Okay, this is probably one of the last chapters of this story. I will have another couple of chapters for it, but I do want to write some MORE stories. Involving L from Death Note, Momo from Shinigami no Ballad, Max from Maximum Ride, and maybe even Ichigo from Bleach (yay anime!) And I'm going to introduce Angel in this chapter, she's like Max in the sense that she's a super nerd.

Max POV

The day after the whole Fang typing incident, I was called to the front office. I don't know why, but it can't be good.

"Hey Max," the secretary said, "You weren't at school for an entire week, which is truance unless you were sick or injured. Were you sick or injured?"

"Yes," I said.

"Can you prove this?"

"Yes."

"Okay then," she said, "Will you show me your proof?"

"No."

"Then I'm afraid you have a week of detention. You won't be going to Juvenile Detention, as it's only your first offense, but you will if it happens again."

"Alright."

That secretary has had it out for me since she started this year. The other secretary was really sweet, and she didn't TRY to put students in JD. Oh well.

As I passed Mrs. Ginave's English room, I heard something. When I looked in, there was Dylan making out with Lissa. How appropriate. Now they'll break each other's hearts.

Fang POV

Max had been called to the office, which can't be good. About half an hour later, she returned. As she sat down, the teacher glared at her.

"Maximum," he started, "What is the..." and he proceeded to ask her a question about whatever Calculus thing we had just learned. Am I the only one who doesn't understand a word of this?

"45.76," Max answered him in about five minutes. Her math was exactly correct, but the teacher looked like he was going to keep testing her until she failed to answer. Baka.

Just as he started his fifth question, the bell rang. Max was out of there quicker than the kids at the front row. And we sat in the back.

I caught up with her and then realized why she was so quick to leave, it was lunch time. She came out of the lunch line and sat with a new girl whom I had never seen. I walked over and sat with them, wondering what was happening.

"Oh," Max said, "I know how you feel, my brother had cancer too. He made it through, but it was hard."

"I can't lose him. Not Gazzy. He's not just my brother, he's my twin."

"It's okay," Max said, "Come on, I don't normally do this, but let's ditch."

I watched as she and the girl snuck out of the school, and knew that the girl and Max were going to be really close.

Angel POV

"Thanks for ditching with me Max," I said, "I can't tell you how much it means to me that someone cares."

"Doesn't your mom?"

"She does, but she's in such a state of shock and denial, sometimes it's like she's not even there."

"Oh," she said, "My mom wasn't like that, but she was always stresssed."

"Yeah, that's understandable," I said, "Come on, how about we do something fun."

I took Max inside, knowing Mom wouldn't care. When we got to my room, she immediately noticed the guitars.

"You play?"

"Yeah."

"Do you like Lady Antebellum?"

"Love them."

"Even better."

She pulled me over to the guitars. I grabbed the light pink one, which was mine, and Max grabbed the dark green one, which was Gazzy's. We started playing an acoustic version of Need You Now.

(Need You Now by Lady A; italics are Angel, Bold is Max, both would be underlined)

Picture perfect memories,
Scattered all around the floor
Reaching for the phone
'Cause I can't fight it anymore
And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time

It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now
Said I wouldn't call but I've lost all control and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now

Another shot of whiskey,
Can't stop looking at the door
Wishing you'd come sweeping
In the way you did before
And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time

It's a quarter after one,
I'm a little drunk and I need you now
Said I wouldn't call
But I've lost all control and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now

Woah, woah
Guess I'd rather hurt than feel nothing at all

It's a quarter after one,
I'm all alone and I need you now
And I said I wouldn't call
But I'm a little drunk and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now, I just need you now

"Wow, you're really good Angel," Max said to me when we had finished.

"You're amazing. I really wish I had been here earlier in the year so I could have seen the music festival."

"Well," Max said, "Why don't you put on a performance in front of the music class. You got in, right?"

"Yeah, but I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that."

"Mrs. Medria is going to force you to anyways."

"Will you perform with me?"

"What song?"

"This one."

"Fine," she said, "But you owe me one."

"Deal," I said. We started to critique ourselves just as the doorbell rang.

Does anybody else out there like Lady Antebellum?