A/N: OK I am sooooo super sorry guys! I explained why I didn't update in the last a/n. I truly am you can give me some death threats too!

Iggy: Oh I can give you many death threats….

Shut up Igs you were here with me. BTW It's partly Iggy's and Fang's fault too they didn't remind me!

Fang: It's not my fault. Really. I was just having fun time with Max.

Haha! Fang's become a lot friendlier since… well I can't exactly remember.

Ratchet: Hey guys! Sup?!

Ratchet! What are you doing here leaving Faerie alone?!

Ratchet: Oh no I just came to say hi and see if Fang was behaving…

Fang: Hey! *runs behind Ratchet smacking his head.*

Iggy: Well Imma gonna go and make breakfast.

DISCLAIMER: Do not own Maximum Ride! *runs away crying *

Max Pov

Ok, so I wasn't exactly unconscious… I feigned the whole black out scene. And did a very good job at it too. :P Yep that's just me.

Ok so I was closing my eyes but hearing and feeling everything. Um that came out the wrong way. What!? I know what you perverted minds think!

So I felt a heavy weight roll off of me and Fang's voice in a hushed tone telling Angel to go and get the group. My hands were hurting badly and burning like hell and I felt Fang's super cold hands lift my wrists up and place it on my stomach.

I heard lots of footsteps and heard Iggy's voice mumble "what happened?" Gazzy panicked and told him the whole story. I felt instant-burn healing cream getting applied on my hands and instantly felt better. Wow, these things really do work. I felt Iggy wrapping my hands with a bandage and then suddenly stop. His voice came in.

"If you wouldn't have pushed her away in time….. the whole place would've… blasted."

Phew. Well that was a close call. Thanks Fang. Seriously. Fang sighed and well….. brushed his hand through my hair. The contact was well um…. Unexpected and sent shivers down me spine, so well I just moved a little.

Then the distant hear of the doorbell, Iggy telling Fang to freaking 'carry' me yada yada yada….

And so I ended up in Fang's arms, my heart doing flip-flops like crazy and my stomach knotting into a kazillion ties and me plopping into a bed which was super puffy it felt like clouds.

Fang kissed my forehead making my head swirl and my forehead tingle at the place he had kissed me.

Fang. I knew this feeling before. It was with Sam. But the intensity of this feeling was much more than what had been with Sam. I mean that this was multiplied by a million times with what I felt for Sam.

I was falling, fast. For the obviously amazing and hot Fang… Oh no.

Fang Pov

Well I left the bedroom Max was in and went to the living room to greet Ella. (Although I regretted it that instant because I kept thinking about Max.)

Ok I admit it. Max was playing with my head a lot nowadays. I mean everything I ever did I had to ask myself if Max would like it. I mean c'mon! I didn't have it under control yet.

Take out the juice box from the fridge. Would Max like it?

Sleep early. Would she take it without snorting at me?

I mean what was I thinking? Major low down Fang. I needed to sort out a couple of things. I mean I never actually felt like this before. It was just so new and ticklish and well creepy at points. And all I ever thought about was Max. And I didn't even get tired of it.

I sighed and went into the kitchen and gave a small smile to Ella as she waved frantically at me. Her face became solemn when Iggy started telling her about Max but then she piped up when he told her she was ok. She bought a small suitcase with her and a luggage bag for Max. We romped about doing usual 'teenager' things at home and the sun started setting fast. Max came in about three hours late and my heart started beating at a higher speed. She casually said that she was fine and smiled a huge grin when she saw me. My stomach started feeling like I had eaten a dozen live butterflies.

She came over and sat next to me on the couch and started eating from the bowl of chips which was on the table.

After a lot of "I'm bored's" and "Can we play something!?" we decided to play the epic game of truth and dare. So currently we were all sitting in a huge circle and a bottle in between us.

"Now guys, play fair and no withdrawing from the truth or dare given." Iggy said spinning the bottle.

'I hate this game' was my first thought as the mouth of the bottle landed on me. Nudge smiled really evilly at me where the other end of the bottle was facing her form.

Oh no.

If you didn't know how Nudge looked like when she was plotting something well I'll describe it as scarier than a dog chasing you.

I gulped and let out a strangled "dare."

Apparently, she had seen the little glint in my eye desperately pleading her not to muster something SERIOUSLY embarrassing for me so she kicked it down a notch.

"Be a good boy and give a nice little peck to Max for me will ya?"

NOPE. She had to do this didn't she!? Kicked a notch down? That girl just kicked it higher than the stadium! Ok a bit over exaggerated but what the hell.

I looked anywhere but at Max as I crawled towards her and gave a tiny peck at her cheek and crawled back, hiding behind my hair.

Iggy wolf whistled and the girls giggled maniacally. Angel clapped me on my back and whispered in my ear than Max was blushing and sort of smiling.

Oh I hated this. The game went on by which Ella had to announce the truth of her liking Iggy a lot and Gazzy having to kiss Angel which led Angel to furiously blush the shade of an apple and make Gazzy scratch his head a lot and make a slight shade of pink at the bridge of his nose and Nudge having to regrettably lick the floor.

We had band practice and pleaded Max to join us and she agreed. And we actually needed a female lead singer for some duets I couldn't perform with Nudge.

It was movie time next and we decided to watch some horror flicks. We moved all the other furniture away and rounded up the couch, three beanbags, a love seat and two stools in front of the TV.

Iggy and Ella had occupied the couch; Ella laying her head on one of the armrests while Iggy comfortably sulked between the soft pillows and underneath Ella's feet.

Gazzy and Angel had taken up the stools and Nudge, J.J and Tess had taken up the beanbags. That left me and Max with… the loveseat.

She smirked at me and we sat down on it quiet closely. It wasn't actually uncomfortable as I thought it to be and I just felt lucky enough to have a friend like her. We had decided to start with the movie 'Exorcist' first and it was scary enough. Max literally jumped and clung on to my shirt when the girl was coming off backwards down the stairs. The other girls squealed in fright and Ella kicked Iggy in the face a few times by accident. Iggy finally annoyed, told Ella to turn the other way around so Ella ended up on Iggy's lap and her legs on the armrest and must I say she looked quite comfortable there. Even Iggy didn't interrupt the film then as he was dozing off, his head flown backwards. Man, he was gonna have a neck ache in the morning.

By the time we were in the middle of Grudge part 3, Max had curled up to my side and was clutching my shirt with one hand and biting her thumbnail with the other; her eyes wide. My arm was around her shoulder and it didn't even seem awkward.

After about another movie which was called 'the hills have eyes' and almost everyone sleeping soundly (even Max whose head was dug into my neck and whose arm was still clutching my shirt lightly), I switched off the TV and snuggled up beside Max. My eyes drifted to a close and for the first time I realised that I was falling for Max, my best friend.

Max Pov

A certain black comfy pillow was just next to me, a nice lean but strong arm wrapped around my shoulder. Fang's head was leaned against mine and mine rested in the crook of his neck. He faintly smelled of mint and chocolate which was awesomely epic. A white flash suddenly, well, flashed and the sound of a camera reeling could be heard. Fang suddenly woke up and lifted his head and we turned our faces just in time to see the others snickering and Gazzy holing a camera.

"Oh this will make awesome blackmail!" he snickered and ran away.

"Iggy! YOU ARE SO DEAD!" Fang and me screamed simultaneously and ran after the wailing, corpsy, crazy, shaggily haired boy with a camera going woot!

After a while of threatening (and giving super good threats too), we followed Gazzy into the kitchen and was hit by the amazing smell of pancakes.

"Pancakes!" I yelled running towards Iggy who had an apron and a chef hat on and tried taking one.

"Manners, Max." Fang chuckled and wrapped his hands around my waist pulling me back from the plate sent from heaven.

"NOOOOO!" I cried stretching my hands forward but to no avail as the strong boy pulled me out of the kitchen. "Let me go Fang! Lemme go! You evil twit!"

"That's a first." Fang said smirking.

"Well it won't be your last!" I could here distant snickering and muffled laughter through the kitchen.

"I can live with that." Was his retort and I crossed my arms and sighed in exasperation. He at last let me go when we were in the hallway and I walked up to the bathroom and got washed up and dressed.

The outfit was a black Skyrim tee, dark blue jeans and tennis shoes. I tied up my hair into a ponytail with elastic and skipped down to eat me pancakes.

We munched it up and decided to part ways for the time being. Nudge, Tess, J.J and Ella went for some shopping spree which I was totally not interested in, Angel and Gazzy went to the gaming room to play, poor Iggy had to drive the girls and was going to be dragged along with them the whole time and Fang and me had nothing to do so we decided to take a walk.

We were just walking down the street when the sky suddenly got covered with gloomy clouds and it started to rain all of a sudden.

"Summer rain." Fang nodded laughing, water dripping from his hair and his clothes damping. "Should we run?" he asked looking at me with and intense gaze. I smiled and nodded and we ran letting the wing rush against our faces. The elastic had fallen from my hair now making it completely wet and we laughed around pushing each other till we reached the park's gazebo looking thing.

We were bent over laughing, completely soaked and cold, breathing heavily. We both stood up slowly and I just realized how close we were standing. Our laughter died down in our throats as we looked into each other's eyes. Fang's gaze was boring into mine and I looked into his deep dark obsidian eyes. His eyes were indeed black and I could literally count the golden flecks in them. We were THAT close.

He raised his hand gently to my chin and tilted it upwards slightly his eyes half closed. I felt myself stand on my tippee-toes and my eyes fluttering close. Oh my cookies. I was going to kiss him.

I felt our lips meeting together and instantly felt like I had eaten butterflies that were fluttering around my stomach. A shiver ran through my spine as I felt the warmth of the kiss affecting me. His lips were so full of warmth yet comfortingly cold. It was slightly chapped but so soft at the same time. Our lips moved in perfect synchronization as I wrapped my arms around his neck to deepen the kiss. Fang pulled me closer wrapping his arms around my waist and deepening the kiss. We broke the kiss at the same time breathing heavily as we did and stepping back.

My mind was reeling at this turn of events and I stepped warily dazed. But somehow, I was confused. I mean, I really couldn't place this feeling. I was truly best friends with Fang and I didn't want to ruin that relationship with him. I mean what if something just wasn't going to turn alright if we became something more? The comfort I shared with him was the comfort only we could share as friends. What if things became sort of awkward when we tried to share that comfort? I know I was being pessimistic, but you can't expect to think straight after a mind blowing kiss. Literally.

"I... I… I just..." I stuttered not being able to find the words to speak. I looked at Fang who was just waiting a look of anxiousness, shock and surprise registered on his face.

I couldn't help it. I ran away. I ran into the rain and ran on the sidewalk not looking behind. I felt miserable for leaving. Coward. You're a coward. I scolded myself. I felt tears slipping out of my eyes and felt surprised. Maximum Ride never cries. Like never. But yet now I find myself trying to swallow that hard thing stuck in my throat which was not going back down. I let the tears fall and ran towards home. I flung open the door and rushed up the stairs and slammed my bedroom door shut. I could hear mom hustling and bustling in the kitchen with her 70's radio music turned on.

I slumped on my bed and cried into the pillow uncontrollably. I know, not a thing to do after you get a kiss but I just felt scared and guilty for just running out like that. I slowly drifted into slumber after a while and was only awakened next morning.

BAM! THERE'S THE FAX YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!

SO do you like the freaking length of the chappie!? Its like 7 pages on word!

I'm sorry for not updating I have final exams week and its super treacherous! But good nooze for you cuz after finals TWO MONTHS OF SUMMER VACATION! That means like update everyday! I would also be starting another story in the 39 Clues fandom and would love it if you all would read it! Plus, for the next chappie I got a surprise for ya!

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