This chapter is a little longer than the others, but it's not really all that interesting.
Dos boring-non-action chapters, then the third one coming has a bit of action.
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Heres chapter Siete. o:
OH!
AND LOOKIE WHAT I REMEMBERED THIS TIME:
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Aren't you proud of me?
I curled up close to Fang, his arms around me, mine around him, and bent my head into his chest. His face was in my hair, on the top of my head, and I could feel him smirking. He'd got me to the most venerable I'd been in my life.
I didn't mind it one bit.
Now the time read 7:16, still the am, and we decided we had to get up before everyone started getting suspicious.
I sighed as I climbed out of bed and he followed, and I opened the door after turning the lock.
We walked out into the living room, and all eyes turned on us.
Our eyes were tired and sleepless, luckily not strange for us, we're always running on a small amount of sleep.
But, the part that got my mom going was the fact that she knocked on the door to say goodnight and we didn't answer. Well, guess what? Saying, "We fell asleep." Works, up until you get to the pain-in-the-butt mind reader who is cracking up.
Heres how this whole morning played out,
After me and Fang walked down the hall into the living room, all eyes turned on us. My mom's face looked impassive, but I could tell she was thinking. "Max, sweetie, why do you look like you got absolutely no sleep last night?" She asked me, and I was kinda pissed right off the back, but I kept my face composed.
"No, I slept alright. I'm sorry I fell asleep with him—" I jabbed my thumb in the direction of Fang, "in my room. We were talking, and I fell asleep, and he did, too." I was getting better at this lying thing.
My mom eyed me, then said, "I knocked on your door at about 9:30 and you didn't answer, Max."
"Yeah, we already fell asleep. We fell asleep at like, nine." I told her, growing somewhat impatient. "What do you think was the reason we didn't answer?" I asked her in a challenging voice.
But, that was when Angel, of course, started cracking up. Everyone looked at her as she looked at the floor, and I thought hard, Angel, tell anyone anything and you're more dead then you already are. Her face froze and she sighed. Then a look of genuine fear came across her face and she was obviously remembering my thought from last night.
"Sorry. Max was remembering her dream from last night. She was beating Gazzy up, and she was winning." She lied and I thanked her mentally.
"Fine," my mom said at the exact same time as the Gasman exclaimed, "Hey!"
I laughed and brushed past him with barely an apology. Hey, why did I need to apologize when I didn't even have that dream?
Fang and I decided to sit in the last seat in the room, though it was a chair. I sat on the chair part while he sat on the arm rest and leaned back.
Ella and Iggy were sitting together on the loveseat, laughing and whispering to each other. My mom eyed them and sighed, she knew this was inevitable. She probably didn't mind it, but she'd be telling Ella that 'there's more than just physical pain,' soon enough.
I sighed inwardly and Fang looked at me with concerned eyes. I could feel his invisible hand rubbing reassuringly up and down my back. I sighed, audibly, now, and my mom let her eyes leave Ella and turn to me. "What is it?" My mom asked me in a sweet voice, that I knew she knew something was wrong… Ish.
"Do you remember when we were at that motel and you thought there was something going on between me and this guy?" I said, poking Fang's arm. "Well, there wasn't, but now there is, and I'm not gonna not tell you. That's rude, and mean." I sighed, and her eyes widened just a bit. She knew this had been coming even before I had, so I can't say she was surprised.
She blinked and placed the book she had been reading in her lap. "Well, I can't say I'm surprised,"Oh, who's good? "but I'm certainly shocked at how long you've kept it from me." She admitted, and I grew confused.
"What? When it first happened you had just been kidnapped." I admitted, and Gazzy, Iggy, and Nudge turned their head towards me.
"What?" I head Gazzy asked, breathless. "When was this?"
I glared at him and turned back to my mom. "But it didn't really grow into more until the night before we got on the sub." I explained, followed by more gasps and 'whats', and really hating myself right now. But, she was my mom, I had to tell her this stuff. I wish I had waited until we were alone, though. Maybe Angel made me speak without realizing it. She sent me an apologetic glance so I guessed that was it.
I sighed, not completely mad, but still kinda pissed, more at myself than her. If I hadn't been thinking about it she wouldn't have made me done it.
"Then, it kinda really all happened the day we rescued you, I guess."
Nudge giggled, "Yeah, when she attacked him before she saved Angel." I ignored her easily, and just watched my mom's face.
"Oh." She stated, simply. Had she thought we'd been together for so much longer?
Gazzy's face was still glued to mine, right now, as he asked, "Now, about this 'When it first happened you had just been kidnapped' stuff…" He asked, imitating my voice so perfectly I had to make sure Max II hadn't returned.
I sighed and ignored his pestering questions when suddenly Iggy asked, "So, now would you like to change your story of what happened in your room last night?"
I felt my face turning red, and I said "No" with a little too much force and Iggy smirked. "No, really, guys," I said with as much … Not lying-ness in my voice as I could manage.
Angel nodded, and said, "She's telling the truth, guys," and sent me a thought, If you still kill me I'll come back from the dead just to tell them all that really happened. And I sent her a mental smile, and she seemed satisfied.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Total spoke for the first time. "I need to get back to Aklia, when are we hitting the skies?" He asked, and I figured he'd been quiet because he'd missed her so much. It was kind of sweet, but also somewhat annoying.
I shrugged. "Whenever mom's ready. She needs to get on the plane to California." I explained, shuddering at the prospect of going to the Sunshine state(that was what it was, right? The sunny state, or whatever? Or is the Florida? Or Hawaii? Maybe California is like, the Golden state? Oh who gives a crap?!), or California, and not being at the school. Not that I want to be at the school… It'll just be… Weird.
My mom looked up from her book she had resumed reading and sighed. "I'm ready, I guess. Let me call and I'll get the tickets." She announced, standing up. She was looking much better and was getting up and around more than she had been when we first came.
As she left the room it was quiet, until again, Gazzy spoke up. "Now, would you like to explain some stuff?"
So, no, its not the best, but blah.
But I'm getting pretty far in the story, story-wise and plot-wise.
Hoo-rah.(: xD
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