A/N: Hello! It's nice to see you all again. Even though I can't actually see you. (I have to say that so the goverment doesn't know I've set up cameras in every one of my reviewer's houses. Shh!) LOL! Just Joking. Or so you hope....Well...here's part two of my last chapter.
Disclaimer!: I'll say it nice and slow so you understand...Ready? Okay... Say it with me. I...do not own...Maximum...Ride...in any...way shape, or forrm. Got that? Need to take notes?
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Chapter 7: Circe De Maximum Part 2
Max's POV
I pulled the little zipper down, revealing the contents. Oh my Ra! There was no way I was putting this on! No way! I held it up. Uh-uh! There must be some mistake. "Carla?!" I called. "I think I got the wrong bag!" She peeked her head in and looked at the items I was holding up.
"Nope...that's the right one." she said simply like it didn't matter.
"Ummm...why do I have to wear this?" I asked anxiously.
"Get dressed, come out, and I'll explain." And with that, she disappeared.
"But--" I sighed. Okay...I promised this Juliana lady I would do this, right? Right. So...I had to. But what on earth could I have to do that involved me wearing this?! I eventually changed into this little outfit and nervously stepped outside, trying to conceal myself from any passerbys. Fortunately, it looked like they still hadn't let people in yet.
"Oh you look wonderful in that!" Carla exclaimed when she caught sight of me. "Here! Look at yourself in the mirror. She pulled me into the house of mirrors which was located right across from my booth. I gasped at my own reflection in the mirrors. I looked awful! "Oh! Sorry... not that one. That one makes you look fat." I sighed in relief. "Here...this one's normal. Again, I gasped at my reflection. But it wasn't in horror this time. The outfit they had put me in was slightly more revealing than my usual attire. It was a little black dress that hardly covered anything. Two small bright blue ribbons decorated the front. I also wore fishnet thigh-highs and black heels, which I kept tripping up in. They even put me in bunny ears! How slutty and stupid is that?! I have to admit, though, I did actually look at least okay in it, though. Carla seemed to agree. "Oh! You'll have so many people at your booth!" she giggled.
"Yeah...what exactly is my booth, by the way?" I asked, dreading the answer.
"Well, it's a kissing booth of course!" she said excitedly.
"A what?!" I practically yelled
"A kissing booth." she repeated. " Okay...kisses are a dollar each, or two tickets. You get to kiss whoever comes up for...I don't know...a couple seconds, and then you get to do it again!' she exclaimed, leading me back towards the booth. I dragged my feet. "Doesn't that sound like fun?"
"No!" I yelled. "It sounds slutty and playerish! I don't wanna kiss random people!" Carla sighed. "Look...you promised Juliana you'd run a booth for her right?"
"Well...yeah, but--" I started, but she interrupted.
"Well...you wouldn't wanna let her down, would you? She'd lose her job." I sighed angrily. I hate it when people tell me what to do. "You'll be just fine. Now hurry! They're already letting people in!" She shoved me behind my booth and ran off to hers. A ring toss of some sort, I think. I huffed in irritation. What kind of creep comes to these sorts of things anyways?
"Well...hello." said a rather cute boy as he approached the booth. He had shaggy brown hair and dark brown eyes. I was a sucker for brown eyes. He threw a dollar on the counter in front of me. I just stared at it. "What? Is it more than that? I've got more if you need it--"
"No...it's a dollar." I said quietly.
"Something wrong?" he asked. I shook my head. "Well...are you gonna kiss me?" I blushed.
"Well...I've never..." I trailed off. He smirked.
"It's easy...Here...I'll show you..." I shut my eyes as he leaned in to kiss me.
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Fang's POV
"Next!" I called to the line of people leading up to the ferris wheel. Kelsey had disappeared awhile ago after showing me how to work the wheel. A guy and what must have been his girlfriend stepped into the waiting seat. I set the ferris wheel spinning and sighed as I watched it go round and round.
"Hey! I thought you might like a break!" Carla was walking towards me, a huge smile on her face, as usual. I nodded greatfully, thanked her, and took off, eager to get away. Just pressing buttons and saying next for an hour can get kind of boring. I was just wandering around aimlessly, not sure what to do. Suddenly, a rowdy bunch of teenagers passed me, laughing and joking noisilly.
"Hey!" one of the guys called to me. "You've gotta go try the kissing booth! There's this super hot girl running it!" Then he truned back around and walked off with his buddies. Huh...kissing booth...super hot girl. That didn't sound half bad. I was bored out of my mind, and Max wasn't there to call me a pig and smack upside the head like she usually is, so I figured, eh...what the hell. I hunted around on the ground and eventually found a dollar bill.
"That should cover it..." I muttered to myself. I walked around for a little bit, until I discovered a decently sized line leading up to a red booth. I could just read the print on the sign that hung over the booth. Kisses: $1.00 it read. I smirked and got into line, imagining what the girl at the booth would look like.
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Max's POV
"Pucker up..." said a very cute guy with shaggy blonde hair and gorgeous green eyes. He tossed a dollar onto the counter, and I shoved it into the bucket by my feet. It had really filled up. I was starting to get the hang of this. It was routine now. It didn't matter anymore. This was all to help Juliana. He leaned in and smooched me. I played my part, trying my best to kiss back. After counting to twenty in my head, I pulled back. He looked dissappointed, but walked away.
"All right...that'll be one...dollar..." I trailed of from the shock of who was standing next in line. "Fang?" I asked incredulously.
"Max?" he said in surprise with the same tone I had used.
"What are you doing here?!" we asked eachother at the same time? "I could ask you the same thing!" we said in unison again. I groaned.
"No...what are you doing here Fang? This is my booth? This is what they volunteered me for!" He narrowed his eyes.
"Well...why did you agree? And what are you wearing?!" he asked, protectively.
"Required uniform. Now...what the heck do you think you're doing? You're the one that came to suck face with some random girl!"
"You're the one who agreed to let guys like me suck face with you!" he said, angrily. I groaned again.
"Stop being so overprotective, Fang. I'm not a little girl anymore. I can take care of myself!" I shouted.
"Well...you're being kind of a slut right now, Max, and if something happens to you with one of these creeps, don't come crying to me about it!"
"Don't call me a slut! I'm doing this for Juliana!"
"I'm only calling you what you are!" he shouted angrily.
"You're being a real jerk, Fang!" I was in his face now, shouting. He pushed me backwards. "Hey! You ass! Don't shove me!" I shoved him back. As he stumbled backwards, I saw something flash in his eyes that was unrecognizable. He almost looked startled, or hurt. He quickly turned and backed away. "Fang?!" I called in confusion. He was stalking away now. I sighed, exasperated.
"Ooh...was that your ex or something?" said the next guy in line, sympathetically.
"Something like that..." I grumbled. I looked at the long line. I really didn't feel like doing this anymore. I reached for the closed sign and put it up. Everyone in line groaned. "Sorry..." I said. "Maybe, I'll go find Carla." I thought. "She seemed like she would enjoy this more than I did." And with that, I picked up the bucket of money, and went to change back into my normal clothes. When I was finished, I left the bucket hidden in the dressing room and hurried off to find my flock.
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I found Nudge and Angel by the cotton candy machine, covered in cotton candy. Tip: Don't let hungry bird pubescents run sugar machinery. I laughed to myself, wondering if I should write the company, requesting that they put that in the instructions for the thing. Nudge was up to her armpits in cotton candy and Angel looked like a pink poodle, she was so swathed in it. And Total...don't even get me started on Total. They all looked down at their feet when they saw me. Like children who had taken candy from a jar and been caught in the act. I laughed at them and they started to giggle too. It was getting darker. The carnival would probably be closing soon. It closed at 8:00. It was probably around 6:30, and the fireworks started at 7:00.
"Oh, Max! We had so much fun! We got to put the sugar in, and serve it, and get money, and stir the cotton, and stuff!" gushed Nudge. I ruffled her hair goodnaturedly.
"Come on...let's close up. The fireworks are gonna start soon." I helped them get cleaned up and propped the closed sign on the counter, shutting off the machine. Then we went in search of the promise land. Okay...it was for Iggy and Gazzy, but the chances we had of finding the promise land or those two were about the same. Anyway...we started to make our way towards the fireworks tent. Suddenly there was a big kaboom from Iggy and Gazzy's tent. The words Iggy, Gazzy, and kaboom all together in one sentence is a very dangerous thing. We rushed over there. Inside, we found the two of them, along with a tall skinny guy with facial hair, rolling around on the floor, covered in soot and ash. Then, they caught sight of us.
"Uh...we kinda had a bit of an accident." said Iggy meekly.
"Well, no dip, sherlock, I can see that." I said jokingly. "What did you do?"
"We...er...had a bit of a technical difficulty with one of our rockets." said the tall guy. "I'm John, by the way." he added, holding out his hand.
"Nice to meet ya, John, but if you don't mind, I've really gotta get these two something to eat. So...we're just gonna head over to the food stands."
"Aww...Max! We we're having so much fun! I wanna stay here with John so badly! He's so cool! Please?!" Gazzy whined.
"I know buddy, but guess what? Juliana, the lady that needed our help, said we had free carnival food for life. That means you could have as much as you want. But I guess if you'd rather stay here...."
"Bye John!" said Gazzy heading towards the door. John laughed.
"See ya later, guys. Thanks for helping me!" he said.
Soon we were all sitting around a picnic table, a buffet of food layed out before us. I saw several people stare as they watched little Angel put away six hot dogs in under ten minutes. I laughed at their surprised faces. "Max?" asked Angel as she reached for a bottle of mustard.
"Hmmm?" I grunted, stuffing my face with funnel cake, my all time favorite carnival food. Several pyros skipped past our table, twirling fire. I saw Iggy's eyes light up at the thought.
"Where's Fang?" asked Angel. I stopped stuffing my face momentarily, and wiped my mouth with a napkin.
"He's uh..." I couldn't think of a suitable answer.
"Did you and him get in a fight?" she asked, looking sad. I sighed.
"Yes...We got in a tiny fight, but it's nothing to worry about, okay?" I told her reassuringly.
"What did you fight about?" she asked.
"It was nothing, okay, Ang. Nothing at all. I'll talk to him when we get back to the hotel, okay? So just...don't worry about it." She nodded and went back to her eighth hotdog. I looked up at the sky. It was getting dark. They would be starting the fireworks show soon. Already I could see people laying out blankets on the ground, preparing to watch the show. I began to worry a little bit about where Fang had gone. I wonder if her felt like that after our other fight. We had been fighting alot lately. I don't really know why. There was just some sort of tension between us now. I wished I could tell him I was sorry. I really wished. A booming voice startled me out of my thought bubble. I jumped.
"All right ladies and gentlemen!" a voice was saying over the loudspeakers. " Our fireworks show will begin in ten minutes. But, now it's time to announce the winner of our raffle. Remember the winner gets to watch the fireworks display from ontop of the ferris wheel." I saw lots of people take out little tickets with excitement. I wished I had known about this raffle. It would be nice if I could watch the fireworks from up there. "All right...the winning ticket is number....68141414!" That's funny! That's all of the flocks ages in order! What a coincidence! "Do we have a claimer?" asked the booming voice again. "Ah yes...here we go. What's your name young man? All right...we have a Mr. Nick Ride as the winner of tonight's raffle! Congratulations Nick!" And then the loudspeaker clicked off. My mouth was hanging open. I couldn't believe Fang won! Maybe there was someone else here named Nick Ride. There had to be.
"Fang won?" asked Gazzy incredulously.
"Yep." said a voice behind me. I turned. Fang had snuck up right behind me and I hadn't even noticed. I stared up at him, trying to look pitiful so that he wouldn't be too upset with me. That woman, Kelsey, stood behind him, looking around, happily. Me and Fang stared at eachother for a minute. "Max...would you--do you...wanna go up in the ferris wheel with me to watch the fireworks?" he asked a bit sheepishly.
"I--I guess." I stuttered. At least it would give me a chance to apologize. He held out his hand and helped me up from the table.
"Okay....I don't mean to rush you guys," said Kelsey, "but the display starts in five minutes, so we've gotta hurry." We ran after Kelsey, hand in hand towards the ferris wheel.
"Have fun you two!" called Iggy, playfully. I rolled my eyes. We reached the wheel and quickly climbed into the seat. It wasn't one of those gandala things, it was just a little red bench thing hardly big enough for two people. Kelsey made sure we had the bar down securely and then rushed over to the controls and started the ferris wheel turning. We luched up and kept getting higher and higher 'till we reached the top. I could see the whole site from up here. We didn't say anything for a little while. Finally, I decided to break the ice.
"Fang?" I said very quietly. He looked down at me. (He was taller. Grrr...) "I'm really sorry about what happened before. I didn't mean to get mad at you like that." He shook his head.
"No...It was my fault. I shouldn't have yelled at you like that. You were only doing it to help Juliana. I shouldn't have called you a slut." he said.
"Well...I still should've controlled my anger better. It wasn't right for me to yell like that. You were only worried about me."
"No. I was being way too over protective. I should just let you do your own thing and not get in the way." I started laughing. He looked at me, confused. "What's funny? I'm trying to apologize." He looked a little irritated as well.
"Look at us." I said laughing. "We're fighting about a fight." I laughed more. Soon he was chuckling too. It progressed, and suddenly, we were both laughing so hard, we had tears streaming from our eyes. It wasn't even that funny! Suddenly, a large boom startled me. We both jumped and looked up. Purple spirals invaded the air. Hissing in the sky. Then more shot up until the sky was under attack with purple spirals and tiny gold fizzles. We stopped laughing for a moment to watch. But, I soon turned back to look at him. "But, Fang..." He looked away from the sky, back at me. "I really am sorry." He nodded.
"Me too, Max. You have no idea." he said.
"I mean...not just for tonight. I mean everything." I wanted him to understand what I meant. I meant everything. He looked at me for a minute, and then nodded. I knew he understood.
"I'm sorry for everyhthing, too. And the prank. I'm sorry about making you cry. I never meant to hurt you, you know that, right?"
"Yeah...I know." I laughed a little bit. "That prank seems so stupid now. So childish." I shrugged. "Oh...and I forgive you for all the things you apologized for, too. He nodded again. (We seem to be doing quite a bit of nodding today.)
"I forgive you too." We sat for a second. More fireworks were being loaded. I could see it down below us. It was almost too quiet. I reached my hand out and found Fang's.
"So...you didn't like my outfit much today did you?" I asked him, only half joking. He chuckled a bit.
"Actually...it didn't look half bad on you. In fact...it...er...looked kinda good on you." I blushed. "But, you know what, Max?"
"Hmmm?" I grunted, looking up at the stars as showers of green sparks launched into the air and fizzled out.
"I like how you look in your normal clothes too." he said. I looked over at him. He smiled.
"Thanks." I leaned in and lightly kissed him on the cheek. "That was sweet." I could feel his cheeks heat up. I laughed under my breath, very softly. Emerald explosions shook the night sky and sent a rain of green sparks towards the earth. Little miniature gold ones combined with them, and the sky looked like a beautiful watercolor painting. I leaned my head on Fang's shoulder, trying to take it all in. He stiffened at first, but then relaxed and leaned his head ontop of mine. Hundreds of bright red lines streaked the sky, making it look completely red, and leaving a trail of sparkling, fading red behind it. Light green fireworks lit up in front. Then, when they faded, fireworks like white lightning replaced them. They danced across the sky haphazerdly, showering everything in sparks. Then purple ones with light gold centers filled the night sky after the others. And so on, and so on, until the sky was a color palate. I breathed in the fresh night air, and didn't dare close my eyes for a second, for fear that it would dissappear. For now, the only thing that existed was me, Fang, and the beautiful fireworks. No itex, no other people, no worries whatsover. Just us....
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A/N: Oh! That was so fun to write! I loved it. No, that was not the fax chapter, that one's coming super soon! But, I think this one turned out pretty well too. Teehee...That was fun. Hope you liked it. There's still more to come. Like two chapters, though so it must soon come to an end. Ooh...That was fun. Review people!