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Chapter 36:
Max POV:
I was standing on top of the world, it felt like! The snow fell down on my hair and as I watched Fang his clothes seemed to be slowly changing from black to white. We were at the top of the mountain and below us tons of skiers and snowboards were heading down the mountain, but for some odd reason no one was going down the slope Fang and I were at. Huh, wonder why.
The only thing I didn't like was that is was so cold up here. Maybe I mentioned this before but I really really don't like the cold. I pulled my black beanie over the top of my head, sunglasses clutched in my hands. Fang stood beside me looking down the mountain. I grinned to myself, and then walked up to him.
"Hey.", I said. He looked over at me. He wasn't wearing his hat or sunglasses yet and white snow flakes had begun to frost the top of his hair. His eyes took in my expression, and a smile came to his eyes.
Suddenly without any notice, I kissed his lips. He was stunned for a second, before his arms were around me and he leaned over to kiss me back. In a blinding move, I was out of his arms but still close to his face. His expression was confused and his eyes searched mine.
A wicked glint was in my expression and I'm sure he knew something was up. I smile and leaned forward and quickly kissed his cheek. "Race ya.", I whispered but before he had moved so much as an inch I was on my snowboard and plowing down the mountain.
I started laughing when I looked back to see Fang ,suddenly realizing what had happened, attempt to catch up to me. However the laughter was short lived as I realized I was picking up a dangerous speed. A wave of panic then shot through me as I realized then that I didn't know how to stop!
"Crap!", I muttered as I shot past a tree with blinding speed. Then the name of the slope I was on shot through my head, dead man's peak. It had been stupid to go down an expert trail first, I mentally kicked myself, and I don't even know how to stop.
I thought back to the snowboarders I'd seen before. You tilt your body and swerve, right? I tried that and it seemed to work. However that wasn't slowing me down that much.
Then I saw it. There was a drop off, and if I didn't turn I would plummet over the edge and fly to avoid falling to my death below. Then an even worse thought occurred, what if I can't get my wings out. I mean I was wearing a very thick jacket and undoubtedly I would be able to rip through the jacket before I fell.
Calm Max, My Voice spoke.
Calm? How can I be calm?, I thought.
Stay calm and tilt your weight to the side, when you get closer to the edge.
I gulped, but I knew I'd have to listen to the Voice this time. I did as it said, and thank goodness it worked. However my relief was short lived as I saw a board tilting up in front of me.
I hit the board hard and my board and me shot into the air. For a moment it was like flying, but my wings weren't out. My body flipped through the air once, twice, until finally I landed.
Except, I kept going down the mountain. Oh no, up ahead I saw the end but there was no way my board was stopping. I was going to run into a huge pile of hay, the ski place had put for people who couldn't stop.
I hit the hay, hard, but I stopped thankfully. Shaking the hay off me, I got up and looked around. A group of snowboarders, weather they were girls or guys I couldn't tell from all masks but I was thinking along the line of girls and guys, were watching me with an expression I thought was odd to see. The expression was of awe, but why they were looking at me like that and not laughing their heads off after that no doubt hilarious display of snowboarding and then smashing into the hay pile was beyond me.
Suddenly though this wasn't something I was too concerned with because my mind went back to Fang. My heart plummeted, did he make the turn? I spun around to look back up the mountain.
Relief flooded through me as I saw he was on the mountain, however it surprised me because he was only know getting to the little jump. He was also going a lot slower than I was. He looked like he knew what he was doing though, more than I can say for myself. He angled the mountain perfectly.
Showoff, I thought grudgingly. Finally he was at the end of the mountain and stopped right in front of me, not even needing the hay to break his fall. Fang looked up to ma and pulled off his sunglasses and hat. His expression was so odd, it wasn't laughing like I would have been had I seen him freaking out as he plummeted to the bottom of a mountain, it was like the group of snowboarders. His expression was awe.
I pulled my snowboard off and hat and sunglasses and walked over to him. I smiled.
"Beat ya, even if I embarrassed myself on the way down. You looked awesome coming down though.", I said. He continued to stare at me with that weird expression of awe. I was about to ask him what was wrong, when I was interrupted.
One of the snowboarders walked up to us, and took off their mask to reveal a guy with light brown hair. I recognized him too, he was one of the guys Alec was with the other day. I instantly wanted to groan, great now the whole school would hear about my whole freak out on the mountain and that mean it would get to Iggy who would without a doubt hold this over me for the rest of my life.
The light brown haired guy looked at me for a second then spoke. "Hey, wow. That was so cool, where have you learned to snowboard like that?!", he asked and I was so sure he was making fun of me and was even thinking about punching him or walking away but then a girl he was with came up.
"Yeah", she said. "I mean nobody goes down dead man's peak, much less attempts the jump. Seriously, you did two flips too. That was incredible, are you a pro? Did you like grow up snowboarding or something?"
I was officially confused. I turned to Fang but he was still giving me that incredulous expression. I turned back to the group.
"Uh, actually this is my first time snowboarding.", I confessed still slightly confused. The effect was instantaneous.
"No, way!"
"Seriously?"
"Were you like a pro skier, or something?"
This time Fang snapped out of his weird trance.
"She just has a natural gift for sports."
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Finally after being questioned by the group of snowboarders Fang and I finally got away from them and made out way back up the mountain. I sat down on the ski lift next to Fang and looked up at him.
"So what happened?", I asked. He looked up.
"What?"
"I was totally freaking out coming down the mountain and you came down with ease, and yet I get the fan club?"
Fang grinned. "Well, the only reason I did so well coming down was probably because I watched you the whole way down. You were going so fast and you didn't look like you were scared at all. I'm not surprised someone noticed, you really did look like a pro."
I smiled. "Well maybe this time, lets go on a slope a little less exciting. I don't really want anymore fans."
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After snowboarding, Fang and I went to the student lounge. However looking around I didn't see that many people from our school. All around us were a bunch of students talking animatedly about the slopes and other things.
A fireplace was set in the wall, so a few people huddled in front of that to stay warm. There was even a hot chocolate machine, delicious by the way.
Fang and I decided to sit down on a sofa. We were there for maybe a few minutes though before Iggy walked in and sat down a few feet away, not even noticing us. Normally I wouldn't think anything of him not noticing us because well, he's blind but something about the way he was sitting told me something was wrong. My suspicions were confirmed as he leaned back against the couch and closed stared blankly at the ceiling, not that he could see it anyway. In all he looked upset. I exchanged a glance with Fang and we got up and moved toward him.
"Ig.", I whispered as we got close enough to where he would hear us and no one else would. Iggy sat up.
"Max."
"Yeah", I answered and sat down next to him on the couch while Fang sat beside me. "Ig, is there something wrong?"
Iggy tilted his head back, again and closed his eyes.
"Ig?", I prompted.
Without moving his face from the position of looking at the ceiling he answered.
"Emily and I broke up.", he answered. I knew him and Emily, Cleo and Katie's friend were going out but I didn't really think much of it. Most likely that was because I was a little busy worrying about my own issue. I couldn't help the side glance at Fang with that thought.
Fang was staring at Iggy with sympathy evident in his eyes. (It seems Fang is opening up a little more with his emotions. I'm so proud!)
"I don't even know what happened.",Iggy admitted.
Fang spoke. "You know, Ig. If your supposed to be with Emily she'll come around, eventually. Even if you have to wait awhile."
At these words, was Fang giving me a side glance? If you say yes, your right. I elbowed him in the rib and he grinned.
Iggy sat up and his expression was slightly less upset.
"I guess your right, man."
I nodded. "Was that what you were upset about?"
"Yeah, and also I sort of miss the rest of the Flock.", he admitted. I put my hand on his arm.
"Yeah, I miss them too.
to be continued....