I screamed inside. But you know me, I had to play cool around these kids because if I was scared so were they.

"Jeb!" I responded. "How nice to see you! You haven't changed one bit. You disappear off the face of the earth for 7 years and suddenly you appear out of nowhere. How are you doing? Has the greif finally got to you?"

"Actually it has Max. I feel awful about how I left you guys."

"Good. You should but you know what? It's too late for your sympathy because we got over it years ago. So if you don't mind we'll be going now." I said grabbing Iggy and Gazzy and shuffling everyone to the open window.

"Be my guest. Just remember Maximum, you can run, but you can't hide…"

Since the flock had already left, I gave Jeb one last glare, turned, and jumped out the window.

We flew in silence back to our current cave, even Nudge was quiet, which is saying something.

I told the kids that I would take first watch and they all fell asleep instantaneously. I sat down near the edge of the cave and leaned against the wall. Today was interesting and extremely tiring. About ten minutes later I heard quiet footsteps walking towards me. I turned and saw it was Fang.

"Hey" I said turning back to look out at the endless sky. He nodded and sat next to me. He was so close I could feel the warmth radiating off of him and I shivered just noticing how cold the night was.

"I was really worried this morning… When we woke up and you weren't here." I waited knowing that if you wait long enough Fang will eventually tell you what's on his mind. He went on "I…" I started to get a little worried what was so hard to tell me? He sure does seem a bit scared if you ask me. "I don't know what I would do without you, I mean, I don't know how I could deal with the flock by myself. He seemed a bit flustered so I decided to ask him what was bothering him.

"Fang, is there something that you're not telling me? Is there something I need to know?"

"Well. I don't exactly know how to say it but…" I waited, he didn't go on.

"But…"

"Max, I really like you."

"Well, I like you too." I said smoothly. See, the truth is, I've always had feelings for Fang. I mean, the non-brother-sister feelings.

"No, Max. Not like that." He said. My heart started pounding. Does he like me more than brother-sister too? I knew how hard this must have been for him, I mean he barely speaks at all, and here he is confessing his possible feelings for me.

"Then, like what?" I asked, wondering where this was going.

"Like, I can't tell you. I have to show you." Hmmmm. Now I was really confused. What did fang have to show me that was so secretive. He walked over to Iggy, shook him awake and told him to keep watch for a bit.

"Come here." Fang said taking my hand. Surprisingly, his hand was soft, not like baby's-but-soft, but he held my hand tenderly as if I was something breakable.

We flew for a bit and Fang motioned to a field. We stopped there and I lay down in the fluffy, green grass. Fang sat down and looked at me. I almost forgot to ask him what he had to show me. He took a deep breath.

"I wanted to show you this." He said inching down to meet my mouth. My eyes widened. His lips met mine and it was like a jolt of electricity traveled through my body. His lips were soft and it felt like I was kissing velvet. I was shocked. He actually did like me? I was shaking so bad my lips were trembling.

"Sorry." He said quickly. He turned away, but not before I saw the blush creep on to his face.

"No. Don't be." I said. "I liked it." He turned to me and I smiled. He smiled back and this time I leaned over and kissed him. It felt just like the first but I could actually focus on the kiss and this time there weren't a million things going on in my brain.

We broke the kiss and for what felt like forever we just lay there, watching the stars. I wanted this moment to last for eternity, but we both know that all good things come to an end.