(Sorry! I know you hate the slow updating, but it's better than no updating!)
Dr M POV
I was gathering laundry for the flock, when I hear a slight moan. I walk towards it with a questioning look on my face.
"Max?" I called. I come in to see Max lips to lips with Fang, sitting on the end of her bed.
Max POV
It was our second night here and I wanted to pull a prank. Yesterday, Mom found me and Fang kissing and got really mad at us. She was furious, actually. She has been keeping a real close eye on us now. If I pull this prank, I may feel better about Fang, and mom. I think I like Fang, so this may be a perfect prank to get mom to lay off. I guess it's a prank on Fang too, but it's meant for Mom.
"Max, I want to help!" Angel said. She seemed very excited about the prank, and gave me an idea. Not a normal prank, but this will really tick some people off. Lets begin…
Iggy POV
I need this to work. I need this to work. This has to work! I had a plan; not a normal plan, but a plan for Max to like me. It needs to work. It WILL work. I just need everything to go perfect…
Max POV
It was a perfect plan, just waiting to happen. We all ate dinner in relative silence before we went up to our rooms.
"Fang? Can I talk to you?" I asked. Mom looked interested and Angel smiled. Time to begin.
"Sure," he says in his Fangish way. We walked up to my room and sat on opposite sides of the bed. Now, we stall.
Angel POV
"Dr. M? I can read her mind and send the thoughts to you… if you want." I said in my sweet little voice.
"I don't like spying, but I can't trust them yet. Please do." She said. I nodded and connected her mind to Max's, but not without mentioning,
Max, get ready.
Max POV
I was sitting on the bed, with Fang looking at me suspiciously.
"Uh, what's wrong?" he asked. He looked confused. Excellent.
Fang is such a good kisser! I deliberately thought. Oh my god, I love when he takes his shirt off for me. Hmmmmmmm, he's so hot! Man, mom better not sneak up on us. We need to be careful so she doesn't ruin our weekly fun!
I heard a soft giggle in my head from Angel.
"Max, what's really wrong?" I still haven't answered him. Oh well. I just stared at him. I made sure we had a good five feet between us, as I heard footsteps outside the door. Fang didn't seem to notice. 3, 2, 1-
"Fang! Get off Max now!" the door was flung open smashing into the wall. Mom looked furious and Fang looked shocked. Utter, complete, shock. Mom nearly pounced on the bed trying to grab Fang. She tackled him off the bed before realizing, he had his shirt on. We weren't kissing, and she just tackled him for no reason. I burst out laughing now, watching as they stare at me, or more like glaring. They looked upset. Fang looked more surprised than angry.
"Max, what was that about?" Mom asked angrily.
"That was an awesome prank!" I said between laughs. She grunted and stood up brushing herself off.
"We'll talk about this later. I need to make dinner." And she walked back downstairs.
"Max, What the heck was that?" Fang asked. I just smiled.
"Well, I haven't really pulled a prank yet and this was a great opportunity to pull one on you. I thought getting Mom mad at you would make it even more believable!" I explained. He just looked shocked.
"Sorry, it was mean, but you should've seen your face!" I said laughing again.
"Max, that wasn't funny." He said gruffly. He was mad, but it was worth it. I just looked at him until I blinked, and I noticed something. I couldn't see. I blinked, and when I opened my eyes I saw white. Just, white. Oh my God, I think I'm going blind.
Fangs POV
Max was just staring at me, with her big, brown, (A/N I think they were brown anyway…) eyes. She was just looking right at me. I close my eyes for a moment before opening them to see… white. Just, white. A bright, stunning, blinding color of white surrounding me on all directions. I couldn't see anything except this color for an hour, or at least it felt like that. It was probably only like a minute, but oh well.
"Max!" I tried yelling but it seemed distant and it seemed someone else yelled it. I couldn't speak, I can't see, I can't even move, this is Hell. Color immediately flooded my vision and I looked around. I wasn't looking at Max, but at myself. I was looking at a Fang, sitting on the bed in front of me.
Max's POV
Suddenly, all of the white faded leaving all the colors again. It takes me a while to realize that I am staring at Fang, on the ground with Mom still holding him down by his hands.
"Fang?" I called, but it was distorted and quiet, almost like a whisper. I tried to jump off the bed, but couldn't move. I was cemented in place.
"What was that about?" she called. Wait, have I heard that before?
"That was an awesome prank!" I said, but it wasn't really me. I was seeing through my own eyes, so this must be like a vision or something.
"We'll talk about this later. I need to make dinner." Mom said getting off Fang. Whoa, Déjà vu! In a blast of white, the vision was gone and I saw Fang again, back to reality.
"Whoa!" we both called. Wait, had he been through the same experience?
"Fang, what did you do?" I asked. He just shrugged.
"I think you did it." He said simply putting his impassive mask of mystery back on. What he said makes sense though. I could see through my eyes, and maybe he did too. Strange…
"Max, I think you have a new power." Fang said. I nodded this time. I guess I did…
Max, I told you were mutating powers on your own. The sudden lack of saving-the-world-stress must be making them all come quickly. You can replay things that have happened from your own eyes. You can even make others see your visions. The voice said in my head. Whoa, so I can replay anything I've seen before, and make others see it too? Great, I'm a video camera with legs. Well, wings too but that's not the point.
"Max? Your staring into space again." Fang said. I explained to him what happened and he said nothing. Shocker.
"Fang, did you understand what I said?" I asked him. He nodded.
"I'm still mad at you, but if you help me get back at Angel I'll forget what you did." He said smirking when he finished. Well, we do have some free time, besides the whole Omega thing, and I don't want Fang getting revenge on me… I guess this would be the better option.
"Alright, what's the plan?"
Iggy POV
Man, Fang has been in his room for a long time. Max is in there too so I hope nothings happened… Omega was still out there and he may be able to track us. I heard a loud gasp from inside and immediately thought the worst. Then I listened and heard another. Ew, they better not be doing…
"Iggy? What are you doing?" I turned around to see Angel.
"Angel? What are they doing?" I asked. She concentrated for a second then stopped.
"Iggy! You are a sicko! They are not doing that!" she screamed before running downstairs. Well, that didn't work. Now, Max and Fang came out of the room and stared at me, or at least I think.
"Iggy? What was that about?" Max asked.
"Nothing…" I mumbled before turning around and heading downstairs. So at least they weren't doing that but I was curious. I got to the last stair and turned around and headed back up until I ran into Max. I'll admit, it wasn't exactly an accident but don't tell her that.
"Sorry Max. Um, what were you guys talking about?" he asked.
"Ok, but come here." She said. She grabs my arm and pulls me into her room and sits me on her bed. I hear the door close and the soft 'click' of the lock.
"Ok, were only telling you because of the mean prank we pulled…" I swallowed hard. That was really bad… But Fang would really explode like that if he found out I liked Max. Better to keep it a secret… for now. This time Fang actually spoke up.
"Here's what we're going to do…"
Angels POV
OMG OMG OMG! MAX NEEDS TO GET TOGETHER WITH FANG! THAT WOULD BE AWESOME! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Well someone gave Nudge some sugar. I scanned through more minds.
I am going to kill Fang if he takes a single move on Max. They have no privileges any more. If I don't see them in five minutes, I'm going up to get Max downstairs and keep her from him for the rest of her life.
Ok, Dr. M. has some serious issues.
When can I do this and get Max to like me? Iggy. It's all he's been thinking about. I feel bad for him, I mean it is unfair to him. If he managed to like a regular person, it wouldn't end well. Either they would see our wings or we'd have to leave to avoid Omega and he would never see them again. Poor Iggy, he really likes Max. He was thinking about a plan to make it happen, but I don't know if it would work. I guess we'll find out eventually.
Ok, this will work. This prank will be awesome! I hope Nudge won't be too mad though…Well that was interesting! Max was going to pull a prank? Better keep listening…
Iggy POV
Max was going to prank Nudge. Ok, this might be a good time to do my plan. I need to wait for this prank to finish. Then, this will work perfectly. I hope… Fang just can't find out yet. Not until later. This prank will happen soon, we just have to wait. And wait, and wait, and wait. Nudge always gets a sugar high around eight o' clock so we're just waiting. She has been practicing her emotion powers, but she can't control them. She's been practicing the whole week we've been here on me mostly, and she's getting good. But when she's hyper, she goes berserk. HER emotions go crazy! Just keep waiting…
Max POV
We just finished eating the dinner Mom had made and it's about seven thirty. Thirty more minutes… better make this more fun.
"Hey Mom? Do we have any cookies left?" I asked. She nodded and pulled out a small jar. Nudge immediately ran over and grabbed twelve. I smiled. This would be better than expected.
Later
"Max? I'm mad! Angel ate the last cookie! Can I punch her?" Nudge asked/yelled. Man, this was even better than normal.
"No" I said. She sighed and walked off to the fridge. I watched as she pulled herself to the freezer using her magnet-powers. She then repelled herself to the opposite side of the room and did it again. And again. Ok, angry, to loopy. We should do this more often!
"Fang! You need to talk more! You are a boring person! Come dance with me and be more fun!" uh, ok then. Nudge trotted over to Fang and grabbed his hands pulling him up. She carried him to the kitchen and began doing some ballroom dance thing. I burst out laughing at this point. Everyone else was watching too, except Mom who left for the store. Good thing too or she would've stopped her.
"Max, now you dance with Fang! You two really like each other! Do it!" ok, now I was blushing and Everyone was staring at me, including Fang.
"I want to dance with Fang really bad! But I can't dance and he'd laugh at me!" I blurted. Oh, hell no. Gazzy, is gonna die.
"Max, I won't laugh out loud! I want to dance too!" Fang said. He looked shocked for a second and tried putting his mask back on. Tried, anyway. He was still pretty embarrassed.
"Max, don't dance with him! First of all, you hate dancing! Second, I'm a way better guy than Fang!" Oh my god, Iggy did not just say that. He instantly jumped up and tackled Gazzy to the ground.
"I am going to kill
you! And then, I'll bring you back to life, and kill you again!
What is your problem?" He screamed. Gazzy looked terrified on the
ground. Iggy was pushing his shoulders down so he couldn't get
up.
"I just wanted to hear what Max would say about the dancing!
Honest!" Gazzy said.
"He's telling the truth." Fang said angrily. Oh man, there's no way. Iggy does can not like me. Fang will explode. I guess I never even considered Iggy liking me. He just seemed more like a brother. But that's also how I felt about Fang… Damn, my life is screwed up.
"This is like a soap opera!" Nudge stated and everyone glared at her. She was still on her emotional high.
"Nudge, Angel, Gazzy, Ella, bed. Now!" I yelled they all hustled upstairs, except Gazzy who couldn't move.
"Iggy…" I sighed and he got up. The Gasman ran upstairs before anything else happened. There was an awkward silence.
"Max, let me see you outside. Now." Fang said menacingly.
Iggy POV
"I am going to kill you! And then, I'll bring you back to life, and kill you again! What is your problem?" I screamed. Gazzy didn't even make me say that, that was my own choice.
"I just wanted to hear what Max would say about the dancing! Honest!" Gazzy stuttered. Well, it makes sense, but he's not off the hook. He will never get away with this.
"He's telling the truth." Fang said. Oh crap. Fang is going to be pissed. Beyond pissed. He will be so mad, suicide may be the better way to go.
"This is like a soap opera!" Nudge said excitingly. If this wasn't so serious, I would hit her. It wasn't her fault though, she is on a cookie-influenced sugar high. (A/N I love that sentence!)
"Nudge, Angel, Gazzy, Ella, bed. Now!" Max screamed but I stayed on Gazzy. He will not move from this spot until I get revenge.
"Iggy…" Max said in a tired voice. Oh man, how did she feel about this? She probably hates me now…I never even go to use my awesome plan!
"Gazzy, we're not done." I whispered before getting up. He quickly ran upstairs. To avoid me, no doubt.
"Max, can I see you outside? Now?" Fang said angrily. I swear I could feel his eyes boring into mine staring me down. He was upset, but that's what I get for thinking Max would ever like someone like me. I'm blind, my best friend is an eight-year old, and she thinks of me as a perv. I can't be around her ever again. Or Fang. I need to leave the Flock.
Max POV
Fang led me outside holding onto my arm tightly. His face was red with anger and immediately I knew this would not be a fun talk. I think I should talk to Iggy before we talk, but Fang would never allow that. We were outside the house, on the porch. I felt bad for Iggy… he never meant to say that. Was he planning on saying that anyway? Oh my god, this is terrible. Maybe if I'm lucky, Mom will get home like now.
"Max, tell him. Tell him you don't want to see him and he needs to back off." He growled. Well, that was a great way to start this conversation.
"Fang, I can't. I can't let him down." I said. If I had to tell him anything like that, I would die. I could never do that to someone in the Flock.
"Oh my God, you like him!" Fang said, yelling towards the end.
"He's like a brother to me!" I fired back. "Are you getting jealous?"
"I AM NOT JEALOUS!" he screamed. "You said I was like a brother to you too! You like him, but you can't. You can't like Iggy!" No. he did not just say that.
"I CAN LIKE WHOEVER I WANT!" I screamed. "YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! AND YOU CAN'T GET MAD AT IGGY BECAUSE YOUR JEALOUS!" Damn, I was pissed. Way pissed. This time, he growled.
"YOU ADMIT IT! YOU DO LIKE IGGY! HOW CAN YOU DO THIS?!?" he yelled. "YOU ACT LIKE YOU LIKE ME, WE'RE PRACTICALLY GOING OUT, AND YOU LIKE IGGY!"
"YOUR ARE THE BIGGEST JERK I HAVE EVER MET!" I screamed. "I NEVER SAID I LIKED IGGY AND EVEN IF I DID, AT LEAST HE DOESN'T YELL AT ME! AND WE'RE NOT GOING OUT! AND AFTER THIS, I DON'T THINK THAT WILL EVER HAPPEN!" I YELLED. I felt a tear run down my left cheek. I hate fighting with him, but he is being a total jackass! I am not going to do this anymore, I just want to go to bed. I don't want to fight about this or anything. How can this get any worse?
"Max? I need to talk to you." Iggy. Of course. It was so cliché, I ask if it can get worse, and then it does.
"Fang, stay calm." I said. I was trying to hold back the tears but they wouldn't stop coming.
"IGGY, TELL MAX YOU WERE KIDDING." Fang ground out. I could tell it was killing him to not rip Iggy's lungs out.
"Max, I meant it. I've liked you for a while, but I didn't mean for this to happen…" he said. He sounded really mad, but not at us. Mad at himself for telling.
"Iggy… it's just…"
"YOU KNOW SHE LIKES ME! MAX WILL NEVER LIKE A GUY LIKE YOU!" I have never been madder before in my entire life. 'A guy like you'? he is being a total jerk. At Iggy even! His own brother, his own best friend, his own family. This is getting out of control. Iggy never did anything wrong, really and he doesn't deserve this.
"Iggy, he didn't mean it. He's just being a dick!" I yelled. Fang glared at me, but then directed his anger at Iggy again. "Fang, stop. You are just being a jealous idiot. We're not going out, so if I like Iggy, it shouldn't be that big of a deal!" I said exasperated. The tears were coming like a faucet now, and I couldn't stop it. We shouldn't be fighting about this. Especially not here where the kids may be hearing this.
"Max, choose." Fang said. Choose? What?
"W-What do you mean?" I said choking on my tears. This was terrible…
"Me, or Iggy. Do you want me, or him?" he said. He said 'him' like Iggy was some piece of trash you'd find on the ground.
"I-I don't want to do this. Just stop fighting!" I yelled.
"Max, we can't. You have to pick. Right now. Fang, or me." Iggy said. I have never heard him so mad. He was trying to avoid this fight, he was trying to avoid making me choose, he was trying, but failing. He was right, this has gone on too long to be stopped. I would have to choose…
"Max, just say my name so we can go to bed." Fang said.
"Or, you can say my name. The poor blind kid, the kid who has never fought with you, the kid who does the cooking, the kid who's liked you for years." I was crying harder now. Fang had managed to get Iggy involved in this? I can't see Iggy ever doing something like this. I can't see him fighting, I can't see him yelling, and I would never even imagine him screaming at Fang. Iggy is just being sucked into this fight, and he really shouldn't be in it.
"Max, you need to choose. It's me or Iggy. Remember who's kissed you, who's actually proved I like you." he said.
"Max, I don't want to do this, but choose. Now." Iggy growled. I have never seen him like this. He's acting just like Fang now.
"Max, choose!" Fang screams.
"Ok." I said, tears running down my face. "I choose neither of you." I jump up into the air and whip out my wings. I fly away over the house and put on my speed.
"Max!" I hear them both yell at the same time, but I ignore it. I just keep flying feeling the tears flying off my face. I was cold flying at this time of night, and I didn't have a jacket, but there was no way I was going back. Not now, not for a long time.
Iggy POV
I can't do this. I can't force Max to make this decision. It's not right. But Fang won't stop arguing, and he's already mad. And if she does have to make the decision, I don't think Fang stands a very good chance right now. That sounds mean, but he does deserve it. I don't want her to have to decide, but it's inevitable that this will only end when she does. Fang has just been making stuff worse from the start. I've liked Max since that fateful day when Angel was taken. I realized it as soon as I saw her again, after she met Dr. M. when I saw her again, everything was better. I know that always happens when your reunited with family, but this was different. This was special. I need her to realize, Fang just isn't right for her. They always argue, and Fang flirts with every girl he comes in contact with. Bridget. Ugh, that drove me crazy. Max was so angry, and Fang just cared about flirting. I don't think he realizes how much Max liked him. But now, I don't want them together. I want Max to like me. I can be better than Fang ever would be.
"Max, you need to choose. It's me or Iggy. Remember who's kissed you, who's actually proved I like you." Fang said bringing me back to reality. I had been so absorbed in my own thoughts. I had to do this. I had to make Max finally admit, Fang isn't right for her. As a friend, sure. But he flirts with so many other girls, I don't see how Max possible thinks he likes her. Ok, I have to say it.
"Max, I don't want to do this, but choose. Now." I said. She looked hurt. She probably wasn't expecting me to say something like that. Damn, I should've thought that through.
"Ok. I choose neither of you." she says before jumping up and flying away. She uses her super speed and is gone in a second.
"Max!" I called. I was mad because Fang called too, the exact moment I called. She would come back soon. It may take a day, it may take two, but she'll come back, and I'll give the best apology ever. I can't believe this started because of a stupid prank. I turn around and walk towards the back door. Fang is still standing there looking up towards the sky. I close the door and sit on the couch for a good ten, twenty minutes before Fang comes in and sits in the kitchen. We just sit there, not talking. I think he glances at me every few seconds but says nothing. The front door opens and Dr. M. walks in.
"So how was your night?"
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