A/N Woohoo another update! I'm getting pretty good at this haha, anyways, read on!
Fang's POV
I can't stop thinking about the kiss. It was perfect, until she pushed me away.
Max and I haven't really been talking for the past three days, or rather, she's been avoiding me.
I can't lose her, but I don't know if I can go much longer without telling her how I feel, it's killing me.
School starts in a week and I don't want to start off the year like this.
I should go talk to her, unless that'll screw things up even more...
I sigh and rubb my hands over my face, I have to go talk to her, make sure everything's alright.
I walk over to Max's house and knock on the door, I'm greeted by Ella.
"Oh, hey Fang! How's it going? I haven't seen you around lately, you're probably here to see Max right? She's in her room, you can just head on up" Ella smile's and let's me in.
"Thanks" I nod and make my way up the stairs to Max's bedroom, geez, I think Ella's been spending a little too much time around Nudge because boy can she talk.
I can hear music coming from Max's room, I smile as I recognize a song by Kings of Leon coming from the other side of the door, I knock and hear the music stop.
"Who is it?"
"I'm here to deliver a pizza," I reply sarcastically "Can I come in?."
"Yeah"
I open the door to see Max sitting on her bed curled up with her laptop, wearing an old dark red hoodie that I recognize as Sam's.
I sit down on next to her "Listen Max I-" she cut's me off.
"I know what you're going to say Fang, we kissed, and it was a mistake and you don't want to ruin our friendship, and neither do I so can we just forget it ever happened?" she asks pleadingly.
My heart's breaking into a million pieces, but I just smile and nod like I agree. Yes, I know I sound like an idiot, and that it's s little over dramatic of me to say my hearts breaking, but I love her, and if you knew her the way that I do you would too.
"Whatchya doin?" I ask as I move over to look at her laptop screen, "Well, I haven't been on tumblr all day if that's what you're asking me" she laughs.
I roll my eyes, Max is always on her laptop doing something, the majority of her time was usually spent on tumblr or Netflix, not that I blame her, Netflix is addicting.
I guess my plan to tell her how I feel is now a no-go since I know how she feels.
At least I still have my best friend.
Max's POV
I'm awake at 7 in the freaking morning, and this time, I'm not up early because of Fang.
You wanna know why I'm awake at such an ungodly hour? It's because today, is the day all teenagers dread. It's the first day of school.
For the next 10 months I'll be doing homework and getting up ridiculously early every morning. Please kill me, it would be so much better than this.
Okay, so maybe I'm being a little over dramatic, but still, I'm definitely not a morning person.
I look down at my phone and see that I have a message from Fang.
You awake?
No
Haha very funny Max, I'm just checking, you were late for the first day of school last year AND the year before, remember?
Oh hush, I made it there eventually didn't I?
Yeah, halfway through first period...
Stop sassing me and go make yourself pretty Fangles
Shoot! I still have to straighten my hair...
If you were talking to anyone else Fang, they'd think you were serious
I am serious Max, I want to impress all the ladies ;)
I'm sure they'll think you look very pretty
Aw thanks Max! I'll be over soon, see ya.
Don't be late!
Yeah, I'M the one that has trouble getting to school on time...
I roll my eyes and put my phone down, Fang is so quiet around everyone else, is it selfish to say that I like that fact the he's only the outgoing, goofy idiot I know around me?
I'm saying this as his friend, so for all you people out there that think I have a thing for Fang, wipe that thought right out of your brain, because I don't.
Yeah, we kissed once but it was a complete mistake.
I groan and climb out of my warm, comfy bed and open my closet.
I decide that since it's the first day of school I should try and make myself at least a little bit presentable, I usually give up on my appearance after the first week of school.
"Maaaxxxx get up! get up! get up!" I hear Ella yell as she burst's into my room.
"I am up Ells"
"Oh, sorry, I just assumed you'd still be asleep"
"Why does everyone doubt my ability to wake up on time..." I grumble as I pull a pair of blue skinny jeans with holes out of my closet.
Ella crosse's her arms and gives me a pointed look, "touché... now would you get out so I can change?" I ask.
Ella rolls her eyes and walks out of my room, closing the door behind her.
I rifle through my drawers until I find a white t-shirt with thin black stripes on it, it was the least wrinkled thing I could find.
My hair is always such pain to brush so I decide to leave it down in it's natural curls.
I grab my bag and walk down the stairs to the smell of bacon, my mom always takes time off work on our first day of school to make us breakfast.
"Mom, you're a saint" I say as I grab a piece of bacon and stuff it in my mouth, "Max honey I just took that off of the stove it's very hot."
Well, she warned me too late, I'm now pacing around the kitchen fanning myself, not that it's helping, with my mouth half open in an attempt to cool off the bacon before I recieve 3rd degree burns to my tounge.
I hear a knock at the door, perfect timing, I open to door to reveal, yep, you guessed it, Fang along with Iggy and his two younger siblings, Gazzy and Angel.
Fang's mother had had two sets of twins, Fang and Iggy, who are polar opposites, and Gazzy and Angel, who are practically identical. Apparently that's pretty rare.
"Max, what's wrong with your face?" Iggy asks laughing. Fang elbows him in the ribs and rolls his eyes "Are you ready to go?" Fang asks raising an eyebrow.
I nod my head and swallow my bacon "I'm leaving now Mom" I yell as put on my black docs and walk out the door "Alright, have a good first day sweetie!".
Ella had already left early to meet Nudge at school, "Maxie can you walk with me?" Angel looks up at me with puppy dog eyes, damn those eyes.
"Sure Angel" I smile as she wraps her small fingers around my hand, "Did you and Gazzy have fun at summer camp?" I ask "Yes! I got to go camping and I saw the prettiest deer but Gazzy scared it off" Angel whine's.
"Hey! That wasn't my fault!" Gazzy protests, "I'm sure it wasn't buddy" Iggy says as he ruffles Gazzy's hair.
"Sooo...how's Ella been?" Iggy asks shyly, "I haven't seen her much since the party," he trails off.
I raise my eyebrows, "She's been fine...why? Does someone have a wittle cwush on my baby sister?," I ask making a pouty face.
"No" Iggy says as he tries to hide his blush. "Iggy, mommy told us not to lie" Angel says in a dead serious voice.
I start laughing "Oh my god Ig, even your little sister can tell you have the hots for Ella," Fang smirks beside me.
Iggy just glares at me and runs his hands through his strawberry blonde hair "Whatever," he grumbles.
We finally arrive at school and drop Angel and Gazzy off in the building for the younger kids, "Have fun" Fang says as Angel and Gazzy run over to their friends.
The three of us make our way into the school, having already picked up our schedules and locker numbers last week, we head straight to our lockers.
Fang and I always manage to get a locker next to each other, so we head towards them while Iggy goes to his locker which is a little farther down the hallway.
I groan as I start unloading all the things I won't need until after lunch into my locker, "Someone's excited about school," Fang says sarcastically.
"Yeah, so excited I could just die!" I exclaim with a fake grin on my face.
"Come on Max, you get to see me everyday, I think you should be a little more excited"
"Oh Fang, seeing your face is the highlight of my day"
"I wouldn't expect anything less," Fang says as he holds out his arm for me to take.
I close my locker and roll my eyes, taking his arm.
Fang and I have most of our classes together, except for 2nd period, when Fang has grade 12 english (ew) and I have science (also ew).
So that means I have Math 1st period, Science second, English 3rd (grade 11 english, duh) and Music 4th. Which means I have most of my electives next semester, thank god.
Fang and I reach our math class and take our seats near the back of the room, not because we want to be farther away from the teacher, well, not because Fang wants to be farther away.
Fang's actually pretty decent at math, it's me that has a problem with numbers. I mean seriously, when am I ever going to need to know how to plot an equation on a graph?
"Max you look miserable" Fang says, although clearly not sympathizing with me because he's obviously holding back a laugh.
"You laugh now, but we'll see how funny it is when I'm calling you at 2 in the morning because I'm still trying to do my math homework and I don't understand it," I snarl.
His grin's wiped right off of his face, ha, serves him right.
Ugh, finally! I've only had math and science once this semester and I'm already sick of it.
I reach my locker and grab everything I'll need for english and music and then walk towards the cafeteria, the room that contain's the thing I hate most...other teenagers.
Now before you think 'Oh Max that's so anti-social' or 'Stop being so pessimistic' let me just point out that...well...if you went to my school you'd hate everyone too alright?
"Make any new friends?" Iggy asks as I sit down next to him at our lunch table, "Yeah tons, I think the fish in the science room really liked my outgoing and spunky personality" I reply.
"What is this I hear about a spunky personality?" Fang asks as he walks up to our table and sits down next me, "Ig and I here where just discussing how I'm a big ray of sunshine that brightens every room I walk into," I smile.
"Yeah, you brighten the room, but maybe more like a huge ball of fire as apposed to the sun" Nudge says from across the table. "The sun is a huge ball of fire Nudge" Ella says pointedly from her spot next to her, "Yeah yeah, you get my point," Nudge grumbles and continues eating her salad.
About halfway through lunch a short red head wearing black leggings and a maroon t-shirt walks up to our table, "Um, hey Fang, I was just wondering if you wrote down the english homework? I totally spaced out and forgot," she laughs nervously and tuck's a strand of hair behind her ear.
"Oh yeah, sure thing Lissa, just let me get it out of my bag..." Fang trails off as he starts rifling through his backpack, it's been less that and day and he's already losing things.
"I actually have to run so do you mind if I give you my number and you can just text it to me?"
"Sure" Fang shrugs and hands her his phone and Lissa types in her number "Great, talk to you later," Lissa smiles and walks out of the cafeteria.
"Ooohh someone likes youuu" I nudge Fang in the ribs with my elbow, "What? Lissa?" Fang asks with a clueless look on his face, "No, Iggy, yes Lissa," I answer, god, boys could be so oblivious sometimes.
"Hey, don't imply that I have a crush on my own brother to make a sarcastic remark" Iggy says with a mouthful of food, "Incest isn't cool dude".
"OMG Fang a grade 12 has a crush on you that's so cute! She's actually super pretty too like I'm kind of jealous, I mean I've always shipped you and Max together because it's so obvi that you're totally head over heels for her but I could ship you and Lissa. Would your ship name be Lang or Fissa? They both sound stupid so I guess we'll have to find something better, and omg wouldn't it be totally amaze-balls if Iggy finally asked out Ella and then guys could go on double dates, plus you'd be dating a girl a year older than you and all the popular guys would look up to you and then all of us would get super popular and everyone would worship us and I-" Ella slaps a hand over Nudge's mouth.
"Nudge, take a breath in between sentences," I laugh.
"Sorry..." Nudge blushes and puts a hand over her mouth.
"Ew, the bells ringing, time for another 2 periods of hell," Iggy groans as we all stand up to make our way to our respective classes.
Fang's POV
"Finally my favourite class of the day!" Max grins ear to ear as we make our way to the music room.
I can understand her excitement, our music teacher, Mr. Walters, is probably one of the coolest teachers on the planet. He let's the vocal students drink tea during class because it's good for their vocal chords. He let's other students have tea too as long as we stay away from the instruments.
We enter the class to find all the chairs arranged in rows in front of the small stage at the centre of the room, off to the side wings of the room are all the other instruments, our class combines all kinds of musical students to teach us how to work with other musicians.
I just take this class because Max begged me to, and I'm not half bad at guitar, according to Max that is.
"Alright student's, settle down and take your seats," Mr. Walters says from his spot in the middle of the stage.
Max, deciding it's a good idea, drags me to sit beside her in the front row of the class.
"Hello everyone, for those of you that don't know me, I'm Mr. Walters, and for those of you that do, welcome back!" he exclaims with a smile on his face.
"Now today, we will all be performing something, and don't use the excuse that you don't know any songs by heart because I bet this entire class could recite Wrecking Ball on the spot," he says as the class laughs.
"Whether you play an instrument or sing, it does't matter, you can sing the national anthem or your ABC's for all I care, just show me what you got!".
After listening to 5 people play/sing I could tell Max was getting a little nervous, she's amazing, there's no doubt, but she always get's the jitters before performing, even if it's just in front of our music class.
"Alright who's next...ah, Max! Nice to see you back in my class this semester, get on up there!," he gestures at the stage.
Max has an anxious smile on her face as she walks on stage and up to the piano in the corner, she clear's her throat and begin's to sing.
Pick it up, pick it all up.
And start again.
You've got a second chance,
you could go home.
Escape it all. It's just irrelevant.
It's just medicine. It's just medicine.
Her voice sound's amazing.
You could still be, what you want to,
What you said you were, when I met you.
Max has always been good at capturing the emotions that come with a song, it sends shivers down my spine.
You've got a warm heart,
you've got a beautiful brain.
But it's disintegrating,
from all the medicine,
from all the medicine,
from all the medicine. Medicine.
Max has everyones full, undevided attention. By the end of the song everyone is completely mesmerized.
Max was a terrible singer when we were younger, but over time I guess she practiced a lot, I know she took voice lessons, and boy did she sound good. I know that as her best friend I'm supposed to say stuff like this, but Max really does have talent.
I love the way she captures your attention so easily by just singing, when she sing's you can see her slip into the music, she feel's it with every bone in her body and I think that for a lot of people that's something that's not easy to accomplish.
Max bows before climbing down from the stage and reclaiming her seat next to me, "How was I?" she asks wringing her hands together, "Are you kidding me? You were amazing".
She was amazing. She is amazing.
Alrighty that's all I have the energy to write for tonight! For all of you that don't know the song was Medicine by Daughter, who's also an INCREDIBLY talented group of people so I suggest you check em out because their music sends shivers down my spine. Also, I did just read over the ENTIRE thing and fix all the mistakes (I hope) but it's 3AM so I did the best I could :p