Chapter Thirteen

At the start it was awkward between Fang and I. It's that stage all couples go through, firstly it's 'I don't know what we are' and then it's 'I don't know how to act'.

I had been worried what the others would think of Fang and I being a couple. I thought it would be weird going to the spot we hung out at, at school as usual, but it wasn't. Nudge had screamed and did a happy dance, when Fang and I had walked into school together, she had guessed. She had said it was because of her that we were together, that it was because she forced us into a pretend marriage when we were little. What ever the reason may be, Fang and I seemed to fit together perfectly. We had many, many, fights over the years, but it had felt like I had found my soul mate at fifteen, I wasn't quick to admit it, but I fell for him fast.

I had a whole in my heart that I thought may never fully heal, after my Mum died, but Fang helped it hurt less. He took hold of my hand and didn't let go, pulling me forward and on with my life. He was always so supportive of me, of my dancing, and the person who believed in me the most.

It was a week before Nudge and my dance competition that Gazzy had declared we should take advantage of Nudges parents going away for the weekend, and have a party. It was something we had never done before. We hadn't hang out all together much with Nudge and I practising for our competition like crazy. Amanda had been pushing us hard. In the weeks leading up to the competition we went to the studio most nights. Nudge and I were happy to think of something other then dance.

"What like a party?" I asked Gazzy.

"Sure." He smiled.

"Sure?"

"Yeah, I heard you're famous for your shindigs." Iggy said.

"You heard right."

"Nudge raved about that girl's night." He said shoving me playfully. "I even heard the cops had to get involved."

"Hmm, yeah. Good times." I say. Fang chuckled.

"What?" I asked him with a laugh.

"Only you would have a girl's night that ended by getting shut down by the police." Fang said, the corner of his mouth twitching.

Iggy shook his head. "What did you girls get up to?"

"That my friend, I can't tell."

"What happens on girls nights, stays on girls nights." Nudge said seriously, then errupted into laughter. She's coping what Mark always says while camping, but he says 'what happens on camp says on camp'.

Nudge took planning the party far too seriously. She wrote lists of people to invite and went over them again and again crossing, and adding names to it. She wanted it to be the best party anyone in the school had ever been to. She didn't want it to be too big, she knew her parents would freak out if they found out she had, had a party. But she wanted the party to be the talk of our year level. We all got a say into who we wanted to come and who we didn't. All I cared about was that Dylan and Lisa didn't come, but Nudge quickly dismissed that saying they were both popular so we needed them to come. They both use to drive me crazy. Lisa because she thought she was, it and a bit, not just because she kissed Fang...

"One hour and courting, until the party." Nudge said walking into her room with a bowl of crisps. She put them down on her bed next to where Angels sitting.

"My first party." Angel said taking some chips, she grinned at Nudge moving her shoulders up and down in a sort of dance move. Nudge laughed.

"Yes young one." Nudge said.

"Is Elle real disappointed you don't want her here?" Angel asked me. I'm sitting at Nudges desk.

"It's not that I don't want her there. It's just that she's only in year seven and not even thirteen yet. What kind of sister would I be if I let my twelve year old sister come to a wild teenage party- "It's not going to be wild?" Nudge interrupted me looking anxious.

"A fun sister!" Iggy said walking into the room, answering my rhetorical question.

"Don't make me feel bad." I said. Fang walked in behind Iggy and whipped him in the back of the head with the hand towel he's holding. Iggy squealed, jumping away from Fang, who grinned.

"Here Nudge." Fang said handing Nudge the towel. Fang and Iggy had been mucking around and accidentally spilt a drink on Nudges white carpet. She looked at the two of them pointedly.

"I'm not cleaning it." She said cocking an eye brow. Iggy and Fang looked at each other, then both went down onto their hands and knee's and began cleaning up the mess.

"The fairy lights look good out by the pool Nudge." Gazzy said as he came into the room.

"Oh thanks," she beamed "but it doesn't look like anyone will be going out there, it's starting to rain." Nudgee said looking out the window. "I've got to start getting ready."

Fang sat down on Nudges bed beside Angel, grabbing a chip. Nudge walked over to her closet, and went inside. "What's the dress code? Dresses?" She called out.

"What ever you want to wear." I tell Nudge.

"That doesn't help me. What are you wearing?" She asks, coming back out with a couple dresses. I look down to what I'm wearing.

"That?" She asks frowning.

"Yes, that." I say knowing I should be offended but laughing.

"Okay, boys out." Nudge said. "What would my mother say, to having boys in my room?" She says more to herself. "We girls need to get ready." She says louder.

"Okay, okay." Gazzy says as Nudge ushered him out of the room. Fang and Iggy stand up as well going to follow Gazzy.

"Don't leave me. She'll try to make me wear something girly." I joke grabbing hold of Fang's arm as he passes me. Fang looks down at me and smirks before walking on.

"Traitor." I call out after him."

Nudge closes the door after them. Angel is up and pulling things out of her bag as soon as the door is closed. "This one, or this one? " Angel asks holding up two dressed.

"That one." Nudge said pointing to a pale pink strapless floral dress. "It says I'm pretty, fun and flirty but not easy or slutty."

"Oh, I didn't know a dress could say so much." I say with a laugh. "What does what I'm wearing say?" I joke.

"It says, I'm boring, don't look, don't touch, I have a boyfriend, I've given up and don't need to look cute." Nudge said laughing a little.

"Thanks." I say sarcastically.

"I think it says I'm sporty and modest." Angel said.

"I think it says, I know karate and will kick your sorry butt, then run away." I say, thinking of Dylan being here tonight as I say it.

"Max, rule number one, never wear ripped skinny jeans and runners to a party. The singlet top I'll accept, if you were wearing it with a skirt..." Nudge says.

"I'm getting changed." Angel declares, going into Nudges closet.

"Here's some chooses you can wear." Nudge says laying out the dresses on her bed.

"I'm happy in what I'm wearing, but you should wear this one." I say pointing to a deep purple dress with one long sleeve, the other off the shoulder cut.

"Yeah, I should, shouldn't I?" Nudge said, picking it up off the bed. "Do you like any of these?"

"Not for myself."

"What do you think?" Angel asked coming out of the walk in closet.

"You look amazing." Nudge squealed. Angel did a twirl the knee length dress swinging around her.

"It looks great on you." I agreed.

"Thanks." Angel said beaming.

"Come on you'll look great in a dress." Nudge told me.

"No!"

"What about a skirt?"

"No!"

"Fine, but your not wearing those shoes. Come on." Nudge said. I followed her into her closet. "What about this pare?" She took a pare of red, very high, high heels, off a shelf stocked full of shoes.

"I won't be able to walk in them." I say.

"These ones?"

"No."

"These?"

"No way!"

"Oh, these?"

"Hmm..." There not so bad.

"They're so you." Nudge says, holding up a pare of black high heel ankle boots. I take them from her and kick off my runner's and pull them on. Perfect fit, and surprisingly comfortable.

"Wow, they look great. They make your legs look amazingly long. Okay it's amazing what a good pare of heels can do." Nudge said.

"Come Nudge, I'll straighten your hair." Angel called out. We exited the closet and Nudge sat at her desk, where Angel had spread out all her make-up and hair stuff. Angel began straightening Nudges wild curls.

I went to leave the room, to see what the boys are up to when Nudge called out. "Wait Max, not until you're ready."

"I am ready." I said frowning slightly. She just laughs. I roll my eyes but go back and sit on her bed.

It took Angel fifteen minutes to straighten Nudges hair, and apparently that's really quick for Nudges hair.

"Your turn." Angel said. Nudge grabbed my wrist and pulled me up off the bed and pushed me down onto the chair in front of her desk.

"No make-up." I warned.

"Fine, just your hair."

They both fussed over my hair brushing, curling, putting product in it. Until I was left with soft looking shiny, loose curls. And get this I'm happy with it, but all I gave the girls was a shrug and half smile. "It's okay." I answer when they ask if I like it.

"You look hot." Nudge said grinning at me. "We all do." She added, looking at her dress in the mirror. We're now in Nudges bathroom, the three of us standing in front of the mirror.

The party was, all in all, a success, that being said, there were way more people then we had invited. But only one thing had been broken and it was something Nudge was pretty sure her parents wouldn't know was missing, a little vase, Nudge had made in grade two. Nudge had been sure more things would be broken when a group of senior boys had started playing around with a footy inside.

It had rained the whole evening and night, yet that didn't stop anyone from having a good time, and it didn't stop Fang and I from going out to the pool and Fang from pushing me in.

"FANG." I screamed as I feel side ways into the pool. I came back up to the surface just in time to see Fang dive in. The waters freezing, and the jeans and shoes I'm wearing are weighing me down.

He looks at me with the smuggest grin on his face. I splash water into his face, he slashes me back. I laugh and begin swimming backwards but he grabs me ankle and pulls me backwards.

"Where are you going?" He asks, his face so close to mine, I can feel his hot breathe against my cheek.

I smile. "Know where."

"That's right." He says, running his hands over my arms.

"Nudge is going to kill me, I'm wearing her shoes."

"Well we can't have that." Fang says. "Here." We swim over to the edge and I lean against it as he pulls the boats off me and throws them over near a banana lounge. I wrap my arms around his neck and kiss him. He pulls me closer moving us away from the edge.

"Hey guys, what are you doing?" Gazzy interrupts us. "The police are here. Nudge is freaking out." Fang and I break way quickly and look at each other in alarm before hurrying to get out of the pool. Fang goes to offer me his hand just as I manage to climb out myself, so I give him a little smile.

We run around the side of the house with Gazzy, and sure enough see the police car with the lights flashing and a police officer talking to Nudge, Angel and Iggy in front of it. Now we're closer we can see it's Mark Fangs Dad. Have I ever mentioned Mark's a police officer for our local station?

"Fang, Max. I thought I should see you two- why are you soaking wet?- you know what, I don't even wont to know. The parties over kids, sorry." Mark said. He looked at us all, laughed a little then got back in his car, and waited a minute for the other officer to come out of the car and drove off.

"Everyone's leaving." Angel said. The six of us sat on the front steps as the last of the teenagers left. Most of them had run off when the police had arrived.

"I can't believe Mark didn't get angry." Iggy said. "Wait actually, I can."

"Yeah he's like that." Fang said, smiling slightly and shaking his head. I lent into Fang and he put his arm around my shoulders.

"Does this ruin the party?" Nudge asked after we were all quiet for a while.

"No way! Its not a real party unless the cops break it up." I say. She smiles at me.

"It's one in the morning anyway." Gazzy said looking at his mobile phone from his pocket.

"That's why I'm so tired." Angel said.

"Let's go in." Nudge said. We all got up and went back into the house. "We can all crash in the lounge. I'll get blankets and pillows." She said.

Hey, Sorry it's taken me a while to up-date this. Thanks for those of you who reviewed! :D I hope this chapter was okay. R&R if you'd like, I appreciate all comments.