Nothing Sinister but High School:
A/N: Ok so it has to say something about my life that I'm on a cruse in Mexico, and the only thing I want to do is read and work on my stories. But I could just be crazy. Ok… just as a warning, I'm a stupid person who decides to write about things that I don't know anything about… so bear with me. (And just now I thought of something fluffy and amazing that will be added to this chapter! Yay!) On with the madness.
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Tryouts:
Fang's POV:
"Batchelder ?" the coach called sharply. He held out a black mesh vest to go over my PE uniform. I cringed.
"It's Fang." I said, stepping up and taking the vest and pulling it over my wings. Coach grunted.
'Stupid Jeb. Had to put his name on all of our forms didn't he? I should just choose my own last name, then carve it into a baseball bat and beat him with it.' I stepped back into line with the other boys, as the coach called names and handed out black and blue vests.
I had managed to tune out the coach's lecture on how tryouts were going to work when one of the guys elbowed me in the ribs.
"Dude, who's she?" the toe-headed jock asked me, pointing at a small group of girls who had just walked in to watch us.
"Which one, my girlfriend or her little sisters?" I said, rather calm considering I knew he was refering to Max, whiched bugged the hell out of me, and prompted me to call her my girlfriend.
She and Ella and Arianna laughed at us, standing there like soldiers, and I heard something about how we looked like a gaint bruse.
"Girlfriend? You two don't seem too close." said the jock, who's name I now remembered to be Bart. He followed Max up the bleachers with his eyes until the coach paused to bark at him to pay attention.
"We're on a break." I concluded simply, wanting him to drop it.
Lucky for me , the coach blew his whistle and we broke up into teams according to the color of vest we were given, Bart had blue, I had black. We worked on teamwork drills for a while before we actually got to have a scrimmage. Max left halfway through the warm ups and I looked up to see if Ella and Arianna could give me an explanation why. They made some hand motion, but I didn't catch it, mostly because of the ball that bounced off my face, that I also didn't catch.
'Glad Max didn't see that, I'd never be able to live it down.' I thought as I shook my head and retrived the ball.
Max returned a while later with Angel and Nudge, and I realized that she had gone to pick them up from their school, which got out a half an hour after ours. They waved and I nodded, determined not to de distracted and hit in the face again. I don't know why but now that she was watching I had a strange urge to show off just a little, very unlike me, but I decided to allow myself a little bit of an ego boost. I opened myself up for a pass from Brice, then drove the ball to the hoop and sunk it with a fairly impressive leap, for not using my wings at all. I saw the coach madly scribble out 'Batchelder' on his list and replace it with 'Fang' meaning I had made it on the team.
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"He's cute, you should go for him." Max heard the cheerleaders on the bench below her whispering to each other as they pointed at Fang.
"Sorry he's taken." she said, standing and walking to the floor to put her arms around Fang. The queen of the bimbo's pouted, then turned her attention to the next cutest guy.
'Their friggin' hyenas, these cheerleaders.' Max thought.
"This mean we're on again?" Fang asked casually, slinging his arm around her shoulders.
"I don't see why not. I'm not too angry with you right now, and you did school those guys in basketball, pretty much guaranteeing your spot on the team, making you a very popular person." Max grinned up at him.
"This is some popularity ploy isn't it?" Fang rolled his eyes.
"Maybe, or maybe I missed you. You got a problem with either of those?"
"Nah. I can deal." he pulled her close for a quick kiss then picked up his bag and led her out of the gym before the cheerleaders decided to try and kill her in a jealous rage.
Ella and Arianna gathered a snickering Nudge and Angel and followed their sister and Fang outside.
"So, this will be difficult to explain to your parents, don't ya think." Fang asked, holding Max close to him as they walked home, the others a few yards behind them to give them their necessary space.
"Not really. Mom's seen us together before, remember after I blew up the School. And Jeb, when he was being the Voice, was always witness to pretty much whatever, as creepy as that is. I think the harder thing to explain to them will be how you managed to get on the basketball team."
"Why is that so hard to believe? You saw me, I was good. Why is it so hard to believe?" Fang asked, as near to hysterics as he could get.
"I'm kidding, I was just remembering that no one told either of them that you were trying out for the team and now you're miraculously on varsity. It'll be an interesting dinner tonight."
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Dinner
Fang's POV:
Ok, so maybe I was in a too happy, goofy mood, but to say scaring Max's parents wasn't fun would be a lie. So I won't say it. As Max had predicted, it was an interesting dinner. I waited for a break in the conversation, then set my fork down and spoke up.
"I have an announcement." I said, sounding very important. Jeb and Valencia stopped eating to listen, looking vaguely worried.
"I made it onto the school's basketball team," Jeb congratulated me and went back to his food, Valencia sighed, Max put her head in her hand and rolled her eyes at me.
"And Max and I are back together." I concluded, grabbing Max's free hand. The dining room was instantly filled with laughter at the Parental's reactions. Max hid her face in my shoulder to disguise her laughter, Ella nearly fell out of her chair. Gazzy described Jeb and Valencia's shocked and horrified faces to Iggy and the blind boy soon joined in the laughing. Our on-again, off-again relationship was nothing new to our flock, but to Max's parents, well they were old fashioned. As you can imagine, getting used to the idea of Max and I being in a relationship and living under the same roof was a challenge for them, even if they knew we'd been together before, and hadn't caused any trouble.
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Later that night, after a stern talking to, Max and Fang stood on the balcony between their rooms, stargazing.
"So… that was probably the most pointless hour of my existence." Max said, letting go of the railing and falling back onto Fang's chest, remembering how much she had missed him holding her.
'Cheers to spontaneous decisions.' She thought absently.
"I thought you said the sheep thing in Germany was the most pointless. Or does, 'the talk' top that?" Fang said into her hair, as he breathed in her scent.
"Germany was the most pointless week or so, 'the talk' was the most pointless hour. I mean, it won't matter in a week or so when we'll be yelling at each other again." She turned around in his arms, snaking her own around his neck. Fang let his hands drop to her waist, smiling.
"I love how a large part of our relationship is based on knowing that we won't be in a relationship the next week." Fang intoned sarcastically, resting his forehead gently on hers and looking into her eyes.
"Well, it's consistent. We need a little consistency in our lives." Max said then pulled his head down for a long kiss. They broke apart finally, hearts racing, with grins on their faces.
"We'll probably regret that in a week." Fang murmured, still holding Max close.
"Say it isn't so." she whispered, snuggling deeper into his embrace.
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A/N:
YAY FLUFF!!!!! I actually can't believe I wrote any of that (all off the top of my head, mind you, no planning or storyboarding, etc.etc.) it turned out a lot longer than I expected, but I guess that means I'm finally free of the writers block Nazis. But now I have no idea what to do next! Ok, so let me know what you guys think. Thanks for reading guys…and for putting up with my psycho-ness. Please review.
(P.S: I had something completely different written for the ending…but I let it sit for a day and decided that I would hang myself if I posted it…so I changed it. Sorry if you wanted more 'action' I just couldn't do it with my two favorite characters. I'll let you figure it out.)
E'Nox