A/N: I'm so sorry people for not updating but I've been having a hell of a week. I've been going to sleep like at eleven everyday and I just haven't had any time to write. I've hardly even gone on my computer all week!!! I hope this makes up for the long week without updates.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Maximum Ride characters.
We walked inside the restaurant and went to sit at the table with the others. I sat where Fang had been sitting earlier and he sat where I had been sitting earlier. Iggy looked over to me and winked. It was a good thing he was blind or he would have seen how red m cheeks got. I looked down at the table and noticed that there was a plate with the yummiest pancakes I had ever laid eyes on. I looked up at Iggy, forgetting my embarrassment.
"Did you order for us?" I asked him noticing that Fang was already eating out of his plate.
"Yeah I figured you guys were going to be gone a while." He said smirking. I grabbed a piece of egg and flung it at Iggy. He didn't hear it coming and it hit him scare in the face. Nudge started laughing and grabbed a napkin helping Iggy wipe the food off his face. She ran her hand through his hair and shook out the stuff that had landed in there.
"There you go, good as knew." She said.
"Thanks, see Max not all people are as malicious as you, huh Nudge." He said wrapping his arm around her shoulders. I noticed Nudge blush a little bit and I made a mental note to talk to Nudge later on.
"Ok, ok I'm sorry." I said smiling, not wanting to keep on being pelted by Iggy. I ate my pancakes relaxed now that I wasn't worrying about Fang or too depressed to even be hungry.
While I ate I took quick glances at Fang and he seemed very much like he always did and it gave me doubts. Had he kissed me just to play around with me or had he really meant something by it. I had really liked his kiss but had he liked it? He looked up suddenly and I briefly met his eyes, but I looked down afraid to see something in his eyes that would cause me pain.
I didn't eat for the rest of breakfast instead I kept on trying to figure Fang out. It frustrated me how he was able to hide his emotion so well, because I couldn't tell how he felt about me. I was looking down at my lap and I jumped in my seat when someone waved a hand in front of my face. I looked up and it was actually Iggy. I looked around and noticed that everyone was already getting up, getting ready to leave. Fang was already near the door and I felt a pang of sadness.
"Max come on, let's go." Iggy said, pulling me by my arms.
"Iggy let go." I whined.
"Oh come on, don't be a whiner." He said pulling me outside. We walked to the alley.
"Ok people, we're going to the store, because I know you all need some new clothes." I said. Nudge and Angel started jumping around excited. I never realized how getting some new clothes would get them so excited.
We took off in the alley behind the building and headed for a mall or some sort of store.
"Everyone keep your eyes pealed for a store." I told them. Everyone nodded except for Fang. He seemed to be in a world all of his own. I worried for him sometimes. Why couldn't he show his emotions more freely like the rest of the world and how come he sometimes felt so distant and then at other times his emotions couldn't be more clear to me, kind of like last night when Angel started crying and then today when he had taken me into the woods.
This all brought back my doubts. I knew that what I had felt when he had kissed me had been love but had he felt it too? I wanted to ask him but I didn't know how to even approach the subject.
I snapped out of it when Nudge waved her hand in front of my face. I looked at her and asked her what was going on.
"I told you I see a mall down there." She said a little agitated.
"Oh ok lead the way." I said and gave her a reassuring smile. She kept looking at me trying to figure out what was going on with me. She finally gave up and I let out a sigh. She was growing up so fast; it only seemed like a little while ago that she was just a little girl with a big mouth. I smiled at my own comment and headed down following Nudge.
We landed a little ways from the mall in an alley and walked to the mall from there. When we walked inside I was relieved that it wasn't very full, just a couple of people walking around. This was great because I wasn't a huge people person and there weren't a lot of people giving us all weird looks.
"Fang, Iggy, Gazzy you guys go look for your stuff and we girls will go look for ours." Iggy and Fang nodded and I heard Gazzy mumble 'thank you God.' They walked off to wherever the heck guys went to go get their clothes and left me with Nudge and Angel.
"Come on sweetie lets go." I said to Angel and opened my arms for her. She jumped into my arms and wrapped her legs around my waist. We walked inside after a store after a couple of minutes of walking around and Angel moved around in my arms telling me to let her down. I put her down and she right away followed Nudge to look for something to buy. There was nothing in here I could buy; the clothes in here were mainly for younger girls so I sat down on a little sofa by the fitting rooms. I waited there for a couple about ten minutes when Nudge and Angel came to try on their clothes.
When Nudge walked out into the little hall for me to 'ok' the clothes, she looked very pretty in some skinny jeans, a cute top, and some flats.
"What do you think Max?" She said smiling at her reflection.
"As long as feel god in it and you feel you can fly and everything in it I think it's really pretty." She looked back at me and came to sit down next to me. She leaned in close to my ear and whispered something to me.
"Do you think Iggy'll like it?" She asked blushing. I raised my eyebrows at her and smiled.
"Yeah any guy would have to be crazy not to like it." I said with a smile. She smiled at me and it made me feel happy to see her so happy. I sat there 'Okaying' outfits for what seemed like forever. I was looking around lazily when I noticed a guy walking towards me. He sat down next to me and I went on high alert. He was really hot I noticed, he had blond brown hair, really nice green eyes and I could tell he worked out. He looked over at me and smiled. I smiled back not knowing what else to do.
"Hi my name's Dan." He put his hand up and I shook it.
"Max." I said back smiling a bit.
"Are you here with anyone?" He asked me.
"Yeah I'm actually here with my sisters." He looked a little disappointed.
"Why?" I asked him.
"I was gonna ask you if you wanted to go get a bite to eat but it looks like your busy." He said looking at Angel coming towards me.
"Max can I get these please, please, please." She said wearing some way too high, high heels.
"Angel, no you're too young and you wouldn't be able to move around in them." She gave me the bambi eyes but there was no way she was going to get those shoes, she was way too young to be wearing them, and they would just get in the way during a fight.
"Angel I said no, go find some shoes your age." She groaned in frustration and dragged her feet to her dressing room.
"She's really cute." I heard Dan say next to me.
"Yeah but she's a real handful." I said. With the mind reading and controlling people's minds I added in my head.
"I heard that." I heard Angel say in her tiny voice from inside the dressing room. I and Dan both started laughing.
"It was nice meeting you, but I think I got to get going." He said. He stood up and I got up to say goodbye. He gave me a quick peck on the cheek and a quick hug. When he hugged me I didn't know what to do so I just hugged him back. He said bye again and as he turned around to leave I saw Fang standing at the entrance of the store, his eyes following Dan as he left. He had the scariest look on his face and when his gaze turned towards me I flinched and looked down. When I looked back up I saw him starting to walk towards Dan.
'Oh God no.' I said in my head. I ran towards Fang as fast as I could.
I reached him and grabbed his arm hard. He stopped and looked at back at me. I saw a flash of pain in his eyes but it was completely overwhelmed by the anger I saw in them.
"Fang it's not what you think, it really isn't." I said trying to calm him down.
"Oh yeah well what was it then huh." His voice was full of anger and I flinched with every word. I couldn't say anything; I just looked at him not knowing what to say.
"Fang it was nothing." I whispered. He pulled his arm free.
"That's not what it looked like." He hissed.
"Max, Nudge and me are ready!" I heard Angel say a little ways behind me. I looked at Fang.
"Please don't say anything in front of them, we'll talk later." I pleaded with him.
"Uhuh." I turned around to look for Angel and Nudge and they were walking towards me and Fang.
"Fang look what I got." Angel said running towards him. She showed him all the stuff she was carrying in her arms and Fang paid attention telling her how pretty she would look with them on her. Either he was mentally unstable or he was a really good actor because I couldn't even remember how mad he had been a minute ago.
"Max were ready, can we go pay already." Nudge asked me as she walked up to me.
"Yeah let's go, Angel come on let's go pay." Fang helped Angel carry some of her stuff and took her hand leading her to the cash register. We paid with the credit card and walked out of the store. I noticed for the first time that Iggy and Gazzy were nowhere to be seen. I looked around frantically trying to find them.
"They're waiting for me at the store; you forgot we don't have money to pay with." Fang said standing next to me. I sighed with relief and mentally smacked myself for being so dumb.
"Let's all go then." Fang led us to a punker store. It was dark inside and they had really loud music playing in the background. At first all I heard was noise but then I started to like the song. We walked inside and sure enough Iggy and Gazzy were there. Gazzy looked like a mini- Fang dressed in black and Iggy was dressed in a simple dark blue t-shirt and some black pants. I took a closer look at Gazzy and practically fainted. He had a piercing on his eyebrow. I looked at Fang and he was actually smiling at the expression on my face.
"Fang what did you do?" I whispered at him.
"He wanted to get it, so who was I to stop him." He said grinning.
"You're older he would've listened to you if you told him not to get it." I said in a duh voice.
"But look how happy he looks, plus you let Angel get those high heels." He said in a duh voice back at me.
"No I didn't I told her not to get them." I said.
"Well you paid for them." He said back at me. I looked at him and I could tell he wasn't lying. I needed to talk to Angel later. I gave them the credit card and they lined up to pay. I ended up buying clothes in that same store. I got like five complete outfits shoes and everything.
As we flew back I looked at everybody. Gazzy and his new piecing, Nudge who was growing everyday it seemed, Iggy talking to Nudge, Angel my little girl who I had to lecture at the store for sneaking the shoes into the bags, and then finally Fang. He looked so hot in his new clothes, a black ensemble. His shirt hugged his muscles and as much as I tried I couldn't keep my eyes off of him.
Before we knew it we were back at the hotel and heading to our rooms. We had stopped at an In N Out to buy something to eat and had gotten everything to go because we were all so tired. I and Fang were walking by ourselves down the hall and I could've cut the tension with a knife at this moment. Was he still mad at me? I wanted to look back at him to get a look at his eyes to see if he was but I was scared that he might still be mad. I unlocked the door to our room and set my bags down on the floor and put my food on the dresser.
I went into the bathroom to wash my hands and my face. When I walked out Fang was sitting outside on the balcony eating. I grabbed my food off the dresser and sat on the bed.
I finished eating and sat there in silence not knowing whether I should go talk to Fang or what. A few minutes later Fang walked in and stood there at the entrance of the balcony. The moonlight was coming in and it made his shape glow almost. He walked inside and sat down on the bed next to me.
"Who was he?" He asked. I looked over at him and he was looking straight back at me.
"Fang he was just a guy, I don't even know him." I whispered.
"If you didn't know him then why'd he hug you?" He hissed.
"He was just being friendly Fang nothing else, please believe me." I pleaded with my eyes brimming with tears.
"Ok I believe you but why did you let him?" He asked me a little more calmly.
"Fang, what did you want me to do, push him away from me and end up hurting him. He didn't deserve that after how nice he was to me." I said regretting the last part. He looked at me with newfound anger.
"How was he nice to you?" He asked.
"He asked me if I wanted to go eat something with him and when I said I couldn't he didn't get mad or anything, on the contrary he understood." I said.
He sighed.
"Fang I'm sorry really." I started to cry. I couldn't hold back the sobs that came out of me. He pulled me into his arms and wrapped his arms around me.
"Max please don't cry." He ran his hand through my hair and kissed my cheek. He held me in his arms until I stopped crying and when I did he wiped away the tears with his thumb.
"I'm sorry Max." I smiled up at him and wrapped my arms around his waist.
He caressed my cheek and looked into my eyes. I looked into his eyes for a long time and I started to feel drowsy. My eyes started to close and I felt Fang put a blanket over us to keep the cold out. I sighed and fell asleep feeling safe in Fang's arms.
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