Okay, people, I am updating early because Rebellious Angel was threatening a cute little bunny against me. So thank her. Here you go:
MPOV
It was kind of awkward, you know, just kinda standing there, so I decided to talk.
"Where's everyone? I can't hear them at all. Are they out?" Fang returned my question with long, steady look, his eyes seering into mine. Finally, when I thought I wouldn't be able to hold his gaze much longer, he looked down, "Yeah, they went out for a fly about twenty minutes ago. You missed lunch."
I could hear the unspoken question in that last statement. He wanted to know where I had been. Of course, I innocently ignored it, instead saying, "Alright, I'm going to go get something to eat then…What?"
Fang was looking in my eyes again. Something was definitely up.
"What?" I asked again.
"Jeb's here," Fang said urgently. "He went to the park with your mom and the rest of the Flock."
A spark of hope went through me. I swear, I could almost see myself light up with the possibility. Jeb could help me. He could take away this nightmare before it started up full blast.
It would mean that I would have to trust him. It would mean that I would have to ask him for help, that I would have to acknowledge thathe existed. Because my life would depend on him.
Fang was watching me intently, no doubt a little baffled at my reaction. I met his eyes once again.
Then I gave him a small smile. "Care to join me for a late lunch?"
FPOV
Something was up. I knew it. Max had ben acting weird all day. First the little girl, then her disappearing for a couple hours to Whoknowswhere, and now her actually being moderately happy that the devil himself had come for a visit.
I watched Max eat as I munched on my sandwich. She was very side tracked. There was a glazed look in her eyes as she moved her fork absent-mindedly around her plate of spaghetti, some of it spilling over the side of the corning ware.
I took my eyes off of her as the door opened, and all of a sudden the house was full of noise and commotion.
"Hey Fang! We're back!"
"Yeah, it was sooo much fun, you should have come!"
"I didn't think it was fun. I got a bucket of sand dumped on my head."
"Well, you were messing up our game, so we had to get you to stop somehow."
"Well, you didn't have to make me stop with SAND!"
"Yeah, you could have just asked us to stop."
"But Gazzy, we did, like twenty times!"
"No, that was only, like…thirteen."
"Well there you go."
"Yeah, you guys are such- HI MAX!! We haven't seen you all day!"
Max smiled, her big, brown eyes no longer clouded over. She greeted them with a big smile as Nuge and Angel came to give her a hug.
"Ugh, I don't know about you guys, but I am going to go take a loooong, cold shower. It was freaking 93 degrees at the park!" Iggy stomped up the stairs, shedding sand from his clothes.
"He was followed by Total and Nudge, and Gazzy and Angel and Ella went off somewhere to play yet another loud, wild game.
Which left Mrs. Martinez, Me, Max….and Jeb standing in the room.
Jeb started the conversation.
"Hello Max," he said, ignoring me. "How have you been? It's been a few weekes since I last saw you. Your family seems to be doing well."
I put a smug face on, waiting to hear Max's sarcastic reply, similar to the one at the tip of my tongue.
Instead, Max jumped out of her chair, grabbed Jeb quite roughly around his wrist, and very nearly dragged him out the door.
