A/N: I wouldn't blame you guys if you hated me. I shall allow you to skewer me with pitch forks if you wished… DAMN. It's been a year! Like, an entire year since I updated. You would not believe the writer's block I had. Seriously. I haven't written a THING over a year. Except for poetry and chiz, but that doesn't count. So…sorry if this chappie sucks. I'll give you all apology cookies :3

Ever's POV:

I should be happy, right? I haven't known Fang for very long, but I had known him enough to know that he'd been unhappy. The look in his eyes…they were always cold. But there's a difference between a closed-off personality, and sadness. And when you look into those eyes close enough, its not hard to spot his depression.

So I should be happy he just found the girl he's in love with. I should be happy for him.

But I've always been the selfish type.

I can't deny my feelings for him. I can't deny the way my heart skips a beat when I see his smirk. I can't deny the way a smile breaks out on my face when we talk. I can't deny the way I felt completely and helplessly in love when our lips touched. I can ignore these things—but I can't make them go away.

I sat with my back pressed against the cold rocks, my knees to my chest. I stared at my toes, not looking anyone in the eye. I felt the weight of Max's stare on me, but I didn't look up. I didn't want to hate her. Really, I didn't. But I couldn't help it. The love in Fang's eyes is so plain to see when he looks at her.

A shadow loomed over me and I looked up to see Fang staring down at me. I turned away.

He sat down next to me, but didn't say a word.

The tension and the silence was animate. I could practically feel the way I wanted words to erupt from within me, just so I could talk to him. I wanted to say something, but I didn't know what.

"Hey," he finally said, his voice low. "You okay?"

I always put up such a tough girl façade. I've always had this "I don't give a crap" attitude, but on the inside I was such a girl. I hated that about me.

"Fine. What're you with me for? Go talk to Max. You haven't seen her in forever."

There was no reply for a while, and I dared to look up and his emotionless mask of a face, looking at the rocks.

Without a single word, he stood up and walked over to Max, and I was once again alone.

Max's POV:

I refused to look at Fang. I refused to speak to him, I refused to look at him, I refused to breathe in his general direction.

So when he sat next to me, it was no surprise that I stood up and began to walk away.

His hand snapped up to grab mine, but I forcefully pulled away.

"Wait, Max, please," He said, standing up and grabbing my elbow, whirling me around.

"What do you want?" My voice spat venom, so much so that he flinched.

"Max…please. Don't…why are you so…" he was at a loss for words, and it made me feel triumphant that he was.

"Why am I so what? Mad? Pissed? Upset? Gee, let me think. Perhaps it was the way you left me after I'd just saved your life. Perhaps it was the way you so easily moved on from the Flock and began to make your own little group. Perhaps it was the way you so easily moved on from me with…with her!"

Ever looked up, hurt filling every inch of her eyes. Standing up, she walked up to me and looked me right in the eye. I didn't waver. I met her hard-as-stone gaze with my own.

"Excuse me? So what, you're mad at me now?"

Fang just stood in between us, eyes wide, still shocked that I'd just said what I did.

"I'm not mad at you. I don't even know you," I told her, her arms crossed.

"Max I didn't just move on," Fang started. "You have no idea the pain I went through being away from you." His voice was a raspy whisper, as if saying what he felt and showing his emotions physically pained him.

I said nothing.

Stepping closer to me, he put his hands on his arms. "It was the most painful thing I've ever done…"

"You leaving me was the most painful thing that ever happened to me. Did you honestly think I wouldn't be mad? You left me Fang. I'm sorry but…" I looked away, and stepped back from his arms. "I'm not opening myself up to that pain again."

Opening my wings, I jumped off the cliff, letting the wind catch my wings as I flew upward, my tears flying off my face as the wind pressed my cheeks.

Fang's POV:

My arms felt so empty after Max pulled away. I didn't know what to say. I didn't know what to do. There was an animate pain in my heart from where I knew, I honestly knew that she no longer wanted to be with me.

A hand was on my shoulder then, and I looked back to see Ever. She said not a word, but just pursed her lips, and backed away, walking deeper into the cave.

And so I was more alone than ever before.

A/N: I AM SOOO SORRY DARLINGS. I shall never ever "ever" (;D get it? It's punny) leave you without a chapter for so long again. Feel free to leave hate comments, I understand. BUUUUUUUUT do leave comments so I know that all you guys haven't left me 3 :3 pretty pweeze?