A/N: FAX.

Chapter 10

Max POV

"Balloons?"

Brigid replies. "Check."

"Streamers?"

J.J. gives me a thumbs-up. "Check-o."

"Confettis?"

Tess imitates a pirate accent. "Aye, captain."

"Homemade chocolate-chip cookies?"

"Check. Wait, why do we need cookies?" Lissa asks.

I answer her. "Because I always get hungry. And only my mom's cookies satiate my sweet tooth."

They all look at me kind of funny. "What?"

Aya breaks the silence. "How can you eat so much and not gain weight?"

"I have a high metabolism. I burn calories easily."

Lissa and Brigid both shake their heads. "We all wish we have your body." They walk back to their dorm room talking about nail polishes.

Tess eyes my cookies and asks me if she can taste them. I tell her yes. She takes a cookie and bites into it. She groans and tells J.J. to taste it. J.J. melts.

"Can we have your cookies?" They ask me while biting their lower lip.

I just sigh. "You can have them. My mom's gonna bring five boxes of them tonight."

They giggle and take my precious cookies away. They skip back to their dorm room.

I blow the hair out of my face. I straighten my bangs and take a stroll in the backyard.

As I enter the backyard, a crowd of swooning girls block my way. "Excuse me-" I don't finish my sentence because they suddenly scream. I push my way through the crowd. Eventually, I get to the front, only to be greeted by Fang watering the hedges barechested and wearing only gray sweatpants.

Anger rushes through my veins quickly. "PUT A SHIRT ON, NICHOLAS!" I yell at the top of my lungs.

He slowly turns his head around and takes off one earphone. "Did you say something?"

I take deep breaths and walk toward him. "I said, put a shirt on."

He turns off the garden hose and points at his soaking wet black t-shirt resting on a bench. "It's wet."

"Find something to wear. You're causing a riot." I turn back around, but Nick grabs my arm. "Let go of me."

He lets go and I continue to walk out of there.

"Max!"

I stop and whirl around. "What?"

"Do you find this," Nick flaunts his body at my direction. "distracting?" My jaw drops and he grins wickedly. I ignore him and leave the yard.

I stop when I reach the library and enter inside.

I close my eyes. But all I could see is his abs. His ripped six-pack abs.

Oh, God. I touch the back of my neck. It's wet with sweat.

This preparation thing is gonna be a lot harder to finish.

Fang POV

She's such an innocent. Just seeing her face get that red makes me so happy.

Because of Iggy, I was stuck inside this school tending the school's garden and plants all day. I was ready to die from boredom until Max came along. Now that made my day.

Tonight is the Curriculum.

What is it? You might ask. I tell you what it is.

The Curriculum is the Open House. Why two days and not one? Because the parents will see Deveraux one day and Larenston the other. But this year, Iggy got lazy so he sets up the Larenston's Curriculum here in Deveraux.

It's such a big responsibility, you know. You have to do the preparations, make sure every student's parents will come, check off the parents of the students who are not going to come, inform the students to be in their best behaviors, blah blah blah.

It's a good thing I'm not the president.

In just a few minutes, the Curriculum is starting. It's always big and spectacular every year. It's also fun to watch the students in their "best" behaviors. Believe me, it's funny.

I can't wait to see Max's mother again. I always get excited whenever I see Max's mom. I don't know why; maybe because my mother wasn't always there. It's also been awhile since I saw Max's younger sister.

Max's younger sister is the opposite of her. They don't even look alike. Ella is the spitting image of their mother. Max, well, she looks like her father. I haven't met him, but Dr. M told me that he was a scientist. Max and Ella are half sisters, by the way.

The bell rings and students and their parents now fill Deveraux.

I don't see Max and her mother, but I'll be waiting.

A/N: I lied. No FAX. Next chapter, there will be FAX. I promise. Cross my heart and hope to die.

Iggy: RnR?

Fang: I found out what egg pie is.

Max: What is it?

Fang: It's pie made with egg whites and sugar.

Me: It's good. Though it lacks taste everytime I eat it.