AN: I've got an announcement about ages before you read the chapter..I changed them. Gazzy's 10, Iggy's 14, Max and Fang are 17, Angel is 8, and Nudge is 9.

This Maximum Ride

Chapter 5 – Max POV

We made it to the G Major parking lot with only 5 minutes to spare. I had been thinking about everything that had happened in last 24 hours, including something that only happened an hour ago.

--flashback--

It was 11AM when we decided to get up and get ourselves dressed.

"Fang, have you seen the bra I was wearing yesterday?" I asked.

He looked up guiltily. "Maybe." I followed his gaze and to the ceiling fan where my bra was hanging off of.

"How do you expect me to get it down? Do you think I'm just gonna leave it there for anyone to see while we aren't even in Toronto?" I asked him.

"Calm down. Just get on my shoulders and reach for it." He said and sat on the bed so I could easily climb onto his shoulders. From there he stood up and walked over so we were right under the blade of the fan my bra was hanging from. Think about how I looked, only wearing jeans, sitting on my boyfriend's shoulders with him in the same state of dress.

I quickly got down and we finished getting dressed before we left.

--end of flashback--

Yes it's been a very strange morning, but hey, tour is supposed to be memorable and everything that's happened before it has only made it more memorable.

Pretty soon we were on the road to Death Valley, California (well we'd be stopping before that but you get what I'm saying). The first few hours were spent talking. And the only reason we were talking so much is because Nudge kept the conversation going. Every few hours we also had to stop and let Total do his business. I can't help but think that, it's a good think he can't talk. I have no clue why though since he's been very well behaved. He did spend some of the time whining, I think he was afraid of the bus, but he's shut up about it.

--5 hours in the bus (5:00 PM)—

"I spy with my little eye something green." Iggy said. We've been pretty much bored, having been on a bus for around 5 hours now. I was kind of anxious to play my first gig. I was always like that before playing in front of a crowd though.

"Hmmm, I don't know, could it be the scenery?" Gazzy asked sarcastically.

Iggy banged his head on the table that was in front of him. "Yep" I heard.

"Oh, I know," Angel's face brightened, "I overheard this girl in my class talking about this game called truth or dare. Can we play?"
"Anything," Gazzy said, "How do we play?"

"Ummm..." Angel tried.

"You pick truth or dare when you're called on. Truth someone asks you a question and you have to answer it, dare someone tells you something and you have to do it. And if you refuse to do it there's usually something bad you have to do instead that we pick before." I supplied.

"What should the thing be?" Gazzy asked.

"How about whoever doesn't do it has to obey whatever anyone else says during the rest of the tour." Nudge suggested.

Everyone agreed.

"Who starts?" Gazzy asked.

"How about Angel since she suggested it." I thought out loud.

Everyone agreed again.

"Okay," Angel started and turned to her brother, "Truth or dare Gazzy?"

"Dare!" Gazzy exclaimed.

"I dare you to..." Angel though for a second before continuing. "Lick Total."

"Ew." Nudge said making a disgusted face.

Gazzy just leaned over and licked Total on the nose. I swear even the dog made a face. Gazzy leaned back in his seat and wiped his tongue on his hand.

"Iggy, my man, truth or dare?"

"Dare." Iggy said.

"Hmm. Okay. I dare you to give Nudge a kiss."

Iggy shrugged and gave Nudge a kiss on the cheek. No one said anything more about it but Nudge looked like she was about to faint.

"Now this is a truth or dare for 2 people. And I already know you can do that. So Max, Fang truth or dare?" Iggy asked.

"Dare." We both answered immediately.

"Thought so. I dare you 2 to kiss, on the lips, for at least 20 seconds."

I shrugged. I probably should have looked more scared to be kissing my best friend, considering no one else knew about us. But actually maybe it was time they knew. We just didn't want anything to try and change or separate us. But I trust them all not to go all freaky and instead just be happy for us.

Fang POV

"Thought so. I dare you 2 to kiss, on the lips, for at least 20 seconds."

I felt Max shrug beside me. I thought the rest of them weren't supposed to know about us. Really, I don't even remember why. Well, I do but it really doesn't matter much. If Max had been a good actress she would act like she's scared shitless right now. But she never really was that great of an actress. We all pretty much know that she can't have that singer/actress duo but I love her for not being exactly perfect. I still don't know how I ever deserved her though.

We both calmly shared a very chaste kiss. There were kids in the room and they did not need those images imprinted into their brains.

"Time." Gazzy said we separated from each other.

"By the way we're together." Max said before asking, "Truth or dare, Nudge?"

Nudge POV

Like, oh my gawd! This is the best truth or dare game I've ever played. Not that I've ever played truth or dare before, 'cause I haven't. I probably should have though. But seriously! Iggy kissed me! But I don't think he likes me like I like him. I mean, I'm 5 years younger than him. There was no reason for him to be crushing on me like I'm crushing on him. Angel was even the only person who knew. I was very proud of myself for not telling anyone else. Usually I can't tell me anything!

I do think I almost fainted when Iggy kissed me. I'm sure I looked like it, I was even feeling a little bit lightheaded. I didn't even know what Max and Fang's dares were. But I managed to pull myself back to hear "Truth or dare, Nudge?" come out of Max's mouth.

Hmm...Since no one's picked truth yet, as far as I know, maybe I will.

"Truth."

"Okay, anyone else can ask Nudge 1 question." Max said.

What! She was just throwing it out there? Was she crazy? Someone might ask me if I like Iggy! Part of the reason I picked truth was because I knew Max wouldn't ask that.

"Do you like..." Angel started saying. Crap, she wouldn't ask if I liked him, would she? "Cheese?"

"What! I thought you were gonna ask...! Gawd."

"Answer the question, Nudge." Angel said, smiling kinda evil-y if you ask me.

"Yes, I do. Gouda is the best."

"No, Swiss is the best. Gouda tastes disgusting." Gazzy said.

"No, it's not." I argued.

"Yes, it is." He argued back. What was with him?

"Not."

"Is."

"Is." I said hoping to trick him.

"Not."

"Ha!" I yelled pointing at him.

"Tricker McTricker!" Gazzy yelled pointing right back at me.

"They're so cute." I heard Max whisper to Fang.

I whirled around to face her. "You should be talking."

"I am talking and I can." She leaned in to kiss Fang.

"What! For how long?" I yelled.

"A few months now. Didn't you hear me say that before?" She asked laughing a little.

"Oh." I sat down defeated. And then I remembered my argument with Gazzy before.

"Gouda is the best." I said.

"No, it's not." He said.

"Is." Which started this argument again.

First, the poll is tied right now between skipping the experiment and Iggy being blind. So if you haven't voted already do now. And I wrote this chapter to establish more bonds between them. And I'm gonna type up some songfics before typing up another chapter. But the next 2 chapters are short so they shouldn't take all that long to type. Review.