I kinda rushed this chapter, but I hope you enjoy it anyway ^.^
Also I haven't put in a disclaimer yet: I do not own maximum ride or any of the characters from the maximum ride novels which appear in my fanfiction
p.s when whole sections are in italics it's a flashback.
*Max's POV*
What the hell is wrong with these guys? First they beat Fang up then they practically kidnap me, the tall one, who's called Ross keeps whispering to Muscles and then they both look at me and laugh. I've managed to kick Muscles a few times and kick Ross in the shins, but Muscles looks like he can take it and Ross is so tall that I'm probably an ant to him. Ross looks about 6"4. I've given them nicknames, the leader one is called Andy and the Tall one is Ross, but until I knew their names they were Whip it and Curly because Andy keeps of whipping his longish hair to one side, and Ross has curly black hair. The muscular one is Muscles and the last one went outside on look out and he is so dumb with absolutely no common sense, so I called him Dunce.
You know if Fang just told me he had his phone nicked this would of never happened, but no he never wants any fuss god forbid it would actually prevent a situation like this. I spit on Muscles as he tried to grab my legs and he punches me hard in the ribs. Ow fucking ow. Oh man that hurt so bad, I stretch out my legs and kick him in the crotch as hard as I can. Aha that got to him, he clenches his jaw trying to show no pain. I wriggle from the other guy whilst kicking him and pry myself free then run for the door. BAM. Andy sticks his fist out and punches me in the face, I fall over and he kicks me in the stomach then in the ribs, I feel all the air escape my body and I gasp, I feel myself shudder as Andy grabs me and picks me up, I feel weak but I kick and fight with all my strength for him to sit my down on the floor and he says something, I don't know what it was, I feel a bit weird.
Ross grabs my arms again and and struggle then I hear a creak at the door. Must be Dunce, I see they're all distracted and kick, but then Muscles grabs my feet and before I know what's happening I'm dropped to the floor. My head rockets to the hard ground. Eurgh. I try to move my limps, can't'. I try to shout out, but instead I just hear myself whimper my head gets heavy and I feel myself sink into the ground.
My eyes flick back and I'm in my bed. I sit up and look at my hands, they're really small- like a young kid, I am a young kid, around 6.
"Max, Nick is here" My mum calls. I pull myself out of bed I take off my powerpuff girls nightie and put on a dark purple t-shirt and some jeans with lots of holes in them, my hair is a mess so my mum will probably make me brush it. There are four knocks at my bedroom door. I open it and Jump on Fang and tickle him.
"eurgh stop it" he says so I pat his short hair and get off him.
"haha you can't get me off you because I'm stronger" I laugh, then I take his hand and pull him downstairs, giggling. "I need to show you something" I say and pull him into the garage. "Look" I show him my new bike. Fang takes a step back and admires it.
"that's cool"
"And you can share it cause you don't have a bike" I smile at him and he smiles back at me "Plus it has these little things that stick out so we take in turns to stand on them whilst the other one cycles. I feel myself fall over as Fang tackles me with a hug.
"Thanks Max, you're the best" I smile and we go out and ride the bike.
My eyes flick open, I'm on the floor. My mum rushes over.
"Oh my goodness, Max are you okay?" She says sitting down next to me.
"Oh my god, I'm so sorry" Fang runs over to me, he looks about 11, his hair is long and tied back. "Are you okay?" I look around to see a chair next to me. I remember what happened, I was about to sit down but my chair moved and I hit my head on the floor.
"yeah, I'm good" I say groggily. Fang rushes to me. My dad pushes Fang out the way and makes a face at him, then he lifts me up onto a sofa.
"I think you should leave" He says to Fang
"Alex she's fine" My mum says to my dad "Nick didn't mean it" I stand up, still feeling a bit off and run to Fang.
"No Fang isn't going anywhere, it was a joke dad, I'm fine" I look to Fang, he's refusing to smile and is instead looking angrily at the floor. "I'm fine" I say to Fang, but he still refuses to look at me. My dad sighs and sits down on the sofa he just put me on. "anyway we've finished tea, so we're going to my room" I say taking Fangs hand and running to my room. As I go past I hear my dad speak to my mum.
"I don't know why we let her hang around with that boy"
"ALEX" she yells at him.
I feel myself floating up and my eyes open. Everything is blurry. I can move my legs I push myself up and force my self to see. I feel a sharp pain in my ribs and fall back down. Where's Ross and Muscles? I clutch my ribs and stand up I balance myself so I don't fall, I'm bruised and battered and I can't open one of my eyes properly. I look around and see the tall one and Andy on the floor passed out, then Muscles is sitting on top of a figure punching them, is it Dunce he's punching? I look at his shoes, black converses with Fang written on the bottom in my handwriting. I gasp and run to the guy. Fang came for me. I kick Muscles in the back as hard as I can, which isn't very hard at the moment. I'm really weak, but I know a lot of self defence. I know pressure points, so I run up to the guy and pinch down as hard as I can on the bottom of his upper arm, stands up and punches me in the chest, and gets off Fang. I kick him in the crotch and as he leans to me I dart out of the way and kick him in the back of the shins so he falls over I kick him again and again, then take a deep breath and fall back. He's rolling around on the floor and doesn't look like he's in any state to cause any damage.
I look to my side and see Fang, I heave myself off the floor so I'm sitting up and shake his shoulder.
"Fang" I say "Fang!" I put my ear to his lips and hear him breathe "Fang!" I start crying "Fang" then he opens his eyes "FANG!" I shout and lean to hug him, then pull him up. "you're okay! But you look terrible"
"speak for yourself" he says coughing, then he looks at me and smiles with his eyes. Before I can stop myself I lean forward and give him a soft kiss and his lips.
"Ow" he says
"oh um sorry" stupid Max, stupid Max. But it was...Nice. Anyway stop don't think like that. He smiles at me then closes his eyes. "no Fang" I pat him on the face "FANG" No response. I put my ear to his mouth, I can still hear him breathing. I pull him up and put one arm over my shoulder. "Fang I can't drag you wake up!" I start crying. I'm in no condition to walk very far myself "Please Fang" No response. I hug him so both of his arms are over my shoulders then bend my knees and pick him up. He's about the same weight as me. I walk 10 meters at a time, then put his feet back on the floor to rest then go off again. I put his body on the grass by the lake and place him in the recovery position. I run back into the building and wince as I put my hand into Andy's pocket for my phone.
I run back to Fang and dial for an ambulance.
"Hello, which emergency service do you require"
"Ambulance"
"Okay I'll just put you through"
"Hello, what's your emergency"
"Yes, um hello. My friend and I were beaten up pretty bad and um he's unconscious. And I was all self defence, but the guys might need an ambulance too and-" I start crying
"Okay what's your name?"
"Max"
"Okay we need to to calm down. Can you tell us where you are?"
"Williams park, by the lake"
"Thank you Max, now are you hurt?" I try to stop sobbing like a baby
"Um well my chest really hurts"
"Okay Max, this is going to sound weird, but can you lie down, and we'll come find you, the first responders will be with you in 2 minutes and the ambulance should get there five to ten minutes later"
"Thank you" I say and put down my phone. Then lay down next to Fang, I put myself in the recovery position and close my eyes.
"Hello, Miss?"
I open my eyes and some blue eyes look back at me
"Hello, you're Max right?" I nod my head "Are the other people in the boat house" I nod again "ah okay, we can't find them, so I guess they must of ran away" their face moved away from me and it was a tall blonde woman "Okay the ambulance should be here in 5 minutes so we're just going to try to wake up your friend and my friend here, she said pointing to a guy with ginger hair that flopped over his face "is going to check you over for cuts and broken bones.
The guy presses down gently on my ribcage with the tips of his fingers and I let out a yelp. "Sorry darling, but I think you have a broken rib, you're also pretty bruised. But don't worry you just need a quick operation and a bit of bed rest then you'll be okay" He smiled at me and it instantly filled me with confidence. I looked over to Fang "No don't worry about your friend, Joan knows what she's doing. I think it's just best if you lay down until the ambulance gets here"
I lay down and close my eyes and silently drift to sleep, when I open my eyes I'm in the ambulance with a patch over my closed eye and some bandage tied tightly around my chest which stopped me from breathing to deeply.
"Max!" I look up, it's Ian Fang's step dad. "What the hell happened" He's a paramedic at the local hospital.
"um" I blinked a few times "Well it's a long story, but basically there were four guys and we got beaten up pretty bad"
"I can see that" Ian said with his arms crossed. He looks at Fang and gives a small smile, then looks back at me "Thank you for getting him out safe" He said, whilst still looking at Fang. I looked at Fang to, then remember the kiss, I cringe.
"He helped me more" I said, looking at fang, was lying back, on a bed, bandages everywhere, I can barely see his face. "Is he okay?" I ask
"very bruised, luckily nothing is broken, but we suspect internal bleeding" I nodded and looked back at Fang.
*Fangs POV*
"FANG!" I open my eyes and see Max, she sits me up then looks at me, she looks really bruised. What happened? Did she just save me? I look up into her big shiny brown eyes, her face curls into a smile, but then shows concern. "You look awful" She says
"speak for yourself" I say whilst coughing. She smiles a little bit then I see something click in her eyes and she quickly leans forward and kisses me. "ow" I say feeling the pain on my face, then the rest of pain on my body become apparent. My whole body creaks, I see Max's lips move as I slowly drift away.
I open my eyes and I'm in a car. Max turns to me excited, we're going on a group holiday. It's the beginning of the school holiday and we're using her mums minivan to get us there. It's Me, Max, My mum, Ian, Ella, Nudge, and Max's mum and dad. Max's hair glows in the sunlight shining through the window, she never brushes it but it's still really nice. She's wearing green shorts and a black tank top. I'm wearing a white t-shirt with black shorts that go to my knees- my mum's trying to get me to wear less black. We decided to go on a camping holiday. We've got a massive 4 man tent for all the kids to share and the parents are sharing their two man tents. I can see Max's dad turning to look at me, I know he doesn't like me and he doesn't try hard to hide it.
When we get to the campsite Max throws the tent down onto the floor.
"how can we get it up?" She says to me. I raise an eyebrow noticing the innuendo, Max narrows her eyes at me "oh shut up" Nudge and Ella don't really get on that well because they can't spend like 10 seconds without getting jealous of each other, I see them from the corner of my eye glaring at each other.
"Can you help us?" I ask them, they look at me and nod. It takes ages to put the tent up, but we finally get there. We go on a walk, all 8 of us. Max sticks with me and occasionally shove each other, trying to make the other fall over. Nudge and Ella seem to be warming up to each other. We had a barbecue and our parents let Max and I share a beer, we stay up quite late then go to sleep in the tent, it's cold so we stay pretty close. I went to sleep happy and smelling Max's hair. Man, I love her.
I open my eyes, what where am I? I look round, and see I'm in a hospital. I hate hospitals. My mum is on a chair next to me she looks at me. Her eyes perk up, but then looks at me with both disapproval and concern. "Nick, my, my. Max has told me what happened" Max!
"Is Max okay?" I ask, I can't recognise my own voice it's all croaky ans strained. Max She saved me from the strong guy, and she kissed me. I feel my face smile slightly, but I brush it away.
"Anyway Alex wants to see you" she says and leaves the room, not answering my question. Great Max's dad who hates me.
Alex walks into the room with a sullen look on his face, then he looks at me and wait. He gives me a smile.
"Nick. Though what you did initially was irresponsible, I would like to thank you very much for going to save Max. I'm very happy that she has a friend as good as you" He looks at me. I'm kind of taken aback.
"Is she okay?" I ask
"short answer no, but she's better than you" He looks at me "And she'd be a lot worse off without you, thank you Nick" He smiles at me and I give him the biggest smile I can summon up without my face hurting. I lay down again my limbs ache, my just moving my head round I look at the hospital room, I'm in my own private room. I become away of a clip on my finger attached to a machine, and some wires stuck to my chest. I think I'm okay, just badly bruised, then I see it a bag of blood feeding into my arm. Yuck urgh I feel sick, I decide not to look at it and lay back down. I just really want to see Max, then I get a knock at the door.
*Max's POV*
I lay in my bed, I didn't break any ribs, but I did fracture one, I'm waiting for a doctor to come in to do some tests to see which pain medication is best for me, as apparently they can heal on their own in a month. I need to just take it a bit easy and it should be fine. I really want to see Fang, but my chest really hurts so I don't want to move.
The doctor prescribes me some pain meds and as soon as they kick in I stand up slowly and try to look for Fang. I ask a nurse and he points me to where Fang is after I lie and say he's my brother- what? They only usually let family members in. I creak the door they my eyes open wide and I quickly shut it. She was there talking to him, he was laughing, the red-haired wonder. I run back to my room and bury my head under my duvet to try to go to sleep. Why does he want to talk to her and not me?
*Angels POV*
Iggy sits in the sitting room barely moving. Both Max and Fang are in hospital so he's pretty upset. I go sit next to him.
"Hey Igs" I say smiling "do you want to play monopoly with me?"
"no thanks Angel" He says, I slump down in my chair
"Mum says you can go see them in a bit" I say reassuringly
"see them? I can't see anything" He leans on the arm of the chair. I sigh.
"come on Iggy don't be like that" I lean on him "They want to see you and hey you might be able to play some pranks at the hospital" he sits up straight and smiles to himself.
"awesome" he says. I smile and jump away. I run to my room.
"BOO" Gaz shouts jumping out from behind the corner, I roll my eyes
"You're not funny you know" I say and rush into my room and crawl under my bed to my secret den. I keep all my favourite things here I lay on my stomach and read my comic books and I store crisps and chocolate under a floor board. I pull back the carpet and lift the floor board and nothing. Somebody has stolen my chocolate.
"GAZZY!" I yell and roll from under my bed to find him. I hear footsteps run down the stairs. I run up to the banister and slide down it then land on my feet and run into the kitchen. "I know you're in here" I yell and run to the closet to open the door then something lands on my head. I scream. "GAZZY!" He had placed a bucket on the top of the door and filled it with slime. My hair is all gross and sticky. "You're going to get it" I say taking of the bucket then I see him at the entrance of the kitchen laughing at me.
Gazzy turns around to run, but instead faces dad. "What's going on here?" Dad says looking and Gazzy, then me, then once again at Gazzy.
"That trick was meant for Iggy" He said, I promise.
"And he stole my chocolate" I say with my arms crossed, but I know he'll get away with it, he always gets away with everything. It's not fair. I'm good all the time and get the same treatment as him.
"Angel go have a bath" Dad says, see what I mean I'm the one getting told off for something he did.
"Why are you telling me off. Tell him off, he always gets me in the middle of his stupid pranks, it's not fair"
"Angel, sweetie, please" He rubs his head and I leave the room, but then I hear his voice raise a little as I go up the stairs. He must be telling Gazzy off- YES!
I run the bath and spotted a bottle of bubble bath. Oooooh. I open the lid and squeeze the whole bottle into the bath and watch the bubbles form. I jump into the bath and water spills over the side with a mass of bubble. I turn the taps and lie down into the bubbles, then pat them onto my head and chin so I have bubble hair and a beard. I look at the side of the bath and get all of the stuff in the bath with me. I put in some bath bombs, squirt strawberry shampoo in my hair, put shaving foam on top of the bubbles and sprinkle in some bath salts. I peek my eyes at Gazzy's shampoo, he doesn't like the shampoo that we all use cause he says it's too girly, but he's just being a baby. I sniff it and it smells all chemically and gross, but then pour it into my hands and it's bright blue, cool! I put it in my hair and rubbed it in.
I got out the bath and threw towels onto the floor to soak up the water, then wrapped myself in 4 towels so I was super comfy and warm. I ran to my room and got out my hair brush to start brushing my hair, the slime Gazzy put in that bucket better be washed out. I look at my hair, oh no. It's blue. I scream "GAZZY!" and put my head in my hands. I hate him so much.
So thank you very much for reading. I wanted to put a bit of Angels point of view as I've been neglecting the other characters and need to start introducing them, so I'm sorry if it was but in a bit clumsily. Also I'd like to thank:
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