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Chapter 4

I sat up on the bed and noticed that Fang was looking at me. I started to feel uncomfortable.

"What?" I asked him in trying to keep my voice even to not show how weird his gaze made me feel.

"No nothing just, are you sure feeling ok, you look kinda tired?" He said still looking me in the eyes. Sure I was tired but I didn't want him knowing, and I didn't want to go into details as to why I was feeling tired.

"Yeah, don't worry about it I'm fine." I said standing up. I stretched a little and started walking to the door. Fang hesitated a little but he followed. We walked out of the room and he closed the door behind him. Iggy and them were already waiting for us outside of Angel's room. They were talking but they stopped when Fang and I walked up to them. I looked at all of them suspiciously wondering what they had been talking about. Then the thought struck me. They must've been talking about last night, about Fang and me fighting.

"Where do you guys want to go eat?" I asked to break this awkward silence.

"I don't know wherever you want to go I guess." Nudge said. I was trying to think of a place but I wasn't thinking straight, I was thinking about what they had been talking about.

"Uhhh." I said like a total doffus.

"Denny's" I heard Fang say behind me.

"What?" He was always talking in small sentences. I could figure out what he was trying to say most of the time but not right now, my head was a big mess.

"Let's go eat breakfast at Denny's." He said in a full sentence this time.

"Oh, ok let's go." I said. We walked out of the hotel. On my way out I noticed that there was an old lady at the counter and not the guy from yesterday. I felt relived in a way because I didn't want a repetition of yesterday. We walked to the ally behind the hotel and took off from there.

As we flew it was a struggle for me to keep my eyes open. I was feeling really tired and everything seemed to fade out, the noise of the wind, the noise of Nudge and Iggy talking, everything. I dug my nail into my index finger to wake myself up and sure enough that woke me up. I snapped my eyes open and looked around. I noticed Angel looking at me.

Max are you ok, you almost stopped flapping your wings a minute ago? I heard Angel ask in my head.

'Yeah I'm ok now' I flashed her a smile but she didn't look convinced. I could tell from her expression that she was talking to someone else. I looked around and sure enough Fang also had a look on his face.

'Angel no, I'm telling you to stop that right now!' I yelled inside my head. She looked at me with wide eyes, like someone being caught doing something wrong. I looked over at Fang in front off me but he wasn't there anymore. I gasped when I felt something on top of me. I looked up expecting an eraser or something but it was Fang.

"Max, let's land I can tell you're not ok." He said in my ear.

I looked up at him and met his gaze. He looked worried.

"I'm fine." I said. I meant it to come out with authority but it came it came out tired.

"Max I'm sorry." He wrapped his arms around me carefully tucking my wings in.

"Fang no, stop it!" I yelled. I didn't like to feel constrained and I'm sure he didn't mean it like that but that was exactly what he was doing. He was carrying me now and I looked up at him.

"Fang please let me go." I whispered, trying to keep tears out of my eyes. I liked being in control of myself especially my wings. This reminded me too much of when the whitecoats would bind our wings.

"Max I don't want you to get hurt and I'm pretty sure you would if you fell out of the sky." I looked at him and he looked like he honestly meant it.

"I promise not to let you fall, Max." I did something I never thought I would do and let him carry me in his arms. I nodded and tucked my face in his chest. I clung to his shirt for the rest of the flight feeling vulnerable. My grip loosened on the way there and I started to fall asleep.

Fang's POV

Fang, take a look at Max. It was Angel. At first I was confused, as to why she wanted me to look at Max.

Just do it. I heard her say.

'Ok calm down.' I looked at Max and I could tell she was on the verge of falling asleep. If she fell right now she'd hurt herself. I looked at Angel and her eyes were wide and she looked straight ahead of her.

She caught me. I sighed and flew up and then on top of Max. She gave a loud gasp when she felt me on top of her. She looked up at me and up close I could tell she was feeling really drowsy.

"Max, let's land I can tell you're not ok." I told her worried. The flap of her wings was getting slow and light. She could fall any second now.

"I'm fine." She said sleepily. It was obvious that she wasn't so why was she being so stubborn about it. I had no other choice. I knew she wouldn't like it but there was nothing else I could do.

"Max I'm sorry." I knew she wasn't going to like this, but if I didn't she'd fall out of the sky any moment now.

I slowly wrapped my arms around her tucking her wings in at the same time.

"Fang no stop it." I heard her say frantically. I had her in my arms and she had fear in her eyes.

"Fang please let me go." She whispered. I could tell she was on the verge of crying.

"Max I don't want you to get hurt and I'm pretty sure you would if you fell out of the sky." She looked up at me and she looked in my eyes.

"I promise not to let you fall Max." I told her to help her feel less frightened.

I noticed her relax in my hold and I knew she wouldn't struggle anymore. I felt her tuck herself in, in my arms with her head nuzzled in my chest. Her hand gripped my shirt but loosened after a while. I noticed her falling asleep and I held onto her more firmly. Her warmth radiated off of her and warmed me. It felt so right to have her in my arms.

I knew I'd been giving her a hard time lately but I couldn't help it. It hurt me to see her touch another guy and I would always vent it off on her. I didn't know how to express that hurt that I felt so I would vent it off the only way I knew how, in anger. I looked down at her, and she looked so innocent, but even as she slept her brow was scrunched in thought. I started to remember this morning.

Flashback:

I woke up feeling sad about last night; about seeing Angel cry and knowing that it had been my fault. I looked at the bed next to me but didn't see Max. I got up in a hurry suddenly worried about where she might be. I looked around the room but she wasn't sitting in any of the chairs in the room. I remembered the balcony and went out to check if she was there.

I walked out and let out a sigh of relief seeing her there sitting on the chair. I wasn't relieved for long because I noticed how cold it was. She must be freezing I thought to myself. I walked over to her and looked at her for a minute. I reached a hand to her face and gently ran my fingers on her cheek, she was cold.

She must've been mad at me last night, and she didn't want to sleep inside. I thought about waking her up but then she'd probably get mad at me. I walked back inside regretting leaving her out there.

I felt her stir in my arms and tightened my hold on her so that she wouldn't fall. She gasped and I looked down at her.

"Shhshh you're ok, I've got you." She relaxed and started to doze off. I needed to make her life easier not harder. I needed to talk to her later. I needed to tell her……..

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