Disclaimer: I owns nothings
FangPOV
I woke up to my phone buzzing in my pocket. Standing up I looked at it.
Time To Go Running- Set For 3:30 A.M.
I walked over and stood over Max's bed.
"Max wake up." I shook her lightly.
"Wha?"
"If we're going running you need to get up."
"Oh," she sat up slowly, "what time is it?" I looked at my phone.
"3:33" Max groaned and laid back down. "Max." I threw back her covers and she curled into a ball.
"It's too early"
"You said you wanted to go running with me, so… GET. UP!" I whisper yelled
"You're right… I'll get up in 10 minutes."
"Well I'm going to shower quickly, when I'm done you have to be out of bed and dressed."
"Fine" She turned over in the bed.
"Where's the towels and stuff?"
"Under the sink." Max mumbled into her pillow. I smirked and walked into the bathroom.
After Shower
I walked out of the bathroom and saw Max was still sleeping. Smirking I walked back into the bathroom grabbing a glass and filling it with ice cold water.
"Max, get up."
"No" I took the glass and slowly poured it on her head.
Max bolted upright and shook her head, trying to get the water out of her hair.
"What'd you do that for?!" she almost screamed.
"Well, I told you to go get up and dressed."
"But, I was basically asleep! I agree to everything!"
"Well, get up anyway. Oh do you have anything I could borrow for today?"
"Yeah," Max got up and walked to the door. "Follow me."
I followed Max out into the hallway. Max opened a door on the right and flicked the light switch on. She pulled a box down from the top shelf and set it on the bed.
"Here, look through this."
"Where's your dad?" Max set the picture she was holding and looked at me.
"He left when Ella was six."
"And my grandma from my Mom's side, but other than that, that's it."
"So this is the only stuff you have that was your dad's, the stuff he left?"
"Yeah," I grabbed a plain black t-shirt and a pair of ripped blue jeans.
Max and I walked back to her room and she grabbed clothes from her closet and changed quickly in the bathroom. When she came I out I changed and we went to the kitchen where she scribbled a note to Tara on where she was going.
"Oh do you have a notebook for lyrics?" I asked as set our stuff in the backseat of the hummer.
"Yup," She held up a notebook that she had written 'Not Song Lyrics' across the top. "So I thought we were running."
"We are but we'll come back get in my car and I'll drive us to school."
"Ok,"
"Ready?"
"Yup," Max and I started running down the street.
2 And A Half Hour Later- 6:30 A.M.
We rounded the corner and I saw Max's driveway.
"Race you!" Max started sprinting and so did I.
Gasping for air, Max and I leaned against my car.
"You did better than I thought you would.' I panted taking the water bottle from Max after she chugged half.
"I was the star on the girls track team before my mom died. I also ran everyday that summer before the heat kicked in; sometimes to get her off my mind and sometimes for something to do." I downed the rest of the water and threw the bottle in the back of the car.
"Want to go to the diner for breakfast?"
"Do we have time?" I looked at my phone.
"Nope."
"Well I have a bunch of breakfast bars in my locker, we could go to school and I could hand you some bars during first hour."
"How many do you have?"
"Like 20."
"What kind?"
"Those weird 'Milk and Cereal' bars."
"Ok, could I get 4?"
"Sure."
We got in the car and I pulled out of the driveway.
"You know I don't live far from you. I live in the blue house next to Iggy's house."
"Really?"
"Yup," I pulled into the parking lot and saw Iggy standing by the door. Nudge was talking to some girls and Gazzy was talking to his sister Samantha-Angel (Samantha).
Iggy saw me pull into a parking spot and he walked towards me. Iggy looked surprised when he saw Max get out and grab her stuff from the backseat.
"Heard you got locked out of your house last night. Where'd you sleep?" Iggy asked
"Max's house." Iggy raised his eyebrows suggestively and I smacked him up-side the head.
"Damn man, when you think someone can't get any stronger they do." Max smirked as we made our way through the school doors.
There were mummers as Max, Iggy and I walked down the hall as we joked. Max laughed at something Iggy said and people stopped whispering and stared.
Iggy stopped at his locker and Max and I went on walking.
Max started opening her locker.
"Don't you have to go to your locker?" she asked.
"It's right there." I pointed at the lockers across the hall.
"Oh."
"You want me to leave or something?"
"No."
After grabbing our stuff, Max and I made our way to Science with Mr. Edwards.
After Class
"See you at lunch." Max said waving and walking away.
"See you then."
At Lunch
I spotted Max as she came in with her lunch. I stood up and walked towards her.
"Hey," Max said when I reached her.
"Hey, did you bring the 'Not Song Lyrics' Lyric notebook?" I asked adding air quotes.
"Yeah," I led her over to the table and I slid over from my seat down the bench so there was room for Max to sit down.
There were gasps all around us and we looked at them. I saw Ella give the thumbs up gin to Max, then she sat down with Samantha, J.J., Tess, and some other cheerleaders.
"You have a lyric book right?" Iggy asked.
"Yeah, but I thought I was just the guitarist."
"Well you're also the female lead vocalist. As long as you're ok with that."
"Yeah I'm fine with it."
I took the book and started flipping through the notebook.
"These look good" I told her. Iggy took the book and Nudge looked over his shoulder.
"Let me see." Gazzy said. Iggy set the book down in the middle and they looked through it.
After they finished looking at it lunch was over and we headed off to our fourth hour after stopping at our lockers. Ella caught up with Max and I and she pulled Max back so I couldn't hear their conversation.
I walked into my fourth hour class and sat down in the back. I was instantly swarmed by girls wanting to know why Max was sitting with us at lunch.
NudgePOV
I walked into my fourth hour class and saw a swarm off girls in the back of the room. I instantly knew Fang was in the middle trying to ignore them.
"Hey Fang." A cheerleader said. Fang looked at the girl and frowned.
I stood next to Fang and looked at the girl.
It was Fang's 'number 1 fan' but in reality she was his stalker named Samantha.
"When's your next concert?" Samantha asked.
"Snow-coming." Fang answered shortly.
Are you taking anyone?"
"Maybe, why?"
"Because I'm on the ballet for Snow Queen and I need an escourt," Samantha paused and Fang cut in.
"Ask Iggy to be your escort." People laughed and a kid in the front yelled 'burn' and everyone laughed harder.
Samantha huffed and sat down at a desk in the front.
"Settle down, class has started." The teacher said walking to the board.
SamanthaPOV
"I can't believe Fang!" I screeched at my friends in the bathroom.
"Just ask Iggy, he's pretty cute." My friend Kelsey said.
"I don't want a cute escort. I want a hot one!" The bathroom door opened.
"Oh, didn't realize there was a meeting in the girl's bathroom." The girl backed out and I glared at the door.
"That was Max Martinez, wasn't it." My friends nodded and I stomped out of the bathroom.
FangPOV
I saw Max walk out of the bathroom and I sped up my walk.
Samantha stomped out of the bathroom. She saw me and started towards me, making me walk even faster towards Max.
I took Max's hand and interlocked our fingers. She looked up at me confusion in her eyes and I said under my breath.
"Go with it, Samantha might leave me alone." (Cliché I know) Max nodded slightly.
"Fangy-poo, will you escort me to Snow-coming? Oh, never mind." Lissa said
Max and I continued to our lockers.
MaxPOV: At diner after school
"Max, Ella and I are going to enter the Snow Queen running, and you should totally enter."
"Why Nudge? I'm not pretty and I have to learn how to do a waltz or something like that. I have to have an escort. Nudge you're going with Gazzy and Ella you're going with Iggy most likely. So who will be my escort? None of the guys at the school like me, cause they think I'm the emo chick who's parents left."
"Fang." Ella answered, "And they don't think that."
"Like he'll escort me."
"Fang." Ella poked the back of his neck and his hand shot back and grabbed her wrist.
"Yes?" He turned around in his booth and faced Ella.
"If Max enters the Snow Queen contest, will you be her escort?" Fang looked at me and smirked.
"Only if she enters."
"Wow Fang! Now I have to enter!" I yelled at him.
"Why?"
"Because now I technically have an escort, so those two," I pointed at Ella and Nudge, "Plus Tara, are going to nag me into it."
"So just say yes to it and get it over with."
"Yes but then I have to go dress shopping and you would have to rent a tux."
"I already own a tux."
"Then you'll have to make sure it fits then get a tie to match my dress." I took a sip of my drink.
"The tux still fits."
"How do you know?"
"I was in my cousins wedding in October."
"Oh, well go eat food." Fang smirked and Ella and Nudge started talking about colors that would look good on me.
"Well let's go back to the school and sign Max up for the running." Ella and Nudge stood up and threw money on the table.
"You guys coming? If you come we can go dress and tux shopping." Ella said looking at Iggy.
"Might as well get this shopping over with." Gazzy tossed money on the table and Fang and Gazzy slid out of the booth.
We walked out of the diner and got in separate cars. I got in Fang's car since I didn't feel like listening to Ella and Nudge blab about clothes.
When we got to the school Ella got out of Nudge's red slug bug and ran up to the door and into the school.
A couple minutes later Ella came out smiling and she got into Nudge's car.
I felt my phone buzz and I pulled it out of my pocket and flipped it open.
1 New Message From Ella
Go to mall in Mount Pleasant
"Fang, go to the mall in Mount Pleasant." I told him.
"What store are we going into first?"
"Let me find out." I quickly texted Ella asking which store. "Deb. Then stores 'til we find what we need."
"Okay," Fang pulled onto the highway and I pulled out my iPod and got ready for the 2 and a half hour drive.