"Sing! Sing! Sing!"
The chanting did not help. Right now, I was being forced to sing for Ella's friends.
Okay, I'm going to go back a bit and tell you exactly why. Well, Ella was turning twelve. And, my mom had let her have a birthday party at our house. The flock and I stayed upstairs, since we were claustrophobic and not capable of being comfortable in big crowds.
Plus, Ella's long time crush, Shaw, was coming. So, since we might get a little paranoid and start attacking him, I thought it was a perfect plan just to camp out in my room for the night.
I was wrong.
"Max, I need to pee!" Gazzy whined.
I glared at him. "The party's going to be over in about fifteen minutes. Can't you hold it?"
"Noooo." Gazzy groaned, hopping around and holding his crotch. It was a disturbing sight.
"Just let him go." Fang said, burying his face in his hands. "Before he--"
Gazzy farted.
"--farts." Fang finished, and then stuffed his face into a pillow. Make that my pillow. The first thought that came to me was, Oh, my god! Fang put his face into my pillow! SQUEE! I bet it smells like him now! OMG, I wonder how he smells. Oh, I bet he smells good!
Dang hormones.
"But you said you wanted to pee!" Nudge moaned, pinching her nose.
Gazzy giggled.
"Max, just let him!" Iggy choked.
"Okay, fine." I said, standing up. Holding my breath, I opened my bedroom door. Music could be heard from downstairs.
No, it wasn't like those loud music like some parties are. Nope. Ella wasn't like that.
"Hurry." I said, pushing Gazzy into the bathroom. I closed my bedroom door and waited impatiently in the hallway. Gazzy was taking soooo looooong...
"Are you Ella's sister? Oh, my god, Ella! I found your sister! She's alive! Ella!" I cringed as a high pitched voice started screaming for Ella to come here.
"Oh, crap." I muttered under my breath. "Gazzy, let me in!" I pounded on the bathroom door.
Over the music, I heard Gazzy say in a smart alec tone, "You know, Max, I'm a big kid. I need my privacy."
My waist was suddenly enveloped in strong arms and I was carried downstairs.
"Noo!" I screeched. "Faaaaaaang!"
I was put on the floor, and then immediately received many hugs.
"Oh, you're alive!"
"I thought you were dead!"
"Oh, Max! Ella would be so happy!"
Wait, dead? I don't recall dying.
"Ella!" I roared. She popped out from the crowd, an apologetic look on her face.
"Sorry, Max." She whispered. "They wanted to see you, so I had to tell them an excuse."
"You told them I died?!" I asked incredulously.
"Just play along. Please." She murmured.
"Fine."
It was her birthday, after all.
"Hey, El, can your sister sing?" I watched as Shaw ask my little sister.
"Huh? Oh, yeah." Ella said dreamily.
"What? No I can't!" I protested as I was hauled to the front of the living room. A microphone waited hauntingly for me.
"Fang!" I yelled out desperately.
"Why is she calling out to a tooth?" I heard Ella's friend say.
"Fang's her boyfriend." Ella told her.
I prevented myself from punching anyone and looked around. I saw no sign of Fang, or the flock. Oh, no. Were they ambushed, too?
And, now, you are officially caught up. That was how everyone was suddenly chanting, "Sing! Sing! Sing! Sing!"
"Um, okay." I said nervously into the microphone. "Would you guys shut up if I sing?"
A chorus of yes's and sure's followed.
"Well, okay." I bit my lip. "Twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder--"
"Sing a real song!" Someone yelled.
Where was Fang?
"Or are you too chicken?" They added.
Fang, if you don't get here within five seconds, I'll kill you!
I glared at Ella. "Fine!" I said into the microphone. "Um, someone put on some music."
Whoops and wolf whistles sounded as a track started playing. I recognized it as mine and Fang's song. Well, actually, the theme song that only I knew about because I knew Fang would laugh at me if I ever told him.
And, Ella knew about this, too. So she grinned deviously at me, wiggling her eyebrows.
I narrowed my eyes at her and started to sing:
"Its amazing how you can speak right to my heart
Without saying a word you can light up the dark
Try as I may I could never explain
What I hear when you don't say a thing
"The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There's a truth in your eyes sayin' you'll never leave me
The touch of your hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall
You say it best when you say nothing at all"
See what I mean when I said it was mine and Fang's song? It's exactly like how we act like. I scoured the room. The flock was still nowhere in sight.
"All day long I can hear people talking out loud
But when you hold me near, you drown out the crowd
Old Mr. Webster could never define
Whats being said between your heart and mine"
Finally! I saw Fang at the top of the stairs, leaning against the railing. He had an amused expression on his face, something I wanted to wipe right off.
"The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There's a truth in your eyes sayin' you'll never leave me
The touch of your hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall
You say it best when you say nothing at all"
Fang's amusement slowly disappeared. I knew that he was relating the song to something. Us.
"The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There's a truth in your eyes sayin' you'll never leave me
The touch of your hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall
You say it best when you say nothing at all"
I finished, and the crowd started cheering. Jeez, I wasn't that good.
I met Fang's gaze. His eyes seemed to bore holes into mine.
And I saw his lips slowly form a smile.