I'm off for the nect 5 days so I'll try and update all of my stories throught this time. I've been working on this one a bit, so here you go. Enjoy!
Good." She said and fell back to sleep
.Why does everybody think that I was going or gone? I was here, I never thought of leaving except for that one stint with Ari, and even then I was in agony. I could never leave Max for too long, and I thought for sure that she knew that. I was always going to keep my promise, no matter what came between us. I might have to pretend to leave, but I would never actually leave. I can't. I don't know why they are thinking these things.
Finally I fell asleep to my whacked out dreams, this one with a burning Pillsbury Dough Boy.
I woke up with Max on my lap again and Angel curled around on top of her. Carefully I peeled Angel off of Max, trying not to wake her up. Fixing her back onto my shoulder, I pulled Max up a bit, but she was too much of a dead weight to get her all the way back up. She was resting her head on my stomach now, sound asleep and unable to give any real help. I gave up and slouched a little more, my but hanging onto the edge of the seat, but at least Max and Angel, my lovely ladies, were more comfortable.
A flight attendant walked by and smiled at my situation.
"Do need help to move them?" she asked with false sympathy. I shook my head, "Naw, they seem to be good. But I was wondering when breakfast was coming?..."I left the sentence open ended for her to answer.
"In a half hour or so, when everyone else starts to wake up a little." I nodded and she continued back to where she came from.
I hummed a random tune as I looked at the other flock. Nudge took up the entire row, her leg sticking out into the isle a bit, her hair a complete static frenzy. Gazzy was upside down in his chair somehow and Iggy's face was pressed up against the glass of the plane, drool crusting at the edge of his mouth that I could see.
Still humming, I looked down at Angel and Max. They were staring at me, the both of them. It was creepy. They were still against my shoulder and my stomach and they only shifted their heads a bit.
"Well…." I said, unsure of what to do. "Good morning?" I said as a question. Max yawned but otherwise stayed where she was and Angel just looked at me some more.
Not knowing what to do, I continued to hum, hoping that would make them snap out of their drowsy state. A smile came to Max's face and she closed her eyes, but not to fall back to sleep. Angel smiled brightly too and listened through my chest. Wow. I knew they were weird, but nearly this extreme.
I continued to hum my songs of nothing until the breakfast was passed out to us.
They sat up and went into the two free seats around me. I just stared at them while they dug into their omelet like nothing weird was going on. I just shook my head, too tired and hungry to even care. I never really got too much sleep last night, just off and on naps throughout the night.
Iggy, Nudge and Gazzy were all up and eating happily too. We were to land in 3 hours. The home stretch.
There was really nothing to do, besides looking at Max. And sleep. But that was nearly impossible when there was a Max to be looked at. She ate her breakfast almost politely, but there was always that savage hunger that took over all of us. There was a bit of red pepper on her chin, and I reached over to wipe it off.
Her eyes went wide as my finger brushed the skin on her chin, taking the pepper on the tip of my finger. I put my finger to my lips and ate the pepper. She blushed and kept on eating her omelet.
I sat back and thought about what I just did. What the heck was that for? I never done anything so…so couple like before. I know that if it was a few months earlier she would have punched me in the face if I ever tried anything like that. This meant that we were going somewhere. I sat there and wondered what else I could try and pull off. There were a few more things that I wouldn't mind to try.
I ended up falling asleep until the ding for the seatbelts came on. I slowly blinked my eyes open, coming back into my right mind. I felt a small pressure on my forearm, and it was moving around in an almost hypnotizing way. It kind of tickled but it felt nice. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the feeling. Then the pressure moved up to my face, stroking my eyelids, brushing against my cheeks. The pressure then went down the bridge of my nose, and onto my lips. I opened my lips just the tiniest bit, just so that the pressure wouldn't go away.
"Alright, I've been nice long enough." The pressure left and gave me a smack.
My eyes flew open to glare at her.
"Don't look at me like that. I have never woken up to tickle-me-nice."
She sat back normally in her seat. Being still half asleep, I leaned over and put my head on her shoulder. I wrapped my arms around her like a giant teddy bear and squeezed.
"I loooove you so much my Maxy Bear. You are my bestest friend in the whole world." I tightened my arms around her, and snuggled into her bony shoulder the best I could.
"Ow, Fang, stop, this really hurts." She complained and tried to wiggle out of my grasp.
I just held on tighter.
"I'm serious. I will punch you in the face if you don't let go of me right now."
Not wanting a black eye like Iggy for Australia, I gave her one more super tight squeeze and let go. Leaning back I smiled, big and bright, making sure that any thought of punching me was out of her head. She just smiled at me dazed and grabbed my hand. I secretly smirked in my head and looked at the front of the plane.
We had begun the decent and my ears were popping just a bit. It was dark outside of the plane, so I guessed that it was their night here. The PA crackled and the pilot's voice came on.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, we have almost finished our decent into Australia. It is about 3 am in their time which is 8 hours ahead. We are touching down in Sydney and there will be shuttle buses to the different hotels in the area. If you are visiting here, hope you have a nice stay, and if you're coming back from vacation, welcome home. Touchdown in 2 in a half minutes."
The voice stopped, and I felt Max squeeze my hand in anticipation. There was a minute of silence and the bump of the tires hitting the runway, The plane passengers started to clap, so the flock and I clapped along in confusion. Well, except Angel. She explained why later.
There was like five minutes of taxiing around and then finally we pulled to a stop and the seat belt lights went off.
The entire flock ripped off their buckles and stood up to stretch. Everyone except me.
Max looked down and saw me struggling with how to undo the buckle. She laughed and unbuckled me.
"I'm never buying a car with seatbelts if you are going to this every time." She stood straight again and I turned the slightest shade of pink. It wasn't everyday that something so simple stumped me. I stood up though and grabbed my carry on that was stored in the over head compartment along with Max's. Angel shuffled out and went to where Nudge was pulling their luggage down.
The plane finally started to file out and when we got out into the open air, I just wanted to do a U and A right then and there. My wings were sore and stiff and my lungs have been breathing in stale air for more hours than I could count. I was tired of course, but I wanted nothing but to fly.
Max led us across the tarmac and through the doors, muttering to herself the entire time. I guessed that the voice was back and giving her directions. We finally got through customs and to the shuttle that we didn't know about. I was carrying my carryon and Angel's, since she fell asleep in the line and Iggy agreed to carry her. Sitting on the shuttle beside Max, I saw her lips moving but no words coming out. I continued to stare at her as she had her silent conversation. The way her lips were moving in a whisper made me want her a lot more than three minutes ago.
Slowly creeping closer to her face, I rough plan sketched it's self in my mind. And, for once, it went according to it.
Once I was hardy 4 inches away from her, I called her name in a whisper.
"Max."
Startled she turned her head towards me, losing two inches that were between us. I closed the rest of the space and kissed her right on the lips. Not like that's anything new, but on the bumpy shuttle, it was a whole new challenge.
I grabbed the sides of her face in a failed attempt to keep her head from shaking around, and she grabbed my hair, trying to do the same thing. Our teeth clicked together with every bump, but that wasn't stopping the two hormone ravished teens. When the shuttle came to a stop just for a second, we finally got a half decent kiss in. Finally she gave up.
"Fang," She breathed, forehead resting against mine. "This isn't working out." I nodded and went to kiss her forehead, but ended up, missing and kissing her eye. We both laughed and let go of our hold on each other, except for our hands. Those were linked tight.
We passed a few more stops, when I realized that this shuttle was more like a bus.
"Why are we stopping like a bus?" I asked Max in a whisper.
"It's called a shuttle bus for a reason. It makes more than one stop." I just nodded. That made a bit more sense.
Max stood up suddenly as the shuttle bus came to another stop.
"Next one's ours guys, Get your stuff ready."
I picked up mine and Angel's bags while Iggy carefully stood up with Nudge's help. The bus moving so much didn't help Iggy and his blindness at all. We all piled out as the bus came to our stop.
"Alright guys, it's a U and A for a half hour or so until we hit the rest of the money and the hotel. Then a nice long nap for all of us." We all gave our various approvals and worked out the schedule for carrying Angel. About ten minutes each, but I would have to take her the longest. Iggy transferred over to my arms and she stayed sleeping soundly.
"Let's go."
Max took off first with the rest of us following her. I was last to take off, but I saw Max hovering in the sky waiting for her favorite members to get in the air with her.
I unfurled my wings, ignoring the slight pang when I did. Crouching low with Angel I jumped into the air to follow the rest of the flock. This is what I was waiting for ever since the airport. Speaking of which, I thought we were supposed to do a U and A as soon as we got off the plane. I flew closer to Max so I could ask her about it.
"I thought we were supposed to be in the air as soon as we stepped off of the plane."
She looked over at me in surprise.
"The voice actually gave me a bit more direction on the plane. I guess I forgot." She chewed her lip in concentration. "Besides, the radar would be too dangerous to try and fly." I nodded shifting Angel in my arms a bit.
Good thing no remembered that command, or else we would be in some deep crap right now.
The air in Australia was much different than in Antarctica or the States. It was a certain kind of stuffy, but not with pollution. It was more of heat and…natural. I shrugged it off and kept flying. At least we were some where warm again.
As we flew around, I saw Iggy's head cock to the side. Doing a quick 360, I saw what he was hearing. A few M-Geeks, a shake of Flyboys, and a dash of Eraser. This was getting weird.
Yeah, so I hoped you liked it. I think this story will get a bit harder because I've never been to Austrialia, so if someone that lives there can give me a few pointers, that would be great. I'm making this stuff up so I really don't know what I'm talking about. :S Please help! And review, 'cause that's always nice :D
Ella
