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Chapter 14: Another Blowup
"Um… that was more than a few minutes." It was Fred. "Go away!" Nudge screamed. Fred jumped back about three feet.
"I do have some good news, though that will cheer you all up." Fred put on a weak smiled. "What?!" With all of the emotions I'd been feeling recently- and now this, I felt like my chest was about to explode. Fred backed up. I could tell that he really didn't want to be with us right then and there.
"Um… we can finally open up that space icecream tonight! You know, the one that astronauts in space eat. Mr. Greensworth has been keeping it away from me forever. Now we can have it. Isn't that great? That should make you feel better." Gee, some powdery dessert gimmick that the Kennedy Space Center gift shop sells makes this all better!
"I hate space ice cream." Angel ran to the other side of the room sobbing. "Nice." Fang remarked. "Well, um I have something that is certain to make you feel better. You want to play this Gameboy Color you kids like? Color! I have the latest version of Math-Fun-Addicts!" Was this geek a total idiot? Nobody played with a Gameboy Color since the Nintendo D.S. came out!
"Just go away!" Nudge had tears coming from her eyes. "Okay, um I have another game. It's Godzilla vs. King Kong limited edition…" I groaned loudly. "Just go, now!"
"Um, okay dinner is at seven… uh I'll just leave you to your thoughts." Fred left the room. "That moron!" I exclaimed.
"I know… I just can't believe that Gazzy, our Gazzy is going to- die." Nudge gulped and burst into tears. It was hard to believe that Gazzy would be dead. I mean he was so… young and he was just- well always there.
I still hadn't grown accustom to Iggy's death! The worst part of all of it was that we weren't even there for Gazzy and none of us had visited him since he went to the "hospital". Also, none of us had checked out were he was being treated nor met the people treating him!
"We're so terrible! We never checked out the doctors or the hospital!" I cried. "I know. It's partially our fault- all of this!" Nudge burst into tears. We all nodded in agreement.
"It's just that, sometimes I was mean to him." Angel cried. "Angel, even if you were mean to him you were nice to him at least 1000 times more. Trust me." I gave Angel a hug, trying to catch Fang's eye so he could see how nice I could be. He looked the other way.
"Angel you have nothing to be sorry about." I said a little loudly. Angel tried to say something, but she was crying so hard she could barely breathe. "Angel, why don't you take your mind off of things? That would do you some good. Would you like to play Math-Fun-Addicts?" Angel nodded. "O-Okay." She sobbed. She grabbed the Gameboy and sat on the couch next to Nudge.
"Fang, isn't it terrible that someone we all love and care about is going to die… so soon, so young." I started. "Obviously!" I took a deep breath. "Okay, that is a kind of stupid question, even if it was what we call a rhetorical question."
"I don't know what you're trying to do, but you're really starting to annoy me!" Fang yelled. "I'm not trying to annoy you. I'm just trying to figure things out." And make you take me back. I thought. "Well, figure things out on your own time." Ugh! "Yes sir!" Fang rolled his eyes and headed to Nudge and Angel.
I stopped him. "Fang, we have to talk things out." Fang let out an impatient groan. "No we don't! What's the matter with you? There's nothing that we have to talk about. Leave me alone, okay? This is a hard time for me and you're not making it any easier for me."
Just let him go for now. I thought. I tried, I really tried, but after about ten seconds I ran after him. "Fang, please. You're stressed about all of this. I know that. All of us are. I think that we should cheer each other up and take our mind off of things."
"MAX! I hate you!" I felt my heart break in half. "W-what?" I managed. "Oh, oh oh! Miss Innocent is clueless." I fought my tears. "No, you don't understand…"
"Max, you won't leave me alone ever. You're annoying, selfish, cruel, and a lot of other things." He did not just say that! "Look who's talking!" I knew that saying that would get me into more trouble and hurt me more later, but I couldn't control myself.
"Max, you think that you're all this and you think that you deserve everything." How dare he! "I do deserve everything!" I shouted. "That's what you think! Ha! I knew that you'd say that. Knew it, knew it, KNEW IT!"
"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked defensively. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's just calm down." Nudge said. "Stay out of this!" I yelled. "See, there you go again, being mean to Nudge like always." Fang jeered.
"Oh yeah, all of the time. I'm mean!" I was shaking. Calm down Max, before you lose control again. I told myself. "Yes you are! And you know what else you are, ugly! You have the ugliest face ever." That was the last straw. There was a storm coming and there was no way to stop me.
I lunged at Fang, but Nudge held me back. "Stop! Let me go!" I tried to wiggle myself free, but Nudge had a really tight grip. "Only if you can promise that you will walk away from Fang." I shrugged.
"Can't make any promises." Nudge gave me a harsh stare. "Fine!" She let me go and Fang stuck his tongue out at me. "You son of a-" Nudge tried to hold me back, but my anger made me strong enough to break free.
"You! You!" I punched Fang in the mouth. "See Max, see this is your problem. You can't control your temper. I would never hurt any of you."
"Yeah. I'm sure!" Nudge grabbed on to me and dragged me across the room. "What has gotten into you? Do I have to be your mother?"
"No." I struggled for Nudge to let me go. "Well, obviously I do! Max I don't do what has gotten into you this past week! Maybe it's the stressful situations and all of these emotions coming together, but still! I hope that this is just a phase. If not, you need serious help, seriously." Nudge shook her head.
"Calm down and talk things out with Fang later. Oh, and think about what you did and yeah, all of that stuff." I took a few deep breaths and tried not to think too much about Fang and just tried to clear my mind. That usually worked.
After a few minutes of just sitting quietly, I calmed down. Now it was time to reflect on what I did… Oh my gosh, I really ruined everything, didn't I? Now Fang would never like me again. Our relationship would never be the same.
I felt pangs of guilt and a little resentment. "It's time for dinner." Fred called. "Oh, thanks." I got myself up and headed into the storeroom.
I did my best to avoid awkward glances with Fang and mostly kept to myself. "Are you alright?" Fred asked. "Yeah, fine." I lied. "Good. It's important that you remain okay physically and emotionally." Okay?
After dinner, no one said anything and we all just headed to bed early. I couldn't sleep very well and everything that I thought about led to Fang. Think about something completely random. I told myself.
Let's see: random…random…how about4th of July? Random, but hey 4th of July is fun! 4th of July they have fireworks. Yeah, those are kind of fun. Ah! Fang and Iggy used to love setting them off. Darn! Fang.
Yeah, I tried other random topics too like tomato soup, shoes, math, convertibles, and lot of weird things, but somehow they all led to Fang. That idiot weaseled his way into every subject matter on the planet! Ugh.
I slept like a baby: waking up every hour crying or simply trying to get to sleep. At around four-ish I heard Angel crying. I came up to her and she immediately stopped. "Um, hi Max- what are you doing up this late?"
"Don't stop, it's okay to cry sometimes. Sometimes crying makes you feel better." Angel nodded. "As a matter of fact, if you don't mind, I think that I'll cry with you." There we sat. The two of us. Just crying, stopping for a few minutes, crying again, and then hugging each other. It actually did make me feel a tiny bit less upset.
We stopped at seven when Nudge's watch alarm woke her and Fang up. My face was red and blotchy and I was very dehydrated. I really needed a break. Stat!