A/N- Happy weekend to everyone. Enjoy the chapter.

Dancing in the Dark Chapter 14

Iggy POV

The next morning I was woken up by Gazzy's unique smell filling up the room.

"Come on man, learn to control that stuff. It was funny before, but not now."

"Sorry, I've been working on it."

I have to get away from that smell somehow. Maybe Ella can help me out. Anyway, he actually woke me up right on time, since I forgot to set my alarm clock. So I got dressed and went downstairs to the kitchen. The only person I heard was Dr. Martinez and she sounded really stressed.

"Is something wrong?" I asked.

"It's nothing, I'm just thinking about Max and Fang."

"So, I take it they told you?"

"Yes, they did. I just thought he would have waited until after graduation."

"You can't blame him for when he did it. Max was about two seconds from figuring it out the day he proposed. I think they're both smart enough to wait to get married until it's less hectic around here."

"Thanks, Iggy, you've calmed my nerves for the moment. By the way, how was your date with Ella?"

"It was okay. Ella seemed to like it, and we had some fun."

"Not too much fun I hope."

"It was our first date, I doubt it would have gotten too out of hand. Don't take some of the things Max says about me being a sexist pig at face value." Considering this is my first real relationship and I don't want to screw it up, I almost added.

"I'll keep that in mind. Here's some toast for breakfast. Hurry up and eat so you won't be late."

"Thanks, Dr. M."

Ella POV

Iggy was the last one of us to come outside to leave. He had a piece of toast in his mouth. It was still there when he picked me up so I decided to take a bite of it, just because I could. Iggy quickly ate the rest of it.

"I have a feeling your still hungry." Iggy said.

"Nope, wanted to get the toast out of the way so I could do this." And I kissed him. As luck would have it Max saw me do it.

"Iggy, didn't you guys do that last night?" she asked.

"Hey, it's your sister who's harassing me." He said joking. "I think I might sue."

"For what? I have no money." I said going along with it.

"More kisses." He said.

"I can do that." I said kissing him again.

"I would sigh and fly away in defeat, but I think that might be a bit hypocritical." Max said flying toward Fang.

"And you know, she's never been hypocritical before." Fang said mockingly.

"Do you really want to be mocking your fiancé of less than 24 hours?"

"Why? You fell in love with me, mocking and all. It's not like you're going to call it off for one joke."

"True, besides, you kinda keep me grounded when you say things like that."

"That's what I'm here for."

It was about that time we landed in front of the school.

"Well, so begins another boring week of school. See you guys later." Max said walking away with Fang right behind her.

"Again, this was her idea." Iggy said when she was out of earshot.

"What, you don't like school either?"

"Oh, don't get me wrong. School is fine. It's just that Max is so bipolar about it. When we are in school she hates it, but when we aren't she wants us to be."

"Yeah, that is kind of weird."

"And besides, if we didn't go to school, I couldn't be with you all day."

"Aw, you're so sweet."

"Don't go telling anyone else though. I have a reputation to maintain." We both laughed and walked inside.

Iggy POV

Again, nothing really happened until lunch so I'll spare you and skip to then. I was a little more hungry than usual so I grabbed an extra apple. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that they lowered the price for extra fruit a quarter so I kept the extra one in my hand. I took my usual place across the table from Fang. Then surprisingly Ella came over and sat next to me.

"You guys aren't going to get all mushy are you? I feel like eating." Fang said.

"No, I just wanted to ask Iggy a question." Ella said back.

"What is it?" I asked

"Well, I just saw a flyer for the talent show, and I was wondering if you would do something with me."

"What did you have in mind?"

"I wasn't really sure, I thought we could think about it together." We sat there a few minutes thinking when Fang piped up.

"How about a magic show?" he said.

"Why would you say that?" Ella asked.

"Well, first off look at Iggy's hand." What was I doing?

"Wow, when did you learn to do that?"

"What am I doing?" I asked still confused.

"You're doing that thing where you flip a coin between your fingers and it keeps moving around your hand." Must have been doing it subconsciously.

"Well, when you live in a cage for 10 years, you learn how to entertain yourself." I said.

"To continue my point, Iggy would make a great magician. He's and excellent showman, he has a good sense of humor, and for tricks, heck he could make me 'disappear'." I just have a feeling he air quoted that.

"And what would I do?" Ella asked.

"You get to be my lovely assistant." I said with a smile.

"Sounds like a plan. We have until Friday to work on it, so I say we do some practice after school."

"Fine with me, all I have to do is stand still." Fang said.

A/N- I sort of have a question that is out of left field. Who do you think Max's Voice is? I personally think it's Dr. Martinez, but I could make a case for a number of the characters. Just something I was wondering. 149 days until Nevermore. Fly on, prosper, and may the odds be ever in your favor.

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