Back Together…or not?

"I can't believe you're doing this! It's completely unfair Max." Iggy crossed his arms. We all met up at a restaurant at the pier. We were sitting in a booth waiting for our normal sized meals so as not to raise suspicion. "No way am I going to listen to you. I just got my eyesight back. I'm not going to pretend to be blind."

"Iggy," Fang began but the flock was all edged up on nerves. We couldn't just go on pretending everything was normal when it clearly was not. Iggy knew if he made it obvious that he could see then whoever was watching us would know we had our chips taken out. AS it was, Anne Walker was pretending to be Fang's mom. I shivered at that.

"No way are you backing her up on this. It's ridiculous. You're too paranoid Max and Fang, you're a wuss for not having a pair and going against what Max says." I was about to retaliate that if Iggy did in fact "have a pair" than he could handle keeping the flock safe. But, Iggy cut me off and held up a hand. A minute later our waitress was dropping our food off. She gave Fang a smile that I didn't like before walking away.

"Iggy," I whispered as the younger kids dug into their food. "What do you expect me to say? We're being watched, studied. They need to think they are in control for as long as possible so they keep their guards down."

"Still Max, you don't even realize how they probably already know. The M-Geeks shot Fang after all. Maybe, if we just kept going to school with our wings and didn't put up a fight then they'll leave us alone like they probably have been doing with you and Fang." Did that just come of his mouth? Not fight? Let Anne Walker and the School win?

"Think about it Max, when we lived with Anne, she gave us a home and we would've been safe if you, the selfish leader, hadn't said 'no'." Iggy frowned and crossed his arms. We had an actual staring contest. If I was butter, I would've melted from the heat of Iggy's icy blue eyes. We were the ones who hadn't eaten of course.

"Iggy, they want to experiment on us." No wonder he had suggested going to a restaurant. He didn't want me to be able to hit him in the face in order to knock some sense into him. "They put us in cages." He had been planning to tell me this, even before I pissed him off with my plan.

"To stop us from running away! Maybe if they see us not trying to kill their stupid robots then they'd stop fighting us." Yeah- the robots trying to kill us? Let's not try to stop them from shooting our brains out. (Hint sarcasm). Although everyone had their eyes on their food, they all had their heads tilted up to the conversation in order to listen.

"That's not how things work Igs," Fang whispered under his breath. Our superbird hearing picked it up-barely. Out of frustration, I took a violent bite of a fry doused in ketchup (courtesy of Fang). We probably appeared strange, six overlarge kids in a booth. The oldest girl resting against the dark, handsome "emo" boy while she glared at the blonde haired boy who was glaring back. The girl with darker skin occasionally stealing glaces at the blonde boy (as to why I had no idea). The other two, obvious brother and sister, pretended not to notice the fight.

"Max," Iggy replied with a calm, even tone. "I can't take it anymore. I much rather let them win and live than fight and die." Iggy stood up, his cold eyes falling on all of us. His untouched food wasn't even cold yet. Tossing the bills I had asked him to bring for lunch on the table, he whispered, "See ya. Wouldn't want to be ya."

"Iggy, you can't leave! We just got back together. Plus, with what just happened. I thought," Nudge's voice broke but she continued, "I thought-." Suddenly, Iggy bent forward and to make Nudge stop trying to talking when she was clearly so upset, he kissed her on the lips. Instead of being shocked like I was, Nudge lifted her hands up into his hair. Seconds later, IGgy backed away slowly, staring into Nudge's eyes, while the flock stared in complete shock. Had that just happened. Nudge tried holding back the tears but when he gave her a weak smile they escaped. Iggy wiped them away.

"Sorry Nudge, this was way before you."

And then he walked out, but I wouldn't give him up that easily.

I ran after him.

Fang's POV

Nudge wiped her tears and watched as Max walked after Iggy. They would sort things out. They had to. We didn't split like this, not after the last time. Iggy had to see how wrong he was. Giving up on fighting? Didn't he realize that our lives wouldn't be as amazing as it was if Max hadn't have us fight? He wouldn't have been able to kiss Nudge like he just had…he was just being arrogant.

My jaw tightened as the waitress walked up to me, "Did her and her boyfriend get in a fight?" She noted as she nodded her head towards the door. She had blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail, a tight shirt to reveal the curve of her hips and the size of her chest, and her make-up was nicely done. All I could manage was a yawn in my head. She was dull.

"Actually, that's his girlfriend," Angel pointed a finger at me with an innocent smile. "I'd figured I'd save you the trouble of asking him up. It sucks being rejected in front of all of these people doesn't it?" Gazzy choked back a laugh. Why was I focusing on this? Because Max and Iggy are gone, so you are in charge. Besides, Fang, isn't it nice to hear Max is your girlfriend?

To be honest, I liked the sound of it a lot even though at school Max and I tried our best to keep it down low. It was hard now that Anne knew. That meant Brigid knew. At the moment, my ex (I shiver at the thought) was trying to get a rumor around that Max was easy…ugh. I wanted to sock the red-haired witch in the face.

"Sorry," I replied with a faint smile. "Taken." I liked the way it tasted and felt on my mouth. The waitress shrugged, as if it was no big deal, which it probably wasn't in her world. In my world, it was nothing. If Iggy left it would be the worst hit the flock had taken since Max and I got in that stupid, ridiculous fight that should've never happened. If one person could force Iggy to stay it would be Max.

But if one person could get Iggy to stay by his own choice-

I believe it would be Nudge.