Life went on like usual for us for the rest of the week and nothing came back up about me and Fang which I was quite pleased about. It's not nice having people talking about your relationships when you don't even know what's happening. But as I said the last week of school went quite smoothly and dare I say it, normal. Although things have been pretty normal for us for a while now, almost two years we have lived with my biological family and there hasn't been too many School/Itex related incidence. I've even been able to calm down and not be so paranoid and enjoy the quiet time we have now and I admit having Jeb around has taught us a thing or two about our 'abilities'. Like for instance our actual age is almost double what we are in human years so me and Fang are around twenty now, but Jeb say's that process is slowing down for some weird scientific reason and soon we'll be just going by human years which I guess is pretty good because I don't want to already have wrinkles when I'm twenty five or whenever. Oh and you might have guessed by me actually looking that forward in my life that we also now know that we won't be expiring any time soon either. You can bet I was pleased about knowing we had some time before we 'expired'. Oh and you probably would be wondering why I'm talking so much but believe it or not me and Fang were invited to a end of year party. We were just sitting in form the other day and a couple of our friends (yes we have friends now too) came over with some invites and said that it was on Saturday. Which now is today and well I'm just a bit nervous which is nonsense seeing as I can fight a dozen Erasers without a care in the world.

Max's door gave an almost silent squeak as Fang let himself in.

"You look good," he said as he watched Max scrutinize her clothes in the mirror and she rolled her eyes.

"I don't know," she said as she turned around so she was looking at Fang properly instead of just his reflection. "I wanted to wear something Christmassyish but I have not idea what to do."

Fang shrugged,

"The red shirt's Christmassy."

Max rolled her eyes and turned back to the mirror.

"Yeah a red shirt with black jeans is so… Christmassy."

Fang stood up and came up behind Max.

"So really you need just a little something to make it feel Christmassy for you."

Max nodded and watched Fang play with her pony tail. (Max's thought to audience - Have I ever mentioned how much more talkative Fang had become since we moved in here?)

"Are you wearing your hair like this tonight or putting it down?" Fang asked and Max thought for a moment.

"I don't know I was thinking of going full on girly and having my hair down but it would drive me crazy by the end of the party and I'd have to find my hair band."

Fang rolled his eyes,

"Yes and it would be terrible if you did something girly for once. Isn't there a rule or something against that?"

Max pulled a face at Fang he just looked at her calmly with his hands in his pockets.

"Close your eyes," he told Max and she looked at him suspiciously.

"Why?"

"Just do it."

Max paused for a second before closing her eyes. She could feel Fang put something around her head before softly pull out her hair-tie so her hair fell down just bellow her shoulders.

"You can open you're eyes now," he told her as he took a step back and watched in Fang's way of being nervous, which is pretty hard to tell but anyway.

Max opened her eyes and looked up at her hair. Fang had put in a red and green ribbon which comfortably substituted as a hair band. Max smiled as she surveyed her outfit and gave Fang the nod of approval as she sat down on the bed beside him.

"So you like it?" Fang asked.

"Yeah I do," Max replied. "How did you have it though?"

Fang just shrugged and shot Max a smile before pulling her off the bed.

"Come on people to see, parties to go to."

"Such a busy life," Max said dramatically as she followed Fang to her door, still holding his hand. Fang stopped suddenly at the door and spun around causing Max to bump into him and he smiled.

"And don't we know it," he finished before pulling the door open and we stepped out, almost running into Ella. We immediately let go of each other's hand.

"Wow," she said grinning. "You guys look great. Mum just sent me up to tell you that she's ready to head off whenever you are."

Max smiled at Ella,

"Thanks, we'll see you later."

Ella nodded and gave Max a quick hug.

"Yeah have fun. Oh and just a warning mums going to be ranting on about what to do and not do at parties the whole way to the party." Ella rolled her eyes, "She does it every time."

Max nodded and started to head down the stairs with Fang,

"Yeah thanks for the warning."

They were all the way down the stairs before Ella called out,

"You guys are a cute couple!"

Max shook her head as they headed to the car and Fang shrugged,

"At least she hasn't got the others started too."

Max pulled a face as she hopped into the car,

"Don't jinx us."

After we stepped out of the car I did a quick turn on the spot.

"Ok. Wing check, nothing showing?"

Fang shook his head as he fixed up the collar of his black, lightly pinstriped button up shirt, over his black jacket. I fidgeted with my own jacket, it was a new leather jacket Mum had brought for me was surprisingly comfy and not to girly for the close fitted look it gave but it still had that new clothes feel which was kinda annoying me as I was, ok I admit it, a little nervous being at this party. Together we walked up the driveway to the door and waited for the hosts, Mark and Tiff, to let us in. Mark and Tiff are siblings, well twins actually, and they were in our science class when we first came to the school and our dislike for our teacher had caused quite a good friendship between us. Like I wasn't even paranoid that one day they might turn into Erasers or something, and I can't even say that for Sam.

I started fidgeting with my jacket again and I felt Fang watching me so I looked across and he gave me a quick smile.

"Just go with the flow. This'll be fun." I hope. Fang added in his head and Max rolled her eye and muttered to him as the door opened,

"You sound like the Voice."

Fang shot me a mock frightened look before heading in side.

Well if you haven't been to a party before let me tell you this; you haven't missed much. Like yes their fun and everything if you are alright with crowds and you can ignore the couples trying to choke each other with their tongues in every 'quiet' spot and thanks to someone's older brother, a lot of alcohol which people who I know are underage very willingly drink. I must say though I never knew there were so many games you could do with alcohol. At the moment Fang and I were watching a group from our grade play something called, 'I never' over on the balcony.

From the chairs Fang and I were at I saw Tiff sit down in the circle and whisper something to Blair which caused most of the circle to look around at us.

"Crap," I muttered as I slid further down my chair.

"What?" Fang asked with his eyes shut and I looked over at him. Geez he looked almost comatose.

"Nothing much," I answered and Fang raised an eyebrow unbelievingly. "There's just a group of slightly drunk people, who are mostly our friends may I add who have just stopped their little game of 'lets see who came embarrass themselves the most' and look like they're about to come over and invite us into their game."

Fang lazily opened his eyes and rolled over so he could see past me, to the group who by the look on his face were still watching us. I watched Fang flop back in his chair and shut his eyes before he muttered,

"Why are they staring at us like that?"

I gave a chuckle,

"Because we're just so darn interesting, laying in these deck chairs wondering if the Flocks tared the house down yet."

"That's what you're thinking anyway."

I rolled over and looked at Fang interested.

"And you haven't? No offence to Ella but Mum and Dad are out tonight and she's looking after four hybrid kids."

Fang shrugged,

"They'll be fine. They know if they play up to much they'll have the wrath of you to contend with later."

"And mum and dad," I added but Fang pulled a face.

"You're still the leader for them. Punishment never sticks as well if it hasn't come from you."

I flopped back into my chair, not able to not notice the group still watching us, surprising myself at how pleased I was that even though we'd been settled down in the same spot for quite a while now, I was still the Flocks leader.

I started fidgeting with my jacket again as I felt the groups eyes watch us.

"They're still watching us aren't they?" Fang said and I groaned in reply.

"Are they trying to use group mind control or something? Because if they are; it's not working."

Fang gave me his usual shrug. Then we were quiet for a while just listening to the music from inside and to my delight the group turned around to play their game again.

After a while the music stopped and this weird bouncy rap song came on and I saw Beth and Nick stager up and away from the group to get another bottle of drink. Laughing I said to Fang as we watched them come back with a new bottle which thankfully was soft drink this time,

"They are going to feel so bad tomorrow." Fang nodded but then we spotted Beth and Nick grinning as they came over to us instead of the group.

"Hey you two," they sung as they lent over our chairs. "A group of us are playing 'I never' over there and we all want you to join." Fang and I looked at each other and then I replied,

"I don't know we're happy here."

Nick showed us the bottle and grinned,

"Come on, we're all mates and there's not even alcohol in this round."

Beth came around and grabbed our wrists, trying to pull us out of the chairs with little luck.

"Come on, pleeease," Beth whined. "This'll be a great way for us to get to know a bit about you."

Fang looked across at me and we shrugged at each other.

"Ok," Fang said as we stood up just as Beth gave another pull causing her to fall over and start laughing. Which then caused pretty much everyone to start too as we went over to the circle.

"Ok," I said as we were handed to glassed of what I hoped was only soft drink. "How does think work?" Tiff looked at us shocked.

"You mean you've never played?" I shook my head.

"We're not really party people." You never get the time when you're running from companies who want to kill you. I added in my head. Tiff shrugged and started to explain,

"Ok so you go round the circle and you have to say something you've never done but if someone say's something that you have done you take a drink. Simple, I'll go first." I nodded. Right shouldn't be too hard. "I have never tried to off myself," said Tiff and a dude from year twelve drank. I looked across at Fang; this sure seemed like a happy game. But then he raised his eyebrows at me and I remembered what he'd said after I tried to get the chip out. I shot his a quick glare, it was my turn soon, "I was only trying to get the chip out," I said in my defence. Oops my turn what to say… Ha I'll get Fang with this one.

"I have never made explosives," I said and grinned as Fang had to drink. I knew he helped Gazzy and Iggy now and then with their 'experiments.'

A few people looked at Fang interested but he just shrugged.

"School experiment."

One of the boys laughed,

"What were you going to blow it up or something?" Fang shrugged again,

"Something like that." Everyone laughed thinking it was a joke.

Around the group the questions went some silly and some more serious, it wasn't until it was Nick's turn that Fang and I got stuck.

"I've never killed anyone."

Fang and I looked at each other; we were not going to drink to that one. Something's are good to be kept a secret. Thankfully our looks of uneasiness went un-noticed and the game went on. After a while everyone started to run out of questions and so we all got up and went back inside and danced for a while and chatted about what we were going to do on our holidays. Just the usual stuff normal people talk about I guess, until cars started to pull into the driveway and people started to head off. Fang and I hung back for a while as we were 'walking' home to help clean up. With the four of us it didn't take to long and so we flopped onto the couch for a quick relax before heading off. Tiff looked around and laughed,

"It's so quiet now everyone's left." We all nodded in agreement before Tiff's eyes lit up.

"Omg I can't believe I didn't notice your head band it's so nice. Where did you get it?"

I looked across at Fang hoping I wasn't blushing as much as I felt.

"It was a, um, present."

Tiff nodded,

"Well whoever got it for you has great taste. It looks great on you."

"Thanks," I said noticing the smug look on Fangs face before seeing the time. "Shoot we're going to be late," I said as I hoped up, Fang immediately following. Mark and Tiff showed us to the door and promised to call us through the holidays. That's another thing I've learnt; the average teenage life means a lot of phone calls.

Fang and I walked down the driveway and around the corner until we were sure they could not see us anymore before spreading our wings out and springing up into the sky. It was a really nice night, the best kind for flying. Note to self take Flock out later.

When we got back the house was dark. Even Ella had given up waiting and gone to bed. So we headed upstairs to go to bed and as usual we went through and checked on the Flock before heading to our own beds.

Fang stepped out of Iggy and Gasman's room and looked at me oddly as I closed Angel's door.

"Did you know that they sleep with explosives under their beds?"

I looked at him surprised before remembering who we were talking about and shrugged.

"I'm tired so as long as they don't go off tonight, I'll get up them about it later."

Fang gave his usual little shrug and headed off to his room and I went in to check on Nudge.