BEGINNING OF PART TWO: Vacation isn't really amazing when your living with the bane of your existence.

Yeah, yeah. I know. :D I'll correct it later, probably. So HERE WE GOES AGAIN: And No, I don't own Maximum Ride. He he. I wish.

I watched Iggy slash two rocks together, sparks flinging off into the little pile of sticks. A small flame danced on the kindle, spinning around in circles in the wind. Of course, if I was such a great leader, then WHY was I letting the BLIND one mess with flames and other dangerous things? That's like asking why I didn't cook; I didn't feel like killing someone.

He captured the dancing flame despite its attempts at escape and it caught the wood. The fire spread like... well, wild fire.

After a bad scavenge of food in local dumpster of our little po-dunk town near our secluded spot in the woods, we sat around, toasting it all to a acceptable temperature. Nudge was the luckiest of us all, having found a hot dog. I find that hilariously ironic since she used to be a vegetarian. (You get it? Because you never know exactly WHAT meat is in a...? Oh, why did I bother?)

I had a nice can of beans, which I so altruistically stole from Gazzy (thank me later), and a bit of pizza crust. I sighed. We needed to get to a phone to call my mom... fast. The warmth slid over us as we joked and fooled around. Gazzy leaned against me wearing a tired expression even though I knew he was trying to hide it. He was so good.

I ran my fingers through his feathery blonde hair and soon he was out. His snore was small and could almost still pass as deep breathing... Almost. Angel curled up on my left and Nudge sat on the other side, having a war with Iggy with twigs. "That's not fair! I'm blind!" Iggy whined when she dominated him.

"And I'm a girl!" She said back, giving me a high five over the fire.

"Girls are just generally better, I guess." I said, after breathing in my meal. Angel's fingers were curled around my belt loop, holding on for dear life. Sometimes, she acted so mature, I forgot how young she really was.

Iggy snorted. "Yeah, whatever. Well, at least guys are better at things that matter." He muttered, throwing his stick in the fire.

"And what's that?" Nudge pressed.

An evil grin spread over Ig's face and I just KNEW it was going to be something disgusting or inappropriate. "Kissing."

I laughed. Everyone gave me a look. Now THAT I could prove wrong. No one else seemed to find the humor in his statement, and Nudge was probably inwardly smacking her forehead for teaming up with me on this. "Well, I know a few bad male kissers." I muttered, drawing in the dirt.

Iggy got a 'oh god I'm gonna puke' look on his face and Nudge was grinning like a maniac. Then Fang was visible -for the first time tonight, he had been so still- as well, cocking an eyebrow. I ignored all of them. "HE DID KISS YOU!" Nudge practically screamed. "I can't believe it! Was it good? Obviously not or else you wouldn't have brought it up, but what if it's only cuz he's a big jerk? I mean, how was it? How bad was it, because it was definitely not..." Iggy covered her mouth.

I turned red in the light. "Nudge, I don't think..."

She gave me those big Bambi eyes and I was done for. "Well, imagine kissing Total, and you'll pretty much get the picture." Total, curled in Angel's legs, twitched his ears at his name, but remained asleep.

"Fang or Joseph?" Iggy asked, receiving a smack from Fang and a twig to the head courtesy of me.

"Well, you went for a moonlit WALK, Max. It should have been romantic and stuff." Nudge added, leaning on her fist dreamily. "With the waves and the sand and the moon."

"I kind of stepped on a crab." I muttered finally.

Fang and Iggy exchanged a look, even if Iggy couldn't see it, and burst out laughing. My cheeks burned again. "It was pretty much a disaster." I added, proudly, holding my head high to prove how much it didn't matter. Wasn't Fang supposed to be angry? Oh, wait. That was just me. "He was completely tongue-tied though."

Iggy stopped and faked gag behind the log he was sitting on with Nudge while Fang just was... well, Fang. Nudge grinned. "Well that's a good sign! Maybe you're a good kisser, Max!" She suggested. I laughed.

"Oh, I KNOW I'm a good kisser." I stated finally. Fang snorted, awarding a death glare from me.

"What? You're so egotistical it's ridiculous." He explained, meeting my eyes. I continued to brush Gazzy's hair back and Angel's hand curled around my belt loop tighter.

"Max?" She murmured groggily. "What's 'rape'?" She asked finally.

I blinked, raising an eyebrow. "It's... Um... Not good, Angel. Where did you hear that?" I muttered, sending the glare around.

"Well, when you were talking about your walk, Fang thought..." She yawned, her little teeth showing out from behind her lips. "'Probably to rape her, the Creep.'" She explained, cuddling closer. "If it's that bad, Fang shouldn't be thinking about those things. Joseph really did like you, Max. Even if Fang didn't trust him and followed you guys. Good thing he did or else we wouldn't have found you in the cave..."

I smiled, my already pink tinted cheeks darker now for sure. Crap. I tucked a blonde curl behind her ear as she rested her head more comfortably on my thigh and slowly her breath deepened and her heart beat sank. Nudge rubbed her eyes and Iggy wrapped his arm around her sportively. Fang was the only one whose eyes were fully alert. I gave him a smirk. "Wanna to take first watch so no one will 'rape' me? Or maybe you want to follow me if I go to the bathroom?" I teased, tucking Gazzy closer to me for his warmth.

Fang gave me an American trademark gesture with his finger and walked to the base of a tree, pulling out his laptop. His fingers danced along the keys. Like the flame, I thought, and I found myself sucked into the darkness.

Fang's Blog

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Yo, kids
We've been in Hawaii for a while, but yet again, Max has proved to fail at judging character. I'm not going to go into details, but let's just say we left him hand-cuffed to a cave wall, the Sicko.

ANYways, the Flock and I are fine. Max is still a dictator; Iggy's still blind; Angel's still kind of scary; Nudge won't shut up; Gazzy smells worse than a dead skunk, and I'm pretty okay too. Max sure is getting along well for all that "hear break" crap some people go on about. But maybe that's just because she doesn't really think about herself that much... Okay, what a lie. She does think about herself, A LOT, but she thinks about us a bit more.

Turns out there might be a new kind of mutant out there to look for and avoid. If you see any pretty, stupid, buff, popular, attractive, angry people around (as Max calls a 'Hulk'? I don't even try to understand after a while) then run the exact OPPOSITE direction. Trust me. Even Max fell for their charm. But as I said: No details.

Fly on.
-Fang out

COMMENTS:

TerrafinaPink- Oooh, is someone jealous?

RodchesterGrandmen- Course he isn't. He's Fang. And awesome. Plus, if it were a stupid buff BAD GUY, Max wouldn't go for that... But I wouldn't mind if she'd go for me... Wanna hook me up?

Jesse^^- your so cute and protective, fangy. max should realize she's madly in love with you already. i am. :D

Mollyyyy*.*- Max is so strong. I wish I was her. You're pretty okay too, Fang.

Winnerace- blech. Angel is kind of REALLY creepy. And Nudge needs a chill pill from what I'VE heard... I like iggy though ^^ he seems funny

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There were 126 comments. Fang groaned inwardly. Ugh. There was no way in HELL he was replying to all of these. He could just feel the carpel tunnel syndrome coming on. He gazed over the spot, relying more on sound; his eyes were slightly blinded from the computer screen in the darkness. His eyes adjusted and he looked in on the flock.

Iggy had some how managed to sleep thrown over a log behind him like a corpse while supporting Nudge's head. Gazzy was snuggled against Max's shoulder and Angel slept on Max's legs, making her completely unable to move into any other position than sitting up. Her head was leaned forward in a most-likely uncomfortable position. She took a deep breath, letting it out and moving Angel's curls away from her face.

Fang sighed. He couldn't believe he was seriously going to take on two night shifts, but really? Who was Max going to protect in that position? He settled up against the tree for a long night. He'd just have to wake up Iggy later...

This chapter's kind of pointless, but I wanted to put the blog in. ^^

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