White Wedding Chpt 2

"And I'll have a chicken sandwich, two sides of fries and a vanilla shake." Nudge said shutting her menu dramatically.

Jesse nodded. "So I've got four chicken sandwiches, seven sides of fries, a vanilla shake, a pancake breakfast with sausage, two chocolate shakes, an order of Nutella crepes, a Colorado omelet, and two side orders of hash browns." He looked around the table. "That right?" He asked.

I nodded. "I'm surprised you could remember all of that." I said. He grinned.

"I told you already. I have a good memory." He walked off toward the kitchen.

I leaned over to Fang. "Remind me to give him a big tip. Like twenty dollars." I said quietly. He smirked and nodded.

"Your wish is my command." He said quietly. I swallowed a giggle and play-punched his arm.

After we ate, and I left Jesse a big tip, we drove over to Fang's apartment in Gazzy's car.

"I'm lucky I got my license." Gazzy said sarcastically. Iggy patted him on his back.

"You did good," Iggy said. "But I think we should have let Max drive." He said giving me a joking look.

"Oh, like I'm so good at that." I said. Iggy laughed and Fang smirked a little.

I sighed. The flock hadn't changed a bit.

We walked into Fang's apartment, and sat down in random places around the living room.

"Well. Now what?" I asked lounging on the loveseat with Fang. He had wrapped an arm around my shoulders and had the other on the top of the couch.

"How about we run over to the church and you guys could help with decorations?" Nudge asked. I shrugged.

"Sure. But will Gazzy drive?" I asked. Gazzy shot me a look and I smiled.

"I'll drive. Cut down on hard turns." Fang said. Would it kill him to talk in actual sentences?

"Yep!" Angel replied to my thought. I rolled my eyes.

"Okay. Everybody back in the car!"

"Where do you want these, Nudge?" I asked holding up some purple silky streamers.

"Over there." She waved her hand. "Just make it look good." She said.

I wasn't used to taking orders, but I was getting along. I hadn't bitten anyone's head off for it yet, anyway.

I unfurled my wings and shot up to the balcony of the ceremony hall. I carefully draped the streamers over and around the banisters, trying not to hit the wall with my wings.

"That looks great, Max!" Nudge called up to me.

I smiled and waved. "I need another job!" I said. She turned around and picked something up.

A walky-talky. She threw it up to me and I caught it before it damaged my decorations.

"Now what?" I asked into the talky. She pointed over to where Iggy was, trying to put up some bouquets.

"Iggy might need some help." She said and clicked off her talky. I nodded and flew over to Ig.

"Hey, Max." He said trying to ease a bouquet of violets into a loop of streamer. "Could you help?" He handed me another bouquet out of a box.

"Sure thing." I said. "Where do you need it to go?"

"Along this line of streamers." He said and finished easing the flowers into the loop. "Then we have to do another." He said. I nodded and took my bouquet over to the next loop.

I poked it expertly into the hole, and flew back for another.

"Maybe you and I should switch jobs." I told him. He gave me a look that said: Nudge is going to kill me if I don't do this. "Or not." I finished.

He nodded and handed me an armful of bouquets.

This was going to be a long day…

After Iggy and I finished the decorations, we went to help Fang with the birdseed. (No jokes about us being 2 percent bird please.)

"Hey." Fang said as we walked into the separated room. There was a bag of birdseed and a stack of mesh on the table in front of him. "You're here to help?"

"Yeah. Can I have your wallet?" Iggy replied sarcastically, referring to that quote: Were from the government and we're here to help.

"No. But you can have some birdseed." Fang said seriously. He passed the bag of birdseed to Iggy and Iggy grabbed out a handful. He dumped it on a mesh square and pinched it at the top, and tied it up with a ribbon.

"Fine with me." Iggy said, "As long as I don't have to eat it."

So for the next half-hour, we sat silently making birdseed pouches until we ran out of mesh squares.

"Now what?" I asked Nudge through my talky.

"I don't know. Go make sure the floor's vacuumed?" She suggested.

"That's Angel's job though." I said. Nudge sighed.

"Just-occupy yourselves. And don't kill Iggy." She added.

"Okay." I said and clicked the talky off.

"Occupy yourselves…" I said. I got an idea.

"How much birdseed do we have left?" I asked. "About a quarter bag, right?" I said.

Fang held up another full bag with the quarter one.

"Good…" I said and Fang's eyes widened.

"How about we play a game." I said and Iggy, who was half-asleep on the table, perked up.

"What is it?" He asked. "Anything to break the boredom."

"Its called: 'Which bird-kid can eat the most birdseed without barfing?'" I said. Iggy scooted his chair away from the table and went to stand up, but I grabbed his wrist.

"Whoever wins gets fifty bucks."

Yeah! Plot!

Felix: And Max has another evil idea.

Fang: Almost as bad as the time she tied me up to Iggy.

Iggy: Facing each other. Lying down. On my bed.

Alex: In your boxers! That was soooo funny!

Me: Just wait. I'll tie you up with Felix. Maybe naked.

Alex and Felix: -shiver- Eww.

Me: -shrug-

R&R for practical jokes on hostages!