AN: I am sorry I couldn't update Saturday, I would've but I got kicked off. The good news is I am caught up in school! More freedom to write for me, which means more chapters to read for you! Everybody Happy!

Disclaimer: *Tsparks walks out* "You know the drill," He sighs, "Max and Co. aren't mine, blah, blah, blah. Faith and Bones are, Yadda, yadda, yadda. Just read, people. Thanks for listening."

Chapter 36: The Christmas Ball, pt 1

Max POV

"Don't move," Nudge warned. I sighed inwardly.

So par our agreement to each other, staying for two or three dances and then splitting to go Christmas shopping for the flock, Fang and I were going to get dressed for the stupid Christmas Ball. That was semi-formal. So I had to wear a dress.

God kill me now.

We hadn't told Nudge about our agreement. Why, you ask? Because she would then release an evil side to her that Fang and I have seen a total of two times. Just thinking about it makes me shudder. She gets Angel to make Fang and I hold still while Nudge places make-up on our faces. To both Fang and I, it is very wrong and cruel.

"Max," Angel said, "You are going to look fantastic! Stop thinking so negatively."

"I'll try," I said bitterly. I could only imagine Ig's jokes now.

Angel and Nudge were both doing my hair and Make-up. If it were up to me, I would have just worn the dress and be done with it. But, nooo. I have to put make-up on and do my hair. Again, God kill me now!

"Ma-ax," Angel whined, "Please stop thinking so negatively. Bones hasn't taught me how to just relax my power yet."

"What does that mean?" I asked. Bones is a great teacher and all, but he tends to be a little prankster sometimes. It makes me believe that his mind was messed with when he was at the School.

'Hey!' Bones thought at me, 'Give me some credit. I was not tested on that much.'

'Suuure Bones,' I thought, 'keep telling yourself that.'

'Ahh, go put your make-up on,' Bones retorted.

Then his presence in my head was gone. Bummer. Would've been nice to have a distraction.

"Max," Nudge said, "You. Look. AMAZING!"

What? I looked into the mirror and –whoa! Earlier my hair had been styled so it was much wavier then usual and it was parted to the right. Nudge had finished applying my make-up, and I looked like a completely different person. How did Nudge do that so fast? I mean the conversation between Bones and I couldn't have lasted more then five minutes.

"It did Max," Angel informed me, "We used you're distraction to our advantage. Now all you have to do is get dressed."

Nudge and Angel left the room, leaving me to get dressed. And leaving me in slight shock. I could only imagine how this is going for Fang.

(AN: IMPORTANT! I did NOT think up how each dress look for each girl! I will say this once: I. AM. A. GUY! I gave that job to my cousin, K. I refuse to give you her real name on the grounds of being her older cousin. Family is family, that is that.)

I took care while putting my dress on, so I didn't tuck my wings in uncomfortably. My dress was black (my date is Fang, duh) and strapless, it flows away from the body at the waist to the knee, and it has a purple strap across the waist. All in all, a dress I picked out. It was the least girly-est one there.

After looking myself over in the mirror, I was trying to remember why I was doing this in the first place, I left the room. Ella, Zoë, Nudge, Angel, and my Mom were all waiting for me outside my door. I was greeted with various cries of approval, a Nudge channel special on my looks, and a flash from a camera.

"Okay, Okay!" I quieted them all down, "We going to this thing or what?"

"Why Max? Got a hot date or something?" Zoë joked.

"Yeah, and he's hotter then yours," I shot back, not missing a beat.

Zoë gasped in mock hurt, "How dare you!"

The five of us burst into laughter, and then chatted as we waited for Bones to call us down. I looked over Ella and Zoë's dresses.

Ella was wearing a yellow dress that had thick shoulder straps on the shoulders. It clung close to her body and ended at her calfs. It suited her nicely. Iggy will probably die from joy as soon as Angel or Bones send him a mental image of her.

Zoë was wearing a white dress and had red roses printed on it. Her dress had straps clinging off of the edge of her shoulders and ended at the knee, flowing a little. Zack will love it. Or more precisely, her.

"Okay girls," Bones called, "Ig finally finished in the bathroom, come on down!"

"I was NOT in the bathroom!" Ig shouted at Bones.

I trailed behind the others as they went down the stairs. I stepped downstairs, between Ella and Z, and looked over the guys. Details were hardly noticed on any of them. Because I first noticed Iggy's face.

Ig's jaw was hanging off the edge of his face, threatening to fall off. His sightless eyes somehow showed admiration and were wider then I have ever seen them. In other words: Priceless.

Nudge had done a good job on dressing him up, too. He was dressed in light tan Khakis and a Navy long sleeved button down shirt. It hung a little loosely off his wiry torso. His almost utterly destroyed shoes had been replaced by blue Converse shoes. Ig made being blind look good. Except for his expression.

I turned my head to look at Zack, and almost burst out laughing at his expression. Almost the same as Ig's, with slightly more dignity in the jaw area. He was dressed in a Green V-neck long sleeve, a white T-shirt visible underneath. He was wearing tan Khakis, like Ig. His blond hair was combed so it parted on the left. Zack looked pretty good, I almost apologized to Zoë for my earlier crack at her date. Almost.

Because then I saw Fang. He was sitting at the bar, guitar in his hands (he must have been practicing something), and his mouth was slightly agape. My face was pretty much the same.

Fang looked downright amazing. I had the sudden urge to skip our idea and take him to a motel, if you can guess what I mean. If I didn't get the chip out yesterday I might have taken him here and now.

Fang was wearing black jeans, not surprising. The pants I mean. What was suprising was his shirt. He had a solid black long sleeved shirt on, his sleeves pushed up to his elbows. Underneath that was white under armor, the sleeves ended about two inches past his elbow. You could see the silver from his Dog-tags around his neck. Not semi-formal, but semi-formal enough for Fang.

I noticed his shirt was clinging tightly to his body. There was a faint outline of his stomach muscles.

Mental Note: Make Fang dress up more often. Tight shirts+Fang=Happy Max.

Then Faith ran up to me. I had no idea where she came from, aside from the obvious joke, I was too busy ogling Fang.

"Wow Mommy!" Faith exclaimed, "You look pretty!"

I blushed and crouched down to give her a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

"Thank you Faith," I said into her ear. She hugged me tighter in response.

I noticed Fang walk over to us and moved Faith to my hip. Fang took Faith from me and handed her over to Bones. He moved back towards me and cupped my cheek. I felt my face heat up more.

"You," Fang whispered huskily, "look beautiful."

My face was in full on blush mode while he leaned down for a kiss. Fang backed away before I could deepen it, probably to spare the younger kids a scaring incident. Damn-good-looking-very-smart-and-multitalented Fang sent me a half smile that lit up my world. He released my cheek and turned back to Faith and Bones. Bones handed her back over to Fang.

Fang kissed her cheek and said, "Be good for Bones. We'll be back later, okay?"

"Otay Daddy," Faith said and hugged him again, "I be good. 'Ove you."

"I love you, Baby Girl," Fang said before he kissed her cheek again. Fang handed her over to me.

"'Ove you Mommy," Faith whispered and hugged me around the neck.

"I love you Faith," I said to her, and kissed her again, "Be back soon."

"'Tay," Faith yawned out. I reluctantly handed her over to Bones, I really loved having a little girl ...aside from Angel.

"WAIT!" My mom shouted, "PICTURES"

After some pictures (which took forever) the six of us were piling into Bones' 95 Mitsubishi Eclipse. He had it custom painted, an Onyx black with steel blue details.

In other words: a kick-ass looking car.

The downside is, Bones only trusts Fang or Zoë driving it. I guess Fang told him about my past attempts at driving. And apparently Zack is only good at driving Bones' Truck, I was never given the details on it so bare with me. Seeing Ella only has her temps and Iggy is blind, I am the only one of the eligible drivers without a license. Bones had taught Fang during September, or so I've been told.

Fang says he'd rather walk, seeing he lives smack-dab in the middle of town. But whenever he drives anywhere, he takes the Eclipse. Says he feels like the guy from 2 Fast 2 Furious (a Flock favorite) whenever he drives it. Again, we have wings...so that's really not often. And Bones turns into a huge prehistoric-Great Dane that can run faster then 70 mph.

Sooo...Not a lot of driving is done by our little group.

Fang was driving, I was sitting next to him in the passenger's seat, Ella and Iggy were sharing half of the backseat (gross), and ZZ (Zack and Zoë's unofficial couple name, via Angel and Nudge) were sharing the other half. Fang planned on handing the keys over to Zoë when we planned to ditch.

We drove into the Civic Center, where the "Ball" was being held. Fang pulled into a parking spot, some couples walking in turned when our ride pulled in. Fang unbuckled and told me to stay in the car. I wasn't about to argue, it's freezing outside! All I'm wearing is a dress *shudder*, make-up *shudder again*, and... Fang's leather jacket *inhale Fang's scent and sigh*. Be jealous ladies. Be very, very jealous.

I noticed Iggy, Ella, and ZZ had gotten out of the car. They left me in here!

That being unacceptable, I moved to open the door...when Fang opened it for me.

"Your hand Miss," Fang said holding his hand out to me. I took it, wondering what had gotten into him.

"What are you doing?" I asked once I was out of the car. I cautiously took a few steps (Damn Nudge for making me wear heels!), for fear of slipping on the ice.

"I believe it is called 'Being Polite in Public'," Fang smirked. I stuck my tongue out at him. Screw his sarcasm, I just want to get this over with.

Fang wrapped an arm around my waist and escorted me in the building. Well he cirtainly knows how to help, doesn't he?

"Hey Z!" Fang called, "Come 'ere!"

Zoë and Zack both walked over to us.

"Sup Fang?" Zack asked.

"Max and I are only staying for two, three dances tops," Fang said. He handed the keys to Zoë and continued, "We plan on ditching and then going Christmas shopping."

Zack nodded his head understanding, Zoë was less understanding though.

"You guys aren't staying?" Z asked slightly sad. I think.

Fang rolled his eyes, "We made our minds up about this already, and seeing as Faith isn't here to convince us to stay... you are shit outta luck."

Zoë smiled sheepishly, "Oh well. Be sure to get me something nice!"

Then she pulled Zack into the building. Fang shook his head then looked at me.

"Ready?" He asked smiling.

"No," I said smiling back at him, "let's just get it over with, though."

AN: Part 1 is done! I am working on Part 2 now!

I am all caught up with school! Thank you GOD!

Keep on Keepin on

A very happy Tsparks158