MPOV
I sat straight up, wiping the remaining tears off my face.
"Why are you here, Fang? Did you follow me?" I asked.
"Max, I'm sorry about leaving you. And about the stuff you said…I'm so sorry we left you. So, so sorry. I didn't know it would hurt you as bad as it did. We left because we had to. Angel said that your Voice was telling you to ditch us anyways. We just decided to make it easier. I'm so, so sorry." That must've been the longest speech Fang had ever made, but I recovered quickly.
"Fang," I said, pausing, "get out." I kicked him as hard as I could, while still half lying down. He slid off the bed, making sure he landed on his feet.
"I'm sorry, Max," he said again. And then he said something I didn't catch.
"Excuse me. What did you say?" I asked.
"I'm…sorry, Max?" he said, giving me a weird look.
"After that!" I said, getting annoyed.
"I didn't…say anything…Max, you're going crazy," he said.
"Shut up. Only my friends – who tell me what they're saying – can tell me to shut up! Now get out before I call security on you!" I yelled, through my almost-there tears.
"What? You don't want to take a few punches at me? Wouldn't it even out the scoreboard a little more?" he suggested.
"I would very much like to punch you right now. But I can't."
"Why? It's fine if you hurt me. I can take a punch. I have been, for my whole, pathetic life. Though it has been more pathetic in the past five years," he tried. I rolled my eyes and punched him in his stomach. He didn't flinch. I swept him onto the floor and kicked him while he was down. Then I punched him one more time. He got up and I continued punching him on the arm – not hard, but hard enough. And then I started sobbing and punching him at the same time. He turned towards me and pulled me closer to him – against my will, of course. I kept punching him, hoping to get away, but my sobs held me closer to him. And then I just gave up and hugged him. My head fit into his shoulder and so I cried into it. He held me tightly. By the time I was finished, his shirt was drenched. I pulled away to look up at him.
Our eyes caught and then we were slowly floating towards each other, until we were an inch apart and getting closer by the second…