Well I have some bad news, as much as I would love to update frequently in my last bit of summer it seems as though it's going to be an impossibility. I have a little under three weeks to memorize my drivers manual so I can finally get my permit, and since I signed up for AP English (I must like seriously hate myself or something) I have 300 vocab words to memorize in that time frame too. So pray for me, and hopefully I'll be able to slip in some updates *fingers crossed*. And if anyone has any study tips, please send them my way.

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Chapter 21

Max

"Ok, are you ready?" I pushed Omega around trying to force him into waking up, I mean how is he supposed to strip 10 guys down to their skivvies if he's tired?

"Max, stop being so pushy I'm awake ok? And really I'm starting to think we can get like arrested or something for this. I'm pretty sure knocking people out with illegally procured knock out gas isn't the most legal thing we've ever done." Eh well, it isn't the most illegal thing we've done either. It's close, without a doubt, but just shy.

"Whatever it's done, too late to back out now."

"What did you say the side effects to this gas were?" He asked for the billionth time, I swear he's actually starting to get annoying. According to him some of the guys were turning orange, which had absolutely nothing to do with the fire that I was burning right now.

"They might get sick when they wake up. There's nothing to worry about right now, just get me the clothes. The fire's ready." I actually had to take a step back, the heat was starting to get to me and I was starting to sweat, despite the fact that it was only like fifty degrees outside.

"Well I'm not cleaning it up if they do." He walked over and handed me the big bucket full of the guy's clothes.

"You took their socks too? Isn't that a little bit over kill?" I asked, for some reason taking their socks too just seemed wrong.

"You told me to take off all their clothes except for their underwear, socks are clothes." He argued before he sighed and headed to the last tent. The sun was about to come up and the timeframe for the guys to stay sleeping from the knock out gas was almost over, so we needed to get this thing in gear. I dumped the clothes in the fire and when he came back with the last bit of clothes I added them to the flames.

"Now you just need to get their bags and we need to get the bags, tents and such and bring them inside." I instructed as I watched the last bit of clothes burn.

"Ok, you get the bags and start taking down the tents. I'll get the bodies out in the open; gosh you better hope none of them get sick on me." Once again with the sickness, somebody must have a weak stomach. I rolled my eyes at his antics and went to the side of the house and grabbed the hose so I could put the fire out. Luckily, just as soon as I had the fire out Omega yelled over to tell me that the first tent was all clear. I know it's weird that I didn't want to look at them now, when I would be laughing at them later when the prank was in full swing, but it just seemed wrong to me.

I made quick work of throwing the bags out of the tent and taking it down. Omega and I were oddly quiet, the only sounds being grunts coming from Omega when he moved a particularly heavy team mate.

"Second one's done. Fang has some nice boxers on too if you want to see them." I laughed and rolled my eyes as he joined me in gutting the tent he had just finished with.

"What are we doing with our tent?" He asked looking over to the one tent left standing. Thankfully it was the smallest one and we could get it down quickly as we were running out of time.

"We'll just take the whole thing into the living room and just take it down later. We need to get moving. Did you tie them up already?" I grabbed as many bags as I could and ran them into the house, Omega did the same and followed, right on my heals.

"Yeah I have them all in a row; the rope will lead up to me so I can let them go whenever we want." I nodded and after setting the bags by the stairway leading upstairs (we're going to hide them so if they by any chance happened to get inside after we let them go they would think we burned them too).

"Okay, so all we have to do is get the rest of the bags, hide them in the attic and fill the water guns, and wire the hose." I ticked the things off in my mind as we ran back out to get the rest of the bags, from what I could see some of the guys were starting to stir, which was not good. We still had a lot to do.

"I'll get the hose rigged, you do the rest." I nodded, agreeing that he was the most capable at rigging the hose or whatever he was thinking about doing. He actually wanted to be an engineer and loved putting things together, so it was right up his ally.

"Gottcha, hurry up." He nodded and ran back outside, grabbing a wooden box, a screw driver, and some screws that he had set by the door earlier. I grabbed a bunch of bags and ran up the stairs down the hall up the attic steps and set threw them around the room before I turned around and went back down to repeat the process. After running up and down the stairs four times with armfuls of luggage I was beat, and filling the water guns, and (accidently) squirting myself in the face a couple times was nice. Once they were done I put them in the bucket (which was significantly heavier with a bunch of water guns) and lugged it up to the attic. When I looked out the window that showed the back yard where the guys were I almost bumped heads with Omega who was on our tallest ladder (that I had no clue we had), and holding the hose.

"Oh good you're here, I was beginning to think I was going to run out of time, here grab the hose and make sure you don't let it fall out the window, I need to go get the lead rope, some of the guys are waking up." He sped down the ladder, and I worried about his safety, like I often did during season. If he would get hurt it would be it for him. It's our senior year and he needs to get out there for scouts to see him, which he can't do if he's injured.

"Ok here, hold this too. I'll put the ladder away quick and come in, start putting the shaving cream in the balloons, you brought up the cheese balls yesterday right?"

"Ugh, no, I forgot. Sorry," I offered him a smile that told him I wasn't really sorry and might have left the cheese balls down there on purpose. I'm sure we won't miss one or two.

"Sure, and I have 11 toes." He rolled his eyes and started down the ladder, leaving me at the window with a rope and a hose. I looked down and watched him walk into the house and laid my head down on the wooden window sill. It's really too early for concocting evil schemes. I did make sure to keep a firm grip on the hose and the rope. I have no idea how or where he got such a long rope, or how he got the hose to go all the way up here, or how he covered the hose so they wouldn't be able to turn it off, or how he hooked the rope up so they would be in a line or whatever. I guess I don't know as much about this plan as I thought.

"They starting to wake up?" Omega asked from behind me and I looked up, extracting my cheek from the wood it must've been on longer than I realized. I saw a bunch of movement; it looked like the ones that woke up already were waking the others up. Good, less work for us to do.

"Yeah, they're stirring. You ready for this?" I asked turning to look at him. He took one look at my face and laughed.

"If you could only see your face right now Max. Talk about bad places to fall asleep against, too bad I don't have my phone with me." He frowned at that and patted down his pant pockets before a look flashed across his face. It looked like he had a light bulb moment and remembered where he put it.

"You locked up right?" I asked, choosing to ignore that he was making fun of my face.

"Of course Max," he rolled his eyes at me and pushed me over to the side of the window so we could both look out.

"You could've asked me to move," I muttered.

"Would you have?" Eh he got me there.

"No, probably not."

"Then why bring it up?" He took his eyes off the guys to raise his eyebrows at me.

"Whatever, it doesn't matter. Can we just spray them now? The ones that are still asleep will wake up." I changed the subject, and by the look in his eyes it was successful.

"Okay, you want first dibbs?" He asked and I smiled, not bothering to answer as I clasped the nozzle of the hose and started spraying the guys. Cries of frustration and anger rose up as we laughed our butts off. I accurately hit all the guys at least once, which wasn't an easy accomplishment, let me tell you, some of them were pretty far away.

"Okay, my turn." Omega said between laughs as he grabbed the hose from me. I frowned and decided that not doing anything wasn't going to fly so I grabbed the balloons filled with shaving cream and started bombing the guys, who in turn started screaming. Omega glared at me and shifted the hose to his left hand and picked up balloons with the other.

By the time we were finished with the balloons we were laughing so hard we were crying, which trailed the shaving cream on my face down onto my shirt. Yeah, Omega turned on me, with the hose and a balloon; needless to say he got five balloons and was almost thrown out the window.

"Cheese balls?" I asked turning to throw the last balloon at him. I won't admit this to anyone, but I purposely aimed at Fang once or twice. I'm not really sure if they hit their target or not though because my hair was falling out of its messy bun, and getting wet from the shaving cream and tears on my face, which was impairing my vision.

"Cheese balls," he agreed handing me one of the big buckets of cheese balls as he took the other. Before he bothered throwing any out the window he grabbed a handful and put them on my face, rubbing them in to the shaving cream. I growled and grabbed a handful from his bucket doing the same thing to him; I didn't want to waste my cheese balls on the likes of him.

He swatted my hand away, but not before I dropped some of them on his head. The remaining cheese balls in my hand were wrestled from my grasp and I was knocked to the floor. Omega laughed hysterically as he threw cheese balls at me not the guys. I lifted my arms to shield my face and yelled that he was wasting the cheese balls on me. He reluctantly agreed and turned to start chucking fistfuls of cheese balls out the window at the guys. Numerous threats were issued on our behalf my favorite being from Iggy.

"Max, I promise never to try and hook you and Fang up if you stop it with the cheese balls! Please Max, I'll do anything!" It kinda sounded like he was faking tears too, which just added to my amusement.

Once my big container of cheese balls were finished (three minutes after Omega was finished, let it not be said that I don't have any self control), we showered them again with the hose quick and just laughed at the threatening looks on their faces. I'm sure to get slammed at practice tonight, but right now it's just too good to pass up. Once our laughter had finally abated (it took awhile, let me tell you), I nodded to Omega and he pulled the rope, unleashing them from the rope. I watched with rapt interest as the ropes just fell off and wondered how in the world he set them up like that.

It was a little unsettling to realize that instead of running for cover most of them ran to the door and pounded trying to get in. Now I know what it's like to have an angry mob in front of my house with pitchforks and torches, although my mob was a little short on the clothes, pitchforks, and torches.

"I'm gonna go down, be back soon." He laughed as he ran down the stairs. I rolled my eyes knowing that he was going down to mock and ridicule them, because that's how he worked. You don't want to be on his bad side, and the guys hadn't even done anything to him.

I was rolling on the floor laughing as I reminisced about the minutes earlier, trying to make sure my tears didn't start falling down my leg instead of my face when my butt vibrated. I was alarmed at first, I mean who wouldn't be when their butt just vibrates randomly while they're laughing and sleep deprived. I admittedly was scared that I was hallucinating at first, until I remembered that my phone was in my back pocket. Oopsie.

Hi honey, just wanted to tell you that we'll be home soon. Angel isn't feeling so well, so we thought it best to come home early. See you shortly, Love Mom.

Well crap, there goes my prolonged fun. I went over to the hose that was still attached to the window sill and leaned my face out the window, noticing that none of the guys were still there. I sprayed my face getting the shaving cream and cheese balls off of my face. When I was confident that I'd gotten it all off I dropped the hose out the window and lifted the front of my shirt to dry off my face.

"That was awesome Max, now what are we going to do with them? We probably should have thought this part through." Omega came over and picked me up, spinning me around with a huge smile on his face. My phone flew out of my loose grip and thankfully landed on the couch.

"Why don't we let the guys out over at Iggy's house. Be careful about it too, they'll probably be mad at you. And could you clean up down here? Mom's on her way home, I'll start cleaning up in the attic." I said as he sat me back down on the ground.

"Ugh, fine. I'll do all the hard work. But I expect to be rewarded," he pointed threateningly at me and I laughed at his ridiculousness.

"Fine, I'll let you have some of my cookies next time she makes them." I grumbled realizing it was the only thing he could want.

"Good, and you have to change your relationship on Facebook to say that you're dating me. Maya's still friends with you right?" Ugh, now my family's gonna know about the fake relationship too.

"Can't you just 'accidently' send her a pic of us cuddling or something? Even if we were dating, I don't think we would be a couple to flaunt it on Facebook." Hopefully he would buy it, but really it is probably the truth. The only reason I get on Facbook is to stalk the guys from my old team and school, and even then I barely do it.

"Fine, but we need to get that pic soon, one of the guys told her yesterday that I came up here for some alone time when she realized that I wasn't at school."

"Fine, we'll get one tomorrow or something. Just hurry they'll be here soon, and if she comes home to a mess you aren't going to get your cookies." I threatened and he immediately jumped up and ran outside, I briefly wondered how he planned on getting them to Iggy's without any physical violence, but decided he could take care of himself (probably). So I walked up the stairs and down the hall to the other set that would lead me to the attic. When I got up there I surveyed the room. Tons of balloon fragments that were (accidently, psh yeah right) popped were around the room, and there was a huge wet spot at the base of the window where we threw the balloons. The bags the guys brought were scattered around the room. Shaving cream was splattered against the walls, and cheese balls were littering the floor. I sighed, knowing I had my work cut out for me and started to clean up.

"You know if you wanted to see me without my clothes on you could've just asked." I turned and was startled to find a wet, cocky looking Fang standing behind me sporting only a pair of loose fitting sweatpants. He didn't have any shaving cream or cheese balls on him, so I guessed that he'd taken a shower, or he'd escaped after the first water wave.

"Ah, well I just didn't want to seem that foreword. My boyfriend would have a cow if he found out; you won't tell him will you?" I might be just slightly ashamed to admit that I was flirting, but well can you blame a girl for flirting with a guy that has abs like that? Even if his attitude is rubbish? I think not.

"Oh Omega, yeah Sweetheart, you're not fooling anybody with that fake relationship." My mouth might have dropped open in shock. How in the word could he know? We'd been so careful! He wasn't even at the campfire- wait. He wasn't at the campfire…he came later, but before we knocked them out. He must've overheard Omega and I fighting about our kiss or something. Dang it, all that work for nothing. Well half of nothing, I still got my payback on everybody else.

"Awe, did your pathetic attempt at making me jealous not work out so well Sweetheart?" He had a fake pout on his lips which really just made me want to punch him all the more badly.

"Awe, did your pathetic attempt at charm me not work out so well Baby?" I returned his pout with one of my own and saw how his eyes lowered to my pouting lips, and smirked.

"Don't be daft Max, if I wanted to charm you you'd be begging for me." He leaned in real close and whispered in my ear. Probably as charming as a sopping wet, muscular boy, wearing only sweatpants could be. Which sounds like it would be pretty charming, but he was just too over confident and it was throwing me off. It probably would've had its intended effect if he would've acted like he did that night at the ball field, but well, that obviously didn't happen.

"Oh really? I seem to recall you singing a different tune not so long ago, begging me to listen to you." So I leaned in and whispered back, giving him a taste of his own medicine. My subconscious must seriously hate me I swear, it's always getting me into these stupid situations. Gosh it really needs a talking to.

"I'm not the one that was willing to make out with her best friend to make the guy she really doesn't like, at all, jealous." Aaand he went there. Well then, I see how it is.

"Yeah, that's probably a good thing. I'm pretty sure Iggy's straight though," hahaha Fangyboy, I went there too.

"I think you of all people are aware of how straight I am, but good job of trying to change the subject. It almost worked." Psh, since when did Fang get so smart? Gosh. And when did it get so hot in here? When did Fang get that close to me? What is he a ninja?

"How would I be aware of how straight you are?" I kinda, accidently, walked into that one, I'll admit it. But I honestly wasn't expecting Fang to kiss me again, and I definitely wasn't expecting my hormones to make me kiss him back. Yeah it was the hormones; I had nothing to do with it….at first. Then I was like, well he's here, and he's kissing you so he can't be saying anything stupid, mean, or hurtful so why not make the best of it. And then I realized that he's only not saying anything stupid, mean, or hurtful because I'm lip locking him, and I'm sure to regret this later. So I pulled away. NO I kept kissing him like the stupid person I am. No judging ok? You would all do the same thing in my shoes. Kissing him was just so addicting. But when he pulled me closer and I realized he was sopping wet and only in sweatpants, I blushed a little and pulled away. Yeah, I blushed. But nobody's going to believe you if you tell them, so.

"I…um, have burning clothes ashes to take care of before my Mom get's home so I should-" My right hand lifted up and rubbed the back of my neck nervously as I pointed in various directions, hoping that by now the guys were all at Iggy's house dressed and that Omega was downstairs cleaning (yeah right). But anything to take my mind off of Fang who I'm trying to avoid looking at, and doing pretty well if I must say, that spot on the floor is awfully dusty, I'll need to tell Mom to clean it later.

"Those were my favorite socks you burned." He replied, and the shock of him actually trying (I think) to continue a conversation was a bit much and my eyes widened. He didn't say anything of it and copied my movements of rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly.

"Out of all the…your favorite socks? You have a favorite pair of socks? I don't even have a favorite pair of socks." The easy banter was actually quite nice, I could get used to it.

"Well I kinda hated the shirt anyway, and the shorts had some grass stains on the knees so you were really doing Nudge a favor. She's been threatening to burn them for awhile; she'll think its poetic justice or some such nonsense that that's actually what you did."

"Well tell her I said I'm sorry she wasn't here to witness it."

"I will no doubt Gazzy's already called and complained to her about the unfairness of it all like the baby he is." He rolled his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest and it hit me that we were having probably the first civil conversation we've ever had. Fang must've noticed a look on my face or something because he was back to rubbing the back of his neck nervously.

"Look Max, I like you. I've never really felt like this before, it's really hard for me to explain, so I'll spare you. But would you please just give me a chance? Give us a chance? Just one date, on your terms, please?" He had such a kicked puppy look on his face that I really couldn't say no. Nobody could say no (or at least that's what I'm telling myself).

"Okay, one date." I answered and Fang smiled one of his real genuine smiles, and looked like he was going to come give me a hug or something, but finally noticed he was only in a pair of loose fitting sweatpants that were threatening to fall down and blushed a little, hiking them up. That's not something you see every day.

"Thanks Max. You won't regret it." He replied before flashing me another smile (wow two on one day) and walking down the stairs and out of my view. I sat there, as still as a statue and let the fact that I just agreed to go on a date with Fang sink in.

-Date night next chapter….*sheepish smile*. These two are just so dysfunctional, I like sit and plan them messing up like I've never planned any couple messing up before. I just love it. :0) I mean really, Fang's so different with Max, it's so cute. Unless he's in jerk mode, then it's not cute. But anyway :0)

-Anybody notice the TMI reference in there? I'm not positive if it was verbatim, but I'm sure it's close enough to be recognized.

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