Fang's P.O.V
I remained on the bed looking up at the ceiling; Max had locked herself in the bathroom. What she said was true I had told her those things…and I did break them. I stood up and walked to the bathroom door, I hesitated to knock. I didn't know how I was supposed to tell her; the truth at hand was that I didn't want to tell her. I knocked on the door, I waited for a response or sound to happen but nothing did. "Max, I'm sorry, can you let me in?" I requested. I heard the faint sound of sniffling from the other side of the door; I heard Max's footsteps sound against the floor as she walked. Then the door unlocked and was cracked open, I motioned to move inside but the door remained where it stood.
"I'm taking a shower." Max muttered as she went to close the door.
"Uncle Jeff went missing." I said before the door closed.
The wooden door flew open and Max stood at the door, her eyes were wide from shock. She placed her hands on my chest and gripped my shirt in her hands; she started shaking me and saying stuff really fast. This is why I didn't want to tell her, I knew she'd go crazy but I couldn't risk hurting her or seeing her cry more. I snapped back into reality and saw that Max was looking up at me in anxiousness and shock; I calmed her down then explained what had happened. "Last anyone heard from him was a week ago, he told my folks he was going on a camping trip with some of his friends." I explained. Max simply nodded, she walked back into the bathroom and sat on the edge of the tub. I walked in through the open door and sat next to her; she had her forehead in her palms and took in a deep breath. I tried to look at her face to see if she was alright, she gave me a nod then walked towards the door. She held the knob and turned her head, motioning for me to leave.
"I'm gonna take a quick shower, can you go tell Ella and the others to give me like five minutes?" she requested.
"Yeah, no problem." I said standing up.
Before I left I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her close, she wrapped her arms around me smiled. "I'll join you, after I tell them." I whispered into her ear. She shuddered and watched me walk out of the bathroom; I walked downstairs and saw Iggy sitting on the couch.
"Hey Ig, where is everybody?" I asked.
"Getting ready, probably take forever though." he sighed.
"Okay, Max said give her five minutes." I told him.
"Tell her to take her time, Ella and Nudge said to give them thirty minutes." He informed me.
"How the hell does it take them that long?" I wondered.
"Who knows?" Iggy laughed.
I walked back up the stairs and towards the room, right when I got into the room I heard the shower turn on along with some music.
MAX'S P.O.V
I can't believe that Fang's uncle when missing, I wish I could have thanked him for all he did for us. I mean he helped us with our house, with my shoulder, bought clothes for me, and even helped when Fang was stabbed by Jeb. I know it's weird to say this, but Fang's uncle treated me like I was his daughter or something. I just. Shook my head and lost myself in the music I had playing, I started humming along to the song as I washed my hair. I heard footsteps tap against the floor of the bathroom; I poked my head out of the shower to see who had come in. There stood Fang, he was digging under one of the bathroom sinks looking for something; he grabbed one of the towels and set it on the counter.
"Geeze, you could have knocked first." I said disappearing behind the curtain.
"I told you I was coming back." He remarked lightly.
"Still knocking is the polite thing to do." I pointed out.
"Well I'm not a polite person." He joked.
Then Fang slipped into the shower, he was standing in front of me blocking the water completely. I huffed and waited for him to move, I suddenly felt my left eye start to sting. Some shampoo that I had missed got in my eye; I rubbed my eye and tried to get it out. Then I felt Fang take my hand and wipe my eye with a rag, I looked at him and thanked him. Then he moved to the side, I felt the warm water wash over me.
"Have you put conditioner in your hair yet?" he asked.
"I just got shampoo in my eye, so I'm gonna say no." I answered.
Fang smirked at me and grabbed the bottle of conditioner; he squirted some of it into his hands and started conditioning my hair. I grabbed the shampoo bottle and did the same to him; after both of us were washed and rinsed we stepped out of the shower. I dried myself off and got dressed while Fang did the same; I grabbed the brush and ran it through my hair.
"Fang you didn't put enough conditioner in!" I said when I hit a not.
"Sorry." He apologized drying his hair.
I brushed out my hair and blow-dried it, my hair takes forever to get fully dry but it's a small price to pay for showering. I re-brushed my hair and cleaned up the bathroom, I put both our clothes in the hamper. Fang still hadn't gotten his hair dry so I threw a towel over his head and dried it, underneath the towel I could feel Fang smirking. I pulled the towel off his now dry head and followed him downstairs, when we got down Iggy was the only one in sight.
"Nudge and Ella still not ready?" Fang asked.
"Yep." Iggy replied.
"Man if I knew it took them this long to get ready, and then I wouldn't have agreed for us to go." I said.
"Here we come!" Ella and Nudge called from the stairs.
Ella was dressed in a white tank-top with pink strips, a pair of jean shorts, and a pair of white sandals. Nudge was dressed in a pink short sleeved shirt, a pair of jean shorts, and a pair of sneakers.
"It took you guys thirty minutes to get dressed?!" Iggy asked in disbelief.
"It took thirty minutes to straighten Nudge's untamable hair." Ella answered.
"Hey my hair isn't untamable; my hair is very tamed thank you." Nudge said with embarrassment.
"If anyone has untamable hair, it'd be Max." Fang said walking passed me.
"Hey my hair isn't-" I protested.
"Everyone run, the bull is on the lose!" Iggy shouted running out of the house.
Ella and Nudge ran after him, I started laughing then saw Fang hadn't run with the rest of them. I could see he was holding back the urge to laugh, I walked passed him and out the door. Fang locked the door when we got out; I saw that everyone else was already in the car. Iggy was in the front seat so I had to sit in the back; thankfully I got a window seat. Fang got into the car and cranked the engine, and then we drove off through the trees and towards town. I made a mental note to remind myself to tell Fang that we'd need to hide the way to get to the house; I didn't want anyone finding us. We got onto the road about ten minutes later; it was really quiet in the car so Fang turned on the radio. I listened to the songs as he flipped through the channels, I heard the song "Evil angel" by Breaking Benjamin come on.
"Hey stop at this one!" I called to Fang before he flipped the channel.
"Max not this song." Ella sighed.
"What's wrong with it?" Iggy asked.
"Max listened to this song like, all the time back at home. I've practically memorize the lyrics, and I don't really like Breaking Benjamin." Ella answered.
"What are you talking about; Breaking Benjamin is the best band ever!" I protested.
"You say that about every contemporary hard rock band you hear." Ella said back.
The song continued to play as we drove, I heard Fang faintly hum the lyrics. Iggy caught onto him too, Fang sighed when Iggy started teasing him about it. Then the song ended and Ella started freaking out, "Say ok" by Vanessa Hudgens came on. I leaned against the window and sighed when Ella, Nudge, and even Iggy started singing along. I glanced at the little mirror thing on the side of the car, Fang looked irritated yet normal. I tapped his shoulder from the back of the seat; he looked at me through the rectangular mirror.
"You okay?" I asked. Fang nodded and turned his eyes back on the road, he must be upset about his uncle's disappearance. We finally reached the mall; this was going to be a long day. We climbed out of the car and walked towards the huge building; we reached the doors and went inside. "Where do you guys wanna go first?" I wondered. I wish I didn't ask, the two of them started pointing to a bunch of different stores.
"Let's go!" Ella shouted grabbing my wrist.
"Ella hold on!" I said struggling.
"Come on, Nudge and I will hook you up with a new wardrobe." she said.
"Where are you guys going?" I asked Fang and Iggy.
"Some video game stores, a few clothing stores, maybe the food court." Iggy answered.
"Can I come with you guys?" I asked.
"If you can get away from them." Fang answered.
"Ella you and Nudge meet us in the food court at twelve, keep your phone on." I said pulling against her.
"You never change." Ella sighed.
"Neither do you." I said tickling her.
She started laughing then let go of me, yay I'm free! I ran towards Fang and Iggy, I waved to Nudge and Ella as they disappears into one of the stores. I let out a sigh of relief then followed Fang and Ig, they stopped in front of a video game store and went inside. Iggy started playing some game while Fang just walked around the store, I stood next to Iggy and watched him play the game. I glanced over at Fang and saw that he was playing some shooting game, I walked over to see what he was playing.
"What are you playing?" I asked.
"Call of Duty." he answered.
I watched the game for a minute then picked up the second controller, Fang gave me a questionable look then smirked. I've never played Call of Duty before but I gotta say, I was badass at this game. I already shot like twenty people and blew some stuff up, Fang wasn't bad at the game himself. A small crowed of people gathered around and watched us, Fang and I stayed alive till the game was over best thing was we didn't get shot once.
"Whoa, you guys are phenomenal!" The cashier exclaimed.
"Thanks." we replied setting down the controllers.
"You guys must have played like crazy to get that good, am I right?" he wondered.
"Nope, this is actually our first time playing." I replied.
"No way." he gasped.
"Way." Fang answered, nodding his head.
We left the cashier flabbergasted, the two of us walked over to Iggy and saw him with a small stack of games in his hands. "Aren't you guys getting a game?" he asked. We didn't have a game system, then I suddenly remembered the
Xbox in the basement back at my old house. I left Fang's side and grabbed the Call of Duty game, when we got to the register the cashier said Fang and I could get our game free.
"Just don't tell my boss." he whispered.
"We won't, thanks." I replied walking out of the store.
"So where to now guys?" I asked.
"It's your turn to pick Max." Iggy answered.
"I...uh can't think of anywhere." I admitted.
"Alright, Fang where to?" Iggy asked.
"There." Fang answered pointing to a store called Hot Topic.
"Of course." Iggy sighed. "What else to expect from the emo Goth?"
"First off I'm not emo, and I'm not gothic." Fang sighed back.
"Well let's go in already." I said walking to the store.
I gotta admit, not my type of place to be. The place was mainly dark but I saw some semi light stuff, I saw a really cute shirt. It was ocean blue with a black chibi wolf on it, I grabbed the shirt and continued to look around. I saw Fang looking at some leather jackets, probably needs a new one since I blooded his up. I put a hand on my shoulder, thinking back to the day Fang whisked me away from there. "Hey darlin'" someone said from behind me. I spun around and saw a biker looking guy, he looked like a potental so I kept my guard up.
"Can I help you?" I asked rudely.
"Just thought I'd start a conversation." he answered putting his hands up in a defensive manner.
"Well go talk with someone else." I said looking threw some shirts.
He suddenly started laughing.
"What's so funny?" I ground out.
"Sorry I didn't mean to give you the wrong idea, I just wanted to let you know that shirt is a buy one get one free. Names Garret, I work here." he explained.
"Oh I'm sorry for being rude, you just put me on edge there. Thanks for telling me about the shirt." I apologized.
"It's all in a day's work." he said walking off.
Fang then came over towards me, his eyes scanned over me to make sure I was okay. Before he started questioning me I explained everything to him, he nodded then glanced around looking for suspicious people. I saw the leather jacket lying over his arm, it looked similar to the one he used to wrap my shoulder up that day. I smiled then dragged him over to the area I had gotten my shirt from, I gestured my hand out for him to pick a shirt. I saw one with wings on the back and pointed at it suggest-fully, he surveyed the shirt then nodded in approval. I showed him the shirt I had selected, he looked at the shirt and smirked when he saw the black wolf it.
"Let me guess, the wolf symbolizes me." He teased.
"Well duh, no it symbolizes Iggy." I joked.
"Guys can we hurry up and go, people here are giving me weird looks?" Iggy whined.
"Aren't you getting anything Ig?" I wondered.
"From this place, yeah that'll be the day." He laughed.
I laughed a little with him and saw Fang holding back a laugh, I wondered if he had always been that way…always distanced himself from others. Before we got to the checkout I quickly ran over to the jackets, I browsed through a few of them then picked one out. I got back to the check out and immediately got skeptical looks from both Iggy and Fang, Fang lifted his eye brow in suspicion then smirked.
"Aww, Max wants to match with Fang!" Iggy sang.
"Do not." I said turning away to hide a blush. I wasn't going to admit it.
"Let's go, we're next." Fang said.
I nodded and we placed our things on the counter, Fang dug through his pocket for some money. All together the total was fifty dollars, Fang handed the man the cash then grabbed his bag of clothing. I grabbed mine then we walked out of the place, my stomach growled signaling that I was hungry. We made our way to the food court, as we walked there I called Ella and told her to meet us there. I saw a group of guys loitering in front of a store, I soon recognized them as Dylan and his goons. I tried to block them out, Dylan didn't bother me as much as Jeb did. He moved towards me but then he saw Fang, Fang turned his head and gave him a very affective death glare as he put his hand on my head. Dylan and his pals ran with their tails between their legs, I laughed and pointed as they ran for their lives. I felt the hand on my head leave, I looked up at Fang and saw him give me a small smile. I grabbed his arm and rest my head against his shoulder, Fang stopped for a minute and looked at me thinking something was wrong.
"You alright?" He asked.
"Just fine, a little tired from all the walking." I answered.
"We'll be at the food court soon, just hold on okay." He told me.
"Thanks Fang, for everything." I said kissing him.
I pulled away and saw him smirk, "You should thank me more often." He teased.
I released his arm and walked next to him, we finally reached the food court and man was I starved. The three of us looked around for Nudge and Ella, we saw them sitting at a table as they waved to get our attention. We walked over to the table and saw that they hadn't gotten their food but two drinks, Nudge told Ella what she wanted so that she could hold the only available table.
"Let's go there!" Ella shouted pointing to a pretzel-dog stand.
"Looks like a good place." The guys agreed.
There wasn't a long line and the food looked really good, we got up to the front of the line and surveyed the menu.
"Hey there, what can I get you today?" The man asked.
"I'll have four pretzel-dogs and two of those cinnamon things." Ella said, also ordering for Nudge.
"I'll have two pretzel-dogs and a diet coke." Iggy said.
The man totaled Ella and Iggy's order, which he paid for. Then he turned to the two of us, I looked over at Fang waiting for him to order. "You wanna get what I get?" I asked him. He nodded as a response, I approached the counter as Fang followed behind me.
"Hi, what can I get you?" he asked.
"We'll have six pretzel dogs, one regular pretzel, one cinnamon pretzel, two sprits, and four of those little cinnamon things. Sound good?" I asked looking back at Fang to clarify our order.
"Sound good." He answered.
"Are you sure the two of you can eat all of this?" The guy asked in disbelief.
"We sure can." I answered.
"Your total comes up to sixty dollars and thirty cents." The man said.
"You want me to pay for it?" I asked Fang who stepped in front of me.
"I got it." He said pulling money out of his pants pocket.
Was his pants made out of money or something, that's already the third time he's magically pulled a crap ton of money out of his pants. We grabbed our food and walked to the table Ella and the others were at, everyone around us looked flabbergasted at the amount of food we sat onto the table. Fang and I started eating while the others stared at us, I looked at the time and saw that it was already one thirty in the afternoon. We finished eating then left the food court, we wandered on the lower level of the mall. We passed a pet store and Ella begged us to go inside, I sighed and said yes.
"We'll go but only to look, no buying any animals okay?" I told Ella.
"Can't promise anything!" She cheered running to the store with Nudge behind her.
"Where do you want to go after this place?" Fang asked.
"To be honest I think I'm done." I replied yawning.
"Yeah me too." His agreed.
"Why, is there a place you want to go?" I wondered.
"Not really." He answered.
We waited outside the pet store while Ella and Nudge looked at the animals, I glanced over at the dogs and cats in cages behind a glass window. They all looked healthy and some played with the each other in their cages. I smiled then it quickly faded, if I had someone with me, food, and water living in a cage might not have been so bad. Fang put his hand on my shoulder and looked at them, I guess he thought the same thing. I saw Ella and Nudge petting a little black Scottish terrier in a play pen, I motioned for them to come on so that we could go.
"Max can we go to one more store?" Ella asked.
"Ells I'm tired, can we go home?" I answered.
"This one store then we can go, promise." Ella told me.
"Fine let's go." I agreed.
Ella led the way with Nudge next to her, then we stopped in front of Victoria Secret. I was not going in there, they would have to drag me in there.
"What are we doing here?" I demanded.
"Because we need some lingerie." She said grabbing my wrist and pulling me into the store.
"Fang if you love me you won't let them drag me in there." I told Fang hoping he'd help me.
"How about I just go in with you." He said walking up and grabbing me.
"I'll wait out here, you guys go ahead." Iggy announced walking away.
I proceeded deeper into the store hating every minute of it, I though Fang would just stare at the half naked people on the posters hanging over the displays but he didn't. The entire time his arm was around me and his eyes locked either ahead or on me, I saw two of the cashiers stare at Fang with hearts in their eyes. Fang stood next to me while Ella and Nudge were looking at makeup, we were in the one part of the place that didn't have half naked women or underwear and bras everywhere. I let out a frustrated sigh and hoped the two of them would hurry up, I leaned against one of the walls while Fang went to check and see when Ella was ready to leave. Five minutes went by and Fang still hadn't come back, I went to find him or Ella and Nudge. Then I saw Fang talking with one of the cashiers, I figured he was asking where the girls were. Then the unthinkable happened…