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Ella's POV

I don't know if I should be slightly freaked out or – yeah, slightly more freaked out when I realize that Iggy's taking a freezing cold shower. And Fang keeps giving me weird looks.

Finally, Max takes Nudge and Gazzy and Angel out to the indoor pool, promising she'll be back in a second.

As soon as the door closes behind them, Fang looks straight at me. "You gave him a serious boner," he says.

I blush severely at that, and Fang just grins. "What happened in there? And no, I won't tell Max," he says.

"Um, well, he told me he'd either find my mom or die trying, and then I said that I had a crush on him, and then he said that he had a crush on me, and then I kissed him, and then… It kind of got a little out of hand, and then Max walked in," I say in a rush.

"Yeah, I saw the last bit," he says, pulling out the digital camera that he gave Angel a while back. He flips through it for a second and then shows me the screen.

It's a picture of me up against the wall of the girls' restroom with my legs curled around Iggy's waist, and he's holding me up with one hand and bracing himself against the wall with the other. And we're kissing.

"It's a pretty hot picture, I must say," Fang grins, putting the camera away.

Iggy's POV

Getting out of a cold shower after the best moment of your life is not fun. Actually the cold shower isn't much fun. And neither is the best moment of your life ending.

I put on my clothes quickly, and as I open the door of the bathroom, I hear Fang say, "It's a pretty hot picture, I must say."

I hear the breathing of the other person and identify her immediately; Ella. They haven't noticed me yet, so I just quietly slip behind the couch so that they can't see me from the beds where they are.

"Did it feel good?" Fang asks her.

"What? Kissing Iggy?" She pauses. "Yeah. Yeah, it did."

"And Ig was obviously having a good time," Fang chuckles. I know Ella's grinning at him, as Fang goes on. "I just wanted to let you know that I'm all for you guys being together, regardless of what Max says."

What a relief! At least one of the Flock is on our side. "Speaking of Max, I'm going to go find her," Fang says, getting up.

The door closes behind him, and I hear Ella sigh. I walk over to the bed where she's sitting.

"Hey, Iggy," Ella says, turning to face me as I sit down.

"Hey. Look, I'm so sorry about Max coming in on us earlier," I say.

Her hand cups my cheek as she says, "Well, Max should just get over herself. It's not like we don't know about her little make out sessions with Fang."

I laugh at that one. "Fang seems to be on our side, though," I muse.

"Oh so now you're eavesdropping, I see," she laughs.

I blush. "Not exactly. I heard the last bit of your conversation with Fang, but you know, I talk to him, too."

"Right. I forgot that you guys have little heart-to-hearts too," she says. "All right, what's taking them so long? I'm going to go find them. Want to come with me?"

"Sure," I say, taking her hand and leading her to the door.

Ella's POV

As soon as Iggy opens the door, I realize that this is a bad idea. Max will kill me if we walk up on her and Fang kissing in some little corner. Though it would be some sweet payback. And the camera Fang had is in my back pocket.

"Where should we check first?" Iggy asks.

I put a hand over his mouth. "Shhh," I whisper. "They could be anywhere. Doing anything." I think Iggy catches my drift because he grins maniacally.

"Payback," he murmurs.

We decide to check the elevator first, and, not finding them there, we decide to head down to the pool to get clues from the other three.

"Hey, guys!" I call, waving to them from across the pool.

Angel pops out of the water, her blonde curls now brown with wetness. "Hey, Ella! Hi, Iggy! Max came down with us, and Fang came in a few minutes ago, but we went underwater and didn't see where they went," she says, reading my mind.

"Cool, thanks," I say.

"Hang on," Iggy says quietly, grabbing my wrist suddenly. He nods over to the bathroom door. "I hear something from in there."

"Alright, but be quiet. It's the ladies' room," I say, creeping over there with him on my heels. I hear a small noise and feel something on my butt. "What are you – oh, the camera. Right," I say. Iggy had just pulled the camera out of my back pocket and turned it on.

I pray that the door has been oiled recently as I slowly push it open. It has been apparently, because it didn't creak.

Sure enough, Max and Fang are on the floor – I mean, gross – and they're totally making out. Fang is at this point shirtless, and Max's shirt is laying on the floor a few feet away, meaning she's now in a tank top. Nice, Max. At that moment, they suddenly roll over, so now Max is on top, and I freeze, making sure they didn't notice us.

Iggy quietly hands me the camera, and I get a good picture before handing it back to him.

"Ahem," I say loudly.

Max shoots to a standing position, whirling around in the process. Her face turns about twelve shades of red when she sees me. She tries to speak, but her ragged breath doesn't exactly allow her. Or maybe she just can't speak. Huh. I rendered Maximum Ride speechless with one word.

"See?" I say. "I'm not dragging Fang out of this bathroom by the ear and yelling at him the whole way." At that moment, Fang comes up behind Max, still shirtless. He gives me a tiny grin.

"And you two obviously got a little further than Ella and I did," Iggy says, putting on hand on my waist and gesturing toward the shirts still on the floor. How did he know they had them off? Oh, he could feel the colors in the picture I took. I sure do hope that he hid that camera.

Needless to say, Max doesn't talk to me for the rest of the afternoon, though Fang does chuckle when I show him the picture.

Iggy's POV

Laying on the pull-out couch that night, I can't stop thinking about today. It has to be up there with the best days of my life. I mean, I got my first kiss from a girl I have a giant crush on, I got revenge on Max, and Fang told me that he was on my side for once. Pretty great day.

In the middle of the night, just as I'm about to drift off, I hear someone tiptoeing to Fang's side of the bed.

"Fang," I hear Max whisper softly.

"Mhmm?" Fang replies groggily.

"Scoot over," Max says.

"Why?" Fang asks.

"Why do you think, stupid?"

"Oh, okay, but Iggy's on the other side of the bed."

"Whatever."

I feel Fang shift towards me just enough to where Max can slide in beside him.

"Are you okay?" Fang murmurs.

"Yeah, I guess. Just a lot to think about, you know? And I couldn't get to sleep because…" The last part of her reply is too soft for me to hear.

"I didn't catch that last part," Fang says playfully. Must have something to do with him.

"I couldn't get to sleep because I couldn't hear you breathing," she snaps softly.

A few minutes pass silently. "Max?"

"Yeah?" she asks.

"Would you be okay if Ella and Iggy were together?" The million dollar question.

It takes Max a full minute to answer. "Yeah."

"Then why are you so bent on keeping them apart?" Fang asks.

"It just scares me. The thought that the Flock might be changing… I just don't want them to make any stupid mistakes," Max says.

"Wait, wait, wait," Fang begins. "You're telling me that you don't want the Flock to change. You do know that we kind of already changed it. And what kind of stupid mistakes do you expect them to make?"

"I'm afraid Iggy's going to slip up and, I don't know… Like get Ella pregnant or something…" What?! Are you kidding me?! Why would I ever—

"Iggy? Come on, Max. Give the boy some credit. He likes blowing things up, but I don't think those kind of things ever cross his mind. Heck, he can't even see Ella in the first place!" Fang laughs.

"Then why were you thinking about not telling Gazzy why Iggy would want to feel Ella naked?" Max blurts.

Fang is silent for a moment, and I'm stuck laying on my side of the bed thinking, How the heck does she know about that?

"You got Angel to spy on us?" he asks softly.

"Look if that's what you're thinking about all the time, I think I need Angel to spy on you," Max snaps.

"Max, Iggy freaked out when I mentioned it," Fang says. "He said that he would never do that to her. And I realize that Gazzy probably shouldn't have heard that conversation, but we kind of forgot he was sitting out there with us."

"You mentioned what, now?" I hear Ella say. Shoot. She woke up, and I was too consumed in Max and Fang's conversation to hear her walking over to the couch.

"Umm…" Fang sounds reluctant to share what we talked about. "Well, basically I was congratulating Iggy on his progress with you, and then I joked that in a few weeks you'd let him feel you naked, and then he freaked out, and he said that he'd never do that to you. He said you deserved so much more than that, and he said that you deserved someone better than him."

"He… He said that?" Ella asks in a quiet voice. "About me?"

"Yeah. He did," Fang says. "And then I told him that if he thought you deserved the best then he should be with you, because I know that he'd treat you right."

"He's so sweet," Ella says. "Alright, I'm going to go back to sleep now. Night you two," Ella says. She walks over to my side of the bed and bends down to me. "Thank you, Iggy," she whispers. "And if I deserve the best, then I deserve you, because you are the best." I feel her lips on my forehead, and then she stands back up.

As she starts to walk away, I reach out and grab her hand. "I'll never be the man you deserve," I whisper.

"You're already more of a man than I'll ever deserve," she whispers back.

"Stay with me," I whisper softly. I make room for her in the already crowded bed, and then I feel her get in beside me.

"Always," she breathes. I wrap my arms around her waist and bury my nose in her hair.

Best. Night. Ever.

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