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A/N: I know that this is all in italics but for some reason I can't turn it off. and i'm using my sister computer because the one I normally use isn't working so that's prb why. Anyways. Do not forget to review.

The next morning.

Fang POV

I felt Max stir on the bed and looked over at her. Suddenly the flock burst into the room. I took hold of her hand and gave it a slight squeeze. Max sat up slowly and I saw her wince with the sudden movement. She looked down at herself and I saw what looked like relief in her eyes but it was gone as quickly as it had come. She pulled the bottom of her tank top to reveal her midriff, which was bandaged up. She sighed but that made her wince again.

Angel couldn't keep control of herself any longer and neither could the rest of the flock. They all started to fire questions at Max while Angel climbed into her lap and started to cry into Max's shoulder. Max wrapped her free arm around her while Angel hugged her tight. The flock kept firing questions at her but she just ignored them. I was beginning to wonder if she could even hear us.

I saw her eyes lids start to droop. Then she sighed and said, 'Thank God, it was just a dream.' And she slipped back into the land of rainbows and ponies. Ok I don't really know what she dreams about but sometimes I really want to know. (do ya? do really?)

'Angel? Did you pick anything up?' I asked her as I stroked Max's hand with my thumb. She looked over at me, disentangling herself from Max's arm but staying in her lap.

'I tried to but she was blocking me out. But I did catch this little bit. Max was talking to her boyfriend Sam. Then you snatched the phone away from her and told him to never come near, talk or think about Max again. And that if you found out then you would do something to him. I don't know what exactly it got kinda fuzzy there but you said that you had your ways of finding out. You were in her bed. Lying next to her.'

'Oh, ok...' I said not really concerned then realized what Angel had said, 'I was what?' I asked her, my shock showing in my voice. I was staring straight at her. And so was the rest of the flock. 'You...You where...lying right next to her...in the bed...this…bed.' She looked sheepishly away. 'In her dreams?' I asked Angel again.

'Actually Fang, the correct term is, "In your dreams," but yes I do believe that Angel is trying to say that you where in Max's dreams. Not to mention her bed.' Iggy said trying to hold back his laughter. He couldn't hold it in any longer and he burst out laughing. So did Gaz, Nudge and Angel. 'Alright everyone. Out. Out, out, out. Max needs to be able to sleep in peace.' I said as I pushed them out of Max's bedroom door.

'Well, Fang, I think that Max would be able to sleep more peacefully if you where there to. If ya'..get what I mean.' Iggy added as he headed out the door as he raised his eyebrows up and down with a small smile on his face. I whacked him over the back of the head and pushed him out the door before closing it silently and moving back towards the bed.

Iggy opened the door once again and poked his head in, 'Now, now kids. Don't do anything I wouldn't do.' He said with a smirk on his face. I threw one of Max's shoes that was lying near by at the door frame above his head and he backed off quickly closing the door behind him. I could still hear him laughing as he moved farther down the hall. I shook my head and turned back to face the bed.

Max was looking at her desk as though there was something interesting about it. I moved towards the bed and in front of the desk so that she couldn't see past me. Just as I suspected she looked at the wardrobe in the same way. As if she was trying to find some hidden meaning or code in the wood. I took another step towards her and again into her line of vision. Once again she averted her eyes and looked in the opposite direction. I sat down on the edge of the bed and grabbed hold of her chin and turned her face towards me. She blushed as he eyes met mine.

'You have some very strange dreams about me you know that?' Her cheeks turned a deeper shade of red and averted her gaze to her lap. 'You know what? I only know about a quarter of the dream. Perhaps you would like to fill in the rest.' When I said that she turned even redder then a tomato if that was even possible. 'Angel told me, that I threatened Sam that if he didn't stay away from you then I would kill him or I think that that was what I said. Angel couldn't get all of it. She said that I said that I would do something to him if he even tried to contact you in anyway.'

She turned redder then ever and a chuckle escaped from my lips. 'I'd rather not talk about it,' she mumbled almost inaudibly. 'Oh, come now. 'Oh, come now. You know that there are no secrets between us.' I was just teasing her but that didn't stop her from shouting at me, 'Just leave me alone,' I was shocked, I truly was, 'Max. Max, come on. I was just joking. Come on. Let's go down and get some breakfast.' Even with all that Jeb taught us nothing could have prepared me for what she did next.

She reached down the side of the bed and picked up one of her sneakers and hit me in the head with it. It didn't hurt but it stunned me for a few seconds. I mean, Max has never hit me before. Well she has but never in the head with a shoe. She'd hit me in the arm with a shoe but not in the head. In those few brief seconds that I was dazed she jumped from the bed grabbed her hoodie from the desk chair and had bolted out the bedroom door.

Hearing the door slam shut behind her was what had brought me back to reality. I heard her retreating footsteps as she ran down the stairs, through the kitchen and the flocks yells of "Max, your up", "Max, you ok?" and "Max, how you feeling?" and out the back door. She let the back door bang shut behind her. I got up from the bed and headed downstairs to the kitchen with my head down. When I looked up everyone was looking at me. Well except for Anne. You might be wondering about her. Well she was away on a business trip. Yes our care taker left us home alone for three days. Brilliant isn't she?

'What the he…hand basket did you say to Max?' Iggy almost shouted at me. I wasn't going to bother to tell him off for almost cussing. 'Fang, you shouldn't of upset Max. She's really upset now. I saw her crying as she ran out of the house. But don't tell her we saw. We know how much she tries to be strong for us.' Angel told me. After I heard that I was out the door and heading straight for the barn. Don't ask how I knew that she was there but I knew.

'Max? Max come on we need to talk.'

'Max? Max come on we need to talk.' Damn it. How'd he know I was in here? 'Because I know everything, Max.' What the hell? How did he know what I was thinking? 'I'll say it again. I know everything Max. Like I've said many times before. Also it helps if I can read you like a book. Even if you're not standing right in front of me.'

'I don't want to talk. I'm sorry that I hit you with a shoe but I knew that you wouldn't let me leave unless I did. I didn't mean to hurt you but I had to get out of there. It was embarrassing that I dreamed what I did without you knowing about it to add to it. And if you and Angel know then the whole flock knows. So maybe I should just stay up here and die. You can take care of the flock for me.'

'Max, don't talk like that. I'm not going to let you stay up there and I'm not going to let you die. Not a chance. And yes the flock does know but Max that doesn't matter. What does matter is the fact that you're hurt. You're hurt and you're in a hayloft. Now get down here before I come up there and force you to come down.'

I sighed andjumped down from the loft I had been hiding in and opened my wings enough so that I could glide down to the floor and didn't land flat on my face. Pulling my wings in I walked towards bale of hay and sat down on it. 'I'm sorry. I just. Some… Sometimes, I don't know if I'm going to be able to keep it together much longer. I mean with Jeb, Anne, Ari, Sam, Erasers, Max II, the School. And your newfound clone just adds to my worries. I just. I don't know if I'm going to be able to keep going."

I looked up at where Fang had been standing to find that he wasn't there. Instead he was sitting beside me. "Max, you'll always be able to keep it together. Why do you think I love you?" Say what now? I looked up at him. His eyes where a deep brown so dark that they where almost black. Before I knew it his face was an inch from mine. I could feel his warm breath on my mouth.

Is he going to kiss me? As if he knew what I was thinking he brought his hands up to hold my face where it was and his lips smashed gently into mine. I was shocked…for about thirty seconds. After I got over it I started to kiss him back. He moved his hands down to wrap around my waist and I wrapped my hands behind his neck.

His tongue licked my bottom lip, begging for entrance. Entrance that I wasn't going to grant him…. yet. I pulled away from him and put my hands on his shoulders. 'Fang? Do you mean what you said?' I asked him, referring to him saying he loved me. 'Yes, I did.' I smiled my biggest smile. 'In that case I have something to tell you.' I took a long pause, I was enjoying the look of curiosity in his eyes. 'I love you too,' as soon as the words were out of my mouth he pulled me back towards him and I smiled against his lips.

That was the best morning of my life. Well actually so was the next morning. But I'll tell you about that later.

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