I haven't updated in forever! Sorry guys, well I won't bore you with words up here, so on with chapter 7! :

I Don't own Maximum Ride, just borrowing the characters, ;p R&R ! :D

FANG POV

After Max dropped me off, I went inside and asked my foster dad if it was alright if I went to a friends.

Oh yeah, you guys don't know about my foster parents... ehh, I'll get into that later.

Anyway, he was ecstatic. "You already made friends, Nick? Thats great! Told you you'd like it here."

"You didn't think Id make friends?" I asked.

"Not friends to hang out with, especially on the first day. It doesn't seem like you'd talk enough to make friends on the first day. So who are they?"

"Max and some of her friends. She lives across the street, actually."

"She?" Dad asked.

"Yes she. You have a problem with her name?" I asked defensively.

"No, Nick, no problem. Just different. You like this girl?" He said raising an eyebrow and smirking.

"Her full name is Maximum, and it's my first day, how could I like someone already?" Okay maybe I did just a little... but he doesn't need to know that, nor does anyone else, ESPECIALLY Max.

"I dunno, it could be love at first sight. Is she pretty?"

I sighed. "Very."

"Ah, so it is love at first sight, eh?" He said, waggling his eyebrows at me jokingly.

"No Dad, stop. I don't like her okay? She's just really pretty and we're only friends and thats it."

"Woah, touchy. Okay, well what time are you going over there?"

"Is four okay?" I asked.

"Sure, Nick. You can stay out till whenever, just let me know if you leave. I have to go do some work and take a shower. I'm working midnight tonight, so I'm leaving at 7, I'll be home around 6 in the morning. I'll text you if there's any changes. You have fun now. And be safe." He added as he walked to his room, shutting the door. I love my dad.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~LINNNNEEE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A half an hour later, I was standing on Max's front porch and knocking on the door.

Ella opened it, "Oh hey Nick! Come in." She said smiling and closing the door after I walked in. I looked around their house, it had the same structure as mine on the inside. Living room directly to my left, kitchen and dining room to my right, straight ahead was a door and next to it a set of stairs.

I looked in the living room and saw Max laying on the couch when Ella said, "She's a lazy bum. You can go wake her up if you want, I sure as hell am not, she'll kill me."

I chuckled, "And so you don't mind me getting killed?"

"Nah she won't kill you," She pushed me into the living room. "Good luck," She muttered and ran up the stairs.

I walked over to Max and sat by her foot, picking one up slowly, I started ticking her bare feet. She twitched and rolled over. I started tickling the other one and she kicked at me. "Unnughh." She groaned.

"Maaaxxiee! Wake up! " I whispered loudly into her ear.

"Ugh, leave me alone!" She rolled over and put her back to me, her shirt riding up and exposing a large portion of her bare back in the process. I reached over and started tickling her side.

She squealed and lashed out at me. "Stooop." She said groggily, pulling her shirt back down.

"But Maaxxx." I said.

"Wait," She said turning over and looking at me. "Ohhhh. I thought you were Ella. Didn't realize I had real company or I would've gotten up. Sorry." She muttered. "I'm just super sleepy." She said laying back down. "What do you wanna do? Nudge and Ig will be here soon."

I shrugged. "Whatever. What is there to do?" I asked.

She shrugged. "Whatever."

I rolled my eyes. "Well, first you should probably get up before you fall back asleep." I said, nudging her back.

She turned over, "But I'm sleepy." She pouted.

"So am I."

"Then go to sleep." She said, rolling back over and burring her face into the arm of the couch.

Just then her front door burst open and Nudge burst through. She looked at me and Max and wiggled her eyebrows. That was when I noticed how we were sitting. I was half-laying on the edge of the couch, really close to Max. I stood up and Max stayed where she was. "Max! Get up!" Nudge yelled.

Max reached up and grabbed the pillow off the arm of the couch and pulled it over her head, groaning. Nudge went over to her and pulled her off of the couch, landing with a thud.

Max looked up and glowered at her. "I'm up. Now leave me alone." She said, pushing Nudge away, standing up. "Where's Iggy?" She asked.

Nudge shrugged and then her phone started ringing. "Hello?" She answered. "Oh, hey Ig." She said, looking at Max. She looked away at the floor. "Oh..." She listened to him and her cheeks got red, "Now?" She asked. More listening, "What abou-" She was cut off by Iggy. "Okay, good idea. Well, how long?" "Alright, bye Iggy." She hung up, smiling.

"Nudge... What just happened?" Max asked slowly.

"Well, Iggy has to watch Gazzy and Angel." She said.

"Why didn't you tell him to bring them over here? They love it here."

"Yeah... I'm going over there."

"We're going now?" She asked, confused.

"Not we Max, me."

"Oh." Said Max disappointed. "Oohhhhhh." She said, her eyes lighting up, finally understanding. "Well, you two have fun. And be carful," she said winking and pushing Nudge out the door before she could argue.

"So now what?" I asked.

"Now... I can sleep." She said slowly.

"No, no. No sleeping Maxie."

She rolled her eyes. "Don't call me that. And I do whatever I want." She said heading towards the stairs. I followed.

"Alright, what about Maxie-pad?" I asked, smirking.

She turned and hit me on the arm. I laughed. "Take that as a no..."

"Only if I can call you Fangalicious."

"Only because I am very Fangalicious." She turned showing me her rolling eyes.

We walked into what I presumed was her room. Her room is a deep neon colored purple. It was much cleaner than I thought it'd be. Max just doesn't seem like a tidy person to me, but her room proved me wrong. "Soooo..." she said, sitting down on her bed. "Did you still wanna talk about... stuff?"

"Oh. I guess, I mean if you want to then sure." I said sitting down next to her.

"You first, tell me your story that is apparently 'so bad'."

And I began, "Well, I had lived in Arizona my whole life and had never been the popular kid, that is until eighth grade. I started to talk to people a little bit more. Instead of completely ignoring them I'd just acknowledge them and give one word answers. I changed the way I dressed, grew my hair out, got my braces off and cleared up my acne and became the sexy man I am now." Max slapped me on the arm then, smiling and rolling her eyes. God, she was adorable. "Girls were all over me in eighth grade, I just acknowledged them though, not really caring too much because I didn't wanna just date some slut for two weeks and it go nowhere and be pointless.

"Then it was ninth grade and something had changed that summer before and that year I was determined to get a girlfriend. All the girls were in love with me. Usually I thought it was annoying in eighth grade, but having a senior think you're hot... that was the best feeling ever. I started talking to her more- the senior- her name was Emily. We talked for about a month then I asked her out and we dated for about a week then we, you know, and I found out she was fucking some other guy too and didn't actually care about me. So then I dumped her and she cried and told me she was sorry.

"That was the day that I decided that all girls were worthless and that they were all bitches who were gonna use me for sex. At first I was really upset by all this but after a while, I decided to just go with it. Then started the worst year of my life." I took a breath. Why was I telling her all this?

"I started sleeping around with girls, going to parties every weekend, getting laid, just going through life like nothing even mattered. Then Sophomore year came along and I was the same way until about two weeks in, I met this girl named Brigid. She had the most beautiful red hair in the world and was absolutely gorgeous. We hung out a lot and were just friends. Thats it. I didn't even try anything with her because I liked her a lot and she had just had a major breakup and didn't want a relationship or sex.

"So I just went with it, I thought that I liked her for her, but really I just liked her for her looks. I mean, she was a sweet girl, but really wasn't my type. She was way too girly. Anyway, after about a month of us being best friends, she died in a car accident, killing not only her but my brother and my best guy friend Samuel." I paused, taking a deep breath. I had never talked to anyone about this and I was on the verge of tears. What has this girl done to me? I haven't cried since the crash over a year ago, and who knows before that.

"Oh, Fang." She said, putting her arms around my shoulders. "I am so sorry. That must have been horrible."

I wrapped my arms around her thin waist, putting my head in the crook of her neck and took a deep shuddering breath. "It was."

We stayed like that for a while and she pulled away. She looked at me as if to say is there more?

"That's it." I said. "But I came here wanting to change, I don't want to be the popular Fang that slept with every girl like I was at my old school. I wanna be the normal Nick who has friends, and real relationships with real girls."

"I still like the name Fang better. Better suits you." She said.

I smiled. "You're the only one who can call me that. If anyone else knows, say its just an inside joke and that they can't call me that."

She laughed. "Okay Fang," she said and leaned against my shoulder.

YAY. This chapter is making me depressed and really want a good guy best friend like Fang. Or just Fang in general ;p Well, REVIEW :D Lemme know whatcha think :)

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