Hey, I'm back! Though I'm quite sad, yet happy, I had enough energy to write this. I got a 92 on my Texas history test, but we had an unexpected math test that day that I didn't know about (OBVIOUSLY), and got a 31. *CRIES* Well, we have a variety of POVs now, so enjoy Angel's and Gazzy's as well!
*C.M*
Silence. Absolute silence.
Max gaped. There were people… in frilly costumes… playing Twister. Why was she here again? Oh, right, a job. But now that she thought about it, she had savings. She could use that. She still stared at them, but behind her back her hand groped for the doorknob.
At the same time, the strawberry blonde boy awkwardly tried to wiggle out from the other kids. Bad move. His leg bumped the dark skinned girl's arm, and her balance wavered. The two blonde kids above her had leaned all their weight onto her; they went tumbling down with her… right onto the unsuspecting teenager. He let out a muffled yelp of pain as everyone's weight hit him in the back. They looked like human pretzels, sprawled out and tangled on the floor. No one said a word. More awkward silence.
And then there was laughing.
*C.M*
Iggy would have smacked himself if he hadn't been occupied struggling to stay a centimeter off the ground. How could he forget that Tess, their manager, had put an ad in for help at the café? He probably looked like a fool now, dog piled under the others. He could hear Fang snickering nearby and wanted to smack him as well. Some friend.
He attempted to slide himself out from under the kids, but his leg had a random spas attack and hit Nudge's arm. He felt her arm go out from under her and she shrieked as her, Gazzy, and Angel fell on top of Iggy's back. He felt the air rush out of his chest and he let out a pained yell, muffled by Gazzy's foot in his face. Now THAT was disgusting.
He could vaguely hear the girl's footsteps as she ran off somewhere in the café, probably weirded out. But it was mostly drowned out by Fang's laughter.
*C.M*
When Iggy had found out that Fang hadn't followed her, Fang was no more. They left him to bleed on the ground and went to look for her themselves. "Spread out." He ordered the kids. "Search every room. Because this place is big and you could get lost like last time, go in pairs. Gazzy and Nudge" He ignored the glare he was given. "- go search the west side. Me and Ange will take the east side. Fang can stay here and die for all I care. Now go!"
*C.M*
Angel had seen her older brother agitated like this before twice. One was when their parents died and they were taken in by Tess's family. It took him forever to warm up to them. Second was when Gazzy and Nudge had trashed his room. It took Fang, Iggy, Tess, and their parents just to clean up the closet. It took them four days to finish the whole thing; Iggy had to sleep on the couch in the foyer, but was clearly irritated at the two 'love birds'. But he got back at them. They had green hair for weeks.
She reached over and grabbed her brother's hand, squeezing it. She didn't know why he was so worried, she wasn't a mind reader. (A/N: LOL THE IRONY) But she would try her best to assure him otherwise.
Iggy's ears suddenly perked up, and then she was being dragged to her room. Angel blinked; she could hear a voice inside. So they stood there, listening to the teenage girl rant.
"What the heck is wrong with me? I ran away and freaked out over nothing! They were playing a game, so what? Mom says, 'Oh honey, you need to get a job. It'll help you in college. Everyone will get along with you just great. You'll be perfectly fine!'" Angel could imagine her making quote marks in the air at the word 'fine', when she was clearly not. The girl kept continuing and Angel tried to tune her out so she could think straight. It would be nice to have another girl… but would she be like Bridget? Angel shuddered. She didn't want to think about that ever again. After what she did to….
She was jostled out of her train of thought when she felt Iggy shift beside her. He was reaching for the doorknob. Angel's intuition kicked in and she cried out, "No!" Because at the same time, the pretty blonde girl had opened the door on the other side.
Angel could only watch as Iggy rammed into the girl, sending them both crashing into the ground.
*C.M*
Gazzy huffed, annoyed. They had found the girl who had introduced herself as Max Ride, saying that she needed a job and was good at serving. But every time he had tried to say something, Nudge would cut him off and start rambling about Max's hair, brown eyes, how pretty she was…. and Gazzy didn't think he'd last much longer. Fang had recovered from being beaten up, and was giving him sympathetic glances every so often. But most of his attention was on the new girl. Even Iggy was ignoring him. He and Angel were the youngest; the attention used to be on them a lot. And Gazzy loved every second of it. But Max was making it difficult for him.
In truth, Gazzy wasn't sure if he'd get along with Max at all.
*C.M*
Max nodded repeatedly, trying to process what the teen in front of her was explaining. "And so," He started. "I think it's time we introduce ourselves. I am James Griffith, and the two blondes are Angel and Zachery, my younger siblings." He then gestured in the general direction of the African American girl and the boy with long, black hair tied up in a ponytail. He sparked Max's interest, but she wasn't ready to say anything about it yet. "The girl is Monique and the boy that's probably standing next to her is Nick."
As James finished, Max noticed that his light blue eyes looked glazed, almost glassy. He never looked directly at her face, like he was staring into space. Then it hit her. "James, are you blind?" Realizing her mistake, she covered her mouth, looking flustered. She didn't want to offend her maybe-soon-to-be co-workers.
But James didn't seem offended at all. He dismissed it with a hand and complimented her. "Yes, I'm blind. Good observation. But please call me Iggy. It's my nickname around here." Suddenly interested in the conversation, Zachery piped up."It's short for ignite, because me and my bro like to make bombs." He puffed out his chest proudly, and continued. "Monique's nickname is Nudge because one nudge or word will send her over the edge. Angel doesn't really have a nickname, but Iggy calls her Ange. I'm called the Gasman, or Gazzy, because well…. You'll probably figure it out later. And Nick here is called ~"
"Don't you dare." Nick threatened, and Gazzy shut up. But Nudge picked up where he left off, much to his dismay. "We call him Fang because," she snickered. "His first day here he got ticked off at one of our ruder customers and bit him. And well, the name stuck."
Iggy, Angel, Nudge, Fang, and Gazzy, Max noted. She would have to remember that.
That is, if they accepted her.
*C.M*
For awhile, Max watched Iggy make fun of Fang, and became slightly amused when Fang started getting flustered. She looked from Fang to Iggy, Iggy to Fang, and something clicked in her head. Without thinking, she stood up from her chair and walked over to the boys. Iggy stopped talking about whatever and turned to greet Max. "Hey." He said, but barley got the words out before Max quickly started talking.
"Are you gay?"
Her body was never found.
Yeah, I had a reviewer ask me if Iggy was gay, and I thought it was hilarious. I added that part for their benefit. Well, there's you're answer.
I'm still depressed about my terrible grade on my surprise Math test and need some cheering up. We'll start with 8 reviews.
Let's make it happen!
~Kay