me: i cried writing this...

iggy: she did. now my favorite t-shirt is wet from her overly-dramatic tears..

me: wel sorryyy for being emotional.

iggy: anywhooo...enjooyyy!

Chapter 22

I dropped on my knees next to Max with Iggy right beside me. "What happened, Max?" I asked tears falling slowly down my rosy cheeks.

Her head was bowed and she wasn't making a sound, until she finally answered me with one single word. "Erasers." She said emotionless.

Nudge, who was huddled in the furthest corner crying, gasped, Gazzy, who was with Nudge, looked at us through tears looking worried, and Fang, who was standing close by watching us, showed emotion for the first time since I first met him. It was pure hatred, as if he remembered something that made him want to punch the wall.

"You mean they're back?" Iggy asked sounding scared.

"Yes," Max lifted her head and looked at Iggy, "they are back and I saw them. They were real and they were looking for blood."

I stared at Max in confusion. Iggy had never told me about the "erasers" before. "What are erasers, Max?"

Fang decided to step forward and answer, "erasers are mutants from the School, like us, except they have wolf DNA."

My eyes widened as wide as possible in shock. "W-well then, Max? What happened…?"

Max's head drooped again and her voice was close to whisper, "I went onto the balcony with Fang and we heard a crash and ran inside to find the erasers running away like the cowards they are and…Angel lying on the floor in a pool of blood."

I thought I saw a tear fall onto Angel's body when she finished her sentence. "We need to get her to a hospital or something. She'll die if we don't. Max," I told her.

Iggy shivered but nodded, along with Nudge and Gazzy.

Fang looked down at Max and said, "Max, none of us want to do it. But it's the only way to stop Angel from dying,"

Max looked up at him from under her brown-blonde hair. "okay…"

20 minutes later we were in a hospital room with Angel cleaned up and lying in a clean, white hospital bed. Iggy and I were sharing the only chair in the room while Nudge and Gazzy were on the floor and Max and Fang stood by Angel's bed. I couldn't understand how they were able to look at Angel in the state she was in. When the nurses had finished cleaning her, you could see the multiple bite marks and scratches covering her tiny, pale, fragile body. I wasn't able to look at her without tensing up and getting choked up.

I tried to glance at Angel's lifeless body but I burryed my face into Iggy's shoulder and felt his arms wrap around me. "I can't stand it, Iggy….she looks awful and," I started but I got cut off as a young doctor by the name of Dr. Welks walked in.

"she has a few broken bones, and as you can see, she's really scratched up. Her pulse is abnormally fast, but Dr. Martinez already explained it that to me. Anyways, we'll need to keep her here overnight. You're welcome to stay in here with her," Dr. Welks told us.

"We would stay anyways," Max said, earning 5 nods.

"yeah, your mom told me you would probably say that. Well, I have more patients to attend to, but I'll come back to check in on you guys later. A nurse will bring some blankets and pillows for you kids," he informed us before walking out the door.

"Max, will Angel be okay?" Gazzy asked sounding on the verge of tears.

"Gazzy…I'm not sure," Max walked over and hugged him.

igggy: she went in the corner to cry now...well review and all that good stuff jaleese likes to say at the end of her chapters.