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Chapter 28

Fang knocked on the door at exactly six o'clock. I rushed to get the door but Ella still beat me to it.

"You must be Fang," she said excitedly as I rounded the corner into the living room.

"And you must be Ella." He nodded.

"I saw the article about that kid you and Max saved. Pretty awesome."

Fang raised an eyebrow at me. I shrugged.

"Ella stop flirting and go help Mom." I said, pulling her away from the door. I was a good seven inches taller than her even though we're only two years apart.

"I'm not flirting." She said stubbornly. "I'm making polite conversation."

"Well go make polite conversation in the kitchen." I shoved her towards the doorway at the same moment Angel came hopping down the stairs.

"Hey Fang!" she called happily, going over and giving him a hug. He patted her back lightly and she pulled away. "I haven't seen you since…well…."

I touched Angels shoulder. She looked up at me and I gently shook my head. Telling her not to mention the fight. She nodded.

"Well I haven't seen you in a while." She concluded.

Fang chuckled at her forwardness. Mom came into the room.

"You must be Fang," Mom said, echoing her second daughter. "It's nice to finally meet you," she said holding out her hand. Fang shook it. I took the moment to take in what he was wearing. He had on a navy button down shirt, un-tucked, and dark washed jeans. Pretty damn hot, Mom was right about that, not that I was happy with her acknowledging my boyfriend's hotness.

"It's nice to meet you too Ms. Martinez," he said.

"Well, we have a few minutes until dinner is done so why don't we sit down and get to know each other a bit?"

I groaned. "Really?" I demanded.

"Really." Mom said stubbornly while Fang smirked. I pulled him over to the sofa and sat down. Angel sat on my other side while Mom and Ella took the two remaining chairs.

"You may proceed with the interrogation." I muttered, head down.

"Max stop being so dramatic," Mom said, rolling her eyes. Fang squeezed my hand; the look in his eyes told me he was fine with it. After all, I'd gone through his parents' interrogation. And that's what this one was like. Mom asked questions about school, what he planned on doing in the future, what his hobbies were, etc. He didn't tell her anything I didn't already know about him and I liked that. I knew him better than I'd originally thought.

When the timer finally went off Mom had exhausted most common topics. I'm pretty sure Fang was talking more tonight than he did in a week, usually.

All of the talking aside, I think dinner went pretty well. Ella only made about three embarrassing comments on my part and Angel only asked us one time if she could be the flower girl at our wedding. You could tell that Fang had no siblings, because he didn't know how to handle the two of them. He stuck mostly to silence in those cases.

Mom and I got a crack out of it.

We were just digging into Moms awesome chocolate chip cookies when she got a call from work. She apologized profusely and muttered something about a breached colt before running out the door, telling me to make sure Angel gets to bed on time and stopping to say goodbye to Fang.

Once she was gone it was around eight so I sent Angel upstairs to go to bed and Ella said she had to work on her project.

I brought Fang down to my room.

"Well you survived a night with the Martinez's." I informed him as I kicked my shoes off and dropped onto my bed. He ran a hand through his already ruffled hair and smiled at me before discarding his own shoes and coming to join me on the bed.

"It was that bad."

"Liar."

"You dealt with my family, I can deal with yours."

"A man of sacrifice. Not a bad thing." I said as I curled into his side. He wound an arm around my shoulder, pulling me close.

"Siblings seem…interesting." He said after a moment.

I scoffed. "Is that the polite way of saying my sisters are a pain in the ass?"

"Even if that's true, they really do love you."

"And I love them with everything I have." I said simply. "But they can still be annoying."

He laughed. I felt it resonate in his chest. I snuggled in closer.

"Thank you for putting up with it all."

"Anytime," he pressed his lips to my forehead. "Hey, what did Ella mean earlier? About an article?"

"I guess you didn't see it, huh? Someone at the beach got a picture of us rescuing that kid and they did an article on us."

"Do they know who we are?" he asked.

"No, we're the anonymous surfer teens."

"Oh, then I guess it's alright."

"Have an issue with hero worship?" I smirked.

"No, I have an issue with being the backup." He said, shifting so he hovered over me. "You're the one who did all of the rescuing. I was more of the getaway driver."

"Hey, nobody would survive without those." I pointed out, getting lost in his eyes.

He shook his head. His hair tickled my nose. "Don't do anything stupid like that again." He warned me. "You had me worried when you didn't come back up."

"I'm fine," I pointed out.

"But I didn't know it then. I didn't know if you were being dragged out with the kid."

"Fang?" I said in mock shock. "Are you saying you were actually scared for me?"

"Absolutely." He said in a serious voice before pressing his lips solidly to mine. To be honest with you? It was like my brain short circuited. I couldn't have told you my name if you asked. All that mattered was Fangs lips against my own.

His tongue traced my lower lip and I gasped slightly, allowing him to kiss me deeper. We sort of battled for dominance for a while until I let him win, just enjoying the sensation of his kiss.

I guess I can understand why Mom went off on me earlier. I mean, it certainly was understandable for her to think something might happen, especially if I find myself in this position with Fang.

I traced my hands down his chest, undoing the buttons on his shirt one at a time and then tracing my fingers over the newly exposed skin. He shuddered against me.

Once I'd undone all of the buttons I pushed his shirt off, exposing his well sculpted torso. His skin tone continued, no tan lines, just beautiful olive tinted skin.

His hands were at my waist, pushing my shirt up, but I had a camisole on underneath it so I let him push it over my head.

I wasn't going to have sex with Fang. I told Mom that earlier and I was sticking to my guns. I wasn't ready. But that didn't mean I couldn't enjoy being with Fang like this.

I ran my hands over his shoulder, brushing against his shoulder blade. He kissed down my neck and I took the opportunity to look at his exposed back.

I was right, I thought vaguely as I caught sight of the Shadow ink on his right shoulder blade. The same spot I had mine.

"So you do have ink," I said, slightly breathless. He'd found a sweet spot on my neck and I was once again having trouble thinking straight.

"Mhmmm," he agreed against my neck. "So do you,"

"Mhmmm," I mimicked him. He chuckled and brought his lips back to mine.

Everything would have been fine and dandy, meaning we would have continued kissing for a while more, if Ella hadn't decided to interrupt.

"Hey Max I have a question on—Oh my god!"

"Shit!" I yelped as Fang stood up in one quick move and I sat up on the bed. Oh, this did not look good. Not at all.

"Ella its soo not what you think—"

"I'll…um…be upstairs." She said. But she was staring at Fangs shoulder.

My sister wasn't stupid. She knew all of the gang tattoos. She knew he was a Shadow.

Ella ran up the stairs.

"Shit! Shitshitshitshitshit!" I groaned as I pulled my shirt back on. Fang was already doing the buttons on his. "I need to talk to her, tell her not to tell Mom….you should go." I said regretfully.

He nodded.

"Yeah, I guess I should."

"I'll see you around." I pouted.

"What are you doing tomorrow?" he asked me.

"Depends on whether Ella tells my mom what she just witnessed. Why?"

"How about we go into the city? Spend the day there."

"Tempting," I said, feeling my face split into a smile.

"It's settled then. If you're not grounded and your mother doesn't want to castrate me then we'll make it a date."

He left with that.

I sighed and headed upstairs to Ella's room.

"Ella," I called as I knocked on the door. "We need to talk."

"No we don't." she called back. "It's none of my business I didn't mean to walk in on you two doing….whatever."

"We weren't going to do that," I sighed. "Let me in."

"Max whatever you're doing with your life is your own business…" she trailed off. I went to the bathroom door and reached above it to get the key. Then I proceeded to use it on Ella's door.

"I'm going to explain because I know you know." I said as I opened the door. Ella was curled up on her bed with her multiple stuffed animals around her and pretending to be busy on her computer.

"Know what?" she said innocently.

"I know you saw his tattoo."

She was quiet for a minute. Then. "I don't get it. You hate the Shadows, how can you be dating one?"

"I didn't know he was in the Shadows when I met him. We only figured it out a couple of days ago. But we don't care. We're keeping our gang lives separate from our relationship."

"Is that possible? How do you know he won't hurt you?"

"Because it's Fang. And I trust him wholeheartedly."

"Your life is a mess." She informed me.

"Tell me about it."

"Just….don't go doing the nasty while I'm in the house." She said suddenly. "And Mom soooo wouldn't be happy with you, especially after your conversation with her earlier."

"Ella!" I objected. "You were supposed to be in your room, not listening to us!"

"You two were yelling. Kind of hard not to." She snickered. "I can see why she was worried."

"I wasn't going to have sex with Fang." I said in a hard voice, one that left no room for arguing.

"Alright," she said, hands up in surrender. "I believe you."

"Good. Don't tell Mom."

"What about your taboo of a relationship or almost losing your V-card?"

"Ella Maria Martinez!"

"Alright, alright. I'm done."

I thought some humor to go along with Ella's revelation would be good, don't you think? I personally love Ella in the books so I like putting her in my stories. Especially as the annoying little sister. But I think it's important for Max to have someone who understands the full extents of her relationship with Fang. And PurpleTea88 I agree with you, I just wanted to acknowledge you after you read the chapter. Anyway! Review!

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