Chapter: 10
Max's POV:
It was after school, I was standing on the school lot with Iggy. Waiting for the others to come. For some reason, my head was hurting real bad that I couldn't even think. I closed my eyes and pinched my forehead, thinking if there was anything in the whole world that could stop a monster headache accept any kind of medicines.
'Are you okay?' Iggy asked and I nodded. When I looked up to tell him not to worry, I saw Ari coming towards us.
'Hey Max.' He grinned at me and ignored Iggy. 'Do you want a lift?'
'In a skateboard?' I joked.
'Nope.' He pointed his finger towards a bike. 'In that.'
I thought about what to say but Iggy beat me. 'No. She's coming with us.' His face was normal, but his voice was hard. I stared at them blankly because by that time, my power of amusement was gone.
'Alright. Bye.' Ari didn't say anything else, just walked to his bike.
'What was that?'
'What?'
'That!' I said stubbornly. 'What is wrong with you? Why are you acting like this…'
'I'm not acting like anything…..'
'You said you'd tell me Iggy, you pro…'
'He's not telling you anything.'
I looked at Fang who just came there and interfered in our argument. 'Excuse me?' I glared at him.
'He's not telling you anything Max.' He glared back. 'Don't push.'
'And why is that?'
'Did you tell us about your past Max?' He reasoned out. 'You didn't. Than why are you asking ours?' He paused and waited for me to say something. When I didn't, he continued. 'The thing you're digging into, it's not just his secret. It's mine too. And no way I'm telling you my part.' He took a deep breath. 'And Max, maybe you don't want any but I'll give you one advise. Stay away from the Bechelders. There is nothing with them. Just danger.'
Huh! That was the longest speech I've ever heard from him. And for some weird reason, I went mad. And I did nothing. I just turned on my heels and walked away. And here I was, lying on my bed, thinking about my oh-so-pathetic life. My logics were blunt, I couldn't think properly. And that was the reason why I thought that Iggy told them everything. Everything about my past, everything that I didn't want them to know. I didn't know why I was thinking this, but it felt like he betrayed with me.
I was thinking about screaming into a pillow when the doorbell rang. I heard mom opening the door, I heard her greeting someone and saying that I was upstairs and I knew who it was. I heard footsteps coming up, and he knocked on my door.
'Max.'
'Fuck off.'
Now guys, here's a thing. If you know me well, than you probably know that I don't curse. Nope. Believe it or not, I don't. But if you know me really well, than I do curse when I'm real mad. So if I'm cursing, that means there is not a single thing in the world with which I'm not angry. And the worst is, Iggy knew that. So when I cursed, he opened the door and came in without any further words, and before the door was properly shut, I was halfway to my bathroom. And to my surprise, somehow he managed to catc me and held me by my arms as I struggled.
'IGGY LET GO!'
' Calm down and listen to me!'
'NO! YOU TOLD THEM! YOU TOLD THEM EVERYTHING!'
'I didn't!'
'THAN HOW DID HE KNOW?!'
'He doesn't know Max.' I stopped struggling and looked at him. For the first time in an hour, I could see the logics. 'He doesn't know.' Iggy loosened the grips on my arms and talked more calmly this time. 'He just guessed. Don't you remember? When you ran away that day, he was there. He was there when I found you in the forest. He guessed.'
Yeah, he guessed. That son of a bitch just freaking guessed!
I tried to calm my breathing as well as my thoughts. It was like my head was going to burst from the pressuer.
suddenly mom knocked on the door. 'Is everything alright in there?' She asked in a worried voice.
'It's fine Dr. Martinez.' Iggy shouted back. 'We're fine.'
'Okay, just call me if you need anything.' I heard footsteps going downstairs and knew mom was gone.
'I'm sorry.' I whispered and closed my eyes.
'It's okay.' He smiled and gently shoved me to sit on the edge of my bed, then he knelt in front of me.
'Why won't you tell me what's going on?' I asked after a few minutes.
'Because Fang is right. It's not just my secret. It's their's too. And I can't just give it away…..'
'Because if you do than it will be betraying.' He nodded. 'But you know you can trust me right?'
'I do.' He nodded again. 'But they don't. and it's really hard for them to trust someone. Especially for Fang.'
I sighed. Then I noticed something I hadn't before. ''They'?'
'It's including Nudge actually.'
'And Fang is like, your leader?'
'No, it's not like that. It's like,' He searched for the right words, 'It's like his our follower.'
'A follower?' Should I laugh or should I not?
'I know, it's weird.' He smiled. 'But it is kind of like that. A follower.'
I laughed at the sarcasm in his voice.
'What about Ari?' I asked suddenly.
'That's…confidential.'
'But he said they are dangerous…'
'Don't worry about that.' He cut me out. 'Ari and Jeb, they are not that bad in all things. It's just, we don't mix well, I guess.'
'But why? They're friendly.' Maybe I shouldn't judge someone I didn't know, but I couldn't help but reasoning out.
'That's confidential Max.' He said. 'But I can tell you this, that, we're different in species.'
'And what do you mean by species?'
'That's confidential.'
Well, whatever. At least I knew some of it now.
It was the day after that and I was having lunch. Iggy wasn't in Chemistry that day and so I was a bit worried. I didn't see Nudge or Fang either. Lunch time was almost done when he came. And to my surprise, he kind of collapsed on a chair.
'Iggy!' I whisper shouted.
'What?' He jumped up and the cap fell from his head. I stared at the cut on his forhead and the black circle around his left eye.
'What did you do?'
'Nothing!' He tried to put on the cap again but I snatched it away from him. He sighed and tried to explain. 'We kind of, hm, got on a fight?'
'With who?' I glared.
'That's confidential.'
I glared even harder. 'Iggy…'
'Max…..'
'Where's Fang and Nudge?'
'They kind of,' He searched for the right words. 'They are stuck with something.'
'Are they hurt?'
He sighed and nodded. 'Yes.'
I thought for a moment before asking. 'Do you know where Fang lives? I need to talk with him.'
I was in the forest. Why? No reason. I just thought about coming here. And why did I think something like that? 'Cause suddenly, I remembered that Fang and Iggy was talking about this the other day. Yes, I am talking about cliff diving. And yes, being the douche I am, I did jump from the cliff without any thinking. And as a result, I was all wet now as I walked through the forest.
I was irritated at myself. Seriously, I was there, taking Fang's address from Iggy, thinking about strangling him at the first sight, and out of blue, I decided to go to the forest and to try cliff diving. And I call Fang a son of a bitch. Wow, I should kill myself now. And now as a result, I was walking through the forest, and was cursing myself.
And just like my stupid idea, they came out of blue.
'Hey hun. Who are talking with?' I looked at the mocking voice and mentally face palmed. It was just what I wanted right than, some gone- to- hell stupid boys.
But for some reason, I couldn't think them as stupid.
There were four of them. All of them were 6'5" at least, and they looked huge with their bulky body and all. They stood a few paces away from me and blocked my way.
'Why do you care?' I asked in a disgusted tone as I thought about running.
'Oh we do.' But obviously running was not an option. 'You see babe, someone gave us an order. It was to take you away.'
'And who might that be?' I tried to distract them with talking, but instead of them, I myself was distracted. Something was different about them. It was like, they were changing in a physical way.
He grinned evilly. 'Why do you ask when you know you can't do a thing.'
At first there was nothing, just a mock. Then I saw the canines, long and sharp. And somehow his body changed and he phased.
And when he launched at me, I saw a huge wolf instead of a boy.
