Chapter Ten

Max's POV

I was beyond excited to find out that Peter was in my third period class as well as my first period one. I was really banking on Ren's advice when I took the chair right next to him.

He likes you. He likes you. I thought to myself just to reinforce my point.

"Yo, Venom!" A tall blonde haired boy yelled from across the room, smiling at Peter who returned it with a small one of his own. "I see you still catchin' the ladies." The blue-eyed boy eyed me with a pleaded once-over.

"This is Max, you remember Maxalina, don't you, Beta?" Peter asked as the teen took the other seat next to me. Chemistry had three lab partners as opposed to Biology that only had two.

The boy smiled at me. "Seth Beta, and you must be Maxalina Martinez?"

I nodded shyly, so out of character for me that it startled me. I glanced at Seth and frowned. There was something about him that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Like Ren and Monique, he smelled slightly of a wet dog.

"You're new here too?" I asked, remembering my conversations with his…sisters?

"Yeah. Moved here last year, wouldn't believe what a pain it is to move over and over again, but my, um, brother Edward doesn't like staying in one place too long." Seth commented as if he were talking about the weather.

"Oh?" I baited.

"Yeah, he just can't seem to understand that we're not little kids anymore and we can handle the fact that we're orphans. Moving isn't going to make it any less painful."

"Monique didn't seem all that upset about it when I talked to her about it." I commented and it threw him for a loop.

"You know Nudge?" He blushed. "She's something all right, doesn't mind anything, not even Ed's strict rules about, erm, dating." Seth continued. "But…oh, what was I talking about?" He grinned, "Got distracted for a minute."

"You were talking about your family?" I prompted but he didn't take the bait this time.

Seth grinned cockily, easily changing the subject. "I think we were talking about you, Martinez."

"Okay, what do you want to know?" I asked, trying to not let on that I'd noticed the little eye shove Peter was giving Seth.

"Well, for starters, why didn't you tell your good buddy Venom that you had a twin sister who looks nearly identical to you?" Seth said with an amused grin. "He seemed to fluster one Bellachay last period when he reminded her of your lunch date."

I raised an eyebrow at Peter. So it really is a date! Wait, this means he told Bella and she probably told Iggy and Alice, so Jacob probably knows by now. Great. His crush on me is getting in the way of my happy mood about Peter.

"You hit on my sister, huh?" I asked, half angry, half flattered. He did think it was me after all.

"Not on purpose." Peter barely whispered, his voice too quiet for me to hear normally if not for my Avian DNA.

"Of course, can you blame him? You two are spooky identical." Seth piped up. "Even though I only met you now, I'm still confused." He grinned cockily again. "Luckily, I call everyone by their last names anyway so it doesn't really matter."

"Class!" Mr. Hayes yelled over the roar of the students. "Settle down!"

The tall Korean looked bored out of his mind, but we obeyed his command anyway. I glanced at Peter through the corner of my eye and he glanced away quickly from me. Wait, was he staring? My cheeks reddened and I focused back on the teacher.

"Today, you will learn about chemical equations…" Mr. Hayes rambled on, but I paid him no mind. Its not like I would even need to learn any of this stuff. My destiny was bigger than balancing equations.

A piece of paper landed on my desk and I pulled it under the counter to read it privately and without Mr. Hayes' knowledge. I wasn't sure if he was one of those crazy 'no notes in class' teachers or not yet and there was no way I was risking detention to find out.

Sorry was all that was written and I lifted my head and turned my head from Seth to Peter to see which one had sent it. The corner of Peter's mouth twitched upwards and I knew I had the culprit.

Sorry for what, Peter? I scrawled back and passed it to Peter's waiting hand. I blushed when our hands touched and a tingly feeling came over me.

I pretended to do the problems Mr. Hayes was writing on the board, but really, I was just waiting for Peter's reply.

For not noticing it wasn't you since you are obviously the more beautiful of the two. And please, call me Fang. Was his reply.

I didn't even bother to process the first part, my instant reply was Fang? Nice nickname…care to explain? ;)

Omg. I did not just wink in a note, did I? Now he's going to think I'm a complete weirdo and never speak to me again. What has this boy done to my rock hard exterior?

I'll show you some day. Promise. Peter wrote back hastily and smirked at my confused expression. I have to tell you, he had that Dark, Handsome, Mysterious thing going for him.

What did he mean 'show me?' He was the one who brought it up. Ugh! Boys infuriate me!

I was about to write back when Peter snatched the note out of my hand and began scribbling on it again. When he handed it back, it read this: Walk you to lunch?

Instead of replying again, since there were only two minutes left in class, I simply looked up at him and nodded, a twinkle in my eye.

"Right this way…" 'Fang' whispered in my ear just as the bell rang overhead. I stood and followed him out the doorway and down the corridor to the lunchroom.

If I had expected my lunch date to go smoothly, I was obviously too naïve for my own good.

AN: What does Fang mean about 'showing' Max his nickname? Will Leah get all uber jealous and kill Max at lunch? Or will Angel be the one to snap against her singsong?