So, I'm bringing y'all my last chapter for the time being. At my school, we have a 4x4 schedule, and we just switched classes, I have chem class though, and it's a lot to do... work wise. I should only need about a month before I start posting again, but while I'm gone I'm going to continue writing as best I can, in my free time only I'm not gonna put in time for writing until after a month or so.

Also, I'm taking a break because when I'm stressed, (due to switches like school) I can get severe migraines that take days to get rid of, one lasted two months, seriously, two months of nonstop aching and pain. I found out that it was due to having to worry about multiple things, and not having the time to do them.

I'm gonna still check and respond to messages, so feel free to message me at anytime, but I'm not gonna post for about four or so weeks. I'm so, so sorry, but for the sake of my grades, I have to.

Tell me what you think though, I'm gonna miss y'all. By the way, thank you virls1o1 and Gothazon so much! These people are the best, they've stuck through me with my story since the first few days, and still write a review for almost every chapter I post. I love y'all so much, I'm so thankful for y'all.

Hopefully I'm gonna have a few chapters to post all at once when I get back, but bye for now, my wonderful readers.

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Time Skip! (FPOV at the hospital, 9:30 pm)

The graduation ceremony ended at about noon, so my parents took everyone out to dinner, where we finally met the man and child I saw Angel with.

Flashback!

"Hey mom, dad, can I invite someone to come with us? He came with me today to help me out, and I want to introduce him to y'all." Angel asks mom, while we were headed to the van.

"Yeah, Angel, sure, I wanna meet this guy you're with, baby," says dad, cautiously of course.

"Yay!" Then Angel skips off to go make the call.

"I just can't believe she's back, just out of nowhere." Nudge says, while resting her hand on her belly. "It's so strange, no calls, not even a text, and she's back."

"I know, it's like she was transported here in the middle of the night." Iggy says, he still looks a bit shocked.

"Who cares? She's back now!" Gazzy says, his voice is full of disgust.

"Why does it matter whether she called or not? Now I know she's safe, nothing's happened to her, I feel like I'm floating on air!" That last sentence was said in a dream-like manner. Gazzy is hella weird.

"So, he's gonna be there waiting for us, he's getting a table. So, this will be awesome!" Angel claims as she comes skipping back to us, so much pep in that step.

She walks over to Gazzy and rests her head on his shoulder as they walk, not a single missed step. It's weird, like their twinny-ness makes them move in sync.

After a ten minute car ride, we get to the restaurant, it serves everything from pizza to gyros. Their ham and pineapple pizza though, is the best! I should know, I eat here at least twice a week!

(A/N: Ham and pineapple is the best pizza ever! Only made better by either bacon or tomato, but not at the same time, talk about gross.)

We walk in and the hostess, a tall, blonde, big-boobed, woman, led us to the table.

We all freeze when we see the guy, in the same suit I saw him in, but this time he has a soft, and happy expression, it makes him look only about twenty-five at most.

The real reason everyone freezes, though is that there is not only a toddler with long, dirty blonde curls, but a tiny baby in a car seat. The baby looks barely a month old.

"Angel, do you want to explain or should I?" The man says carefully, aware of the infuriated look on both Gazzy and my fathers faces. It's probably on mine too.

"Yes, why doesn't someone explain. Now." My dad grinds out, pissed off as badly, if not worse, as when he heard Iggy blew up the university's lab.

"Dad, calm down, it's not as bad as it looks, I swear. Lets just sit down and while we're eating I can explain."

Angel sits down next to the baby in the car seat while the little girl goes up to Gazzy and starts talking up a nonsensical storm no one interrupts her for ten minutes...

Until she says, "you look a lot like my mommy!" Angel flinched, as if stung by the word 'mommy' and Mr. Suit's eyes got as big as plates, and immediately reached to rub Angel's shoulder.

"Excuse me?" I say, speaking up for the first time, I'm sitting next to Mr. Suit, and neither one was explaining yet.

"First off, get your damn hands off of my sister. Secondly, one of you has only ten seconds to explain this situation before I leave." Damn I'm good.

Angel speaks up after I start counting, "Fang, quit it, okay? Yes, Naomi is mine, and yes, Jasper is mine as well. I have two children okay?"

"Who's the father? And how old were you? And why?" Nudge asks those questions, curiosity is swimming on her face.

"Um, Naomi... um... uh... Liam is Jasper's father." She says pointing at Mr. Suit. "I guess you could say he's Naomi's father as well, he helped me raise her."

"Who is Naomi's real father, Angel?" Mom presses, she looks concerned, but angry too.

"Um, well, uh," Tears form in Angel's eyes and she puts her head in her hands.

"Naomi doesn't have a father, Mrs. Walker." Liam says, and then whispers into Angel's ear, she shakes her head yes and he continues.

"I am Naomi's father in a way, because when Angel ran away four years ago, she made it all the way to Hollywood with no issues. She came to my father's studio, and played for us." He smiles at the memory of it, and looks at Angel.

"She blew us away, we invited people to hear her talent, she's amazing." The smile fades to a grimace as he continues, "well, one day about two months of her being here, she and I were working late, and I offered her a ride home, of course, as stubborn as she is she refused."

Naomi reaches for Angel, trying to hug her while saying, "mommmmmy, why ya cryin'? Mommmmmy?" But Angel just leans out of her reach and Naomi starts to form tears of her own. Liam pulls Naomi away from Angel and puts her next to me.

"Um, oh yeah, she refused, said she could call a cab. So I waited with her until it showed up, and I started on my way home. She lived with a friend of hers that moved there about six months before."

Naomi starts to call Angel again, "mommmmy? Whas wrong?"

Liam shushes her and continues. "Well, I woke up to seven missed calls and twenty texts at about four in the morning. I grabbed my phone and called her back, she was crying and not making any sense, so I called her friend on a different phone and they hadn't seen her since she left at five that afternoon."

He kind of coughs before he starts this next couple sentences. "Well, it turns out one of the men we invited to listen to her, he was a bigwig of the music industry, was stalking her, the cab she called wasn't an actual cab."

He got a semi-agitated look but continued. "Um, Angel decided not to press charges, no matter how many times I bugged her. I even threatened to call y'all, but she said she'd kill me."

"Mommy! No ignore Naomi!" Angel had started playing with Jasper, but is still ignoring Naomi. Liam reaches over and ruffles Naomi's hair, calming her down.

"We went on like nothing happened, besides the fact my father found out when he overheard our talking. He was so mad, that man was his friend. He invited him to the building to 'listen to the Angel's voice' then promptly beat the shit out of him."

He chuckles a bit before he finishes. "Neither one of us knew until we were walking back from lunch and he was walking out, clutching his arm, and bleeding from his nose."

This time he looks scared. "She found out two months later she was pregnant. She had asked me to take her to the clinic, and when she was told she looked terrified. She kept clutching me, asking what to do. Well, that man is in jail now, for a long time." He finishes, grabs Naomi and hugs her, tight.

I look over at dad, he looks so furious, as if someone just stole a million dollars from him. Everyone else looks concerned for Angel. I'm pretty sure I'm stone-faced, but I'm not sure.

"Angel, you could've called us. We could've helped you out," Gazzy says to his sister. "You never have to do anything alone."

My phone starts buzzing, and I know immediately who it is, Lissa, so I'm not worried about it.

"I know, it's just I wanted to have a career in music, and if I called, I thought y'all would force me to come home. I was in the process of making a name for myself, and I didn't want that man to take that away from me." Angel claims, then buries her face in Gazzy's shoulder.

"Um, so what name have you made for yourself, Angel?" I ask, I wonder if I'm right about my theory. Angel seems to perk up immediately.

"Oh my gosh! I'm in a band, it's so amazing! Liam, can I tell 'em? They're family, they won't tell the press or anything! Please, please, please, please, pleeeeease, Liam?" Angel begs him, so he looks around and spots our waitress bringing out the food.

"When she leaves you can tell them, but be sure you're careful, and quiet, okay?" He says reluctantly, but smiles at her, as if happy she's so excited. Angel nods her head eagerly, and grabs his hand.

"Um, Liam, how old are you?" Nudge asks, speaking up for the first time since she asked about the children.

My phone buzzes again, but I know it's just Lissa, she's gonna give me her, 'I'm so sorry, please forgive me, you know how I am' speech.

He looks at Nudge for a second and says, "guess."

"Oh, um, why don't you just say it? I mean you look maybe late twenties, or possible twenty-five, I don't know!" She says frustrated.

Liam shakes his head and answers, "Um, I just turned twenty-two... yesterday."

"Really? So you're as old as Fang, Iggy, and Max? That's really cool! I mean that's freaking awesome!" When Nudge says that name, my heart stops. It hurts to think of Max, and how she's missed four years of her life.

"Who's Max? Is it a boy or girl? Jasper is a boy! Did you know that? Mommy and daddio had him together! Isn't he pretty? I love Jasper, he's quiet!" When Naomi asks about Max I look down at her, and she looks so excited to know, but then I look questioningly at Angel and mouth, 'daddio?' she giggles and shakes her head.

My phone starts buzzing again, this time for a call, I pull it out and see Lissa's face, she put it there, not me. I let it go to voicemail, if I press end, then she knows I'm ignoring her, if it goes through, then she thinks it's in my room or something.

"Okay, so, a chicken and bacon club for you, a cheese steak for you, an extra large ham and pineapple for you, a small cheese pizza for you." I tune her out after that and inhale a slice of my pizza, looking around, everyone has their food.

Naomi looks to be copying me, she takes a slice of her large pepperoni pizza she's sharing with Liam, and takes the biggest bite she can. Liam smiles at her while Angel says, "not so much Naomi, you're gonna choke, plus it's hot."

Once the waitress refills our drinks, Angel starts to talk about her life in the music business, except she's whispering, just loud enough for everyone to hear. "So, have y'all heard of 'Angels' Wrath'? It's a band, it doesn't really have one specific genre, but guess who the lead singer is? ME!" Nudge, mom, and Iggy squeal, dad and Gazzy say their congratulations, I just sit there, because I knew it!

"Yeah! Mommy is amazing! All the band people love me, they even put makeup on me, it's so much fun! I love Emarie the most, she plays the drums, and her hair is so long and it's pink! Her masks are kinda scary though." Naomi finishes that with a pouty, sauce covered face.

"Um, yeah, wanna know the reason we wear masks? I'm telling you anyways, it's because we didn't want all the fame to be focused on our looks, and we still wanted to be able to walk around the streets and not be harassed." Liam shakes his head while rolling his eyes.

"Angel, you know damn well that is not the reason, but whatever."

"Shush, Liam! Anyways, but that one fan who almost exposed my face, I thought I was done for, I was so scared a camera caught it, but thankfully security acted quickly." Angel says this with a wide smile. "But since my Jasper is three months old now, about a year we decided to start wearing animal costumes or big, goofy outfits to hide my slight baby bump, but I never grew that much."

"Hang on, if he's three months, why is he so tiny? You were the smallest baby I had, and you still weren't that small!" Mom says, confused looking at the tiny doll sized baby again. Nudge looks at mom, kind of a sad look coming across her face when she said that Angel was the smallest baby she had, as if upset mom had adopted her and not had her.

My phone rings again, Lissa is calling again, will she not get the hint?

"He was premature, born at seven and a half months, but the doctors let him out of the hospital saying he was the healthiest preemie he'd ever seen. He even asked other doctors to check him out to insure he wasn't missing any issues. One of the doctors got the vitals of a full term, very healthy newborn, and Jasper's vitals were 50% better." Liam finishes, and then brushes his hand over Jasper's head. "He said it was a miracle, that even though he's tiny, he might as well have been born on time."

"Let me finish, Liam! Anyways, we were thinking that after I had Jasper, we could quit with the outfits and masks, and just be a normal band. If you noticed we haven't been to concerts in about four months. But we were trying to figure out how to make our big reveal. We have this huge concert in D.C. for the end of school, and we're expecting about 50,000 people to show up. We are thinking about doing it halfway through the show. It's this Saturday, so since it's Tuesday, I'd love to have y'all come and see it, from backstage of course!" Angel looks so excited about it, so everyone says yes, they'd love to come.

"Mommy, can Naomi come? I wanna see Jaylee!" Then shoves half her remaining slice of pizza in her mouth.

"Yes, Naomi can come, only if I know who Naomi is. Liam, do you know a Naomi? Do you know one, Fang? Nudge? No one?" Naomi swallows her pizza in a hurry.

"I'M NAOMI, MOMMY! I'M RIG-!" She screams, causing Liam to put his hand over her mouth and shush her. Now everyone is staring at us like we did something wrong. Then to top it all off, she scared Jasper so badly he just started screaming his head off.

And once again my phone starts ringing, this time I press ignore, just to piss her off.

End Flashback!

I'm changing Max's flowers, I decided on a giant bouquet of Black Dahlias and Calla Lillies with a dozen roses strewn in to give it a wonderful 'pop' of color. They are beautiful, something any girl would die for.

I made Max a stuff hawk, all by myself, not Nudge, but me. It's not that bad actually, I tuck it under the blanket with the two others I gave her.

I sit next to her, and begin to talk to her about how Angel came back, and how she has two kids, two. I was talking to her, trying to make myself believe she was actually participating.

After about twenty minutes my phone starts ringing. Ugh, I guess I'm gonna answer it, but she has called about ten times, so whatever. I walk to the other side of the room and press accept. "What?"

"Oh my gosh, Fangy! Finally I've been calling all day! I thought you were coming to the party!"

She's whining and obviously drunk, slurring every other word. "I really was looking forward to this! Where are you? Are you with her?" The way she says 'her' makes it like a curse of some sort.

"Lissa, I said maybe, I never promised, so you need to calm down!" We continued to argue about what I said.

(MAX POV! FINALLY! YAY!)

"What?" A familiar voice says, after about a minute I hear it again, "Lissa, I said maybe, I never promised, so you need to calm down!" Ugh, I feel like I know who it is, but I can't remember who!

Really though, I don't care, I wanna go back to sleep, but this asshole keeps yelling. This is so frustrating! I know the voice, but can't place it, and then the voice won't shut up at the same time!

"Really, you need to quit drinking and go home before you get yourself hurt, or put into a bad position, Lissa! No, don't 'Fangy, the only position I want is in your bed' me, that's not cool and you know it!" There's a pause for about a minute.

"You've slept with over half the guys at the university, everyone from jocks to nerds! And better yet, most were when we were dating!" FANG! Oh my gosh, it's Fang! I miss him so much! But he really needs to shut up, like I'm trying to get some sleep over here! I've gotta shut him up, I swear!

I slowly open my eyes, but quickly shut them, the light is so blinding! I try again, and see him in the corner, on the phone, staring out the window. "Hey," I say, but it comes out a raspy whisper.

He just continues talking. Ugh, he's getting on my nerves! "Hey!" I say a lot louder, and get his attention. He turns around and drops the phone. It shatters into a million pieces.

"Max! You're awake!" He shouts, and rushes out the door. I hear, "Julie, Anna, Lee, Mike, she's awake! She finally woke up! Get the doctor here! Hurry! Oh my gosh, she's finally awake!" Then he rushes back through the door, four people in scrubs right on his heels.

All the nurses look at me, astounded, shocked, and happiness played on their faces. One of them grabs her phone and presses a button. After waiting a few seconds, she said, "Max finally woke up, doc, she's finally woke up."

I look around, confused, and hear Fang ask one of them for a phone. He punches in a number, and after twenty or so seconds, he says, "Jeb, she woke up, she finally is awake! Get Ella and Dr. M and get them here, don't say why, just tell them Fang called, something happened to Max."

After talking another minute or so, he hangs up and hands the phone back. "Water." I say, and a female nurse with dirty blonde hair runs out the room and comes back with a cup and straw.

"Sip slowly, Max, don't overcompensate." She says gently.

After a few minutes, and when my throat felt better I asked, "why is everyone so happy I woke up? And why am I in a hospital? But why does everyone keep saying 'she finally woke up,' it's not like it's been a week." I look over at the clock, it reads 10:00 P.M. "I'm pretty sure I probably fell asleep only what, a hour ago, not that big of a deal."

Everyone's mouth drops, one of the nurses looks concerned. "Max, you were-."

She was interrupted by my dad, bursting through the door, and then rushing to my bedside.

"Oh baby, I thought I'd never talk to you again!" Then bursts into tears, and grabs me into a hug. I hear running footsteps, actually three sets, mom and Ella... but who else? One set sounds more clunky, and mismatched.

When mom bursts through the door, I assume what she sees doesn't look good, because she says, "no, she can't! She can't be dead!"

I guess since dad is blocking me, she only sees him hugging me, with a crying Fang, and apparently the nurses broke down hugging each other, and sobbing. Then mom bursts into a short sob before dad moves, and she sees I'm not. "Oh my gosh, MAAAAX! MY BABY!" I get crushed into a hug once more.

"Max, you're awake!" I hear Ella's wonderful voice in the doorway. I look over, and see her holding a baby in one arm, and a tiny hand in the other.

I've missed so much, but how long have I been just a sleeping girl?

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So, how did I do? I really hope you liked it! The whole flashback about Angel was supposed to show how determined she was to make it, no matter what happened to her. So anyways, comment, review, whatever you call it! Like it? Love it? Hate it? Any suggestions?