I'm so sorry I haven't been updating. I went to Minnesota, and Canada for 2 weeks and then when I came back my computer was broken and thanks to my niece I'm missing my Backspace & Enter bar so apologies if my writing sucks.
Also please go look at my other story I have out, After Dark. Anyway, enough babbling on with the story!
Max POV:
I saw a glint of amusement in those light brown eyes, which I haven't seen in decades. Then a perfect smile graced her glossy lips showing a pair of paper white teeth.
"Hey Maxi" Was all she said, and that caused her to practically jump over the table and hug me, at first I was still in shock then my hands finally wrapped around her.
"Oh gosh Nudge, what in the hell are you doing here?" I questioned while she let go and sat back down.
"Well the last time I saw you was in-"I cut her off before she could finish her sentence, having a mini flashback to myself of the last time I saw her.
"1870, June 26. When they finally declared Christmas as a holiday" I stated while staring at her, with small smile on my face, but the thought of the last time we saw each other was still on my mind. Tears pricked at the back of my eyes, but I wouldn't allow them to come out.
"Yeah, I can't believe it's been, what? 142 years?" She said, her eyes looking up at the ceiling to do the math in her head "And I met you in 1850, adding that makes it 162 years I've known you." A look of shock crossed her perfect clean mocha skinned face.
"Yeah, you helped me out of that mess, I so owe you." A thought suddenly came to my head. We only met because she was helping me get up on my feet, so why is she here now? "Wait, Nudge? Why are you here? You're a gypsy; you go around helping the higher beings. Am I in some kind of trouble?" I asked her with my brows furrowed.
She chuckled, looked down then answered me, "What? I can't see one of the only people I've grown close to?" She questioned, "Honestly, I came here to see you, and I'm taking a break from all that non sense for a while. I got an apartment and I'm going to stay, unless I'm unwanted." She informed me.
"No! Of course I want you here. It's just not everyday a part of my past comes here to this life." I exclaimed, feeling a little bad for making her feel unwelcomed.
"So have you seen Dyl-"She was cut off again, but not by me. By Nickolas. Thank the gods! He has just saved my life. He put a stack of 5 books on the desk two were thick, and three were thin that I could tell they mostly had pictures in them. He looked up from the first book that was open on top of the other and saw Nudge, a wave of questioning and curiousness filled his feeling.
"Hey" He said while nodding his head, then looked at me, questioning who she was.
"Oh, uh, yeah this is Tiffa-"Stuttering a little bit, I was thinking about what she was going to ask me before Nickolas came.
"Monique." She stated, of course. She changes her name every 5 years, for the fun of it. One time her name was 'Ivy Penelope Alexis Cruz. The only thing she ever kept the same was her last name.
"Yeah, and uh Monique, this Nickolas" I said while chuckling a little bit.
"But you can call me Fang, everybody else does except Maximum here." He stated while sitting in the seat to my left, which made us thigh to thigh.
"Then you can call me Nudge, Max does. I personally don't know why, I mean I never do anything to make her give me that name. Yeah, "She said remembering when I assigned her that name, "I never was called that until I met Max. She started that and then sometimes I even got so caught up with it that I tell people that's my real name, sometimes though, not all the time." I kicked her foot under the table as she finished. She just simply glared at me while she clutched her tibia bone.
"And that's why I call her Nudge, now can we finish this." I said gesturing to the paper.
"Yeah thanks for the help" He said sarcastically. I stuck my tongue out at him; he just smirked and looked back at the book flipping through the pages.
I looked up to see Nudge with her eyebrows raised as if say 'What's going on?' I furrowed my brows together and tilted my head in question. She shook her head saying 'never mind'.
Nickolas and I finished up while Nudge looked through the present books they have, since all she usually reads is in Roman. As it was my turn to work on the paper I heard angry voices with my excelled hearing, I knew it was Nudges voice right away. I sat up a little to see an angry Nudge talking to the librarian that I thought was deaf.
"Uhm, I will be right back" I told Nickolas, as I stood up to see what all the commotion was about. He nodded and slid the paper to himself.
I walked slowly hearing their argument, "Yeah well, what do you know? Apparently nothing since this book is in the fiction section!" Nudge whispered angrily. "Do you even know the meaning of fiction?"
"Listen here, that book is in the fiction section because it's fake. I think you need to work on your vocabulary, not me." The old hag whispered back.
"Well, what makes you think gypsies are fake? Also there are tons, of books that don't belong there! Last time I checked gypsies are real." Nudge stated threw gritted teeth and a determined expression on her beautiful face.
Uh oh. So that's why she's pissed, never mess with Nudge about gypsies. She'll kick your ass.
"What makes you think their real?" The librarian spat at Nudge.
Nudge narrowed her eyes and that's when I decided that things were about to go downhill and I should step in.
"Well if you must know, I-"I covered her mouth before she could say anything else stupid.
"Ha-ha sorry, she was raised by her brother, and you know how they mess with their sisters heads about what's real and what's not." I quickly lied, and dragged Nudge away with my hand still on her mouth until we were in an empty isle. I looked back to see the librarian mumbling to herself.
"Damn it Nudge, what were thinking?" I exclaimed as I faced her with her back towards the librarian, while I was holding her shoulders "Wait, you weren't thinking at all! You were about to expose everything!" I whispered angrily at her.
A guilty look crossed her face, and she looked down at her feet then back up at me, "Well the human's here are so clueless to everything around them, and when I saw that they thought of my culture as fiction that drove me mad! Everything they think that's fake is real, but when I saw that gypsy book in fiction, Ughh! How stupid is that lady! I mean she's like what? 70? She should know what's real!" Nudge blurted out in one breath.
I let my arms drop and let my head fall back and took a deep breath. I looked back at Nudge, and saw how clueless she is to everything here; she doesn't take time to do anything normal.
"Nudge I know that you love being a gypsy but, the present is different than it used to be, you need to try and adapt to it, if you're going to stay here- Wait, you're staying still, right?" I asked.
"Of course, it's just, it's going to be a while until I get used to everything. Wait, can I still do my gypsy spells? Omg, what about my fortune telling? I can't get threw a day without using my magic and forces, I mean it just come naturally!" She blabbed on, "Plus I don't really know how to do anything by hand, I've used my gift to do everything. I've never even learned how to—"She gasped out of her trance when I accidently stepped on her foot.
"Look Nudge just try and be normal, you don't have to do…. whatever it is you do, every hour. Just once in awhile." I told her.
"Well it would be easier if people her weren't so stupid, I mean look at them their all ridicu-"She cut herself off as she stared behind me, I turned around to see a tan boy with light brown hair, in straight jeans that were faded and a blue tee. I looked back at Nudge seeing her gaze at him as he ran his finger along book spines, looking for a certain one.
"Nudge?" I snapped at her face
"Yeah?" She said dazed off still staring at him, and turned her head towards me a few seconds later.
"So what were you saying about everyone here being ridiculous?" I mocked, smirking at her.
"I said that? Well what I meant to say, is that I love to try new things!" She exclaimed. "And I think I'll start with him." She stated and walked off towards the boy. She accidently bumped into him.
"Oh sorry! I didn't see you there! I'm really clumsy!" She said smiling, the boy couldn't help but smile back at her beauty and say it was okay and introduce himself, and I notice he had some sort of piercing, the piercing with one on each side of his bottom lip. Huh, I remember when piercings were used for certain cultures, now their used for style?
I smiled to myself as I saw her work her charm.
I felt breath on my neck, "Will you stop that?" I said, knowing exactly who it was.
"Stop what? Breathing?" He said as I turned to face him. "Thanks for the help and leaving me while you watch your friend hook up with Alex." He said sarcastically.
"Your welcome." I said with an innocent look on my face, he rolled his eyes and handed me my back pack. He adjusted his on his left shoulder.
"Well aren't you going to go find your friend?" I asked when he just stood in front of me staring down at me.
"Iggy? Nope, he said he met up with a hot new girl."I immediately shut down, and glared at nothing particular. Just the thought of him thinking of Ella as hot made me mad. I know it's her cause what other new girls are here.
"Listen here Nick; if Iggy hurts Ella, I hurt him. Understand." I said, with my pointer finger in his face. " And he better understand that too, so tell him." He was surprised at me already knowing who she was.
"Ella? Is that the new girl? How do you know her?" He questioned.
"She's my… uhh…. Cousin. Yeah! Cousin." I said remembering what our excuse was as to why she was here.
"Cool." He said with a shrug, I rolled my eyes and walked past him.
I signed my name on the sign out sheet."Max, guess what?" Nudge said, appearing behind me all of a sudden.
"What?" I said putting the tied pen on the paper and starting heading towards the exit, with Nudge in step with me.
"Well, that boy I was talking to his name is Alex, and he asked me on a date." She said with a smile. I started to smile too, but then she looked at me confused, "What's a date? When he asked I kind of just nodded my head and smiled then he wrote numbers on my hand, "Lifting her hand to show me "and said to call him on Saturday. Does he mean for me to call for his name and he'll appear? Or for me to call his spirit? And why do you keep doing that?"
I face palmed myself during the whole speech once she asked what a date was. "Nudge" I took a deep breath "A date is when someone takes someone else out just to spend time with them and get to know each other better. On Saturday ill just to go where ever you're staying and help you out from there." I said at the doors. "Where are you staying, anyway?"
"Oh there was this big building and I mean big, well it said 'Condos for sale'. So just walked in and asked for a room and then they asked for money so I just "tricked" them into thinking I already paid." She said with her fingers doing the quotes sign, "And the room is so awesome, not as good as the queens palace but it's nice. Speaking of the queen, that's so cool how many names she has. I wish I could have a ton of names; well I've had but not have. Hmmm, maybe I should change my name again. Oh I kno—"
Ring!
That snapped me out of my trance of ignoring Nudge, "Sorry Nudge, but that's the bell. How about you go to your palace-thingy, and then the queen will change her name. Bye!" I said rushing away not really thinking about what I said. Wait, was she really talking about the queen changing her name?
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The day went by without any confrontation from Nickolas, I followed him home for awhile then saw that he wasn't doing anything dangerous or life changing so I left back to Dr.M's. As soon as I entered the house I got a big surprise.
"Hey Maxie!" yelled Nudge from the couch. What? What the heck is she doing here?
"Nudge? What the heck are you doing here?" I asked entering the living room.
"Well I ran into Ella, and she said she knew you and invited me over. Have you seen her closet it's like heaven in there, since we're talking about clothes we should go shopping later. Oh and Dr.M was surprised that you have an actual friend. "She said as she stood up and walked over to me.
"Uh…ok. You still didn't answer my question." I replied.
Nudge took a deep breath before she answered my question. Oh boy, another rant, great.
"I came to talk to you about Dylan." His name was all she had to say to bring back every horrible memory.
Ok I feel like this chapter is crap. Well review anyway! And I know who you are that don't review! What do you think happened with her and Dylan?
-Kaliheart