After 2 months, I could officially call myself fitting in comfortably, which was actually kind of new. I mean if you hadn't noticed, Maximum Ride and friendly or sweet or nice or any words in those categories don't really go in the same sentence, and it's not exactly like I wanted them to either. But I was just proud of myself that I had found people I could call friends.

We, referring to my group of friends (aka Ella, Angel, Teagan, Gazzy, Tyler and Grant), were all sitting at our usual lunch table; but something seemed different. Ella kept giggling and nudging Angel, who also looked threatening mischievous. Teagan seemed to know what was so funny, but she was much better at pretending she didn't because she kept elbowing Ella, but managed to consistently keep a straight face. Gazzy was exchanged glances with Angel and Grant and Tyler seemed to be clueless. Like me. I'm always clueless. Has anyone else realized that?

"What?" I asked frustrated for the hundredth time, no exaggeration.

"Nothing," Ella replied a little, okay a lot, too innocently.

"I'm so not buying it," I muttered and the guys smirked understanding my cluelessness.

"It's just one guy Max, calm down!" Angel said, then immediately slapped her hands to her mouth not believing what she said.

"Way to ruin it," Ella muttered but grinned anyway to show she wasn't mad.

A guy? I inwardly groaned. Okay, this is not a lesbihonest situation for those of you Pitch Perfect fans out there. It's more of a I suck at dealing with guys because I screwed stuff up with Fang. But then I realized it might actually be a good chance to start over my dating problems, and maybe meet some sweet guy. Maybe, but this is my life were dealing with so that is highly unlikely.

"Oh, isn't that dance coming up?" Grant asked, returning from whatever world he was in as he'd been spacing out. Ella nodded excitedly.

I groaned, but out load this time. I absolutely hated, I repeat HATED, dances. Dances, besides airplanes, were my least favorite thing in pretty much the whole world. I hated them with a burning passion from my heart. Like I hate kinda a lot of things, I'll be honest, but this was by far the worst thing. Besides airplanes.

"Oh, you're going Max!" Ella and Angel exclaimed together. Teagan nodded enthusiastically, pushing a piece of her dark brown hair behind her ear. Her turquoise eyes sparkled as she grinned.

"Do I have a choice?" I asked still frustrated. As all three girls shook their heads 'no' I noticed the guys grin. I guess I was just a comedian. "What kind of dance is it?"

"A dance, dance Max! Like where a girl gets asked by a guy! You know, and then you like dance!" Teagan answered with her typical light hearteded laugh.

"Yeah come on Max. Get in the game," Gazzy added with a grin. He ran a hand through his spiked up hair and I couldn't help but grin. He looked so serious until he smiled.

"Sorry Gazzy, I'll work on that for you," I replied with a smirk. "So who are you three losers asking?" I looked at Grant, Gazzy and Tyler. They all looked at each other, and then blushed. "Oh, so you're going as like a guy threesome?" I wrinkled my nose at how not okay that was. "Please tell me that's not happening."

"Hell no," Grant replied right away and I smirked.

"Well? If you don't want me telling the school that Grant is asking Gazzy, tell me who you're asking!"

Tyler rolled his eyes, "I'm asking Olivia. Do you know her?" He didn't seem as nervous as the other two were, and I guessed that they were already pretty good friends. I nodded, she was in my English class and drop dead gorgeous. Her skin was perfect and she had big brown eyes that were light brown and shown in the light. Her hair was darker brown than mine, but a little lighter than Teagan and it was always perfect and she normally wore it in its natural beachy waves.

"OMZG!" Ella squealed, "You guys would be SO adorable! Like you're really tall and she's not and she's like stunning and I can totally see it!" Tyler grinned, and his eyes were a dark brown and his smile lit up his face.

"Um I'm planning on asking Autumn," Gazzy announced. Yeah I know it's kind of a weird name, but she's actually super sweet. Dang, she was stunning too and it was gonna make me feel bad when I was the ugliest girl there. Awkward.

"No way!" Angel exclaimed. "You guys would be like so perfect together! Come on, can't you guys see it? That would be so insanely adorable I can't even take it."

Gazzy grinned, looking quite pleased and a tad bit relieved. Like he was waiting for permission or something to ask her, which was actually kind of cute.

"Grant?" I asked, waiting for his answer. "Unless you're dateless now since you were planning on taking Gazzy. Although I'm not really sure who would be the male in that relationship…" I trailed off with my random thoughts.

Grant just rolled his eyes, but flashed a smile my direction. "I'm asking Casey," Grant announced. What the heck, why were they all like super pretty girls? Not fair. I mean not that I even cared about what they looked like, or what I looked like. Okay maybe I did, but not really.

I am such a girl.

A few days later, I was closing my locker after school when I slamming my locker shut on my way out of school when Ethan stopped me on my way out. "Hey Max."

"Hi Ethan, what's up?" I asked casually assuming he had a question about the Spanish homework. We sat next to each other in Spanish and shared answers since we got stuck with the awful teacher Ella had warned me about.

"I was just kinda wondering if you would wanna go to the dance with me?" he asked nervously.

I blushed not at all expecting that even though Angel had technically warned me. He'd totally caught me off guard but I couldn't just like not answer. Well, he was kinda cute and he was nice and smart and I knew him kinda well, considering at least.

"Um yeah, sure." I decided I would go with him since I was being forced to go. He had pretty blue eyes and light brown hair that sometimes flew in front of his face. He wasn't like super hot or anything, but he was pretty cute and nice enough.

"Awesome," he said with his cute little smile, and then gave me an awkward sort of hug.

"This is just like a one time thing though right? Sorry, I'm just not really looking for like a boyfriend right now…" I trailed off, but as nice as he was I didn't have time for an actual boyfriend right now.

He blushed nervously but nodded still smiling. "See ya later Max," as he ran off towards the loading busses.

XX

I'd told Ella and Angel and Teagan and Nudge of course, about my whole little meeting with Ethan. They were mortified that I didn't want to go out with him since according to them he was really hot and like super cool. I pretty much just ignored their complaints since I knew what I was doing and felt better not being his official girlfriend. The dance was in a few weeks and I still needed a dress, and I just groaned. I didn't sign up for this. My old school had lame-o dances and nobody went so I never had to worry about it. This sucked big time.

But the one thing that was bothering me was that as I was laying in bed that night, why couldn't I get a certain dark-haired someone off my mind? Someone I was pretty sure I hated, for quite good reasons too, had been coming to mind more and more often lately. It's not that I missed him it was just…I don't know. And also that comment that Nudge had made about he'd been acting differently ever since I'd left. It was so weird, because despite our differences we'd lived across the street from each other for 14 years. And now we weren't. And now I wasn't sure what I felt about Fang right now, especially that I had just gotten a date for a stupid dance.