Iggy
Stupid me and my stupid horny hormones.
I wanted her and I wanted her bad. Then and there. Right at that second. But I wanted her too much. So much in fact that I let my hands do all my talking instead of being a smart and stopping myself.
I grumbled furiously at myself as my wings beat against the air, carrying me through the sky.
I landed at the Martinez's where Max was no longer crying her eyes out, like any normal girl, and was instead screaming her head off at Fang, who despite his obviously extensive feelings for Max, was yelling back at the same volume.
"I WOUD'VE DIED FOR ANGEL! YOU KNOW THAT! YOU JUST COULDN'T LET ME GET HER! OH NO!"
"MAX, YOU KNOW FULL AWARE THAT I WENT TO SAVE BOTH OF YOU! I TRIED TO FIND HER, BUT SHE WASN'T THERE! I CHECKED! AND THE BOMB WAS ABOUT TO GO! SO EXCUSE ME FROM SAVING YOUR LIFE, MAXIMUM!"
"DON'T CALL ME MAXIMUM AND TRY TO PIN THIS ON ME! THIS IS YOUR FAULT, NICHOLAS!"
And so on.
I sat at the table listening, waiting for someone to give up and storm into a room and slam the door. But they kept at it, for a while and suddenly Nudge came storming from her room, a portable Walkman CD player in her hand and the headphones around her neck. How I know this? You could hear the Christina Aguilera from the headphones.
"STOP IT!" She screamed, shutting them both up.
"Shut up, shut up, shut UP! Stop screaming at each other when one of us is dead!"
"She's not dead." Max growled, probably glaring at Nudge so coldly I could feel all hell beneath us begin to have a blizzard.
Nudge ground her teeth together. "You. Don't. KNOW THAT!" Nudge shrieked. Her hands stuff as she waved them around.
Max must have looked taken aback, no one had ever stood up like that to her. And my respect for Nudge rose up, good for her sticking to her guns.
"Everything has been about you. Everywhere we went, everything we did together, was planned and controlled by you! You always call the shots! You always go about telling us how everything is going to go. Well it stops now! So shut up, sit down and listen to what I have to say for once in your damn life!"
Max wasn't hasty to get to her seat and was about to protest, but suddenly in one quick moment, Nudge seemed to get bigger and I could hear the rustling of her feathers as her wings loomed behind as back up and Max glared right back and sat down.
"Okay, okay." Nudge let out a breath, "Okay. Well now we've all got one option left if she's not dead."
Max's furious face changed into an anxious eager one. "What?"
"Jeb kidnapped her." I said.
I could feel their eyes on me.
And I held out my hands.
"Duh."