I do not own maximum ride. james patterson does.
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I closed my eyes as Fang's lips brushed mine sending an electric shock throughout my body. I slowly brought my hands up behind his neck, slipping my fingers through his hair.

No no no! He's the best friend not the boyfriend. I felt my hands slowly untangle themselves from his hair and placed themselves on his shoulders, gently pushing Fang away. I looked down, knowing I was blushing like crazy.

"What's wrong?" He asked softly, tucking my hair behind my ear almost absentmindedly.

I couldn't look him in the eye. "It's too fast. I just want to be friends. You're my best friend and I can't lose that." That sounded lame. Even to me, and trust me I've heard some pretty lame lines from my mother's various boyfriends.

Fang didn't get to say anything. There was a light knock on the door and the nurse stepped in with a bag of popcorn. She walked over to the bed, handing me the bag. The melted butter smell reminded me of a movie theater. I opened the bag popping- get it? It's popcorn and- never mind- a piece into my mouth.

"Nick," The nurse said. "Do you know a young lady named Lisa?" I almost choked on my popcorn. Fang started at the nurse.

"Uh, yeah," he said blinking.

"Can I send her in?"

"Sure," he was trying to keep his voice normal, but I could see right through it. He was thrown off by Lisa being here. I was too.

"Great." The nurse smiled and walked out. Not one minute later, Lisa threw open the door and stepped in.

God, she was a mess. Her hair was thrown up in a messy ponytail, she had on a pair of baggy gray, sweat pants and a large baggy, purple sweatshirt bearing our school's name on the front. And Sam's football number was plastered on the back.

"Nick! Oh my God! I can't believe you're okay! Oh this is fantastic!" She ran over to Fang- tears already running down her cheeks- burring her face in his shoulder, her arms wrapping around his neck. Fang slowly brought his arms up to return the hug, a confused expression on his face. Lisa picked her head up just enough to give me a death glare. Damn. She's good. But I'm better. I gladly returned the glare and she quickly hide her face again.

"I can't believe she could be so careless!" Lisa was now sitting on the edge of the bed, practically in Fang's lap. "She almost killed you." Watch it bitch.

"What are you talking about? Sure she made some careless mistakes," Hey... where was this going? "But we all do stupid, hurtful things sometimes." Raise your hand if you seriously think he is still talking about the accident. No one? Oh wait, you there. The one raising your hand. Dumb ass. "But if you love someone enough, you an forgive them. But if they hurt you enough, you just can't let them be a part of your life anymore. And sometimes they hurt you so much, you wish never let them be a part of it in the first place." Fang sounded cold and emotionless as he stared blankly at Lisa. Her tears were now rushing down her face, her eyes red and puffy.

"Have fun with her" She nodded in my direction. " and her slutty mother." She said standing up, walking to the door.

"Excuse me?" I said quickly standing up. "Do you want to say that again? I couldn't quite hear you."

"I wasn't talking to you. It's none of you're business."

"Oh, it is my business if you're talking about my mother and me. YOu have absolutely no right to talk about her like she is trash. So she has dated a lot." Lisa let out a small mocking laugh. "That doesn't make her a slut. She raised four children to be strong and able to fend for themselves. What about you? What did your mom teach you? How to buy a six-hundred dollar pair of shoes? Or was it how to cheat on your boyfriend?"

"You BITCH!" She screamed. Maybe I went too far. "YOU DIRTY LITTLE HOE! YOU DON'T KNOW A THING ABOUT ME, MY FAMILY OR MY LIFE!"

''Lisa," I looked at Fang. "Now is not the time."

"YOU HEARD HER! YOU HEARD THOSE NASTY THINGS SHE SAID!"

"Lisa, like you said, she doesn't know a thing about you." Lisa closed her eyes taking a deep breath.

"I apologize, I didn't mean to yell." I looked back and forth between Fang and Lisa. They were hiding something.

"What's going on?" I asked anxiously. "What are you two hiding?"

"The reason that I flipped like that was because it wasn't my mom who taught me to cheat. It was my dad." She opened her eyes, her gaze looked like it could pierce my soul.

"Lisa, I didn't know. I'm so-"

"Don't even say 'sorry'. 'Sorry' is just a word people use to try to brush off the pain. 'I'm sorry' and 'I understand' are the world's biggest lies. No one understands. No one is truly sorry. No one." She took another deep breath. "It was a mistake coming here. Bye Fang." She walked out the door fresh tears streaming down her cheeks.

It was the first time I've ever heard her call Fang, Fang. I always heard her call him Nick.

"She knows." Fang said. He was looking at the door. Almost as if he was trying figure out what just happened. I know I was. "About us. She knows."

"What about us?" My mind snapped back to the kiss. I quickly pushed the thought away. "She knew you and I were friends."

"She knows you call me Fang." The whole privilege-to-use-nick-name must be extremely important.

"And...?"

"And she thinks I've already replaced her. That I don't love her anymore." He paused and I didn't know how to fill the silence. "I don't. I truly don't. I'm done." He was looking at me now. He patted the spot on the bed next to him. I sat back down, leaning on the headboard.

"That's not true. You can't shut out a person. You may not want to, but if they changed you're life, they will always be there. No matter what. Unless they die." For some reason, he laughed at that. "Then you're screwed." He laced his fingers through mine. I looked down at our hands. I glanced up at Fang. He was leaning back against the headboard casually.

"What?" He acted surprised.

"You know what." I said.

"Ever seen New Moon?" He was completely serious.

"Are you going to make a Twilight reference?"

"I have to. By the way, Lisa made me go. Anyway, yes or no?"

"Yes..."

"Well the scene when Bella and Jacob are at the movies and he holds her hand. They're just friends."

"Oh my God. You actually watched the movie."

"Don't judge." He leaned his head back against the headboard closing his eyes. Within minutes, he was sleeping. I quietly- and one handed- packed up the laptop and placed the bag and popcorn on the floor next to the gurney.

I looked down at our hands again. I don't want to sound cheesy but for some reason, it felt right. I shook my head closing my eyes. Tomorrow I was getting Fang back to school.