When he turned and looked at me, it was none other than......Fang! I stood completely frozen in shock. I wasn't prepared for this after all. I felt tears begin to form in the corner of my eyes and my mouth was hanging open. He also looked surprised. He had changed too. His hair was back to its longer self, sweeping across his eyes and down his face. He looked older, his face had seemed more softer before but not it was more..man like I guess. I also noticed he had a small 'goatee beard' on his chin and I couldn't help but stare. Boy was he ever sexy. His usual dark attire, making him mysterious and his tight jeans...I'd love to take those off...

I snapped out of my dirty thoughts and watched as Fang stood up. He wasn't 4 inches taller than me now. He was at least 6 or 7!

I ran over to him and stopped infront of him. His familiar scent rushed into my nostrils making me almost dizzy. All the memories we shared, all the good and bad times together.

Then I hit him. I punched him square in the jaw, knocking him backwards onto the floor. He looked up at me with shock. I grabbed him by the jacket and got him on his feet and then I wrapped my arms around his even broader shoulders and pulled him into a passionate kiss. He kissed me back with as much lust as I, but then he stopped and pulled away. He took a couple of steps back and shook his head at me and fled from the diner. He had deserted me?

"Fang wait!"I shouted bolting out of the diner after him. He stopped and turned around to face me.

"What are you doing here, Max? Your not supposed to be here." He yelled over the traffic nearby.

"I came to find you. I miss you Fang. Nothings been right without you! Please lets talk okay?" I pleaded watching him step further and further away.

"No, we can't talk. It will only make things worse. I'm putting my foot down Max. I'm not going to give in to you. Not this time."

"Shut up and just come here! I flew all this way at least you could talk to me!" I yelled. He stopped walking and came closer.

With every step he took, my heart pounded like a lightening bolt hitting a building. I thought the flying was bad? I'm practically hyperventilating. He stopped a few paces ahead of me and held out his arms.

"So what, you want me to come back?" He said sounding as though he didn't care about his family anymore.

"Yes of course I do. I love you!"

"Well it's not gonna happen. Nothing you can say or do is going to make me change my mind. I'm happy here Max. Noone telling me what to do, noone attacking me.I feel free here. The best I've ever felt. Please Max, just go home." Fang said turning his back on me again.

"Wait, please." I said grabbing his shoulder and turning him around. I looked into his dark gorgeous eyes. They told me he was full of pain.

"I understand that you don't want to come back... you feel its better that way, but for who??" I started to cry.

"I do want to come back but I can't. I don't want to put anyone in danger, especially you Max. Try to understand that. I want you to be safe. Lets leave it at that. It was nice to see you again but you really should be leaving." Fang walked off again.

"Oh yeah? Says who Fang?" I said grabbing him and pulling him back in front of me.

"Says me Max. leave me." He tried to walk away again but i grab him and this time I didn't let go.

"You think I'm gonna let you go this time, you have another thing coming mister." I growled clenching his jacket in my fists. He sighed.

"Max. Listen to me, I know your hurting, I know you miss me and love me but you have to let me go okay. I..I'm happy here. Very h..happy. Just go home, back to the flock and please don't come back!" He pulled out of my grasp and walked quickly away. I noticed he began to stutter in that last sentence. Fang never stutters. Something was wrong.

"Fang please don't go! I'm begging you please!" I hollered out to him. He continued to power walk away down a small alley in the woods nearby. He was walking out of my life. Again.

Of course I wasn't going to take no for an answer. I am Maximum Ride after all. I charged after him and stopped, pushing him back with my arms against his chest and began to quietly sob.

"Fang..you don't know how much this hurts. Every night I dreamed you would come back to me. Every night you were in my dreams and we were happy, or you were killing me, turning into an eraser. But that's besides the point. I didn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I didn't want to talk to anyone and I missed you so so much." I sobbed uncontrollably in front of Fang and hoped to God no one was watching.

"I felt the same pain when I left. But I've learned to move on. So should you. Go back to your perfect half."

"I AM with my perfect half! Don't you see, I can't live without you! Please don't do this to me again. I need you!" I yelled hitting him hard in the chest with my fists.

"No Max. Just get out of here. Don't make me regret seeing you." He said gruffly. I looked up at his beautiful dark eyes with my own red ones sobbing, wanting him so badly.

"Never." I quivered and held my arms around his stomach, pressing my head to his chest. He didn't hold me. He didn't tell me everything was going to be alright. He didn't tell me he still loved me.

Fang pushed me off of him gently and shook his head again.

"No Max you don't understand. We cannot be together. I'm just cannot be together." Fang repeated with irritation in his voice. With that, he backed away from me, leaving me dazed and sobbing. He stopped suddenly and I hoped he was going to come back and kiss me, hold me and tell me he loves me. You know like in romantic films at the very last minute when everything suddenly turnes right. But it didn't. Dylan was standing in front of Fang. Just staring.

"She's all yours. You should have never let her come here." Fang whispered probably so I wouldn't hear.

"It wasn't my fault. She pushed me out of the way. She flew at top speed all the way here with only one stop!" Dylan explained.

Fang nodded and left. I couldn't take this anymore. I can't watch him walk away. I ran after Fang again and grabbed him from behind.

"I'll never let you go. Never! I love you too god damn much!" I yelled from behind him. Fang shook me off and faced me.

"Max...Go home!" Fang growled which only made me love him more. If that's possible.

"NO!"

"Just go the hell away! Leave me alone. I..I don't l..love you anymore! I don't." Fang yelled at me breaking away from me.

My entire world ended then. I was completely stunned by Fang's words I forgot to breath. I let out a gasp for air and began to sob even more. I fell to the floor on my knees and cried. Fang sped off down the alley and Dylan knelt down beside me rubbing my back.

"Shh Max, it's okay. Don't worry, everything is going to be fine. Please don't cry." Dylan said in a soothing tone. Wait a minute, he said...

"What did you say?" I choked.

"Everything is going to be fine, I promise. I'll take care of you." He repeated and that's when I remembered when I wanted Fang to say that to me, but he didn't.

"FANG, I HOPE YOUR HAPPY!" Dylan shouted to him as he ran along the alley away from us.

"Why is he stopped running?" I cried to Dylan and he looked at Fang a fair distance away from us now.

Next to Fang stood a girl,probably younger than me with short dark hair, dark top and dark leggings. I noted the dark wings on her back and felt instantly jealous of her. Fang looked over at me sobbing on the floor like a pathetic little girl with a crush and quickly turned away. Then i jolted up from the floor unexpectedly, knocking Dylan off balance as I ran towards Fang and the girl.

"Who are you!" I askedtrying to sound normal.

"I'm Natalia, you must be Max..." She said. She was pretty, had nice curves and a nice voice. I wondered if Fang liked her. I looked at him but his back was turned. The girl went over to face him and a small gasp leaped from her throat.

"It's okay. Come on it's okay." She said. Was Fang...crying? Dylan came up behind me and wrapped his arms around me telling me it was time to go.

"Fang never meant to hurt you, Max. He just wants a new life, a different one . He's got that 's happy. Why can't you be happy for him." Natalia said looking back at Fang putting her hand on his face. She went up on her tiptoes and planted a small kiss on his lips. Lightening hit me all over and my veins turned to ice. I could feel Dylan getting a good grip on me encase I lashed out. He was pretty smart. He knew exactly what I wanted to do.

"You bitch! How could you!" I screamed alarming Fang and her. Fang looked at me with tears dripping down his face like i've never seen before. Natalia looked stunned but not as stunned as she was about to be...

"Max, no don't do this your better than that." Dylan said trying to get me to back down. But this was me. I take things to the Maximum.

I struck out my fist hitting Natalia hard in the jaw. I must have put quite a lot of power in to it as she went flying across the pavement. Fang looked at me in suprise and rushed over to her. He helped her up on her feet and put his arms around her. Like he used to with me...

Dylan grabbed ahold of me again and this time I couldn't break free.

"Max, you've really done it this time. You had to come here and ruin everything. I'm finally happy. I have my flock, which is just Tallie and I by the way, who also happens to be my...well she's my.... you know. Just go back with Dylan and leave us alone." Fang said walking away with his new girlfriend.

I couldn't bare to se them together. I found myself facing Dylan and rested my head on his shoulder and began to cry worse than before.

"I'll take you home Max. Can you fly now?" He asked me and I didn't answer. I couldn't breath, couldn't think. Only of Fang and his new girlfriend. All sorts of thoughts flooded my brain. How many times have they kissed? Have they had long kisses or just little ones? Have they slept together?

"Max? Wanna go home darlin?" He asked me again and I looked at him. I tried to make a sound but nothing came out. I felt so stupid.

Dylan held me as he walked me from the alley way. A we came out Fang was next to us and he saw Dylan helping me. I wanted him to feel the pain that I felt. I knew he still loved me. He cried and he stuttered and those are never things Fang does. He never argues with me either. I looked at Dylan and back at Fang. Should I? Should I kiss Dylan and make him feel bad for making me feel like crap?

"I think you should do it." The voice said.

"Goodbye Max. See you in 20 years from now." Fang said coming closer towards me. I continued to cry and I saw that Fang wasn't happy about it.

"Just go back with your new girlfriend. I hope your happy together. I hope you give her lots of kisses and hugs and I hope you have sex with her so much your penis falls off and rots!" I yelled. Everyone looked stunned. Dylan began to edge away a little bit.

"You not coming near my.... again." Dylan said and Fangs face seemed to drop.

"Fang hasn't rotted away yet." Natalia broke in and Fang blushed. Hes done what!!!

"Max lets just leave the scumbag to it. Probably got AIDS now anyway." Dylan chuckled and hoisted me up into his arms and began to fly. I didn't want to look at Fang. I'm not even sure if I could in 20 years from now. I buried my head in Dylan's clean white shirt and tried to slow my sobs. Dylan carried me to the nearest hotel about an hour away, all the while he was soothing me, trying to make me feel better.

Maybe I was better off with him after all.....