Note: Okay, I wrote this whole big note and it DISAPPEARED!! I am so angry :) Basically what I said was thank you soooo much for the reviews, and to LuckySox (ooh, I love your stories, you guys should check them out) - I'm terrible at not-awkwardness, and I love the obliviousness, and there will be a wee tiny mini winny bit of not obliviousness in the FAR future. I'm also desperately trying to keep the character not OOC, and they're pretty oblivious in the books too. Kinda. Sorta. Not really, but I like the awkwardness, so there :D . Oh! Almost forgot. Said I was inspired again and I'm putting up a few chapters and that I just realized I put my character in an interesting (coughidontknowhowtogetoutofit) situation. I try not backtrack, ever since my sister told me about how she once had one of her characters throw himself out a window and then she realized she didn't know how to get out of it. So she wrote a bunch of different ways to get out of it, and I haven't really taken the easy way out since. You should try it. It definitely makes the story more interesting (evil grin).

It was something along those lines, but with much more reviewer thanks and stuff. So...thanks!

Ch.16 Confessions of a Teenage Sleeptalker

Amazingly enough, they got through the whole check-in phase without a life-threatening accident or major media showing up. Nudge was a little worried about Max and Iggy, but Gazzy said they'd be fine.

I sure hope so, Nudge thought, and I hope they stop sleeptalking.

It was not to be.

As soon as the door snapped shut, Max started blabbing.

"Hey, you!" Max cried out. Nudge whipped around. Was she talking to her? Fang was kneeled on the floor next to Max, looking at her.

"Don't pay attention to her, Nudge, she's sleeptalking." Nudge bit her lip. It was really creepy, Max sleeptalking. Almost like she was there and wasn't at the same time.

"Hey," Max continued. "Stop. Stop it. Get away from them! Get AWAY!" Max was screaming now, her face full of pure rage.

"STOP IT! STOP IT!" she yelled, louder. Fang's eyes got wide. Max was going to get them caught. Angel looked scared. She ran over and covered Max's mouth with her hand. It barely muffled her.

"Shhh…" Angel cooed. "Nothing's hurting us. We're fine. We're having lunch. And I'm holding Celeste. And Total's here, instead of off back at your Mom's house. And Fang…" Angel glanced up at Fang and stopped talking, closing her eyes.

Max's cries got quieter and quieter, until eventually she was just mumbling something about how good her cookies tasted.

Angel sighed and rocked back on her heels.

"Max was thinking terrible things," she said, eyes still closed. "People caged us. And some gril with read hair was ripping out our wings. She was wearing the uniform from our school in Virginia. It was a nightmare."

Angel's eyes popped open and she stared at Fang.

"Fang! That -" she began when he apparently sent her a thought. Angel mouthed 'sorry' and looked back at Max.

"I don't want to mess with Max's thoughts anymore. It's…scary." Angel waited for a nod from Fang, then crawled into bed.

Nudge sat on the mustard yellow chair a minute longer, then got up and kneeled by Fang and Max. Max was still mumbling, and Fang was still staring at her. When Nudge got his close, she could hear what Max was saying.

"Hey, Fang." Max smiled. "That's a really cool trick." Then she frowned. "What are you doing? Don't, don't -" Then she smiled again. "Yeah, I know you wouldn't do that."

"Hey, Iggy?" Max called across the room. "Cook some eggs. Nudge, pour the juice. Gazzy, get the plates. Iggy, those are blue eggs, don't use them, they're poisoned. Use the green ones." Just then, Iggy spoke up.

"My green eggs are ugly. I don't want to use them." Nudge stared at Iggy. Did he just answer Max?

"Iggy," Max said groggily, "I don't like that." Then, as if she were talking to her, Max said,

"It's okay, Nudge, it's okay. Fang won't leave us again, he promised." She paused a minute, as if listening to the Nudge in her dream. "I know he left us before, but…no, Nudge, no, he -" Max sucked in a deep breath. "Fang? No…no! Don't leave!" Max whispered, a tear rolling down her cheek, only to have its course changed by gravity. Fang silently got up and walked over to tuck Angel in. Then, where no one, not even Nudge, who was sitting right next to her, could hear, Max whispered, "I love you too, Fang."

Note: Don't get too exited, guys. This was her subconscious. She can't even admit it to herself, let alone to him!