Chapter 12

That night me and Iggy stayed up all night so that Iggy could explain to me the flock's adventures at school. Including the red-head Fang had made out with, the guy Max had gone on a date with, and finally The School. Meaning where they grew up in cages and escaped with Jeb. We fell asleep lying beside each other, my head resting on his chest and his arm around my shoulders. We woke up in the same position, except Gazzy and Angel jumped on us. For tiny kids they weigh a lot more than you would expect. They landed on us hard and succeeded at their mission to hurt us, or maybe it was just to wake us up…well, whatever the reason, it was a mission success.

"Get your shrimpy butts off of us!" Iggy yelled pushing them off.

They left the room laughing and closed the door behind themselves.

"Hey, Iggy. I know you're blind and all, but I have to take a shower so will you, like, please leave?" I asked him getting up and getting my stuff ready for my shower.

"Oh come on, Ja'leese. If you know I'm blind then why can't I stay?" he said walking behind me and putting his arms around my waist. "It's not like I'll see anything."

"Maybe not, but I would still feel awkward," I told him unwrapping his arms and pushing him out the door. "And anyways you need a shower too. So, I'll see you when you have your prep school uniform on." I shut the door before he could argue.

Sighing, I walked into my bathroom and turned on the hot water making it the perfect temperature for my first-day-of-school-preparation-shower. When I stepped under the warm, soothing water I stood there for a second enjoying my last free seconds for a while. Before I could zone out, I started singing and got to work making myself as clean and fresh as possible. I turned off the shower and stepped out, my hair dripping with water. Drying myself off, I started singing another song and when I was dry, except for my hair, I got ready. I forced myself to put on the preppy schoolgirl uniform that our school was making us wear.

I looked at myself in my bedroom mirror and thought to myself I look like a Barbie doll prep, it's so embarrassing and I am so glad Iggy's blind. My navy blue, pleated skirt barely passed the bottom of my fingertips, my pure white, button-up shirt was kind of tight, and my navy blue blazer was pulled in on the sides, outlining my figure. While I was busy fixing my, also, navy blue tie, I heard a tiny gasp at my door and spun around to see Angel with her hand over her mouth.

"Okay, go on and laugh it up. I know I look awful," I said with my hands on my hips.

"You don't look awful. You really, really pretty, Ja'leese!" she exclaimed.

I looked down at my outfit and stared back up at Angel in disbelief. "You, the most adorable little girl in the world, think I look pretty? I must be dreaming," my voice dripped with sarcasm.

Nudge and Max walked by in their own not-as-Barbie-looking-uniforms and stopped in the doorway to stare at me. "Oh. My. Gosh," Nudge gasped. "If only Iggy could see you!"

I groaned and pushed past them and set off down the hall to find Iggy. I walked into his room and found him struggling with his tie. "Oh, good grief," I muttered walking to him and fixing his knotted up tie.

"Thanks," he said, "oh, and you do look really pretty today. Tell me if anyone starts hitting on you. I'll hit them"

I looked up at him shocked and blushing, "how do you know what I look like?"

"Angel put it in my mind. You know, you're more beautiful than I ever guessed you were," he told me, wrapping his arms around me.

I smiled up at him and hugged him tight, wishing I could just stay in his arms forever. Um…did I just say that? I'm not supposed to think that about my best friend like that…oh, never mind. You guys already know how I feel about Iggy.

"C'mon guys!" Max yelled, "Our ride's here!"

Me and Iggy let go of each other, to the other's dismay, and walked downstairs and outside to "our ride." I couldn't believe what I was seeing when I walked onto the porch with Iggy beside me, asking me what we were riding in.