Chapter 3: Telling My Friends
Max POV
The first thing I heard when I walked through the doors of my high school was a scream. It would have made me wonder what happened if I didn't know it was Nudge.
"What happened to you!" She shouted running over to me. My hair was a mess, and I had dark circles under my eyes, two things Nudge hates most.
"It's a long story." I said shrugging.
"Hey, where's Fang?" I asked. He was usually here arguing with Nudge about something when I came in the morning.
"I think he's trying to stop Iggy from blowing up his maths class. Iggy got really upset when he got an F on his last test. He swore he would have his revenge. If you think about it lots of people have sworn revenge on people who they think have done something bad to them. I remember when I was 9 and I swore revenge on Stella Carlton. Do you remember her, she used to be my best friend in elementary. Anyway, so I swore my revenge on her for stealing my strawberry lip gloss. It was a really good one to. It smelled and tasted nice. I remember that sometimes I would put it on before school, even though the rules are no make up. Which I think is a dumb rule, lip gloss isn't really make up. It's not like I was using foundation or blush, or mascara. Anyway so I would put it on knowing that I had to take it off just so I could lick it off. It was probably the best tasting lip gloss I've ever had. Mfffmmfmmf mffmfmf mf . . ." I had to stop this rambling or my ears would fall off. So I put my hand over her mouth. After about 10 seconds I sighed and removed my hand.
"Can we just go find Fang and Iggy." I asked feeling extremely tired. She nodded knowing I wasn't in the mood for her constant chatter.
In the end when we found them Iggy and Fang were having a glare contest, and Fang was winning. That dude has a mean glare, but no one can beat me. Gazzy and Angel were trying to get them to stop. Especially Angel. Her blonde curls bounced with every movement she made. When they saw me they relaxed, because Max is the one who sorts this kind of stuff out. Then they looked worried, probably noticing the way my hair was messed and my dark under eye circles, and of course the fact that Nudge wasn't even saying anything about it. I put my hand right in between Fang and Iggy's heads and snapped my fingers. Almost immediately they snapped out of it and faced me.
I now have five equally worried faces looking at me. God, do I really look that bad? Apparently so because Nudge wasn't just worried about my well being. She looked slightly green at the sight of my unbrushed hair.
"Are you going to tell us what happened? Or, are we just going to stand here staring at your not-so-beautiful self." Typical Iggy. He is like that with everyone. Believe it or not.
"You guys haven't heard?" I looked over the group who were all shaking their heads. My gaze landed on Fang who was shaking his head, but also deliberately not looking at me. What the hell? Now is not the time for this!
"So I guess you don't know that my Mom was in a car crash. She didn't make it." My voice was quieter than a whisper.
Stop it! I'm not going to cry! I did enough of that yesterday. I felt someone wrap their arms around me in a hug. I turned my head to see Angel looking at me with a mix of worry and sympathy on her face. I hugged her back. I felt eyes on me and turned back to everyone else. Gazzy's eyes were wide. I lifted my hand up to my face and pulled it back down. It was wet. I told myself I wasn't going to cry today! God, I hate crying!
I then went through a series of hugs, which is very rare for me. Max doesn't like hugging people. Like ever. And you can guess that this was a weird sight because a few other students had stopped to watch. I whipped my eyes, and faced them all with a glare.
"What are you looking at? Move along! God, doesn't the word privacy mean anything to you people!" I snapped. They all scattered, probably to go off and share the news that Maximum Ride isn't a complete robot.
This is going to be a great day! If you didn't notice the sarcasm in that, then you are a bigger idiot than Iggy. And he is pretty idiotic.
