Prisoner- Chapter 80

I walked to the table with Fang right behind me. We took the two open seats that were right next to each other. Anne sat to my right and Angel was across from me. To her right was Nudge then Gazzy and Iggy sitting on the end of the table.

"Did you all sleep well?" Anne asked before taking a bite of her food.

She got some nods and some 'yeahs'.

"Fine." I said looking over at her.

"What about you, Nick?"

"Yeah." Fang said not even looking over at her.

"That's good." She said taking a sip of her juice.

I rolled my eyes at my plate.

"I must say I'm surprised to see you come back here." Anne said looking at me. "You left quite suddenly before, just leaving a note."

"Don't take it personal." I said swallowing the food in my mouth. "We can't stay anywhere for too long. I thought you understood that."

"I do." She said nodding and looking down at her plate. "I just thought maybe you could have waited until I got back from work, so I could at least say 'goodbye'."

"No offense, but I consider our safety more important than your feelings." I said trying to hide my anger.

There was an awkward silence to follow, all of us staring down at our plates.

That's when Gazzy let go one of his 'special gifts'. For once I was glad he did, because that silence was beginning to kill me and this gave me an excuse to leave the table.

"Well, I'm done." I said standing up and grabbing my plate.

I walked over to Gazzy and placed a kiss on his head quickly then whispered in his ear, "Thank you, Zephyr."

He giggled.

I walked into the kitchen and put my plate in the sink.

Turns out everyone was done after that stink bomb. They filed in one by one, Fang hot on my heels. After him came Iggy, Nudge, Angel and Anne. The Gasman must not have wanted to eat alone, because he came in moments later, with Total right behind him.

"Max, can we go swimming?" Nudge asked with pleading eyes.

"Yeah." I said nodding.

They all seemed really happy about that. They really loved swimming.

The whole flock, minus Total, Fang, and myself were in the water splashing away.

Total was close to the water, occasionally saying something to the flock, Fang and I were sitting on the ground talking and watching.

It was really hot out, the sun beating down on us with fury. I felt a small breeze flow across my pale skin, so I closed my eyes in the moment. It felt so nice and relaxing, but then it was gone and I was left to being hot again. I opened my eyes and sighed and Fang looked over at me with a smirk.

"What?" I asked with a small smile.

"I was just thinking about breakfast."

"The awkward silence or Gazzy's gift?" I asked with a small laugh.

"The silence." He said as his smirk grew. "You made Anne speechless."

"She deserved it." I said rolling my eyes.

"Yeah, she did, but…"

"But?" I asked jerking my head over to look at him, surprised to be hearing a 'but'.

"You were a little harsh."

"The truth hurts." I shrugged.

He continued to smirk at me and I looked over at him with a smile.

"I'm hot, so I'm gonna go take a dip in the water." I said standing up. "Care to join?"

He looked away like he wasn't interested then back at me with a smile, "Sure."

I smiled as he stood and walked with me to the water.

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