OMG I'm so sorry I couldn't update yesterday. I literally rewrote this chapter sooooo many times to get to the main idea and I (finally) decided to just write it. Simple, really. So, anyway, I want to do a shout-out to IAmABookNerdAndI'mPROUDOFIT! Your reviews always make me smile and make my day! I also appreciate everybody else's reviews! I just can't really do 10 shout-out on each chapter, you know? Besides that, this is chapter 10 and I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride. Though that would be nice... *stares off into space* Ok! Back to the story!

Chapter 10

Max POV

Choose: good news or bad news? Good news? I got my cast taken off and I can now play soccer! Yay! ... That's basically it. Now, what you've all been waiting for: bad news! First of all, I got the leading role, Ariel, in the play (the others must have really sucked...). The rest of the news? You'll find out soon enough.

"I SEE YOU DRIVIN ROUND TOWN WITH THE GIRL I LURVEEEE,AND I'M LIKE FORGET YOUUU, AND FORGET HER TOOOOO..."

"Max," Fang announced, turning off the radio, "we're there. And, by the way, you're singing sucks."

"Don't remind me," I said, unbuckling my seatbelt. "Let's go!"

Right now we just arrived my parent's house. Why? Our moms sent us an email saying that if we came here we would get a decent meal, which everybody knows we don't have (unless Iggy's around, which usually is not the case). Why did they send us the email? Our dads came back from their "fishing trip" and they want to "celebrate." So, in the end, we drove to the house (we decided to carpool because we both had practices (soccer for me and football for Fang) that ended at the same time) to the tune of "Forget You," the most hypocritcal song there is for us since both of our families are rich and can afford a Ferrari (in fact, my parents have one!).

I stepped out of the car and nearly instantaneously got tackled by two blond haired angels/ devils.

"Maxx!" Gazzy and Angel, the two twins, yelled, squishing me in a hug.

"Oof," I coughed out when the impact hit me. "Hey guys!"

"Come on," Angel urged, already pulling me towards the door.

"Dinner's about to start!" Gazzy finished, grabbing my purse for me.

"Ok ok, let's go!" I laughed, picking them both up making them squeal and giggle, and proceeding to the door.

Behind us I heard the car door being closed and Fang muttering, "How can she do that?" making all three of us giggle.

"So what do ya'll want?" I questioned, while gnawing on some chicken. After our moms shooed away our younger siblings, they dragged us to the living room along with our plates of food.

"Well Max," my dad, Jeb Batchelder, said, "we have decided to make one exception to your marria-"

"We'll take it." Fang and I immediately said in sync.

"Well," Fang's dad, Dr. Walker (I've never actually found out what his first name was. Weird right?), continued. "Well, you know Dylan and Maya who currently goes in your school?"

"Oh, you mean the 'Cal surfer playboy' and 'said copycat of moi'?" I said after hard thinking.

"Max!" my mother scolded. "That isn't polite!"

"It's true..." I mumbled, while picking my fork at a serving of green beans.

"Anyway, we have decided that you can either get married to each other or get married to them."

...

"What?" Fang finally spoke after a long silence.

"Max marries Dylan and you marry Maya, basically," Ms. Walker explained.

"We get that!" I said impatiently. "But that's just... eww..."

"Well, you have one week to make your decision. Good luck!" my mom chirped before literally kicking us out of the house.

"Bye darling!" she called, while throwing my purse out along with Fang's car keys. With that, she closed the door and we stared at the door in disbelief.

"WHAT THE HECK MOM! DON'T JUST KICK YOUR OWN DAUGHTER OUT OF THE HOUSE!" I yelled at the house, waving a fist in the air, while Fang dragged me back to the car by my collar.

"Shut up," he muttered, "You'll wake the neighbors."

"Not like I care!" I snapped back. "These old folks know me. I'm famous in my neighborhood."

"Not at 8:00 at night."

"They love me. They don't mind."

"Just shut up, or else you'll have to cook for yourself for the next week," Fang warned, instantly shutting me up.

We drove back to the house in silence when out of nowhere, Fang spoke.

"So? What are we going to do?" he questioned.

"About what?" I asked stupidly, while picking the dirt out of my fingernails.

"You know, the marriage."

"Oh."

"Yeah, oh."

"Well, I don't know. I don't want to get married to you, but I definitely don't want to get married to that pretty boy."

"Thanks for the compliment," he said sarcastically.

"Well do you want to get married to Maya?" I accused.

"I dunno. She really is just another girl. Nothing much to it."

A pang in my chest grew and my stomach clenched when he said these words. What was this feeling? I sucked in a breath and Fang glanced at me.

"Are you okay?" he said in alarm.

"Yeah... just choked on something or another," I lied.

He examined me before giving up (probably already detecting my lie) and leaving me alone, making me feel more miserable than ever.

Ok... maybe just writing from the top of my mind isn't the best way to go. I'm really sorry it was short but I promise that the next chapter will be longer... I hope. I'm really depressed right now so I'm sorry that it was sad and gloomy. I'll try my best to cheer up though and make the next chapter better! I'll also try updating this Sunday but I have a lot of work to do for school and all so I might update a little later than usual for a while (wait until the 15th. I'll try and update a lot for the rest of the year since there's a lot of school holidays and stuff). Bear with me please, though! R&R?