A/N- HEY I KNOW IT'S BEEN AWHILE BUT WRITING A BOOK TAKES ALOT OF MY TIME. ALSO NOW THAT SPRING BREAK IS OVER I MIGHT HAVE MORE TIEM TO WRITE, MAYBE. ALSO I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE STORY AND I STILL PLAN ON THE OTHER MAXIMUM RIDE FANFIC BEING POSTED AFTER THIS ONE ENDS WHICH SHOULD BE HAPPENING WITHIN MAYBE FIVE OR SO MORE CHAPTERS. ANYWAY THANK YOU REVIEWERS, YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE NEW CHAPTER. By the way Happy Easter, for those who celebrate it. ENJOY!
Chapter 45:
MaxPOV:
I think I am going insane! Is it just me or are the walls shrinking? Is it getting harder to breathe in here? Did somebody turn the thermostat up? Why is it so HOT in here? What the heck IS that Katie has in her hands? Claire not you too, for the love of everything good not you too!
Yes, I was in turmoil at the moment. Why, you may ask. Well let me make this easy.
1. Prom + Me + Dancing + Dress + Date (Fang) = Shopping (At the Mall, in a store, where they squeeze you into the worlds smallest room or worlds largest plastic box to change in. Then if that isn't enough your so called 'friends' toss an unending number of dreaded frilly, *gasp* PINK!, strapless, sparkly, revealing clothes into said box at you so that you may drown in a sea of rainbow colored clothing.
2. Did you look at number 1?!
So, as you might have guessed right now I am at the mall with Fang (at least there is one relief to having to come though he's only coming because Claire is sort of forcing him to come since he's taking me to the Prom, who did you think I was going with?), Katie (who insisted on the whole thing), Iggy (who is only coming because Emily is going out with him again, though I only think she is because she wanted a date to the dance, at least that's what Katie told me, poor guy I think he realizes), Emily (I decided that I don't like her), Andrew (He's going with Katie, seems they like each other, didn't see that one coming.), Claire (who turns out likes shopping, I really would not have pegged her for someone who likes shopping and I usually can tell like with my sister Ella and Nudge and Angel but it turns out she's just as insane about shopping as they are and here I'm thinking she's the least crazy out of everyone I know, just my luck right.), David (he's going to the Prom with Claire, also he has officially made the title of 'my most sane friend'. Congratulations.), Cleo (She's pretty obsessive with shopping as well), Kevin (He's Emily's brother and he's taking Cleo to the dance), and then finally James (No comment!, except Katie and Andrew insisted!).
However about an hour ago our group split up so that we wouldn't spend forever in the mall. The guys went to the tuxedo store, while the girls went to the dress shop. Now I don't even have Fang for support! Right now we're in this store called "This Dress!", not kidding that's the name of the store though I realize that if you say it really fast it sort of sounds like the name is 'Distress' which is a perfect description to what I was feeling at that moment as Claire tossed yet another dress over the door for me to try one. Let me tell you, Claire, Cleo, and Katie were even worse than Nudge, Angel, and Ella (And that is REALLY bad!). Thank goodness that Emily at least wasn't as into shopping as much as the others or there might have been an international incident!
I looked down examining the dress that had been thrown into my dressing room. This one was different than the others, It was strapless of course, which bothered me but oddly I found myself liking it. It reminded me of something you would see someone wearing in a movie. I pulled it on and was instantly certain ,this was the dress I was getting! (A/N- This will be the only time there is an Authors note in the middle of the story, because they annoy me. However for those who would like a picture of the dress there is a link to the site I found it on, at the bottom of my profile. I specify the bottom of my profile because if you've seen the profile it is LONG. Also how gorgeous is that dress, I WANT it. Too bad it's like a hundred and fifty bucks. Fanfiction doesn't pay, unfortunately! Back to the story.)
I stepped out of the dressing room, and the four girls turned away from the racks they were searching through to look at me. Claire smiled as she saw the dress and walked over to me, twirling her finger making me turn. I did. Then when I finished turning I looked to her to see what she thought, but then right as she opened her mouth a lady dressed in a black shirt and white blouse and jacket with curly red hair walked over.
"Oh My, Darling ,that looks fab-u-lous on you!" I turned to the lady, and had to resist the urge to break her arm as she grabbed my arm and pulled me over to a section that had racks of shoes. "Now we'll just have to find a perfect pair of heels to match! This could be a problem it's hard to find a good color to match that dress, and it must be that dress because it's perfect. You look amazing in it, Darling."
Soon I found myself standing in front a rack of shoes, and then being pushed into a nearby chair. I was in such a shock that I was literally letting myself get pushed around. I mean seriously, did she say heels?!
Maybe I should have broken her arm. I mean really, heels. There was no way in-…..The woman with the curly red hair who I now came to realize worked here was pulling my pair of ratty combat boots off and shoving a pair of cream colored heels on my feet. Then I was being pulled into a standing position, though that's pretty much impossible for me when my feet seemed to be in a vertical position to the ground. Then the lady let go. It was then only a few seconds later that my feet were no longer vertical to the ground. Nope, they were horizontal again however so was my body.
I officially hate heels, I thought as I stared down at the floor and ironically at the lady's feet which happened to be in a pair of shiny black heels. From above me I could hear Claire.
"Oh, Max. Are you okay?", she asked and then I heard the lady's voice.
"Darling, your not supposed to fall over as soon as you stand up. You have to try walking around in the heels so you can learn to walk in them." Her voice was seriously starting to annoy me. Besides she was crazy if she thought I was going to walk around in those death traps. I managed an annoyed grunt and sat up, my hands going to the heels to take them off.
"What are you doing?", the lady asked. I met her gaze in complete seriousness.
"I-do-not-wear-heels-ever. I don't even like wearing a dress, so I think I'm just going to wear my combat boots with the dress." You want to know what she said to that. She laughed. Seriously, she laughed. I decided that I really didn't like her.
"You can't wear those with a dress as gorgeous as that.", she said pointing at my combat boots with a sickened looked and then to the dress I was wearing with a bit of awe. She looked at me in amusement. Then Cleo spoke up.
"Exactly!" Great now their ganging up on me. I sighed.
"Fine!", I said out loud and then more to myself than anyone else I mumbled. "Geez when did I become such a pushover?"
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Later after we were done shopping and we had all bought dresses and the dreaded heels, which I was still not thrilled about we met up again with the guys. Instantly as per usual as soon as I saw Fang I felt better and I walked over to him and leaned against him.
"They tried to kill me.", I whispered with a smile on my face that he returned with his signature smirk. "So you got a tux, let me guess, it's white isn't it." His smirk grew.
"Yep your dress is pink, right?" I raised my eyebrow. "Touché."
That's when I noticed James, he had moved over to Fang and I and he was looking at us nonchalantly.
"So the dress shopping went well then.", he asked me. I nodded and next to me I noticed Fang glaring slightly. Then before I knew what was happening, it was like before and I found myself starring into James's eyes. I felt strange then too, I was getting dizzy and had the weird sensation that you felt when you've been drugged. Numbness spread through me. Then suddenly Katie stepped in front of me, a smile on her face that seemed a little off.
"Hey Max. I just remembered that there's this store I wanted to go into. I think you'll like it, let's go!", she said and grabbed my wrist pulling me off back toward the shops. Normally I might have pulled away but I still felt slightly numb so I didn't. However as we turned I got one more glimpse of James.
He was staring at Katie, and I was shocked to see his eyes. They were on her leaving form, and as I watched his eyes I was scared to see a flash of red in the light brown eyes that for usually being so light they looked furious. Somehow just glimpsing them I felt a twinge of fear. Moments later however I would pass what I had seen as a light hitting my eyes, or even possibly his. Maybe I was just hallucinating even given that dizzy feeling from earlier.
Katie POV:
We had all just gotten to the food court after getting our dresses for the prom. Andrew and I had decided to go together for convenience, and seriously who was I to turn him down. I mean I did used to like him and besides he's good looking. Not as good looking as my Nick -err Fang though. I even bought a gorgeous dress. It was pink and flow-y, a total Barbie dress that made me look like a princess. No one would be able to look away from me in that, though it annoyed me to no end how good Max's dress looked.
I even had a desire to rip it to shreds before the dance, but I don't think I will just because the dance will probably the last time she gets to see Fang. So I think I'll give her that because after the dance at the after party Max will be in James's arms heading to Daddy at Itex. And Fang will be mine, yay.
I looked over to see Max looking at something and I turned to see all the guys heading our way. Instantly my eyes went to Fang. Oh he was so gorgeous, I mean really those eyes are almost too much. Oh and that silent and strong personality of his is so CUTE!, I mentally shrieked in my head.
Then of course jealousy coursed through me as I saw Max walk up to him and lean against him. Then he smirked making me want to sigh, but also making me angry because he was smirking at Max. Why not Me?
Then my eyes saw Ultimum or James staring at the two as well and I saw annoyance in his eyes though he quickly hid it and walked over to Max and Fang.
"So the dress shopping went well then.", he asked Max. She nodded and stared at him. It was then that I realized that there was something wrong when I saw Max's eyes get wide and seem to glaze over. She actually looked like she was going to go zombe on us or something. I looked over at James, to see that he was staring at Max in a way that from where I was standing that could only be described as intoxicating.
It was then that I noticed…. How positively gorgeous James looked. Maybe even better than Fang! I stared at his eyes for a few minutes, and then with a jolt my attention went to Max. I starred at Max. Why did he have to look at her like that too. A part of me knew that James / Ultimum was controlling Max with his mind. I didn't know why he was, but he was. Then another part of me didn't like that he was doing it to her, though not for the reason that it might be wrong to control someone but because of jealousy maybe.
Which is why before it could continue anymore I moved to step in front of Max, cutting off his gaze and breaking his control. I hated Max right about then, but anyway to keep up the act I plastered a fake smile on my face.
"Hey Max. I just remembered that there's this store I wanted to go into. I think you'll like it, let's go!", I said pulling her wrist and leading her away from Fang and James. I wasn't sure where I was going to take her but it didn't matter. I wouldn't let her think she was in love with Ultimum yet, I decided. I wanted to hold off on that for as long as possible.
to be continued.......
