A/N. Sam is just a name I came up with, Nudge's boyfriend may as well be named Bobby-Sue. I like the name Sam... he is just a random ninja, not related to the books in any way, shape, or form as they were written by James Patterson. Thank you.

Max's stomach felt like it was doing doing flips, or coming down from a really high flight too fast. She looked around, trying to catch Fang's eye, but no luck. He could just blend, darn it! She stood in the middle of the stage, waiting for the flock to quet down and pay attention, hoping that she could get up the nerve to say what she needed to say.

Angel was bombarded by other people's thoughts. Total was hungry, Jeb was freaking out as his inner bachelor died, Dr.Martinez was considering a spring wedding, Gassy was watching Sam and trying to figure out how to be more like him, Sam was watching Nudge talk and wonder why her mouth was moving so fast when he didn't hear much of anything, Nudge was describing, in detail, how much she liked Sam, and thinking about how to make sure he knew even more, Fang was terrified that Max was goign to lay a beating on im, or worse, reject him on stage and crumble his heart into its bitsy pieces, and Max was trying to get up her nerve to do what she knew needed to be done.

Angel sighed and held her teddy bear close. "There are too many things going on in the world. I can't be expected to deal with them all." Then all eyes focused on Max and all thoguhts got a little bit quieter. Angel smiled. "But I can try."