"What do you mean, Max...you're you?" He was confused to say the least.
"I'm Max?" I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
"Who am I?" The dark haired guy demanded..."Who am I?" He asked with slight more tentative emotion.
"I'm sorry, I don't know, I can trust you- I know I know you...who are you?"
I felt awful, I'm not okay, I'm really not okay. He looked at me, he had this way of showing no emotion.
"Max..." He stopped, hesitating on the name. "You don't remember anything?" He questioned, I liked his optimism, I shook my head.
"I trust you though, don't I..." He nodded his head and touched my hand, it seemed unnatural to him. He got up but I took his hand tighter. "Don't leave me..." I said. The only person that I have to finding out my past. He looked at me and seemed to understand.
"I need time to think..." He said. I get that, this must be a shock to him, but I'm afraid to say I need this stranger. I don't know why I'm afraid to say I need someone? Am I usually independent?
"Please, stay with me just for a minute" a pain that only seemed to register centred on my back. With my free hand I felt my back. "What the hell is on my back..." I looked behind me getting up, to look in a conveniently placed mirror. "What is going on..." He come and stood behind me in the mirror holding my shoulders. Then he extended from behind some beautiful black wings. "Wow" it's all I could manage. He helped me extend mine. They felt weird but natural at the same time.
"Lets start over, I'm Fang by the way..." He said and held out his hand.
"I assume you're not my brother...?" I looked at him quizzically. Clearly he was something more then that. His half smile confirmed it. I raised an eyebrow.
"We don't have any siblings...real siblings" he said, not giving me the full picture.
"Real...we imagine them..." He smiled again but only briefly. "Oh, do we have people we call siblings but bare no relation..." He nodded. "Where are they now?" His face dropped. I studied him, clearly this had struck a chord. Oh god. "I'm sorry, I just don't know...I..." Was I crying? No.
"Max, I'm sorry, I get you have questions but I...Can't answer them" I looked down at my hands in the mirror in shame. Why was a crying, I don't cry, do I?
"Are we close... I mean really close, tell-each-other-everything close" I looked up at his reflection. He nodded. "Then surely you can tell me what I already know..."
"It's not that simple Max" I turned so it wasn't his reflection I was talking to, but really him. I shook my head in understanding. He lifted his hand, then put it back down as though naturally he was going to smooth my hair back or something but then thought against it.
I stared at him, forcing myself to remember him, Fang...oddly does ring a bell, I recognise it at least. Fang is such an odd name, then again so is Max, and so is having wings... That isn't normal is it. We're not normal. Fang said we escaped so obviously we were being held somewhere, probably because of the wings. Maybe even by the people who made us that way... I can't imagine being born like this...surly not? Do I even have parents? Does he? Are we an item? Boyfriend and girlfriend? Fiancé? Husband? I wasn't wearing any rings, and what if were not even together? What if we are just really good friends?
"What am I like? Really like?" He gave me a look "I need to know..." It took him a great deal to answer, I mean what kind of a question is that? Poor guy.
"You're skilled, one of the good guy's or girl...Stubborn as heck, good leader, beautiful..." He stopped. I looked at him, unable to speak. "Normally you would have hit me for saying that..."
"I would..."
"Yeah..."
"Why?"
"Because you don't believe it, that's why"
For a moment I was speechless, I wasn't sure of anything. I'm so tired, why am I so tired. My head felt as though it was floating. Oh god.
"Fang...Fang, I'm..." I wasn't in control of my body anymore what was going on? "Fang...I can't..." I started to fall. He caught me by the shoulders.
"Max?" My head rocked forward uncontrollably on to his shoulder, my legs coming up from underneath me. Then I was out.