Max

Fang looks at my phone. "So Ella knows huh?" He grins at me and there's something about the way he's looking at me that seems...mischievous.

"Yeah, she probably knows." I say slowly, trying to figure out why he's looking at my phone that way. Then it hits me but Fang's already standing up.

"No! Fang! Give me my phone!" I say, jumping up.

Fang shakes his head and runs out the door. I follow him and we race down the stairs, being sure to slow down when we pass Ms. Monroe. Then I run after a laughing Fang in the rain, trying to keep up so I can get my phone back.

"Fang! Give me my phone!" I yell.

He turns around, running backwards and yells, "Come and get me!"

Then he trips over the curb, landing flat on his back in the grass.

"Fang!" I scream, suddenly worried about him. Then of course I trip and land right on top of him because nothing less awkward could have happened right then.

Oh yeah, while Fang and I are staring at each other with wide eyes we hear laughter and not just random laughter from a stranger, oh no, it's much worse than the laughter of some random stranger. We hear Iggy's laughter.

"Well, this is a truly beautiful sight. Although I have to say, I saw it coming." Iggy laughs.

(NOTICE: Iggy has really bad eyesight so he has to use glasses to see but he isn't technically blind.)

I start blushing, feeling completely mortified and roll off Fang. Then I steal my phone back.

"Sorry. Are you okay?" I ask.

He nods and stands up. This is when I realize we landed in my yard and that everyone is looking at us through the windows. I glare at them all through the windows and the blinds suddenly go down for a mysterious reason.

"We're never gonna hear the end of this." I state, looking at Fang.

He smirks at me. "Well lets give them something to talk about." He says in a mysterious voice with a strange look in his eyes.

"Wha-" I start but I'm interrupted by the intense look Fang is giving me.

"Hey no, you two had your chance, you're not doing that now!" Iggy yells, still laughing. He gets in between Fang and me, separating us.

I can't help but feel disappointed but I'm not sure why. Fang keeps his eyes locked on mine and says, "I gotta get home. Later."

"Later." I manage to say.

Fang

I walk home with a stupid grin on my face. I almost kissed Max and I think she was gonna let me. I was so close to doing it. Why Iggy? Why?

Then when my brain starts to function properly I start panicking. Oh crap! I almost kissed Max! I can't kiss Max. We're just friends and she probably wants to keep it that way. We just met; why did I try to kiss her? Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! What am I supposed to do now? How can I face her again? Deep breaths Fang, breathe, breathe. Okay, just text her and say you thought it would be fun to additionally freak everyone out and that you figure we should just stay the way we are...Even though I really wanted to kiss her in the rain, because she said she never had ever been kissed in the rain. I think I'll leave that last part out. There you go Fang, now you have a plan; even though you already know that you won't get any sleep tonight.

Then I look back towards Max's house and have a crazy idea that might make up for me leaving her to be interrogated by the others.

Max

As I suspected earlier, I'm being bombarded with questions about my nonexistent secret relationship with Fang. Naturally Iggy came crashing through the house screaming and laughing about what he saw. Bad Iggy, bad. Fortunately my mom wasn't home yet otherwise there would be the suspicions from not only my sisters and friends but also my mother. I would not be able to take her questions, especially since she let me go to his house for the first time today. Although I kinda wish my mom were here right now because then Iggy would be attempting to be polite and suck up to her, so he would not be running through the house.

I somehow manage to escape Nudge and lock myself in my room, hiding until they all leave. Fang left me here all by myself to deal with the questions; my hero-not.

Then I get a text from Fang.

Having fun?

Yes, I love being questioned alone about something that everyone assumes involves an additional person besides just me.

Sorry about that. I just figured if they were gonna go crazy, we might as well give them a legitimate reason. Ya know?

Fair enough. But you are not forgiven for leaving me here to be questioned.

Okay. I'll make it up to you.

How?

I hear a tap on my balcony window. I jump up, grab my knife from under my pillow and slowly open the curtains to see Fang staring at the knife in my hand with wide eyes. His face turns white and he starts shaking as soon as he sees the knife.

"W-w-why d-do you have a kn-kn-kn-knife?" Fang stammers, backing away from me. He looks so scared. I suddenly want to protect him somehow; hug him maybe but that won't really help right now.

I put the knife in a drawer and say, "I thought you might be an intruder. I didn't know it was you."

Fang looks very shaken up, probably thinking about how his sister died and how his foster dad always cut him up with knives.

"Sorry for scaring you. Come on in." I tell him.

"Are there any other knives in your room?" He asks.

I nod and Fang goes rigid.

"Do you wanna hang out on the balcony instead?" I ask. (My balcony has a portion of the roof over it so we won't have to worry about getting anymore wet than we already are.)

Fang nods.

"So, what did you wanna do to make up for misleading everyone and then leaving me to be interrogated?" I ask, trying to change the subject as I close the door to my room.

"I thought we could play another riveting game of Never Have I Ever." He says, holding out his phone. "I just downloaded the app."

I grin at Fang. "Sure. Do you wanna raise our hands this time?" I ask.

Fang pulls a plastic bag full of Hershey's fun-sized bars and says, "Nope."

My grin gets wider and this time Fang grins at me. "You wanna go first?" He asks.

"Nah, your phone, you can go first." I reply.

"Okay. Never have I ever got teen a tatoo." Fang reads.

I take a Hershey's and Fang raises an eyebrow. I roll my eyes and show him my tatoo of a heart with wings on the right side of my right heel. On the heart there's a scroll with the words: 'Fly on' written in midnight blue.

"Sweet. Why does it say 'fly on'?" Fang comments.

"It means go forward and don't worry about the past. I kinda made it up." I explain.

"That's a good saying." Fang says, handing me the phone.

I read it in my head and feel myself blush. Why do I always get the embarrassing ones? I wonder.

"Never have I ever been given flowers." I read, blushing more as I pass Fang the phone.

Neither of us take a chocolate and I really don't know why I care about this sort of thing. It's stupid. I guess it just bothers me that it's another example of how the males in my life generally don't care. Well, I guess Fang seems to care a tiny bit, but that's even more of a reason for him not to care. Why would he care if so few have before him? Why should he be any different than the others?

"Never have I ever been kissed on the lips." Fang reads.

I take a chocolate and notice that Fang's face looks a little red.

"Not even once?" I can't help but ask, hardly believing it. Not to be weird but he's just so good-looking, I would have assumed he'd been kissed at least onespecially holy with all those girls at school who swoon over him.

He shakes his head and hands me the phone.

"Never have I ever eaten a bug." I read.

We both take a chocolate and I can't help but laugh.

Fang chuckles and I hand him the phone. "Never have I ever worn make-up." He reads.

Nobody takes a chocolate and Fang looks at me with this weird look. It's almost like there's a smile in his eyes, like he's happy about something but he doesn't want to show it.

"What?" I ask as he hands me the phone.

"You don't need it." Fang tells me.

I blush and I don't know hat yo say. I've never been told that by a boy before. I'm just plain, boring Max with the messy hair and boring brown eyes. I'm nothing special.

Fang's phone starts ringing so I hand it to him.

"Hello?" He asks.

"I'm at Max's house. Sorry. I'll tell you where we're going next time. It was. Spur of the moment kind of thing." He apologizes.

"Yes mam, it won't happen again, you will be fully informed right away." He promises.

"Yes, I'll come back right now." He says.

"Bye." He says, hanging up the phone.

Fang

"I need to go. Ms. Monroe didn't appreciate the sudden disappearance. I'll see you tomorrow." I tell Max.

"Okay. Thanks for coming over." Max smiles.

"Do you want to keep the chocolate?" I ask.

"Um, only if it's okay with you." She says uncomfortably.

"It's fine." I tell her, wishing she didn't always seem so uncomfortable when she's asked a question. I want to protect her from everything that dares try to hurt her.

Max brightens and smiles. "Thanks Fang." She says.

"You're welcome Max." I say with a smile.

"Later." She waves.

"Later Max." I say, jumping from her balcony. I'm both surprised and excited hen I land on my feet. I hope Max saw. I look up and she's leaning over her balcony, watching me to make sure I didn't just break something. I wave at her and grin.

She waves back and shakes her head but I can still see the smile she's trying to hide.

Well, here's the new chapter. Sorry but there is no preview for the next chapter because it's all super top-secret (even to myself...). Anyway, thank youroot reading this fanfic and I'm sorry I can't update all the time but since school started I've had a million and five+ things to do. (Yes, it's supposed to be a weird expression.)

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