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Chapter 48 The Surprise Party

Max's POV

Fang and I left the waterfall, even though I would have been glad to stay there with him forever.

We got home around 6:45 and I sensed that something was going on. All the lights in the house were off and there was no car in the front of the house.

Where did everyone go? This is not like Mom; she usually tells us if she is going to go somewhere.

I walked up to the door with Fang slowly following me.

The door started to open slightly without anyone touching it. I started to tense up but I opened the door anyways, even though I usually don't do that.

"Surprise," everyone yelled at me and the lights flicked on.

I just stood there. There was nothing that I could or was able to say. My mouth dropped. Fang started to wrap his arms around my waist and rock me back and forth in his arms.

He leaned in and I could feel his warm breath on the back of my neck. "Happy Birthday Max," he whispered right into my ear. "You are surprised aren't you?"

At that point I was still speechless so I just kept on standing there like a statue.

Fang took his hands and turned me around to face him.

Before I could even blink Fang planted his lips right on mine.

"Ooo," came from Angel's and Nudge's voices. "Get a room," Gazzy shouted at us.

Fang and I rolled our eyes at Gazzy. "Grow up Gazzy. You are going to like girls someday too," Fang told Gazzy.

Gazzy's face was all scrunched up like he just ate a lemon. "EWWWW," he told all of us.

After Gazzy's little I don't like girl's speech, which you don't want to hear at all. Everyone almost fell asleep while he was talking but every time Gazzy would yell at us, "Guys pay attention." That is something I never expected from Gazzy.

Mom first got out some music and we played limbo, don't ask because I have no clue why. I bet you would never be able to guess who won. Fang, I couldn't believe it either. You would think that since Angel is the smallest she would win but no.

After limbo was over and Fang got his prize, which was a kiss from me, we went over to the kitchen and ate supper.

The table was lined with food. There were hot dogs, pizza, burgers and any other kind of junk food you can name. Mom even bought too much food; we weren't even able to finish everything. About three-quarters of the food were gone. There were half eaten hot dogs and slices of pizza on our plates. Nudge had a humongous pile of chips on her plate that was as big as Mount Everest.

Nudge leaned back in her chair and rubbed her belly. "I've never said this before but I'm stuffed. This is a first. I always finish all of the food on my plate and want more." She then went deep into thought for a few seconds. Her eyes lit up, "Max??? Can you open your presents now?? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE??? You are going to love what I got you, well what Angel and Ella got us. Come on Max. If you don't open them…" Angel and Ella slapped their hands over her mouth.

I thought over for a second. My choices were either go open my presents now or have to deal with Nudge bugging me about it and jumping up and down until I do.

Hmmm. This is hard.

Out of the corner of my eye I could see Angel snickering.

What's so funny? Angel quickly covered her mouth and gave me those big innocent eyes of hers asking what-are-you-talking-about. I rolled my eyes at her. Don't give me that look; you know what I'm talking about.

I was… Angel was interrupted by Mom saying, "Present time."

Nudge jumped right out of her seat and raced over to all of the presents before I could even blink "Here's your present Max." She started to jump and down even more. Just to tease her I took off the wrapping paper slowly. "Don't do that Max," she said in the whinniest baby voice ever.

We all laughed at her. Well Fang being Fang chuckled and gave me a half smile.

"Wait," Mom called out to me after I started to open the gift again. "I want to get a picture of this."

She ran out of the room to get the camera. I tugged on Ella's shirt and whispered in her ear, "Is she always like this on birthdays?"

Before I could even finish my question Ella was nodding her head. "She did the exact same thing on my birthday and is probably going to do this for everyone else's."

We waited a few minutes until she got back. "Okay, now you can open it."

I finally opened up the present. My mouth dropped. It was an mp3 player and it had a ton of pictures on it. They were all of the Flock, Ella and Mom.

"Thanks," I told them. I grabbed them a brought them into a big group hug. "I love you guys."

I'm not going to bore you with everything that went on while opening the presents. Iggy and Gazzy got me a $30 gift certificate for the mall.

I was about to open Mom's gift when Nudge and Ella spoke up at the same time, "What about Fang's gift?"

We all turned to look at him. "Yeah Fang, what about you," I teased.

"I'm going to give you mine later," he told me and a smile started to form on his face.

"Ewww," Gazzy, Angel, Ella and Nudge chimed in all at the same time. I bet I know what they were thinking.

"Just as long as you don't give it to her in front of us, the kissing is more then enough," we all burst out laughing at what Iggy said. You would never have thought that Iggy would say that.

"Open Mom's present Max," this time Ella was the one jumping up and down. She must have known what I was getting.

Mom handed me her gift and I started to unwrap it. Everyone was watching me with great interest.

There was a box. "Nice gift Max. I think that is the best gift that you have ever gotten," Gazzy shouted. What is up with him and the random outbursts?

I finally got a chance to open the box. It was hard because there was so much tape on it.

Once I got the box open I could feel my mouth dropped and for the second time today I was speechless. I could not believe that Mom got this for me.

Sorry for the cliff hanger. I thought that it would be a good place to end. The poll is still up so you should check it out. I was trying to update earlier in the week but I didn't have a chance. I'm not sure what else to say so thanks for all of the reviews. PLEASE REVIEW!!!