A/N- Hey! Thanks so much for reviewing! Sorry if you didn't get why Nudge was crying. I'll explain it in this chapter.

Disclaimer- I own the plot, but I don't own hotel rooms, Maximum Ride, or Risk.

We walked up like, twenty-thousand flights of stairs until we finally got to our penthouse suites.

When we finally got there, Angel and Gazzy took charge of sleeping arrangements before I could even open my mouth.

Angel started the uprising. "Max, Gazzy and I'll share a room. With Total."

I nodded. "O-"

Gazzy interrupted me. "And Nudge and Max can share a room, so that leaves Iggy and Fang to share."

I opened my mouth. "G-"

Angel finished. "Cause there's two beds in each room. That'll work, won't it Max?"

I nodded and Gazzy grabbed the room keys from my hand. He threw one to Fang, who caught it, and one to me, who let the key hit my head and fall to the ground. He took the last one and sped off to his room with Angel and Total.

I rubbed my head and looked at Fang. "What just happened?"

Fang burst out laughing, and after a second I joined him.

Then Iggy tapped Fang in his shoulder. "Hey, can I have the key? Nudge and I need to talk for a bit."

Fang nodded and passed Iggy the key. Nudge led Iggy to the door, and they disappeared into the room.

Fang looked at me and shrugged. "I guess that means we're hanging out for a bit."

I shrugged too. "I guess so."

I opened up the door to my room and we stepped inside.

Angel and Gazzy looked around the room with eyes the size of dinner plates.

When you first walked in, there was a sitting room that led to the bedroom. In the bedroom there were two king-sized beds with a 72-inch plasma screen. There was also a bathroom, a small kitchen and dining room with a door that led to the roof-top pool.

The whole suite was painted a bright, sunny yellowish color.

Angel and Total started jumping on a bed while Gazzy tried to find something to watch.

After a couple minutes he got bored and went to look for something else to do. He found a small cabinet full of games and dragged out a game that looked fun.

"Hey, Angel!"

Angle jumped off the bed and skipped over to Gazzy. "What?"

Gazzy shook the game. "Wanna play Risk?"

Iggy quietly closed the door behind him and let Nudge lead him over to a bed. He sat down and pulled Nudge down to sit next to him.

Nudge leaned back against his chest and sighed. Iggy listened to her quiet breathing for a couple minutes, absently stroking her hair.

Finally Iggy decided that it was time to talk about Nudge's little break-down. "Nudge?"

"Yeah?" Nudge's voice was like a breath of wind.

"What was that about?"

Nudge didn't even have to ask what he was talking about. "That jerky check-in lady was asking about Fang, cause he came up to us to ask Max something. She was trying to like, hook up with him, but Max said he was her boyfriend." Iggy raised his eyebrows but didn't interrupt.

"So then she started trying to figure out who you were. She said that Max couldn't be dating both you and Fang, so she was going to try to get together with you. She said that I was…" Nudge sniffed. "Too young and not pretty enough to be going out with you." She started crying again. She wasn't making any noise, but Iggy could feel the tears dripping on his arm like rain drops.

Iggy pulled Nudge closer to him and whispered in her ear. "Nudge, you know that's not true. Don't listen to what anyone else tells you. You're perfect." Nudge kept crying. "Look, if you want, Gaz and I'll put a stink bomb behind her desk."

Nudge smiled and managed to stop crying. "Thanks Iggy." She thought for a second. "But, I'm really not pretty enough to go out with you. You're…well, you. You're tall, and skinny, and funny, and cool, and everyone loves you. I'm just the little girl who talks too much and drives everyone crazy. I-"

Iggy covered her mouth with her hand. He ran his other hand over his face wearily. "Nudge, none of that's true. Okay, maybe some of it is, cause, you know, I am pretty cool-" Nudge punched his arm. "Oww!! Just kidding! Anyways, it doesn't matter to me how pretty you are. I can't see you, remember?

"It's your personality that counts, and if anyone tells you that you can't do anything because you're 'Not pretty enough' you just crack their ribs, cause it's not true! You can do anything you want. Even fly! You don't have to be pretty to fly. I mean, Total flies, and we all know he's not pretty."

Nudge laughed, and Iggy smiled. It felt good to make someone else happy. "And, I'm tall? You're almost as tall as Max. That's tall, for an eleven year old. Besides, we're all skinny.

"And, you're one of the coolest people I know. Who made Angel laugh that time she flew into a tree branch and scraped up her legs? Who got Max to take us to Disney World? Who picks us up every time we get sad? Who talks our ears off to distract us from our problems? Who has saved our butts with her skill with computers too many times to count? Who-"

Nudge kissed him. She pulled away after a second and smiled, bringing his hand up to her mouth so he'd know. "Thanks Iggy."

Iggy smiled and kissed her again. "You're welcome."

We walked into the room and looked around. It was pretty nice, but a little too fancy for my taste.

I sat down on a bed and grabbed the remote. Fang sat down next to me and we leaned against the headboard. I flipped through the channels until I got to VH1. There were some music videos on, and we watched the Red Hot Chili Peppers dance around for a while before I started talking.

"Soo… what d'you think is going on between Iggy and Nudge?"

Fang rolled his eyes. "I don't know. But I have a good idea."

I sighed. "Together?"

Fang nodded. "Definitely."

Then I thought of something. I rolled on my side so I was facing Fang. "Uh, Fang? What about us? Are we…? Or…?"

He knew what I was saying. "It depends." He rolled on his side too, so we were facing each other. We were only inches apart. "What do you want us to be?"

I blushed. "Umm, I like you as more than a friend, and I really liked it when you kissed me…but, if you don't want to…" I trailed off, startled by the look in Fang's eyes. It was the look he got before he was about to do some really fancy trick, or do something really brave and daring.

He closed the small space between us and kissed me. I immediately kissed him back, and he smiled. Then he wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me closer. I put one hand behind his head, tangling it in his hair, and the other behind his neck.

When we had to breathe we broke apart unwillingly, staring at each other.

Fang smiled, and the sun shone on me. "Well, I guess that means that we're together."

I nodded. "Yeah. Should we tell them?"

Fang shook his head. "Nope. Let them figure it out for themselves."

I grinned. "You're evil, you know that, right?"

He leaned back, cushioning his head with his hands. "That's what they say."

I laughed at him. "So, do you wanna go swim? We do have a private pool."

Fang shrugged. "Sure. Whatever." He thought for a second. "Hang on, isn't it raining?"

I grimaced. "Oh. Right." I walked over to a window and looked outside. "It's still raining." I turned back to Fang. "What do you wanna do now?"

Fang shrugged again. "I don't care."

I smiled. "Okay. We're going shopping!"

Fang sat up. "What? No, Max, I hate shopping. I H-A-T-E hate shopping."

I frowned. "Oh, come on, Fang! We need some new clothes really bad. We also need bathing suits, and Total needs a collar, and we all need new haircuts. We can go to whatever stores we want! It doesn't matter how expensive it is. I feel like splurging!"

He didn't seem swayed.

I crossed my arms across my chest angrily. "Fine! If you don't want to go, we'll go without you and get you some clothes that we like!"

Fang rolled his eyes. "Fine. But we're not getting anything stupid, right? Like, no new stuffed animals or anything."

I brushed some stray hair away from my eyes. "No duh! We really don't need anymore junk to carry around with us. We're just getting clothes, and that's it."

Fang nodded. "We leave in five, then?"

"I'll go get Gazzy and Angel."

I left my room and walked next door to Gazzy and Angel's room. I knocked, but no one answered. I could hear them yelling behind the door, and I used an extra key to get in.

I walked in, looking around warily. "Guys?" I called, closing the door quietly behind me. "Wanna go shopping?"

I walked into a living room looking place, and saw Total watching TV. "Hey Total." I said, steeping over what looked like a game board. I picked up the box and read the side. "Risk?"

Total yawned. "Angel and Gazzy were trying to play, but they couldn't figure out the rules so Angel told Gazzy that they should just wage a war." I looked around, noticing the groups of multicolored little army men lying all over the room. "So, as generals, they had to fight each other, so know they're having a huge pillow fight." Total scratched his ear.

"And you didn't break them up because…"

Total shrugged. "I didn't want to ruin their fun."

I sighed. "Go get Nudge and Iggy and tell them that we're going shopping. Meet us in the hallway."

Total jumped off the couch and trotted out the door. I walked into the bedroom and saw Gazzy and Angel hitting each other with pillows. I ran forward and grabbed Gazzy, pulling him away from Angel. Angel tried to run at Gazzy and hit him with her pillow, but I knocked the pillow out of her hand and put my hand out to stop her from coming any closer. I out my other hand on Gazzy's chest and held them apart, ignoring their struggling.

"Guys!" I called, trying to be louder than their yells. "STOP!!! We're going shopping!"

They stopped fighting and looked at me, seeming to be mirror images of each other.

"Okay Max!" Gazzy said, and pushed Angel out of the way. "I'll beat you to the elevator!" He called, and ran out of the room.

Angel ran after him, and I walked slowly behind them, closing the door as I left.

When I got into the hallway Total was trying to reach the elevator button, and Iggy and Gazzy were talking about something in low whispers. Nudge and Angel were talking about the kind of clothes they were going to get, and Fang was leaning against the wall, his bangs covering his eyes.

I walked up to him and nudged his side with my elbow. "Ready to go?"

He looked up at me and grinned. "Yeah."

A/N- I hope you liked it, R&R, you know the drill.