OK, well here is the next chapter. it didnt take me as long as the last one (looks down at the ground, then looks back up) so i hope you like it, i have tons to say but i'll say it at the bottom. enjoy


I opened my eyes to a blinding light

I opened my eyes to a blinding light. Stupid sunlight, I thought. I'm going to have to get a curtain for that window. I got out of bed and went straight to the kitchen to the smell of bacon and eggs being cooked. I subconsciously sat into a chair and judging by the headache I know had, I had apparently fallen asleep sitting up and my head fell down onto the table. I rubbed my head as the flock laughed and Fang snickered.

"I am so sorry for your hair Fang," I said, that immediately shut him up.

"What happened?" Gazzy asked.

Fang shot me a death glare before I responded.

"I 'accidentally' spilled milk on his hair," I said with an innocent smile.

"You?" I heard Iggy call.

"Accidentally?" Angel asked making quotes with her fingers.

"Milk?" Nudge piped up.

"Hair?" the Gasman remarked.

"Yes Iggy, yes Angel," I stopped to raise an eyebrow at her, hoping she'd catch my drift, "Yes Nudge, and yes Gazzy."

They all laughed again, a couple minutes later there was silence.

"Apparently you are all done laughing, can I have my breakfast now?" Fang asked; venom was dripping from his voice.

"Hey Max, Fang is thinking about how his hair smelled like milk after he had taken a shower," Angel piped up, Ok, just so you know me drinking orange juice plus something funny being said equals me spitting the juice out, only to have it land on Nudge. Iggy wasn't so lucky and got hit by a stream coming from Gazzy. That only made Iggy laugh harder and start choking.

"Angel, stop him from choking," I said, not wanting to go through what had happened about a month again. Immediately Iggy straightened up, no longer choking. I know, I just told Angel to use her mental powers to save a life of a dear friend, I am such a good person.

"Now that you are all done choking can I enjoy my breakfast in peace?" Fang asked again; venom was dripping from his voice. I thought it was cute.

"Come on guys, do as he says before he gets the power to kill with his evil glares," I joked. More laughter erupted from the table.

He grunted in frustration and went into his room.

"Let him cool off a bit," I said. I got several grunts and a 'yes' from Angel, always the sweet one. I went back into my room to practice my playing. There was this new song that I wanted to play so I went back to the site with the musical notes. As I scrolled through the site an ad caught my eye. I quickly read it, curious.

It was an ad for a punk-rock-alternative music concert. I looked up the info for the tickets. They had a special, buy one get one free. Forgetting my playing I walked down the hallway towards Fang's room.

I knocked on the room, no answer. I opened the door a slight fraction and saw Fang lying on his bed, facing the ceiling, Ipod earphones in his ears, no wonder he hadn't heard me. As I walked further in I noticed that he had his eyes close. Grinning evilly I walked closer to him, once I was right above him I poked him in the chest and whispered 'boo.' He jolted into a sitting position, surprised by how close I was and that I had been directly over him. If anyone had come into the room it wouldn't have looked innocent to them, I thought then I moved away to the other end of the bed, blushing furiously as I kept my face down. Once I had my face back to its natural shade I looked up, raising an eyebrow. Hey. He raised one back. Hey. I bit my lip as I looked around his room. So… he shrugged a shoulder. Not much, what's up? I pretended to be busy with a non-existent smudge on my black converse. Out of my peripheral vision I could see him tilt his head in my direction. Tell me.

I sighed inwardly, damn it; he had stopped our silent conversation. (A/N: yes ladies and gentlemen that had been a silent conversation)

"So, I was going through the site you had showed me," I paused and silently counted to five, knowing that would irritate him. "And I saw that there was this alternative-punk-rock concert, and there was this special that if you buy one ticket you get one free, and I wanted to go," I said.

He looked at me for a couple seconds before saying anything, "So you want me to go with you?"

"No Fang, I was just bored and wanted to tell you about it when I could be sneaking into both pyro's room, searching for bombs," it was half a whisper, half an irritated yell, but all sarcasm.

"Oh," was all he said before pretending to think. I sighed, got up, went towards his desk, got on my knees, and started banging my head against it. All the while thinking, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid Fang, you are doing this on purpose. I heard chuckling behind me; I turned around and glared evilly at him.

"So why do you want me to go?" he asked, amused.

"Oh, I don't know. Maybe because if I take either Angel or Nudge they'll probably take me out of the concert and make me go shopping against my own will," I paused to shudder," I can't take Gazzy because he won't understand the music, get bored, and find a way to blow something up, and Iggy, well you know he likes rap, his senses will go overdrive, and he'll probably find a way to blow something up too," I finished. "You know I probably should take one of them," I added sarcastically, shooting him a look that clearly read 'are-you-stupid?'

He ignored the look and last comment.

"Sure, I'll go," he said shrugging it off.

"I'll order the tickets online," I said as I took the Ipod away from Fang and walked towards the door. I stopped at the doorway and turned towards him, "Thanks," I said and smiled brightly, Angel had told me his train of thought usually got lost whenever I smiled at him; I was planning to use that to my advantage. I went into my room, my guitar awaiting me. I was half through a song when I remembered that my Ipod needed new songs. I gently place the guitar in my bed and snatched my Ipod up from where it was charging. I new how to download the songs but I was too lazy to so I went to ask Fang.

"Fang, will you download some new songs onto the Ipod for me?" I ask once I'm in his room.

"Why?" he asks irritated.

"Because we're family and I'm too lazy to," I reply with a smug smile.

He doesn't respond, I call his name, still he doesn't respond. I walk over to his desk, where he's typing something onto the computer.

"What are you typing?" I ask as I scoot him over on the chair.

"None of your business," I punch him lightly on the arm.

"It is so my business, if you don't remember I'm the almighty leader if this flock," I say with an air of importance.

"Alright, 'almighty' leader, if you are the leader shouldn't you already know what I'm doing?" he asks.

"Hell yeah I should know what you're doing, now tell me," I tell him.

"Guess," he said.

"No," I respond.

"Yes."

"No."

"Please."

"No."

"Why not?" he asks.

"Did you not here me say I was too lazy to download some songs, now you want me to play a guessing game," I shook my head in disbelieve.

"I never said it was a game," he corrected, looking me straight in the eye. It took me completely by surprise how he could look at me like that and automatically my breath would hitch in my throat. I was also surprised by how close we were, shoulder to shoulder, thigh to thigh. We both started moving forward when Nudge burst through the door, holding the phone.

"Max, it's for you," after she sees us she went still, she knew that she had interrupted a moment. She looked embarrassed at what she had done and bit her bottom lip before holding the phone out to me.

"Who is it?" I ask.

She just shrugs at me, and then gets really curious and gets right next to me when I speak into the phone. Damn powers of her.

"Hello?" I ask.

"Hey Max, this is Danny," a male voice responds.

"Oh, hey Danny," big mistake of my part, Fang froze beside me.

"Hey, I'm just calling because there's this concert happening and I was wondering if you wanted to come with me." OK, this guy only met me once and calls a month later to ask me out. What a moron.

"You mean the one punk-rock one?" I ask, hey I'm curious.

"Exactly," you could hear a smile in his voice.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm already going with someone," I say.

"Oh," I can just picture his pretty little face drooping. "So, I'll see you there," he added, his voice was already light.

"Umm, yeah, sure," I said, I was really surprised, I mean I'm not that pretty, but I'm not ugly. I don't wear triple x skirts with huge high heels or a shirt with a low cleavage line. The world has turned inside out.

His good-bye brings me back to earth; I was able to respond back a few seconds late. I hung up the call and gave the phone to Nudge who very excitedly squealed a…

"So…" she began.

"So what?" I asked.

Her mood was only lightly downed by mine, "What did he say?" she asked.

I had not forgotten that Fang was by my side, so I responded the safest way, "What guys always say," Ok, that was not the safest way, I notice Fang's eyes tighten just a bit.

"I mean, he just wanted to know how I was doing," I said, Fang didn't think that.

"He said something about a concert," he told me quietly.

"Oh well, he invited me to the concert that I told you about," I said.

I knew that that was another horrible thing to say once I saw his nose flare just the teeniest bit. I love the way it gives him the air of stubbornness, and how the slightly raised eyebrow defies anyone from challenging him. He'd look so sexy- I quickly scolded myself for thinking this and blushed a deep scarlet red when I saw Nudge raise a questioning eyebrow at me; she had felt my feelings change. I mentally slapped myself.

"Are you going with him then?" Fang asked bluntly.

"What, of course not, I'm going with you aren't I?" I asked him.

"Doesn't look like it," he muttered.

"What do you mean 'it doesn't look like it?'?" I asked outraged.

"Well, you keep getting hit on by guys," he stated.

"Thank you Mr. Obvious," I stated.

"And you give them your phone number," he continued.

"He was polite and had stopped me from falling while you were off checking out the only thing that you could touch at the moment," Ok, I had not meant it to sound that way and it sound like he was a pervert. Nudge apparently thought so.

"Nudge, you might want to get out before you get high off Max's anger," Fang growled, looking at me the whole time.

"Ok, one, he's right you might want to get out, two, it won't be my anger because mine has been vented unlike Mr. Emo here, and three, don't talk to me in that tone," I knew that he wasn't emo but he got angry when anyone called him that.

"If you hear the screams don't come in," he said in a deadly voice.

He really had everything upside down, if anyone was going to get beat up it wasn't me. I was surprised when we both yelled at Nudge to get out at the same time, making her leave, eyeing us suspiciously I might add, and closing the door behind her.

Fang just looked at me, crossing his arms, leaning against the wall.

"What?" I ask him.

"You know perfectly what," he growled.

"Yeah, I know, this room needs another coat, it's starting to look gray," I ended by shaking my head at him.

"Ha-ha, very funny," he said.

"Thank-you, I try," I smiled at him, when I remembered what Angel had said about me smiling I wiped it off my face. "What's your problem?" I demanded.

"I don't have a problem," he stated.

"Oh yeah, and I'm the Queen of Shiva," wherever that is.

"I don't have a problem," he repeated.

"So then why'd you get so uptight when you knew it was him?" I asked.

"I did not get uptight," he muttered.

"Did to," I countered.

"Did not," he said.

"Did to," I said back.

"Did not!" he repeated.

"Did to!" and since I wasn't a little kid I said something new, "and don't you dare say no." Ok, maybe that wasn't new but at least he didn't say 'did not.'

"At least I'm not flirting with the first person I see," he said.

My eyes widened in shock, or hatred, either one. "That is so not true!" I yelled. "At least I don't make out with a person I barely know, may I remind you of Lissa," I said her name with disgust. "I on the other hand, I get to know the person. Then I date them to see what they'd be like in a relationship. Then I either agree to have them as a boyfriend or not. If they are, then I can go kissing them, unlike you who just go and starts making out with them in empty classroom!" I shrieked, Fang was still against the wall but his posture had slipped just a bit, you could see he was slightly shocked and embarrassed. I grinned smugly at him.

"At least I didn't give my phone number to a complete stranger who, for all we know, could've been in contact with the guy that molested you!" he looked like he wanted to swallow back his words when he saw my reaction. I had gasped, I know it's girly but I did, and my eyes had started to water for no apparent reason. That was really low, especially coming from Fang; he would never say that to me. I lost it and slid down the wall, just when I was trying to forget what had happened here goes my right hand man shoving it in my face. There I was, hunched on my heels, looking up at him. I wanted to do nothing more than curl up in a ball and start crying, and I tried my best no to cry. When the one stray tear fell down my cheek, I couldn't help myself.

I let my forehead rest on my knees, which had my arms around them. I started to cry silently but after a while they became sobs. Instantly I felt ropy arms rapped around.

"Max I'm sorry, I really am," he said. His face was in my hair, his breath made me shiver.

I moaned for him to get away, but my moans weren't really distinguishable. I put my hands on his chest and pushed him away. I stood up while he looked at me dumbfounded.

"No you aren't Fang," I said once I had found my voice. "You're just saying that so I won't go into another depression again and have the flock blame you," OK, I was sure that wasn't why but still.

"That isn't true Max," you could see his eyes were slightly sad, I ignored that.

"Yes, it is! You have other important people that you can go fuck at any moment! How 'bout Lissa or-" sad thing was I was never able to say the other name because at that moment my mouth had something pressed onto it. Something warm and soft, but yet firm. Then it dawned on my, Fang's lips. He was kissing me.


what will max do? what will fang do? will she push him away? will he go to far and make her push him away? read and find out. tun tun tun.

sorry, i've always wanted to do that. i know the end isnt an action cliff hanger or a 'he got so close to me he was only mere centimeters away, he leaned in closer and...' i think they are cruel. no just kidding, they add suspence to the story, i just couldnt help my self and i had to add the ending. i got some reviews saying either that they wanted more Danny but not Lissa or that they didnt want Danny and more lissa. well since i couldnt remember i put in Danny but lissa was mentioned. my head hurts. oh i need some songs for the concert they are going to, but who knows erasers jsut might show up and prevent them from going. muahahahaha. and keep coming with those names for Iggy's future girlfriend. also, some people said that they liked the teasing fax, so i hope you like middle of this chapter. and i have two more comments before you review. if you want a good book that's able to make you cry then read my sister's keeper, i never cry in books, except for new moon and harry potter and the half blood prince, this book got me full on crying, took me a while to calm down and realize it's just a book. and the last comment is the obvious. plz review, u know it makes all us writers feel fluffy and warm inside.