Alrighty. I had issues writing the next part, so I skipped over the awkward conversation to...an easier awkward conversation. Max and her friends. There's just one more bit of detail to squeeze in before they talk and another for either before or after Max and Fang talk, and then the story can unfold a little further with happy fluffiness and silly games. Forgive me for the long delay .-. Please.

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Part 21

"Are you serious?" Janine squealed as she held onto Max's arm, pulling her forwards faster than she would normally walk. Max skipped slightly to catch up with her tall, blonde friend, knowing Madison would be doing the exact same thing as they strode away from school.

They didn't live near her. In fact they lived in fancier areas in the town, in the compete opposite direction. She'd seen Maddy's house just once, when she went to borrow her phone at lunch when she got a call from Dad about Gasman. It was massive, a little bigger than Fang's house and ridiculously large for just her and her mother.

Max kind of envied her.

They were walking towards her house, towards Iggy and the kids' schools as she spilled her secrets to her long time friends. They seemed to not believe her at first, double checking it was in fact not April 1st and that she wasn't trying to keep her face straight.

Then it sunk in she was serious, and they both almost fell over.

"Dead serious," she confirmed as Maddy grabbed her other arm, looking at her incredulously. "I have two brothers and one sister. Swear down." She looked calm and collected, slightly smiling, but inside her heart rate was going haywire and she was fighting to keep her breath from quickening.

She knew what was coming. Below the queasy uneasiness and slight discomfort at sharing this secret for the second time in one day, she could feel the pity and attempted understanding seeping out of every pore of her girlfriends' bodies. She was waiting for one of them to console her or try and make her feel better.

But it never really came.

"God, Max! Why didn't you ever tell us?" Madison squeaked in a girly voice, her face unbelieving as she held Max's arm firmly. "Is that why you never come to parties or out to the pictures? You have to babysit and stuff?"

Max's mouth twitched up into a slightly nervous smile. She had to have smart friends. They were getting pretty close to the mark already. She glanced down at the pavements, watching their feet walk in unison as hey made their way to the crossing. Her shoes looked worn and outdated compared to her friends, material peeling off and frayed laces. Made her feel kind of out of place, when she looked at it that way.

"Kind of…" she uttered to the floor, creasing her brow slightly as she matched her steps to Janine's, keeping to her pace. She could feel her friends sharing a confused glance over her down turned head. Mind you, Fang hadn't figured it out until he'd met her family properly.

Maybe they would too.

It was a few more minutes walk until they reached Iggy's school, at which point she made her friends stop in an exact spot close to the gates. Maddy leant against the nearby wall while Janine pulled herself onto the wall and swung her legs absently, looking about her before her eyes fell on the school's sign.

"Hey…this is a blind school…" Maddy furrowed her brows slightly and tilted her head up to look at her friend, following the girl's gaze to the school's information board. She tilted her head slightly her eyebrows still furrowed, before she looked back at Max.

"Your siblings are blind?" she queried, noting her friend's eyes were focused on the school doors. Max looked round for a few seconds before glancing back to the doors, crossing a leg over another and placing all her weight on one leg, using the wall for balance.

"Iggy is," she stated simply, itching the back of her leg with the other foot. "Gary and Angelica go to a normal school a little down the street."

Jan frowned. "That's a weird name…"

It was then the school bell sounded, and a few seconds later kids with guides or walking sticks were streaming out of the double doors as they made their way to the awaiting parents and siblings on the other side of the gate.

Maddy and Janine waited patiently for Max to take one of the kids arms and introduce them, but she didn't. She just leant against the back wall and watched the doors, a slightly in-her-own-world look plastered on her face.

Jan frowned. Why did she keep all this a secret until now?

Max had told them she'd got all this off her chest with the head teacher when they'd seen her waiting outside of school, well aware of the rumour that had been circulating since lunch that she'd been escorted off of the property by security goons after barging in to see Mrs. Honey. What Jan didn't understand was why she'd kept them in the dark for four years when it was just her family.

Was she ashamed of them?

The number of kids spilling out of the school became a small stream, which was when Max seemed to become more alert and start paying attention. Sure enough she pushed herself off the wall and a little closer to the gate as a tall, strawberry blonde haired boy stepped out of the doorway and jumped down the few steps with expert precision.

He was gripping the shoulder straps of his bag as she followed the path to the gates, slipping through them with utmost ease as he made his way directly towards where Max was always waiting. He stopped dead and waited for some kind of acknowledgement. As usual, he didn't have to wait long for a hand to trail over his.

"Hey Igs," he smiled at Max's voice, letting her take his hand and tuck it safely into her elbow. With surroundings that never changed, he could breeze through them without a guide. For the rest of the world, his life was made much easier by a leader.

That, and Max didn't want to see him squashed by a car.

"Are you sure he's blind?" Iggy's smile expanded into a wide grin, turning his head to meet the voice to his right. Janine almost fell off of the wall when he looked virtually right at her, maybe a few inches off of her left cheek.

"Max has friends as well as a boyfriend?" Iggy stated with mock surprise. Max rolled her eyes exasperatedly at her girl pals, who seemed to be repressing giggles as the boy went on. "Jeez, it's like I don't know you anymore!"

"Boyfriend..?" Madison cooed, taking a hold of Iggy's spare arm and mimicking how Max was holding his other one. "Max and Nick are boyfriend and girlfriend?"

"Oh jeez," Max groaned as she unhooked her arm from Iggy's leaving Madison to guide the boy as she started faster down the road, away from her brothers sarcasm and cheeky grin. He was a right little gossip when be put new people around him.

Now she just had to hope they didn't all freak out when they found out the last bit of her secret.