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CHAPTER 6

Fang POV

Dinner was pretty exciting. Well, for the younger kids anyway.

"Try to read me!" Nudge squealed.

"Me next!" Gasman stated.

"Me, too!" Angel added.

Max laughed at the excitement from the kids.

"Guys, I don't even know if I can use my ability on command yet," I said.

"Can't you at least try?" Nudge pleaded.

"Fine," I sighed.

The kitchen was silent as I tried focusing on Nudge.

After a few minutes, I shook my head and said, "I got nothin'."

She let out the breath she had been holding and frowned. I felt a little frustrated and disappointed, but I didn't know if that was me or Nudge feeling that.

What was even the point of this ability?

'You'll figure it out, Fang,' Angel thought to me.

'Thanks, Angel, but you know…' I thought back with a half smile.

'Yea,' she said, cutting me off. 'I'm sorry!'

Max POV

The kids were all asking Fang to try his new ability on them. When he finally caved, we all fell silent and waited.

"I got nothin'," he said, shaking his head.

Everyone seemed a little bummed, so we went back to enjoying the dinner Mom and Ig whipped up.

I shot a glance to Fang, and, a second later, he had a small smile on his face. It was one of those smiles that lit up the room.

'That's really cute, Max,' Angel giggled in my head.

'Ange, you know…' I thought firmly.

'Sorry, Max. Fang just told me the same thing,' she replied.

I guessed that had something to do with Fang's smile.

Dinner continued with random conversations. Iggy and Ella kept a steady conversation up, Nudge, Angel, and Gazzy talked about what they wanted to do when we got to the west coast, Fang ate his dinner quietly, and Mom talked to me.

"How long will you be staying?" she asked.

"Probably just overnight, if that's ok," I replied.

"Of course, sweetheart," she said as if I was silly for thinking otherwise. "You're all welcome here for as long as you want."

I blushed and smiled thankfully to her.

"Are you sure you don't want to stay longer?" It sounded like she was trying to persuade me to stay at least a few nights.

"I don't know, Mom," I sighed. "We haven't heard or seen anything from Itex or the School recently, so we're trying to keep it that way."

"Three nights?" she offered.

"Oh," Nudge chimed in. "Can we, Max?"

All eyes were on me. I already knew I'd lost this battle, so I said, "Two nights."

That was immediately followed by cheers from the kids, including Ella, a wide grin from Iggy, and an impassive face from Fang.

Fang POV

After dinner, we figured out who was going to sleep where while we devoured the cookies Dr. Martinez and Ella made.

"We have two spare bedrooms and someone can sleep on the couch," Dr. Martinez informed us.

"Max, you can stay in my room!" Ella said excitedly.

"Alright, guys," Max said in her leader voice. "Nudge and Angel, why don't you take one room, Ig and Gazzy, you can take the other. Fang, do you mind taking the couch?"

I shrugged and said, "It's a heck of a lot better than sleeping in a tree."

An hour later, everyone was heading to bed. I stretched out on my stomach across the couch with my wings out and relaxed on my back. I heard footsteps echo from the hallway upstairs and listened as they made their way down the stairs.

"Fang?" Max whispered.

"Hmm?" I glanced over to see her walking over to the couch.

"Just came to say goodnight," she said after a short pause and held out her left fist.

"Night, Max," I replied as I stacked my fist on hers. "See ya tomorrow."

She smiled and headed back up to Ella's room. After that, she was all I could think about until I finally fell asleep.