I want to read Angel so bad! I want Fang and Max together again. I mean I don't hate Dylan, but I want Max to end up with Fang.
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Max's POV
I woke up to Gazzy shaking me.
"Max, hey, get up!" He yelled- right in my sensitive ear.
Since both of my eyes were closed, I opened one of them and gave Gazzy an evil glare. He flinched.
Wow, I can scare somebody with only one of my eyes open…
"How are you still so scary even when you have only eye opened?" Fang chuckled.
I opened both of my eyes and saw that Fang was standing at the doorway of Dylan's ward.
"Perfect thing to ask a girl, and good morning to you too." I muttered.
Angel laughed.
"You mean 'Good afternoon'" she winked.
I shot my eyes open and quickly looked around. It was broad daylight.
Holy crap! It is afternoon!
I quickly got up and unfortunately, I didn't know Nudge was leaning on my shoulder. As I got up, her head slipped and banged against the seat. Thankfully, the seat was cotton and didn't injure her that much.
"Eeee!" Nudge shrieked as she got up.
Gazzy snorted. "What was that?"
I winced at Nudge's exclaim.
"Don't worry. It won't hurt that much." I said without much of an apology tone in my voice.
Nudge grumbled. "It wouldn't hurt to say sorry, would it?"
Angel giggled.
"I'm going back to sleep. Wake me up…..." Nudge said already curling up into her previous sleeping position.
"It's right now afternoon. To be more precise, it's 11 o' clock." Gazzy pointed in a smug tone.
The only response was Nudge groaning. Fang chuckled and then a nurse came out. She looked like she was in her mid-twenties. She had brown hair with red streaks. Red streaks. My eyes snapped open at that sight.
Oh great…another Dr. Amazing. Just what I need one right now….Except this time, it's a nurse.
Of course, she was interested in Fang. I rolled my eyes trying not to care as I sprawled over the seats. Gazzy snickered as he saw my expression. I stuck my tongue at him.
"You can talk to Mr. Ride now, Mr.…." she said obviously wanting to know Fang's name.
"Nick. Nick Ride." Fang politely smiled looking at her hair with immense interest.
Did I mention red was Fang's favorite hair color? I wouldn't be surprised if he told me to be Ariel for Halloween.
"…Nick." The nurse finished.
You don't care, you don't care, Max….
Angel: Yes, you do, Max. Besides, you're prettier, you know…
I snapped my head at Angel and she nodded at me. My face flushed and I straightened up with Nudge besides me sleeping.
"I'm sorry, but do you see that beautiful girl over there?" Fang said pointing at me, "She's my girlfriend." He smiled.
I felt my face turn hot and I saw the nurse analyzing me. I gave her a dismissive look.
Am I pretty or not, huh?
The nurse gave me a sideways glance as she flipped her brown (How can you forget? Red streaks, remember?) hair.
"Mr. Ride is going to be discharged in a couple of minutes. Be sure to take everything that's yours and check out at the counter. Whatever you leave here, will be donated to the needy, so be sure to take all of your belongings." The nurse said with a dismissive tone.
Then she turned as if she was pivoting and left in a brisk walk with her long hair swishing behind her from left to right and from right to left.
"Attitude, huh?" Nudge said while rubbing her eyes, not able to fall asleep with this broad daylight.
"She had no chance. That's what she realized." Angel said with a satisfied smile on her face.
I flushed and Fang flashed a one of his sudden smiles. Then I got up and along with Fang, I walked inside Dylan's dorm. The smell of medicine infiltrated my nose. I wrinkled my nose in the procession.
"Smells horrible, doesn't it?" Dylan said.
I turned around to see a familiar blonde guy with two full bags next to him.
"As usual. You got all your things?" Fang answered.
Memories of last night flashed back in my mind. Dylan must have read my expression and smiled gently.
"Yeah, I do." Dylan replied bending down to pick the bags.
He stopped midway and groaned and stood up again.
"This is going to be such a pain." Dylan muttered.
"Need help?" I asked.
He nodded solemnly. I bent down and easily picked up the bags.
"Thanks, Max." he mumbled looking like he was deeply thinking about something.
What is he thinking? Gosh, I wish I got mind-reading….
"Let's go?" Fang said raising his voice a little to make it sound like a question, "Wait…can you walk?" he asked Dylan.
"I didn't bust my legs this time, only a rib, my arm, and a few scratches. No biggie." Dylan said with a small smile.
"Nice scar you got there." Fang said pointing at a small scar at Dylan's temple.
Dylan smiled.
"Thanks." He said while rubbing it.
I liked how civil Fang and Dylan were acting. They were trying to be friends. They used to give haughty glances at each other, but now they are being a bit nice to each other now. Good. Dylan's scar looked like the American eagle. Pretty ironic, huh? We walked out the dorm seeing Gazzy pull Nudge up and we all walked down to the counter like the nurse told us to. To my "surprise", we saw her handling the first desk with another lady beside her.
Oh great.
What surprised me was that, she smiled. At me. Moi.
"Have a nice day, Mr. Ride." She said nodding towards Dylan, "Plus, don't try to jump off fridges again. Don't even climb them in the first place."
What the? Fridge?
Dylan smiled and nodded.
"And here's the prescription if you get any intense headaches. Take 500 mg at the most." The nurse said pushing a piece of paper through the opening through the glass.
I took it and smiled blatantly at her. She smiled back with a cheery mood. We walked right out of the building with Gazzy and Fang helping Dylan walk.
"Was that the best you can come up with, Gazzy? Jumping off a fridge?" I asked cross.
Nudge laughed.
"Hey, it was either that or something related to bombs." Gazzy replied defensively.
"Even the other one would have been better." I muttered under my breath as I rolled my eyes.
Angel giggled. When we finally got into an open and safe spot, we took off high in the air supporting Dylan.
"Can you fly, Dylan?" Gazzy asked
"Yeah, those Erasers didn't really hurt my wings." Dylan said averting his eyes from Gazzy and Fang by looking at the ground.
He's lying….It's so easy to catch him lying because he doesn't look directly at you. I'm awesome at lying though…
Angel: Not really. You do the same thing as Dylan. Remember Max, Dylan was made to be your "soul mate", so he has to fit the "requirements"
I looked at Angel, who was flying beside me, with irritation evidently in my eyes. She shrugged not even affected by it.
Angel: You know it's true. But Fang loves you more, Max.
I sighed and ran my fingers in my messy, brown hair with blonde streaks in them.
We all love each other, Angel….
Angel: But Fang loves you more than that.
I gave her a look that could easily be translated to "Shut up. Right. Now." She must have understood my message, but unsurprisingly didn't want to listen to it.
Angel: I can't wait to be your bridesmaid at your wedding. It can be just like Total's wedding! Except you're the bride and Fang is the groom. It'll be perfect!
Holy sh—
I was so surprised; I abruptly stopped lying in mid-air. Startled, the entire flock stopped with me giving me the expression of confusion. Dylan looked actually relieved that we stopped flying for a minute. I felt all of a sudden…..comforted….that he wasn't in pain anymore.
Something's wrong with me. The School has to fix this bird-kid's mind!
"What happened?" Angel said with an innocent look on her face obviously trying to hide her smile.
"Angel, if you don't shut up right now, I swear to god, I will kick that skinny—"
"Okay." Angel grinned and took off as fast as a torpedo and trust me, torpedoes are fast. Very fast.
She left me gaping
"Oh you're so dead in my hands today." I muttered.
I was about to take off after her chasing her like a cat to a mouse until Gazzy said something which made my day filled with colors.
"I think she was talking with Angel telepathically either about you," Gazzy said nodding towards Fang, "or you." Gazzy finished nodding at injured Dylan.
I felt my face go completely red with embarrassment.
That twit.
Nudge doubled over in laughter. I snapped my head at her and she immediately got quiet, but that didn't wipe of that grin of her face. As for Dylan, he flashed a dazzling smile at me while the corners of Fang's mouth were quivering into a small smile. Now that's Fang's way of smiling. That annoys me so much.
"No it wasn't!" I shrieked charging off full speed.
Since our flock has an acute sense of direction, I flew in the right direction to the house. I felt the wind trying to push me back in the opposite direction, but that didn't stop me from taking off in a hot trail for Angel. I warped flew to the house to see the door was open.
Why'd she leave the door opened?
I landed softly on the porch and went inside the house and closed the door carefully.
Where's Angel?
I searched the bathroom, the kitchen, and the dining room. That's when my panic sense immediately broke the meter scale. I ran upstairs with my heart pumping. I directly went to her rom and blasted the door open. I was hoping to see her lying on her pink bed with her blonde curls all over her scrapbooks. But, she wasn't there. I swore quietly under my breath. That's when my blood pressure started to rise. I ran my fingers through my messy hair.
Where is she? I swear to god, if I find her-
My thoughts were interrupted by none other than a short blonde-haired girl, Angel.
"Max, you came? You got to see this! It's so adorable!" Angel exclaimed jumping up and down like a 6-year old having too much caffeine. Oops, I meant 7-year old.
"Where were you? I was searching for you!" I screeched.
"Well now you found me. Come on Just come here." Angel said impatiently.
What my eyes zoned and locked on was her silver camera in her tiny hands.
"Next time you take off like that I'm going to kick your sorry skinny butt."
Angel waved her hand frantically as if saying "Yeah, yeah, and yeah. I don't care." I raised my eyebrows and glared at her. I didn't like to glare at my sweet Angel, but she can get your blood pressure so high and your eyes bloodshot and make you go mental that you just want to—
"You coming?" Angel said interrupting my thoughts not even affected my intense glare.
"What do you need to show me that can be the most important thing next to the apocalypse? Did you somehow get Chuck Norris in a bikini?" I said rolling my eyes.
The corners of Angel's mouth were forming a small smile. She smiled just like Fang. You can't even tell if he was smiling or just trying to stuff himself with food!
Oh god no, doesn't make her into Fang. I'm already dying with one.
Angel genuinely smiled and pranced to Iggy's room.
Is Angel all of a sudden interested in bombs? We already have Iggy and Gazzy for that, thank you very much; we really don't need another person. Speaking of Iggy, where is he? And speaking of Iggy again, where's Isa?
My thoughts were answered as I saw Isa all snuggled next to Iggy on his bed. They were both asleep. Isa had her hand wrapped in bandages. She also had a black eye and had blood oozing out on the cuts on her face. She still managed to look pretty with those injuries.
Iggy was talking about Isa's injury…
My expression softened. I'm not good with mushy gushy emotions, but I had to admit, it was pretty…adorable, cute, and all those other words that People magazine uses. Angel must have been studying me because she immediately perked up and grinned when she saw my expression.
"See I told you." Angel smiled.
What really surprised me was Iggy. His face was so….serene and calm. I got those words from Max's School. Oh, how I hate the person who invented dictionaries. Anyway, if you look at Iggy, he usually had a haughty expression that says "Piss me off and I'll bite your head off." Now it was "I won't even lay a finger on you." He was all curled up and was hugging Isa and was breathing softly. Isa's black hair was all over his shirt and must be tickling him, but it didn't look like he was disturbed by it.
I didn't know why, but this reminded me of Fang and me. I blushed when I saw Angel smiling and winking at me.
Why do I always forget I'm two feet away form a 6-year old mind reader?
Angel chuckled. I groaned and before it fully came out, Angel clamped her hand over my mouth
"What the-"
"Shhh….you'll wake them up!" Angel whispered quickly.
"Sa wut?" I said with my voice muffled.
"Let me take a few pictures. It'll be an awesome addition to my scrapbook." Angel said with a dreamy smile on her face.
She sounds like a photo-crazy bird-kid photographer…
"Ou wulv be an "assome" photgrpher." I said planning to say "You would be an "awesome" photographer."
"Don't know what the heck you just said, but I read your mind and it said you were trying to say I was an awesome photographer, so thank you." Angel babbled.
Note that she didn't hint my sarcasm.
Angel unclamped her hand from my mouth. I swallowed.
"I forgot to take it off…" Angel muttered.
I didn't realize it until then, but Angel got a good deal taller. She was up to my armpits and I ain't no bird-kid midget, so she's practically taller than her age. Way taller.
Oh great, as if we already blended in.
I was about to speak until Iggy stirred and Angel and I instantly got quiet. When he finally stopped stirring, we sighed and calmed down. Angel then turned her camera on and took a bunch of photos with the flash off. As soon as she finished taking photos, Fang, Dylan, Gazzy, and Nudge came in.
They were about to say something until they saw Iggy and Isa. Nudge's jaw dropped. Dylan was quietly chuckling while Fang remained his usual Haha-you-can't-tell-what-I'm-thinking face. Gazzy remained expressionless which kind of puzzled me.
Dylan walked over and shook Iggy. Angel was about to object, until I stopped her.
"Yo Iggy, get up." Dylan said.
"Mmm…." Iggy murmured.
"Wake up!" Nudge screeched right in Iggy's ear.
"Holy shi—" Iggy sleepily exclaimed as he sat up in his bed, "you guys really suck." He yawned loudly and rubbed his eyes.
Iggy's yawn stopped in half, and then he slowly lifted his head and glanced at everyone and then at Isa. Then his eyes widened. And when I mean widened, I mean widened.
He quickly sprang up saying "Holy shit!" I swear to god, I never saw Iggy's face so red in my entire life. Dylan cackled while Fang grinned. Gazzy and Nudge were laughing so much. Angel was totally red in the face from laughing. I grinned.
The atmosphere was so pleasant and nice unlike our usual everyday life-threatening days.
Due to the noise, Isa got up and she was shocked. Then she turned beet red all the way to her hair roots and ducked her head. Iggy chuckled at her embarrassment and squeezed her shoulder. I had to acknowledge it, Iggy loves Isa. A lot. He changed ever since she came. In a good way. And she loves him back. It was just like….Fang and I…. I instantly felt happy at that thought. I looked at Fang and noticed he was looking at me. He smiled one of his classic smiles. I grinned and felt so giddy inside. And for the first time, I actually liked the feeling of being giddy. I chuckled.
Something's wrong with me.
But, what I didn't know in our happy state was what going to happen in a minute. A black object was hurdling towards us. Though the window. And even I, Maximum Ride, didn't even notice it until it was too late.
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