Wowh! In the last chapter I apparently made Dylan say something that Fang said to Max in the books... and as BlackVemon said, that's disgusting! So sorry! I had the quote written down and forgot who it was by. Gees. What kind of a Fax fan am I? I'll have to keep it in there now. :( I can't believe it. Sorry.

For this chapter, once again, I'm going to say trust me. (I know, how can you after I made a mistake like that)

Chapter Thirty

"Max. I can't take it anymore! I've given you space. Enough! We need to talk." Fang says as he follows me down the street.

He was waiting out side my school when I got out and has been following me home since. I've tried in vain to get rid of him. I'm angry at him, furious in fact. Last night Dylan and I went over to Nudges house for dinner. The twins, Iggy, Ella and Fang were there as well. There was a tension in the air. How could there not be? We hadn't been there ten minutes before Dylan was lying on the floor with a broken nose. Guess who did it? You guessed right. Fang.

We were all standing in the lounge room talking about our days when Fang punched Dylan right out of the blue. Dylan had been answering Nudges question of what he had been up to, and he was telling her about the weekend I had spent with him and his family at his house.

It was a disaster. Everyone was yelling. Nudge, yelling that we needed to get Dylan to hospital. Ella, yelling in alarm, at all of the blood. Dylan, yelling in pain. Me, yelling at Fang. Fang, yelling at Dylan. Angel, yelling at me to calm down. Iggy, yelling at Fang to back off and Gazzy yelling at us all to stop yelling.

It had been a month. I can't believe it. A whole month since I had last seen Fang in the street with Dylan. We didn't speak for three weeks after our last encounter and then this past week I can't get him to shut up. I don't think I've ever seen Fang this way. He was so mad at Dylan, he just flipped.

It's raining and I dodge a big puddle as I cross the road with Fang hot on my heels. It's well into winter now, today's the 29th of June the last day of school before two weeks off.

I look over my shoulder at Fang then turn around to face the path ahead of me again. I speed up my walk, but Fangs beside me in three long strides. Damn his long legs.

"What is there to talk about Nick? You know, the calling me all the time and following me around thing is getting tiring." I say.

"Dylan's not good for you." He protests.

"He loves me Fang."

"He doesn't love you like I do. No one loves you more then I do Max." Fang says raising his voice.

I frown at him. "Stop it! I can't do this right now. It's too late."

"You said you still loved me." He stops walking and grabs hold of my arm so I do as well. I pull my arm away from him roughly, but don't continue walking.

"That was before you went after Dylan." I scream. "What the hell is wrong with you? You don't get to hurt me, then decide who I can and can not date. You put him in hospital. Hospital. Are you insane? Hitting him? What were you thinking?"

"He was parading the fact that he has you, right there in front of me, in my family's home. Nudge is my cousin, and she hangs out with you and Dylan." His face is creased up in a pained expression. "What can you see in him?"

"Firstly, he wasn't parading me in front of you like I'm some prized show pony you sexiest pig, and secondly he's kind and considerate. He didn't deserve that Fang."

"What would you do if, I your boyfriend, went off with another girl?"

"I'd punch you idiot. But you're not my boyfriend, so go off with another girl, leave me and Dylan. He cares for me, really cares about me, and your ruining it."

"Cares for you? And what about me? All that history we have. Everything we've been through? My family is your family. Are you dumping them too?" He says in a loud voice.

"Don't you DARE do that! Don't make this harder then it already is!" I've lost it now. I'm sure the whole neighbourhood can hear us.

"I made one mistake. One stupid mistake Max! People make mistakes. I'm not perfect."

"Oh. I know your not."

"I said I was sorry. What more do you won't? I said I love you, shouldn't that be enough? That I love you and you love me?" He puts his hand on my arm and I step away from him.

"Don't put words into my mouth."

He narrows his eyes at me. "Oh, I see. So you don't love me any more? You and your idea of perfection. You always said my parents' relationship was perfect and look at them. Is that it? You thought our relationship was perfect? And because I made one mistake you decided I'm not good enough for you?"

"What? It's not like that."

"I'm not my parents Max. And our relationship is nothing like my parents', let me tell you. You know what? Our relationship was perfect, too perfect. My parents loved each other. Boy did they. But they weren't perfect. They didn't love each other like you and I though Max. Do you want to know a secret? All my dad ever wanted to do was protect my mother. He took all the blame on there relationship not lasting, but he shouldn't have, I love my mum, you know I do, but she was a coward. My mum wanted to go to Hawaii, do you remember that trip? My dad worked double shifts for months to save up, and you know how she repaid him? By sneaking off and meeting his boss! And I'm sure you can guess what they were doing at a hotel. Can you believe it? No you can't. So shocked you are. Look at your face. He found out of course. You can't hide stuff like that from the person who loves you. Well he was angry. She ripped his soul out. So what did he do? Push her. She fell back, got up and slapped him" Fang stopped taking in a shaky breath and continued.

"Now you know the truth. She couldn't face him again. So she left him, because she was so ashamed. He, ashamed as well, took all the blame. Had he hit her before? No. Why did he let people believe he had? I don't know. I believed he had hit her. She would come home with busies. Do you want to know the sick thing? It was the man she was cheating on dad with that hit her! God. And she continued to be with him." He laughed bitterly, but I could see him blinking back tears.

"Fang-"

"He wanted to fix things." He continued, as if I hadn't spoken. "He wanted her to stop seeing that ass, for them to try and fix what was broken. It was her who said no. She said you can't fix what is broken." He got control of himself and his hurt face turned to angry again. "You're kind of like her."

"How dare you. This is totally different!" I feel heat rising up my neck.

"Is it?" Frowning deeply he shakes his head. "She, like you, had a choice Max. For once in your live do what your heart tells you rather then what you think is best. Don't you dare leave me for Dylan because you don't want to hurt his feelings?"

"You're impossible! Are you just deliberately trying to hurt me? To make me hate you?"

"You can't hate me."

"Can't I? Well I don't love you. I can never love you again!" I scream taking unsteady steps backwards. He looks shocked, but he masks it quickly. Only his shaking hands giving him away.

"You keep telling yourself that. And I'll keep telling myself I don't need you every second of the day. And we'll keep lying to each other. And you go off to your lover boy, because he loves you so much." Fang pulls his wallet out of his back pocket and looks through it until he finds what he's looking for. "Here. I should have shown you this earlier. But I didn't think you needed to see it, to know what you mean to me."

As Fang walks away I look down at the piece of card he handed me. I flip it over and see it's the other half of the photograph. The half with me in it. I can't help the tears that escape my eyes, the tears I never aloud myself to cry. And that I think was goodbye.

Sob, sob. You know what I thought after I finished writing this? God I'm good. Ha-ha. I know, How modest of me. ;D I'm just kind of proud of some of the writing in this- says sheepishly. I hope that didn't sound to bad.

Don't worry. Everything will turn out okay.