Chap. 10

Declare Yourself!

A/N: I know how you all hate having authors' notes at the beginning of chapters, but this is a fair warning:

There will be kissing and some mature stuff.

Don't read it if it offends you, but all it is is kissing.

Fang POV

(Read the bold!)

I could feel Max getting upset. But why? Then the song registered to me. Really had me going. She thought that was us?

Max's mouth trembled. Her eyebrows slanted upward in the saddest expression I had ever seen on her face. I couldn't help it. I leaned over and kissed her.

She reacted instinctively, pulling herself closer. Max tangled her fingers in my hair, and I felt every curve, every part, every line of her body against mine.

We kissed with a passion. My hands trailed from her back to her waist.

Perfect. The only word that entered my consciousness.

Max broke the kiss first. She breathed in quick gasps. I was panting myself, but I could've kissed her forever. Smiling, I wrapped my arms around her.

Faintly, I heard her say, "Screw redheads."

"Excuse me?" I asked politely.

Max blushed. Hmm, that's new. I like that. She shook her head.

"Tell me," I breathed into her ear.

She opened her mouth to say something, but clamped it shut.

"Yes?"

"Screw redheads," Max whispered.

"Huh?" brilliant me.

"Redheads!" Max raised her voice. "You have a thing for them!"

"I do?"

"The hell you don't!"

"I love you," I told her, "you and only you."

Her face softened, but her words didn't. "Layla," she said. "Lissa. AND that girl at Starbucks."
"What girl?"

"The one who flirted with you!"

Oh. Her. I hadn't really noticed her, but I noticed that a note was taped to my coffee with a name and number on it. I just crumpled it up and threw it away.

"I doesn't matter to me, Max."

"Matters to me, though!" she yelled.

"I'm not playing you, Max!"

"Still!" she shot back. "Who likes it when people stare at her boyfriend?"

Her boyfriend. I was her boyfriend. "What do you want me to do, look less hot?"

Max had to laugh. "Okay."

"You're giving up?" I asked.

"For now."

"I love you, Max."

And then, for the 2nd night, I slept in Max's room.

A/N: Before you ask, they DIDN'T have sex. Yet. (Muahhahaha, you'll see.) Do you think I overdid it with the warning? Was it a little too much or not enough to be rated T?

Anyway, REVIEW, babies!

~IceCweamWuver