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Chapter 5
Max POV
My mouth dropped. Angel could feel my headaches, the School was back, and Iggy could see. It was a sign of the world coming to an end.
"Can you see me?" I asked, waving my hands in front of his face.
"No." he said, frowning and motioning for me to stop. I'll never know how he knows when your doing something like that. "I can't see now, but I could. But…" he trailed off.
"What?" asked Fang, no expression on his face. Typical. Iggy fumbled with his fingers.
"It was through someone else's eyes." he said, rubbing his face. I froze, remembering my dizziness. Surely, that had nothing to do with this.
"I saw myself." said Iggy, a smile crossed his face. "I'm cute!" he said, shattering the seriousness of the situation. Gazzy giggled and Nudge punched him playfully.
"Could you tell us who you were seeing through?" I found myself asking.
"No." he said blankly.
"Awesome!" said Gazzy, excited. "You've got a new skill, dude!" he said, shaking Iggy's shoulders.
"Yeah you do." I said, zoned out.
"Guys!" Total's whine interrupted my thoughts. "This is all well and good, but I'm still hungry!" he cried in Iggy's arms.
Fang POV
I watched Max as we flew. We were heading to the burger place, so that Total would shut up.
"Max?" I asked. She was acting weird. She looked pale like she was about to puke.
"What's the matter?" I asked, immediately regretting it.
"Besides the School being back after all we have done? Besides me almost dying from that new guy, Sting? Besides the crap that's going on between us?" she asked, stressed out. Wow, it was the first time she had tried to talk about us all day!
"Yeah, but we should be used to all that by now." I said, smiling. It was rare that I smiled. I usually liked to keep to myself. I liked to not stand out, but Max brought that side out of me. "What's wrong? You've been acting weird since you met Sting." I said, shivering at the thought of those eyes… Those horrible eyes…
"I need to call my mom." she said. We began to descend.
"Well, there'll probably be a payphone there." I said, landing. She didn't look reassured. Gazzy held the door and we walked in. I could barely suppress a groan.
The place didn't look like it was high in hygiene and there was a guy in a beaver costume dancing.
"Oh my god." moaned Max. I nodded in agreement. This place was crap.
"Har, har welcome!" said the beaver in a goofy voice.
"God, it talks, Total." she moaned again, blaming Total. The beaver paused and the continued dancing, insult forgotten.
"What would you like to eat?" it asked.
"Iggy your in charge." she said, touching him to get his attention. "Is there an ATM nearby?" she asked, question directed to the beaver. It pointed toward a dark corner, where a busted up Atm was. Next to it was a payphone.
"Good." she said, pulling out the bank card. I wondered if it still worked since we had defeated Itex. She walked over and swiped it. The machine began to spit out money. Yep, still worked.
"I need change." she muttered, walking toward a young guy that looked like he was asleep at the cash register. I watched as he took her dollar and exchanged it for four quarters. She walked back and dropped it into the change slot.
Max POV
I quickly clicked in my mom's number and pulled the phone to my ear.
"Hello?" came the distinct voice of Jeb. Oh god, why was he there?
"Where's mom?" I asked, wishing I was talking to her instead.
"Max, is that you, sweetie?" he asked, sounding relieved.
"Yes, Jeb. Why are you there and where's mom?" I asked impatiently. I looked over my shoulder to see Fang staring at me, while the other's ordered their food. I had to work things out with him.
"Max, your mother's at the store, but I have some important information for you." he said, making me forget about Fang.
"And what's that?" I asked, holding the phone between my ear and shoulder.
"The School's back." he said, his tone stiff. I could barely keep myself from shouting "Well, duh!"
"Hmm, how would I have known that? Maybe when Omega showed up out of nowhere and told me the School was back. No, it was definitely when this new guy, Sting, caught be by the throat." That's when I realized who Sting reminded me of. He reminded me of Jeb. Weird.
There was a clunk sound as if Jeb had dropped the phone. I waited impatiently for him to speak. He didn't.
"Hello?" I asked, getting annoyed.
"His name was Sting?" Jeb sounded very serious.
"Yeah." I answered, getting somewhat curious.
"Oh my gosh…" whispered Jeb shakily.
"What?" I asked.
"Max, did he have red eyes with no pupils?" asked Jeb, still very serious. He hit the nail right on the head and it was kind of freaking me out.
"Yeah." I said, wishing Jeb would get to the point.
"God, Max. I know him." he said.
"How?" I asked, now very curious. What the heck was going on?
"He's my brother." said Jeb. Now it was my turn to drop the phone.
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