Hands Where I Can See Them
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Fang's P.O.V
"Is that a challenge?"
"Yes."
Who wants to take a guess at how Max got me to shut up?
She clapped her hand over my mouth and pushed me out of the way.
What were you thinking?
But I did get her back for that. I licked her hand when it was over my mouth.
I don't know why she freaked out so much. It's not like she hasn't had my saliva on her before.
I laughed and looked at her.
I'm not going to lie; Max is freaking gorgeous. And not just because she was hardly wearing clothes… But I think that contributed to my opinion anyway.
I wanted to kiss her so badly. Hell, I just wanted to hug her so badly. But she'd just broken up with Holden, and I didn't want to seem like a douche.
"Hey, Fang?" Max asked from the kitchen.
"Yeah?" I replied from my room.
"Did you mean it?"
"Mean what?" I asked, confused.
"What you said earlier. About me."
"Of course I meant it. I wouldn't lie to you."
The reason I was in my room was to change into some pajama pants, so when Max walked into my room, I was in boxers and no shirt. Not that it mattered much to her.
"Well, thank you. That was probably one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me."
I pulled my pajama pants onto my legs and smiled at her.
"It was all true. And anyone who doesn't see that is a dumbass."
Max came over to me and kissed my cheek.
"Thanks again. You're just all about the flattering, aren't you?"
"I like making people happy. Well, the people I care about, that is."
She smiled widely.
"What?" I asked, wondering why she was smiling.
"You said you care about me."
"Of course I do, Max."
She smiled again and bounced out of my room.
I followed her.
"Go pick a movie. I'm making popcorn. We gotta have something to do."
I nodded and went over to my DVD collection.
The movie I decided on; The Breakfast Club.
Best. Movie. Ever.
Max saw the DVD case in my hand and held her middle finger out, tilted to the side and said, "Can you here this? Want me to turn it up?" twisting her hand so her finger was straight up, mimicking John Bender from the movie.
Some of the most memorable quotes in history come from this movie.
So it's sort of social, demented and sad, but social.
Max came over and sat next to me on the couch, holding a bowl of popcorn.
I took a piece of the popcorn and threw it up into the air and caught it in my mouth.
"Showoff." Max muttered.
"Oh yeah? Let's see you do it."
She picked out a piece and threw it up into the air. Unfortunately, it missed her mouth and bounced off her cheek.
I laughed and ate the piece that had fallen down onto her chest.
Max leaned her head on the back of the couch and looked at me.
I did the same.
Staring into her eyes was actually a great pastime.
I was just about to kiss her when her cell phone started to ring.
She sighed and turned around, kneeling on the couch and leaned over the arm of the couch to open her purse to get her phone.
It took all of the strength I had and then some not to stare at her ass.
"Hello?" she asked, turning back to the way she was before.
She talked with whoever it was on the phone for a few minutes before hanging up.
"Were we seriously just about to kiss?" she asked, leaning her head back on the couch like she was before.
I laughed a little and nodded.
"Y'know, I wouldn't mind if we did…" she whispered, inching a little closer to me.
I could feel my heart start to pound.
Again, just about to kiss, but in came a disruption.
I don't know if you've ever had a very weird thing interrupt you from something, but hearing Judd Nelson as John Bender saying, "Impossible, sir, it's in Johnson's underwear." was an interesting interruption.
One of the best lines in the movie, of course, but when you're about to kiss a girl, it makes you laugh.
"Wanna try that again? Or wait for Bender to say something else to ruin it?"
Max grabbed my neck with both of her hands, pulled my head about half an inch from hers, and whispered, "I'd rather kiss you."
And that's exactly what she did.
