Can Change Be Good?

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Chapter 8: Iggy?

Max POV

When the final bell finally rang, I ran straight to my locker and stuffed all my books inside. I then took off my grey hoodie and threw it in my bag before putting my jean jacket back over my striped cami. After that I put a comb through my hair until I felt that it wasn't as knotted and locked my locker up. I casually leaned againest it and waited for Dylan to arrive. I couldn't help but start to think about what he had planned for us and where he was going to take me, but I really hope for his sake that it's not a bakery because his wallets going to be spitting out dollar bills for the amount of cookies I can eat. MMMMMM Cookies. While I was letting my mind wonder I saw a familiar blond head starting to approach me with a big grin spread across his face. Once Dylan finally reached me, he snaked his arm around my waist and started leading me to the doors.

"So, are you ready?" Dylan asked while pushing a door open and letting me walk through.

"Yeah! What are we going to do?" I asked and couldn't help but smile at his beaming form.

"It's a surprise." Dylan said with a mischievous grin and hopped into his jeep.

"Ohhhhh, No! I hate surprises!" I whined and hopped in the jeep too.

"Oh, don't worry you're going to like this surprise," Dylan said turning on the car and putting it in drive. "Trust me." I let out a long sigh and looked out the window as we passed the school doors and I saw a familar black figure heading out of them, but when the figure looked up and saw me inside of this car he froze. Nicholas started to shake his head and his gaze was pleading for me to get out of the car, but I just turned away and watched the road ahead of me.


After 30 minutes of me and Dylan singing and laughing to the radio we arrived at North Coast Beach which was swimming with many people. I immediately started to feel uneasy because you see I have never been good with big crowds and the biggest reason is because anything can happen in them. Like for example, I could be easily kidnapped and sent to some government lab to be experimented on for the rest of my life without one person knowing. I guess Dylan noticed my uneasiness because his face became gravely concerned and he asked, "Are you ok?"

"Uh yeah. Just...excited." I lied and put on a fake grin.

"Great!" Dylan beamed and put the car in park.

"So how come you chose the beach to be my surprise." I asked slightly curious.

"Oh, this isn't your surprise." Dylan said and looked impatiently at his watch. I gave him a confused look and I started to ask

"Then what is..." But I was quickly interrupted by a loud thump on the front of the jeep. I let out a loud gasp and practically flew into Dylan's arms, while he just let out a loud laugh and yelled at whatever hit his car, "YOUR LATE!"

"NO! YOU'RE JUST EARLY!" ? yelled back. I decided to look up from Dylan's arms and what I saw was the biggest surprise of my life. It was an all too familar boy with strawberry blonde hair and pale blue eyes with a silly grin spread across his pale face.

"Iggy?" I whispered with a small grin.

"Yep, I brought him back from boarding school with me to save the principal from having the trouble of kicking him out." Dylan whispered in my ear.

"I heard that Dylan!" Iggy yelled in a singy song voice. Dylan and I climbed out of the car and when Dylan started to reach for my hand, Iggy ran over and tackled him in what looked like a bone crushing hug.

"I missed you man! I didn't think I was ever going to see you again!" Iggy yelled dramatically and started to get teary eyed.

"You just saw me yesterday." Dylan said shoving Iggy off of him and wiping some dirt off his jeans.

"So, that was 24 hours ago! Which is like...15 years in dog hours!" Iggy said waving his hands in a dramatic way.

"More like Iggy hours." Dylan mumbled and started to walk towards me again.

"WAIT! I JUST REMEMBERED WHERE'S MAX!" Iggy screamed and started franitcally looking around. Dylan held the bridge of his nose and let out a long sigh before turning towards me with a tired look that said Will you please make him stop. I gave him a soft nod and turned towards Iggy.

"What do you mean where's Max! I've been standing here the whole time." I said with a 'duh' tone.

"Nuh uh you are not Max because you are way to pretty and boring to be her." Iggy said putting his hands on his hips. My anger quickly started to boil and the heat in my hands started to return, but then I took a deep breath and counted to 10 because I did not need a repeat of what happened in biology today. Once I finished counting I put on a calm expression and reminded myself that he's Iggy and I tried to say as calmly as possible

"I am Max! I just changed a little that's all."

"LIES!" Iggy screamed.

"I do NOT lie...often!" I screamed back and took a step towards him while letting go of Dylan's hand.

"UH huh! Sure..." Iggy said and took a step towards me.

"Fine I will prove it to you!" I yelled and dug out my bag to find the last present he sent me. Once I found it, I took it out of my bag and pressed the 'on' button and then watched the blue glowing sword come to life. I turned to Iggy and pointed the blue sword in his direction and watched how his face turned to a look of shock and then back to his silly grin.

"MAXIE, IT IS YOU!" Iggy screamed and started to rush towards me. I let out a surprise gasp when he tackled me to the ground and wrapped his skinny arms around my waist.

"OWWWW! IGGY!" I yelled and tried to shove him off, but he just sqeezed me tighter and started to roll around with me.

"I missed you soooooo much Maxie! I'm sorry I didn't believe you baby I just didn't know if it was you or not!" Iggy said and lifted us both off the ground. But before I could escape his reach he wrapped his arms around my waist and lifted me off the ground so that my feet weren't touching it anymore. I let out a loud sigh and said,

"I missed you to Iggy! I forgot that with you my feet never have to touch the ground."

"Alright Iggy, I think Max Has had enough of you for now." Dylan said reaching for me.

"It's impossible for Max to have too much of me, so I refuse to let her go." Iggy said and hugged me even tighter. When did he get so strong? I couldn't help but think.

"Iggy you can't keep her." Dylan said grabbing my hands.

"No, Dylan it's ok I got this." I said and twisted my body so I was looking at Iggy's face. I gave him a small smile and moved my head a little closer to his.

"Now Max I know you love me and all, but I already have my one and only true love." Iggy said with a silly grin. I gave him a small nod before sticking my tongue out of my mouth and licking his cheek. Iggy then quickly dropped me and started to wipe his face with his hoodie's sleeve and started to scream

" I HAVE BEEN CONTAMINATED WITH THE MAX VIRUS! I CAN ALREADY FEEL THE SMART REMARKS SEEPING INTO TO MY BRAIN AND MY HAIR BECOMING BROWN! WHY MUST THE HANDSOME ALWAYS DIE YOUNG!" Iggy then pretended to faint, while Dylan helped me up and muttered

"Drama Queen."

"You know it!" Iggy said happily and bounced back up, "Now where's my one and only true love...Fangles!"

A/N MUST READ Alright I brought Iggy into the mix and now I expect reviews because next chapter Iggy get's to experience the new Fang and let's just say Iggy doesn't take it in a good manner. So I'm going to try something new because I really want to post the next chapter! If I get 6 reviews or more I will post it this Thursday and it will be nice and long! If I get less it will be next Thursday and medium sized, but also just for a little treat if I get over 10 reviews I will post 2 chapters up this Thursday and one of them will involve a look in Fang's head! SO REVIEW!