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Here is another chapter, just like PaRaMOrE predicted! ;)

Maybe another one tonight. After Glee. ;)

CHAPTER 14

Max POV

"Care to explain?" I asked Iggy sternly, my hands on my hips.

"Listen," he sighed. "I really like Ella, okay? And I was pretty sure she liked me, too. So, I asked Fang to help because, obviously, Angel-"

"So Fang helped you?!" I exclaimed. "Hold on one moment!"

I stepped back into my room and, as calmly as I could, said, "Fang, come here."

He looked puzzled at first and stood up. When he saw Iggy's face, he immediately knew he was ratted out.

I closed the door once he joined us, so the kids wouldn't have to hear the argument.

"Tell me everything!" I demanded with anger and my arms crossed over my chest. "What did you two do?"

"Ig, you didn't," Fang said disapprovingly.

"Sorry, dude," Iggy sighed with a frown. "It slipped."

"Hello?!" I said, growing angrier by the second. "You better start explaining yourselves before I kick both of your butts from here to the middle of next week!"

Iggy took a deep breath and began, "Well, I told you the first part. Anyway, Fang agreed to help me out using his new ability, and then…"

"You agreed to help him ask my sister out?" I asked Fang.

He rolled his eyes and said, "It's not going to hurt anyone, Max."

"It's…It's…" Dang it! Words…words… "Weird!" That would have to work.

"Max-" they both started to say.

"I need to think. Be back later," I said and stormed toward the staircase.

I ran straight for the roof. Once I barged through the door, I almost snapped out my wings to take off, but decided against it. It was still daytime in a huge tourist spot. Not a great idea!

I must've been up there for an hour, just thinking of everything that happened in my crazy life, when Angel poked her little blond head through the door.

"Max?" she asked, stepping onto the roof.

"Hey, honey," I smiled. "What do you need?"

"Max, don't be mad at Iggy and Fang," she sighed as she sat down next to me.

"Sweetheart, I…"

"No," she interrupted. "You don't really understand. You've never seen the way Iggy and Ella are together. And Fang was just trying to help them. He never meant to hurt you. Neither of them did."

I let out a sigh and shook my head. "It's just weird. Iggy's like my brother. And Ella IS my sister."

Angel laughed and said, "Max, how do you think Iggy feels about you and Fang?"

"Slow down!" I retorted quickly. "Fang and I…"

"Iggy thinks it's weird with you guys," she continued as if I had never even interrupted. "But he would rather you two be happy."

I took a deep breath and released it slowly. Angel was well beyond her years here. If anyone else had a conversation like this with her, they'd never know she was barely seven.

She grinned at me and said, "Thanks, Max. Now, can you please go apologize to them? They really are upset that you got mad."

Next thing I knew, I was losing to Bambi eyes. Yet again!

We went back downstairs to the rooms. Iggy, Nudge, and Gazzy were in the girls' room watching a movie. I was never one to give apologies, but I guess I had to give it a shot.

"Hey, Ig," I said quietly.

"Max," he said sitting straight up. "Look, I'm…"

"No, Ig," I said with a slight laugh. "Don't say you're sorry. I'm the one who's sorry! You and Ella have every right to be together."

"Thanks, Max," he smiled.

"Yea," I replied. "Where's Fang?"

"Our balcony," he said, nodding toward the back door.

I went into the guys' room and to the back door. With a deep breath, I opened the door…

Fang POV

I was sitting on the stone wall that lined the sides of the balcony of our hotel room. Standing, the wall would come to about my waist.

The sun was setting over the bay as I watched and thought about the day.

The door opened and Max stepped out onto the balcony with me.

"Hey," she half smiled. "Iggy said I could find you out here. He and the others are watching a movie in the other room."

"Cool," I replied, looking back over the bay.

"Fang…" she said softly.

At that moment, I felt a pang of sorrow. And…love? I was feeling Max's emotions. Did she love the sunset? Did she love…me?

"Yea?" I asked.

"I'm sorry," she answered. Wait, she apologized to me?

"Sorry?" I asked with a puzzled look.

"For getting mad at you earlier," she said, leaning on the rail, looking over the water.

This wasn't like Max at all.

"Don't sweat it," I said. I kind of deserved it. I did go behind her back to help her sister and someone like a brother to her get together.

She met my gaze and I saw the sorrow that I had felt a moment ago.

"Max, don't beat yourself up," I stated. "It's cool."

"I wonder if I'll ever get used to you reading my emotions like that," she said, mostly to herself, as she turned back to face the bay.

"Don't know," I shrugged. "Maybe when I get used to being able to read everyone's emotions."

She laughed and I felt the need to ask her something.

"Max…" I started almost inaudibly.

She froze and I felt her anger flood through me.

"What…" I began, but then I saw it. Flyboys, in San Francisco, flying right for us.

"We have to warn the others," I said out of the side of my mouth.

"Let's move!" she said at the same time. "Make a run for it through the lobby and towards the woods."

We jumped the space between the balconies with ease and ran through the back door of the girls' room to get the others.

It was going to be another fight for our lives.

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