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"Max!" Ella screams jumping on my bed. "Get up! Get up! Get up! GET UP! I throw the covers off my face and give her a death glare.

"What?" The huge smile she is giving me fades quickly.

"Don't you know what today is?" I sit up and glance at the clock.

"No, but I know it is seven thirty on a Saturday." Ella shakes her head.

"Your date with Dylan is tonight!" She says excitedly. "I called Monique and-"

"I thought her name was Nudge?"

"Whatever, anyway I called her and she is coming over to help me do your make up and hair. She also said she might bring her cousin. I don't remember what her name was. It was Amy or Ariel or something like that." The huge smile is back on her face.

"Thanks but no thanks." I say getting out of bed. "I am just going to wear jeans and a sweatshirt or something. Nothing fancy." I reach for the pair of jeans that is draped over my desk chair. "Wait, how do you even know about my date? I don't remember telling you."

"That's for me to know and for you to find out." She says stalking out of the room on her tip toes. I shake my head and grab my jeans. I go through my usual morning routine; Get dressed, brush teeth, brush hair, and eat breakfast. Takes me about half an hour total. I finish off my bowl of cereal and put it in the sink.

"Bye Mom!" I shout about to walk out the door. Before I step outside, my Mother throws herself in the doorway. "Is there something you wanted to tell me?" I ask. She nods.

"Call me when you get to school." She says. "If you don't call in thirty minutes I am calling the police." She has been kind of paranoid since I went missing the other night. I told her I just lost track of time, but she still thinks I am being held at gun point by someone who raped me or something.

"I promise I'll call." I tell her stepping around her. She gives me a look. "I promise!" I say with a laugh, then run down the stairs of my house to the bus stop. Fang is already there when I arrive. Dylan lives on the other side of town so he rides a different bus.

"Hey." He says quickly when I reach the stop. "You okay?" I give him a funny look.

"Why wouldn't I be okay?" He shrugs.

"Well if I was stranded in the woods for a night I probably wouldn't have handled it as well as you did." He says. "You act like it didn't even happen." Now it is my turn to shrug.

"Well I knew my way home and everything. The only thing I had to do was keep warm until morning." He nods. I see the bus coming down the road. We are silent until the bus gets to us, then we both climb on. We sit in one of the seats in the back of the bus. We sit silently soaking us the awkward for about five minutes before I say;

"So my date with Dylan is tonight." He cracks a smile. "What?" I ask getting defensive. He doesn't have time to answer before I start laughing.

"Well, now what are you laughing at?" He asks.

"Its just ridiculous isn't it?" I say. "I mean, does he just want to welcome me back home or does he like me or something gross like that?"

"I guess you'll find out tonight." He says laughing.

"Guess so."

"Hey Max!" Dylan says to me at the end of the day. I am standing at my locker when he comes up to me.

"Hey." I say glancing at him. "What's up?"

"Nothing much." He says. "I'll pick you up at about seven tonight for our date." I grimace at that word. DATE. Eww. I push the thought away.

"Um, okay sure." I say. He stands there silently for a minute like he wants to say something else, but he never speaks. "Yeah, well I should get going. I don't want to miss my bus."

"Yeah, okay." He says. "See you at seven." I shut my locker and walk away. As I walk down the empty hallway I think I am alone, but then when I least expect it Fang jumps out of the science room right in front of me.

"Wazzit! I shout almost peeing my pants. When I realize that it is just Fang I relax a little . . . Then punch him in the arm. "What was that for?!"

"I though you could use some cheering up." Says like a little kid. "You sounded so sad I thought is it would make you feel better." He sticks his lower lip out into a pout. I punch him in the shoulder again. This time he laughs.

"So you were eves dropping on me?" I ask.

"Um, no I just happened to be walking by so I decided to hide in the science room while you guys talked. If you ask me it was the polite thing to do." That makes me smile. Most of the things Fang say make me smile.

"Well thank you I guess." I say. "But I almost wish you had come. It was so awkward." He looks like he is thinking about this.

"So why don't you want to go on this date?" He asks.

"It's not that I don't want to hang out with him, I just don't want THAT kind of relationship with him."

"Why not?" I swallow once then say;

"Because I think I like someone else." Fang is silent for a moment. "Oh my god!" I think. "Why did I just say that?! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" I am screaming on the inside, but am silent on the outside. Fang cracks a smile.

"Oh my gosh, did I just hear that the one and only Max Martinez has a crush on someone? That seams so unlike you." I feel the corner of my mouth lift.

"Well, what did you expect? For me to go my whole life without liking anyone? For me to never find love and would die alone with my ten cats?"

"Well no, its just weird is all. I have known you my whole life and it is just weird to think of you with a . . . boyfriend or something." I think about this for a moment.

"Awww, Fang is being fatherly." I say teasingly. Now he punches me just not as hard as I punched him. He looks at his watch.

"Hey it is almost 3:10, don't you need to catch the bus?" I shake my head.

"No I think I will walk home with you. . . If that's okay?" He smiles at me.

"Everything is better with you."

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't posted in like two weeks. I have just been really busy. Anyways, if you didn't see up top I have a challenge for you guys. If I get at least ten reviews by eight thirty tonight (central time), I will post the next chapter. Good luck!