Wow, this chapter was really hard to type considering my C key is basically broken, so if you see any missing c's sorry about that.
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MPOV-
"Ella, I really don't want to do this." I whined as she dragged me into the backyard.
"Oh yes you do. Trust me, it'll be… fun." Ella assured me.
"Define fun again? I think I'm confused on the concept." I snorted. "Isn't is supposed to be something you enjoy doing?" I asked annoyed, still trying to find some way out of this mess. Tell me again why I let her talk me into this? I must be crazy if I thought whatever she has in mind could ever end well.
"I'm not going to say it again, you will enjoy it later. And then you will be thanking me for my genius plan." She smirked as if I was already groveling at her feet. Yeah, like that was so going to happen. Someone has a creative imagination. Although, I guess we already established that by her stupidly outrageous idea. "Lets mess with Fang and Iggy!" Yeah okay, that sounded fine at first but now… not so much.
"Really, I'm not gonna do it." I stated planting my feel a few yards away from the gate.
"Yes you are." She disagreed stubbornly, tugging at my wrist. "Max, come on, I need you if we want to do this." Ella pleaded.
"Well, we don't want to do it, you do. Big difference. Can't Fang and I just call a truce or something?" I tried to reason.
"But don't you want some more lip action with Fang?" Ella questioned wiggling her eyebrows at me like a dork.
Okay, so maybe one of the reasons I said yes to this was for Fang. I mean really, have you ever kissed the boy? It's like heaven. Wait, I hope you haven't kissed him! Back off, he's mine!
"Fine." I huffed. "But I get to do all the talking. You might screw it up." I laughed brushing past her into the backyard where our unsuspecting victims awaited.
Our backyard is pretty sweet. It was nice in size, just perfect for a family of mutants. A forest lined the very farthest edge with giant green pine trees. There was no fence because it gave us that sense of being trapped. Well, if you live in a cage the first part of your life you don't particularly like feeling trapped.
In the middle was an extremely tall oak tree terrific for climbing. A rope swing was attached to one of the lower branches. And then, if you swung just right on it you could jump off and land in our spectacular, in ground, 30-foot long swimming pool. On one side of the pool was an enormous trampoline. You can get some pretty impressive air on that thing when jumping normally. Then, if you're special like us and use your wings, the height you can get is incredible.
Today was a pretty warm day so they all had hopped into the pool playing on the rope swing, diving board, inner tubes and whatnot. And I just have one question: Why the hell isn't Fang a swimsuit model!? Oh right, he's got wings. But let me tell you, Fang without a shirt on and dripping wet is a sight of pure sexiness. If only, if only.
Okay, time to get back on track. Shaking my head quickly to get focused, I saw everyone get out of the pool to sit in some of the chairs to suntan and air dry in the heat.
"Hey, Max! Come swimming with us!" Gazzy begged while ruffling water out of his feathers. I smiled at his still sweet, innocent face and shook my head.
"Sorry, I don't really want to swim right now." I explained. "But I do have another idea."
"Ooooh, like what?!" Nudge insisted.
"Well, Ella taught me a couple of really cool games." I offered to the lounging kids.
"What kinda games?" Again Nudge asked excitedly. I didn't find it all surprising Nudge seemed to be the most interested in this. My hope was she would get everyone else to want to play as well. Or if need be, pull the Bambi eyes on some unwilling sucker.
"There are two. One is Statues. Its super fun." I assured. This was the most important part: reelin' 'em in. "One person is it and they turn their back while everyone else gets into funny or ridiculous positions. Once the person turns back around you have to stay stone still until they look away again. Each time they aren't looking you go into a new pose. If you get caught moving you're out. Simple enough, right?" I explained. Truthfully, the game sounded fun enough but these kids were weird, you just never know.
"Oh, that does sound like fun!" Nudge decided quickly. "We should play. All of us." She emphasized, glancing not so inconspicuously at the two older boys. They were known for assing out on stuff like that. Dumb boys... (But we love them anyway)
"And exactly how am I supposed to play this game? Isn't it a game for the seeing?" Iggy asked sarcastically.
"You know, just kinda listen... really hard. Pull your bat sonar trick." Fang suggested shrugging.
"Bat sonar? Dude, WFT?" Iggy replied baffled.
"Ig, language." I scolded half-heartedly. He merely rolled his eyes.
"Okay so it's not bat sonar, but we all know you're not a freaking helpless blind kid." Fang scoffed. "You are not getting off the hook for this one." I said cheerfully again.
As I was turning back to Angel, Nudge, Gasman, and Ella I saw Iggy mouth something to Fang that looked suspiciously like 'PMS', who snickered under his breathe. Sending a wasted death glare at Iggy I asked who wanted to be it first. Immediately Gazzy raised his hand and jumped up and down in excitement. Sometimes I forget that kid is only ten.
"Okay, Gazzy's it. Let's start." I announced.
FPOV-
"Okay, Gazzy's it. Let's start." Max announced.
Iggy and I exchanged a quick look. Well I assume that was considering he winked in my direction. It's definitely less creepy to think that he was just confirming our plan. After he overheard that conversation between Max and Ella he came to me with that very valuable information. I should have seen Ella coming as a chance to come at me with double firepower because now she had help. But too bad for Max I enlisted the help of Iggy. Well sort of, he kind of came to me. I guess it was a team effort.
We decided to counter their 'mind game' attack right back at them. Unfortunately this game is only a warm up for what's to come. They're going to use this one to get us fired up and embarrassed, then raise the stakes for the second 'game'. What they won't see coming is their game coming back and biting them in the butt. Hopefully it will have the opposite effect and get those two mad enough to go on to stage two and creamed twice in a row. The best part is, they'll never see it coming.
So Gazzy went outside the gate and started counting to 20 so we could situate ourselves in an appropriate manner. Angel got down one her hands and knees so Nudge could sit on her back like she was riding a horse, throwing one hand in the air. Iggy stood on one foot with his wings and arms spread wide looking like some albino bat. Not really what I meant when I was talking about bat sonar, but oh well. Ella struck some funky model pose all hand on her hip, legs spread out another hand tossing her hair. She looked pretty ridiculous but that's the point of the game.
I just stood there while Gazzy got closer and closer to zero trying to come up with something creative. Glancing around, Max seemed to be having the same issue so I went up to her and said, "Jump on my back."
At first she looked at me skeptically then shrugged and hopped on me piggyback style right before Gazzy whirled around. First he just kind of took inventory of what was going on and laughed at us a little. Couldn't blame him, we probably looked like total dorks. Then again, we kind of are total dorks. After getting the giggles out of him, Gazzy paced about spinning in slow circles to look at us all. When he turned away we made small adjustments and began to transform before his eyes.
Max shifted up to my shoulders at one point when Gazzy spent almost a whole minute just staring at Iggy to see if he would move. After that he got Nudge and Ella out who now sat on the sidelines giggling and commentating. Iggy, Max, Angel and I were still in the game. Then when he looked away again Max tried to jump forward off my shoulders but misjudged it did a face plant in the grass. It took all my will power to fall down laughing at her as she lie there unable to move because Gaz looked over when he heard her fall and now wouldn't look away for a while. Growling, Max flipped herself over and started to get up when Gazzy glanced back over again so she froze.
"Haha, nice one Max!" Gazzy laughed. "You look like crab."
"You are so grounded." Max muttered glaring at him murderously until he turned his back on us again.
"Geez, way to be a kill joy." I joked, reaching out to help her to her feet. I grabbed her arm but accidentally pulled too hard and she bounced up coming nose to nose with me. With Gazzy peering at us we stayed frozen.
"So," I breathed not moving my lips. "What's up?" I smiled. This close I could count every freckle on her face and make out each individual eyelash.
"Shut up, this is so not funny." Max hissed, but I saw the corner of her mouth twitch anyway. See, I knew she couldn't resist me.
"You know you like it." I teased moving my face closer to hers millimeter by millimeter. I don't know if she even knew, but Max was doing the same until we were only a few short centimeters apart.
"We're still playing the game." She reminded me peering sideways to catch Gasman, and everyone else , staring at us. Apparently no one noticed us getting slowly nearer.
"I know." I murmured. Behind us Iggy maneuver in the wrong way and snapped a twig letting everyone shift their attention to him for a minute. I was vaguely aware of Gazzy yelling your out to Ig but I had other things on my mind. Without hesitation or warning I leaned in and kissed Max quickly, but enough to get the job done. Then in one swift movement I swept my foot under her legs knocking them out from under her while she was momentarily... distracted.
"I saw that Max, you're out!" Gaz shouted gleefully, pointing his finger at Max sitting on the ground like we might get confused on who was out.
"That's not fair, Fang ki.... cked me and I fell!" Max argued turning red, not admitting all the details of what really happened.
"But I didn't see him do it. That means Fang wins." Gazzy declared slapping me a high five.
"What about Angel?" Max demanded standing up and brushing off her jeans while glaring at both of us.
"She got out while you two were wrapped up in your own little world." Iggy supplied helpfully. Well, helpful for me at least, that just seemed to have pissed Max off more.
"Guess I win this one." I smirked at her.
"Even though you cheated." Max snapped back. Man, it just cracks me up when Max is mad. It's so not threatening, but it is kind of cute. Her eyebrows get all scrunched up and she reminds me of a little kid. I had to stop myself from smiling.
"I still won." I shrugged. I won, who cares how I did it? Oh wait, I think Max does...
"Yeah, well we still got one more game and you're going down." She threatened.
"Yeah?" I couldn't help but laugh.
"Yeah." She confirmed. "Down like a fat boy on a slip 'n slid."
"Bring it." I said.
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