Prisoner- Chapter 13

I was standing in the hallway outside Angel's room dreading the fact Anne was in her room. As promised, she was in the doorway, but I still hated the situation.

I was leaning against the wall, my eyes fixed on Anne. Fang was a step or two away looking at me and occasionally taking time to do a 360 scan of our surroundings. We're paranoid like that, but for a very good reason.

Gazzy, Iggy and Nudge were all in the waiting room again. Iggy was in charge as usual since he was the oldest of the three. Fang and I weren't with them because I had to keep an eye on Anne and well, I guess he had to keep an eye on me. Which he literally was doing, his eyes were fixed on me.

"What?" I asked annoyed.

"Why didn't you tell me about Anne?" He asked in a harsh whisper.

"Well I haven't exactly had much time now, have I?" I muttered then raised my voice to make my point loud and clear. "I mean between the constant eraser attacks, nagging from the voice in my head and getting kidnapped, I've been a little busy."

"Max, there you had more than enough opportunities to tell me." He said looking away from me.

"Why is this bothering you so much?" I asked raising my voice. "Why do you care?"

"I care, because the last time you kept your emotions in and didn't tell me things, you almost killed yourself by trying to cut that chip out of your arm." He said looking at me again, staring me down.

"I told you that wouldn't happen again." I said lowering my voice.

Fang didn't respond, instead he walked to the waiting room where Iggy, Gazzy and Nudge were.

I felt tears sting my eyes. I always hated it when Fang was mad at me, or any of the flock really. I looked at the doorway to Angel's room, Anne was gone. I heard talking inside the room and hoped that Angel wasn't awake. I didn't want her to see Anne. I walked in the room to find Anne talking to Angel and she was awake.

"Hi Max." She said with a bright smile.

"Hi sweetie." I said walking over to the bed and hugging her.

I looked over at Anne, "Why didn't you come get me?"

"I saw you talking to Nick." She said studying me. "It looked pretty intense and I didn't want to interrupt if it was important."

"Just a little disagreement." I said vaguely.

"About what?" Angel asked curiously.

"Nothing." I answered giving her a look that said 'don't even think about reading my mind.'

"Anne, could I talk to you?" I asked walking to the door, not giving her much of a choice.

"Of course." She said with a smile as she followed me out the door. I closed the door to Angel's room, so she couldn't hear us talking.

"Ok you've seen Ang… Ariel just like you wanted, now it's time for you to go." I said crossing my arms.

"Alright." She said fishing through her purse before pulling out a pen and a pad of paper. "But you have to take this first."

"What?" I asked trying to get a look at what she was writing.

"These are numbers you can reach me at." She said handing me the piece of paper. "My address is on there too in case you don't remember it."

"Why would I…" I began only to be cut off.

"If you get in trouble, and I mean any kind of trouble you can't handle yourselves, just call me and I'll help." She explained. "I know you think you can protect them from everything, but some things you can't deal with yourself, Max. Sometimes you have to ask for help." Then, get this, she hugged me.

I stood there frozen. I wasn't hugging her back, but I wasn't pulling away. When she let go of me, I saw she'd been crying. I was completely shocked. Maybe she wasn't the evil witch I had painted her out to be in my head, not completely at least.

"Please, can you promise me you'll call if you're in trouble?" She asked putting the pad of paper and pen back in her purse.

"If we get into trouble and I can't deal with on my own, then yes, I'll call you." I said putting the piece of paper in my pocket. "I promise."

She mouthed 'thank you' to me then left. Ok, so she's not one hundred percent evil, of that I'm sure.

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