Chap 10 -

Ok it gets really annoying when you're going to school and all anyone can ask you is if you and your friend are dating or if you like each other. I can't even count the amount of times I've said no we're just friends. Or he hates my guts but if I got paid for every time I used those lines I'd be so rich I wouldn't have to go crying to Daddy anymore.

Fang seemed to be in a bit of a mood when he arrived at school and by a mood I mean he looked kind of angry. He stormed straight passed me to hang his bag up.

"Iggy, what's up with Fang?" I asked Iggy.

"I don't know, Max, in fact whenever Fang is in one of these moods no-one knows what's going on, he just gets angry," Iggy replied with a sigh. I thought for a minute then turned to walk over to Fang.

"Max, I wouldn't you don't know what he's like in these moods," Iggy warned me. I ignored him and continued to walk over to the boy who seemed so dark and angry.

"Fang, are you ok?" I asked him as I approached him.

"Hmm," Fang mumbled not in the questioning way but in the grumbling way.

"You wanna talk?" I asked him.

"I'm fine," He grumbled.

"Fang, are you sure you don't want to talk about it?" I asked him.

"I'm sure, Max," Fang insisted with a dark look in his eyes. I was a little taken back I wasn't used to people reacting like this, I always hung out with people who talked about how they felt but Fang was different.

"Ok then," I sighed and turned to walk. I stopped when I heard Fang's voice.

"Max?" He asked me.

"Yeah?" I asked back.

"Thanks," He thanked me that shocked me even more.

"I didn't do anything," I pointed out.

"Yes you did," Fang replied mysteriously. I had to double check for a smile that I wasn't sure if I'd seen. I'd been friends with Fang (well at least I saw him as a friend) for six weeks now and I'd learned that his proper smiles were worth looking for since he didn't give them out a lot.

"Well in that case you're welcome," I smiled softly at him. My heart did a little skip that felt so weird.

Nudge arrived at school late that day and she started looking at me weirdly.

"Ok, Nudge, you've been looking at me oddly all day, what's going on?" I asked her at lunch.

"Do you have a thing for Fang?" She blurted out, loudly. Iggy and Fang stopped fighting over the ball and stared at us and Ethan stopped dead in his tracks. The silence was disrupted again by another unnatural smell. These smells had been showing up ever since Ethan arrived.

"What the hell is that smell?" Iggy demanded. I saw Ethan blush.

"Ethan?" Fang asked him. Ethan looked away from us and I felt a pang of pity for him.

"It's ok, Ethan, really," I assured him.

"Why didn't you just tell us?" Nudge asked.

"It's a problem I've had my whole life, the doctors said it something to do with my stomach and my friends from my previous school ended up ignoring me blah, blah, blah," Ethan explained quickly.

"Dude, it's cool!" Iggy insisted.

"Your like The Gasman," Fang laughed.

"It's really ok?" Ethan (The Gasman) asked.

"Its fine," Nudge smiled at him.

"I just won't let you near my cheese," She continued. The boys continued playing basketball but Nudge pulled me to the side.

"You never answered my question," Nudge pointed out.

"Nudge, I don't have a thing for Fang, he's a friend," I sighed.

"Ok that's all I wanted to know," She grinned she had an evil grin.

I saw Ella walking over to me.

"Max, my best sister in the world," She cooed.

"What do you want?" I laughed.

"I need to borrow some money," She admitted.

"Max, are you coming back or are you gonna watch?" Iggy demanded he stopped when he saw my sister.

"Hi, I'm Iggy," He greeted.

"Ella. I'm Max's sister," They shook hands and I interrupted whatever was going on.

"El, I don't have any money on me," I told her with an apologetic look on her face.

"Oh well," She sighed and went back to her friends.

"Anyways are you coming?" Iggy asked me.

"Yeah, whatever," I laughed with a roll of my eyes.

I had no idea where Sophie was, she showed up to school every now and again but I couldn't remember the last time she'd been at school for a whole week. I kind of felt bad that I was having so much fun without her, I mean I liked her and everything but we didn't really click as friends.

"Yes!" Ethan exclaimed for no apparent reason.

"What?" The three of us asked at the same time.

"After tomorrow no more jump rope," He cheered.

"Thank god!" Fang exclaimed.

"Aw dang, no watching Fang make a fool out of himself," Iggy whined.

"You don't need jump rope for that," I pointed out.

"Shut up," Fang grumbled.