Chapter 7

Fang and Iggy had gone to the nearest grocery store to buy some food to make for dinner, while me and the rest of the gang stayed behind to find the best spot for us to stay in. We found a nice secluded area surrounded with plenty of trees for us to choose from to sleep in. Then I got everyone to gather sticks, branches and logs. We had a fire going by the time the guys had come back. They'd bought enough food to feed a small army, which also happened to be just enough to feed six hungry bird kids and their dog. We'd all finished dinner, after which everyone wondered off, leaving Fang and I to clean-up. Yippee! Note Sarcasm. Just as I was picking u the last piece of rubbish left behind, I felt the back of my neck prickle, sensing someone behind me. I whirled around, already in a fighting stance, only to realise it was just Fang. I relaxed as he wound his arms around my waist.

"We're really going to do this, aren't we?" I half asked, half stated into his shoulder.

"Yep, we are," he whispered into my ear, followed by a quick peck on the lips. Holding each other's hands. We went to go find the rest of the flock…

We found Angel first and she 'called' everyone else over. I looked at everyone nervously, suddenly realising that everyone consisted of me, Fang, Angel and Gazzy.

"Ange, where are Iggy and Nudge?"

"Umm…" She…blushed?

"What Ange? Where are they?"

"…" More blushing.

"Angel, just spit it out already!" I was getting really frustrated by Angels quietness.

"They're…um…they're…" Angel was stuttering, since when des Angel stutter? "They…um…they went for a walk and…um, they ah, kind of um…they went that way," Angel pointed south. I wondered what Angel knew and wasn't telling us.

"We'll be back," I stated as I grabbed Fangs wrist and headed off in the direction Angel had pointed. We'd been walking for about five minutes in unbroken silence before I heard a noise, rustling…in the bushes? It couldn't be… and only then did I hear an almost unrecognisable moan. I panicked and did the only thing I could think of.

"So, Fang are you SURE Nudge and Iggy are out here?" I practically shouted, and following my lead, Fang replied almost as loud as I did.

"I don't know, we haven't seen them for a while." As soon as we started talking, the rustling stopped and lo and behold, a very flushed Nudge and Iggy appeared out of the bushes.

"Oops!" Nudge whispered audibly, as Iggy just smiled sheepishly.

"Hi Nudge," I said in a clueless tone, "do you want to go for a walk?" Offering her a hand that she took, "Oh, and while we're at it, Iggy, do you wanna go for a walk with Fang?" Iggy looked in my general direction with a confused look on his face, before nodding. Fang tapped his hand twice before walking off with a very bewildered looking Iggy following behind him. This left me to have a talk with Nudge about her and Iggy.

"So, uh, what's up with you and Iggy?" I asked not feigning my curiosity. Nudge blushed deeply, looking at the ground, avoiding my gaze before answering.

"Um, well you see, Iggy wanted to know what I looked like and, uh, you know, one thing led to anoter and he kind of said that he, um, that he loved me." I'd never seen Nudge at such a loss for words before, I'd never even been at such a loss for words!

"So do you feel the same way?"

"About Iggy?" Nudge asked tentatively.

"No, about Fang, of COURSE about Iggy!" I said sarcastically, if Nudge didn't start giving me answers soon then I was going to lose it.

"Ummm…" geez, when I didn't want her to talk that girl would talk non-stop but when I wanted her to talk, she could barely piece a sentence together.

"Nudge, just answer the question will you!" I think it would be safe to say that by then, I'd lost it.

"Well, yeah, I do," she replied, turning an even deeper shade of red tat I didn't even think possible.

"So, how long have you guys been, you know…together?" I asked quietly regretting yelling at her.

"Oh, only today," she stated offhandedly.

"And, um, just then, in the bushes, were you two, um, you know…" I couldn't finish the sentence, I couldn't bring myself to say the 's' word out loud, heck, I couldn't even think it.

"You thought we, that we were doing? In the bushes? Me and Iggy? Together? S-s-sex?" Oops, looks like I made the wrong assumption.

"Umm…I…I…yeah, I did," I managed to get out.

"Omigod Max! No way, well, not yet if at all anyway. We only just got together today and you thought, oh man and Fang too?" I nodded, "I mean sure, we were in the bushes, though I don't know how we ended up there, but anyway we were only making-out… and stuff,' she went quiet towards the end when she said 'and stuff'.

"Nudge, what do you mean and stuff?" I asked, wanting to sort this out and understand what had happened.

"Well, you know how I said he wanted to know what I looked like?" She asked me. (They've only known each other FOREVER, Iggy knew what she looked like, but I let it pass). I motioned for her to continue. "Well, he was finding-out…how I looked." She said gesturing to the curves on her body. OH, I thought, well I'm glad she didn't go into details.
"He told me I'm beautiful," she added offhandedly.

"I've already told you that, like a zillion times," I assured her.

"Yeah but Iggy said I'm beautiful, you of all people should know how great it is for the guy you love to tell you you're beautiful," did Nudge just say the guy she LOVED?

"Nudge?" I asked, getting her attention, "Did you just say you love Iggy?"

"Yeah, I did, why?" she looked a bit confused.

"Wow, I didn't know you felt so strongly about Iggy, I mean sure you liked him, you told me that ages ago but I didn't know that…"

"What, that I loved him? Max, you were in love when you were my age and don't you dare say this is different because you know it's not!" Woah, Nudge feels really strongly about Ig.

"Nudge, I wasn't going to say it's different because seriously, I KNOW it's not," I told her, giving her a big hug, wondering why she was so worked-up about this.

"Nudge, is that all? Were you scared I wouldn't approve of you guys being together?" She nodded, "Nudge, and don't ever think that! Actually, I'm glad you two are together. It's going to be great with me and Fang not being the only couple in the flock and let's just say that your boyfriend is going to get major payback for all of the times he made majorly inappropriate comments." We both laughed at that. I gave Nudge another hug and on that note, we both headed back to camp.


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