Chap. 25

The Old Married Couple

Nudge POV

Max's plan was foolproof. Well, almost.

"Wait," I said, "what if they find a way to not hear my screaming? Like, if they put on earmuffs or something? That would totally kill the point! I mean, if they can't hear me then we can't attack them, and if we can't get in, we can't get Angel and Gazzy and Iggy out, so the plan won't work!"

Max pursed her lips. "Do you think you can go loud enough that they can hear you, even with earmuffs or whatever they have on?"

I shrugged. "This is the first time I've ever done the screeching thing."

"So we'll test you," Max said.

"On who?"

Max turned to Fang.

Fang shook his head vehemently. "Nuh – uh. No way. I am NOT going to be your guinea pig for this crazy experiment. I had enough of that at the School."

Me and Max stared. Fang could've just said No, I won't, and be done with it, but instead there was this whole un-Fanglike sentence.

"But -"

"No," Fang cut her off.

"Pleaseeee?" whined Max. "For me? I've never asked you to do anything else?"

The please, for meeeeeeee? approach always works.

"Really?" said Fang sarcastically. "What about the time you were PMSing and had a serious craving for chocolate and I had to fly for miles from the woods to find a supermarket? And what about the time I was fixing the handle on the bathroom door when Gazzy let one rip inside and you 'forgot' to tell me, so that when I opened the door, I'd faint?"

I stifled a giggle.

"What's so funny?" snapped Max.

"You sound like an old married couple," I laughed.

Fang rolled his eyes.

"Come ON, Fang. We need to have someone to try this on."

He sighed. "Why don't we find something breakable and see if it shatters when Nudge screams?"

"Hey, that's a pretty good idea!" Max said.

"All my ideas are good ones."

"Cocky, huh? So, since it was such a good idea, where's the breakable glass thing?" Max countered.

"Do I look like I carry breakable things around with me?"

"Check in your pack," I suggested.

Fang unzipped his backpack and pulled out a water bottle, a chocolate candy bar, his laptop, and some clothes.

"See?"

Max eyed his laptop. "That would work," she said.

Fang's eyes seemed to scream, NOO! "No way," he said firmly. "This is pretty much our only connection to the outside world."

"But -"

"No."

"We don't have anything else -"

"Not the laptop, find something else."

"Arrggh. Something made of glass, then."

"That's fine."

Max rolled her eyes. "He's very… protective of the laptop," she stage-whispered to me. "Fang writes to his screaming fangirls who wanna marry him in his blog –"

"I heard that!" Fang called from his perch in the tree above us.

Max laughed, and I did too. We were all a lot more optimistic then before.

I just hoped his optimism would last.

A/N: Did you guys like that? I can't believe I started out barely 2 months ago, and I have 25 chapters up now!

I've been working on my Gallagher Girls fic lately, so I kinda… forgot to update this one… Forgive me? If you do, go check out the GG fic too. I'll update that one next.

On the Niggy/Eggy pairings: at first I was totally split between them, but I went over the votes (in the poll) 6 for Niggy and 4 for Eggy. I'm sure a lot of you guys reviewed too, but I'm not sure if the reviewers went to vote in the poll, too. I, myself, prefer Eggy, but since Niggy has taken over… (cue the dramatic music) I'm doing Niggy! Yay me! LOLZ!

Also, I'm thinking about changing the title, since it doesn't have anything to do with the story… Do you think that's a good idea? What's a good idea for a name? If you think I shouldn't, why?

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