, doing all the voices of the characters, making Angel laugh at the funny parts and making her squeal at the scary parts.
When he finished, he placed the book back and kissed Angel lightly on the forehead, and whispered some words to her. The words were so quiet, even my great hearing couldn't pick up the words.
When we were outside, I looked at him expectedly.
"I've always read to her every night, ever since Jeb disappeared." Fang shrugged like it was no big deal.
"Actually, what I wanted to know was, what you said to her after you finished reading." I asked, curious.
"Every night, I whisper into her ear to sleep well and don't let the bed bugs bite." Fang looked down, embarrassed.
"That's sweet." He looked up and smiled.
He wrapped his arms around my waist and said sleepily in my ear, "not as sweet as you."
I rested my hand in his chest, staying like that for a moment.