MAX POV

I was sitting on the bus, mad and literally fuming. Blaze told me herself that I was fuming, that my face was all red and distorted. Nudge had decided to go to dinner with them! She had wanted me and Blaze to come too, but I wasn't going to get within ten feet of them. I mean, one of them had been my boyfriend, so how the HELL was I going to be able to sit through a whole dinner with them without ripping someone's head off? Blaze apparently felt the same way. Must be the whole ex-best friend coming back to haunt her, telling her that she will never get to say that she will never be my first best friend.

I don't see why Blaze is so mad, though. She may not have been my first best friend, but she sure is my best best friend to ever have. Anyway, Nudge was standing outside of the buses window, yelling at me to come with her, but Blaze and I just stuck our tongues out at her and the flock. Nudge might have laughed at us, but the flock looked a little hurt.

"That's what they get!" Blaze said after I told her how they looked to me.

I had to say that I agreed with her. They had betrayed me and Nudge and I wasn't going to let that slide because they show up and want to be friends again. Tony walked over to us and Blaze sat on his lap and all three of us looked out the window to see that they still hadn't left.

"Who are they?" Tony asked.

"That is the broken and confused flock." Blaze stated.

"How are they broken? They seem pretty happy to me." I asked her.

"They don't have you to lead them anymore, Max. And I know that they know that you are still a good leader, considering the fact that you and I just so happen to be the captains of one of the best women's hockey teams in this nation!" Blaze practically screamed, and I know that the Flock heard her, because they were all staring daggers at her.

I think Blaze saw this because she whipped out her phone and texted Nudge, telling her to tell the flock to stare at someone else because she was taken. As soon as Nudge got it, laughed, and told the flock what the message said, while they all still had they're eyes glued on her, she turned on Tony's lap and gave him a kiss. Not just one of those weak pecks on the lips either. I'm talking about tongue here!

Tony is obsessed with kissing Blaze like this, so he was very happy to kiss her back with as much enthusiasm as she was putting into the kiss. I merely laughed.

Just then, Chris walked over and texted me. It said that he was going to kiss me, but explained that he was only doing it so that he could help me annoy Fang, since I had told him the stories, too. I laughed an showed the text to Blaze, who quickly texted me saying that maybe he was a good guy for me, but I know that she was joking.

I swiftly pulled Chris down by grabbing his shirt for a full on make-out, like the ones we used to do before we broke up. Blaze kept whispering to me how the flock, but mostly Fang, was taking the kissing. Angel, Gazzy, Nudge and Iggy were just plain shocked.

Fang was a completely different story. He was pissed off! And I mean really, really angry! According to Blaze's description, because I was still in a totally fake but convincing lip-lock mode with Chris, Fang's fists were all balled up and his knuckles were turning white. Iggy was putting a hand on his shoulder to try to calm him down, but Fang just shrugged it off and stormed away.

When Fang was gone, I ended the kiss with Chris.

"Wow, you must really want to torture that guy." Chris stammered, still breathing heavily from the kiss.

"Believe me, I do. He was an ass, and he deserves to know something like that feels." I said back.

By the time the bus had finally started moving, the Flock had given up getting me to come and had left to go wherever they were going. The team decided that in order to celebrate the win, and the fact that we earned tomorrow to just sit and relax and not play, we were going to order a ton of pizzas and play around in the water park.

We got off the bus and went to change and then we all met in the hot tub to talk about the game. This is kind of a team ceremony. Although we are usually at a restraint instead of a hot tub, we always discuss the game. Everyone on our team agreed that the goalie was the one who really kept us in the game, because we all played pretty sluggishly. If we hadn't scored at the last second, we might still be in that rink doing a shoot out or something, which we rock at by the way. Our whole team specializes in one on one shots, a.k.a. shootouts.

Then we spotted them. I couldn't believe Nudge had brought them here. I was definitely going to have a talk with her later. Blaze and I quickly grabbed the boys and headed up to the four person slide as fast as we could. We were half way up the stairs when I heard an all too familiar voice coming from behind me.

"You can't keep ignoring us forever, Max. You can keep trying, but your going to fail." Fang said.

"Oh, I wouldn't think that if I were you. She's gotten a lot more stubborn since you have last seen her." Blaze said, obviously trying to defend me.

"In my defense, I have never actually seen her." Iggy stated while putting his stupid grin on his face, showing us all that he thought he was being funny.

"You keep talking like that, and I'll mess up your eyes so bad that you will never get the possibility to see her." Blaze spat back at him. "Now if you will excuse us, I would like to spend some nice moments with my maid of honor."

"Who, in there right mind, would ever want to marry you?" This time, to my shock, Angel was speaking.

"Shut up, Angel. By the time I left, your attitude was twice as bad as hers. And at least she listens to me when I tell her not to do anything!" I was practically spitting at her.

"What's your deal?! What happened to the Max we used to know?! 'Cause from what we are seeing now, it seems like she's completely gone!" Fang yelled.

"She got betrayed by her family, that's what happened to her! She and her little sister had to fend for themselves for a month before Blaze here, and her family took us in and helped us get a place of our own! That girl is still here, but she's harder and isn't so trusting anymore!" I yelled and stormed up the stairs.

I could here Blaze's footsteps behind me, but the boys hadn't started walking yet. Neither of us looked back to get the boys.

"Sorry about that. They're very protective of each other." Of course, Tony the loving, sweet boy was trying to straightening everything out. "My fiancé can be a bit of a hand full."

"So you're marrying her?" Angel asked.

"Yeah, squirt, I am. And I'm happy about it, too. She's not always like that. To tell you the truth, I've only seen her like that once before this."

"And what was she doing when she was like this before?" Iggy asked.

"The first time Max had gotten injured on the ice. She had been checked into the goal. She ended up flipping over it and into the boards. Blaze went after the girl who had checked her. Like I said, they are very protective of each other." I remembered that day so vividly, I stopped in my tracks.

"How hurt was she?" This time it was Fang who spoke, sounding sincerely concerned.

"She wasn't allowed to play for two weeks, and even after that was up, the coach watched her very closely."

"Damn, and even with…"

"Yes, even with her bird genes, it took her that long to heal." He had done it. Now they knew that I had told someone other than doctors about me.

"You know?"

"Yes. My fiancé is one, too. Not a bird, but she's a mutant."

"Does she have any powers?"

Tony told them everything, even how we had merged our powers. The flock already knew that you could pull your wings into your skin. They had to know in order to come into the water park.

"So, she has been taken care of?" Fang asked after a long pause.

"Yes. She even has her own small house back home in Wisconsin and its right across the street from Blaze so she's never alone. Obviously she has plenty of friends from hockey and softball, not to mention mixed competitions."

"Wow. I guess she really didn't need us in order to have a great life." His voice sounded so sad, so hurt that I couldn't help it.

I ran back down the stairs and threw my arms around Fang, hugging him with all of my strength. He wrapped his arms around me and lifted me off my feet. I could see Iggy out of the corner of my eye; still had that silly grin on his face. I let go of Fang and walked over to Iggy.

"I've never liked that grin of yours. You know that, don't you?"

He merely smiled and opened his arms which I accepted. I called Blaze to come down, which she did. She was smiling, so she must have heard as much of their conversation as I had.

"Fang, this is Blaze, Tony and Chris. They took me in and were my friends when we left." Blaze and Fang shook hands first and soon everyone was shaking hands.

"Oh darn, I think I forgot to give two specific people hugs." I said sarcastically, only to be suffocated three seconds later by Angel and Gazzy. They had definitely gotten bigger, but they we obviously still my little kids.

"So are we going to go down the slide or what?" Tony whined.

"You are the most childish guy I have ever met." Blaze stated.

"And yet you love me anyway." And he kissed her. A slow, passionate kiss. And everyone couldn't help but smile.

"Good thing you didn't flirt with her, Iggy. I think you would be attacked by Tony." Gazzy laughed.

"SHUT UP, GAZZY!" Iggy smacked him upside the head.

"Well, I can't say I blame you, dude. She's a great girl." Tony said.

And we all walked up to the slide.

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