Hello fanfiction readers who I love and stuff! I'm posting this away from home on a dial-up-but-not-really connection. I don't like taking too long on it, so sorry if I missed some mistakes But anyway, I'd just like to enforce once again that this is not a FangXOC (Allison) story. I've receive a couple of reviews concerning it, so I'm just pointing out again that this story is to be entirely and 100% a FAX STORY!

Chapter Ten

Fang

I turned around, dreading what I would see before I even saw it. There she was, long red hair pooling around her face, the tight ringlets flowing over her shoulders. Max had always hated her because she "saw me kissing her" and she was jealous, no matter how much she denied it.

Just so nobody continues to hate me for it, here's what actually happened:

See, I was collecting my things at the end of the day, and the only other one in the room was Lissa. She was picking up her things, too. Then she dropped a bunch of her books, so I went over to help her pick them up. We both bent down to pick them up, and she looked up at me, only I was looking down, so her…lips kind of…touched mine, and then she stood up, and her cheeks were all pink and stuff, and then…

Okay, yeah, I kissed her.

But that's beside the point. I hadn't been in contact with her since we ditched that hell-hole school and tried to take on Itex. I never planned on seeing her again. After I saw how Max reacted—which was kind of hilarious at first—and then seeing her with that wiener Sam. That's pretty much when I decided that I didn't want any other girl but Max.

I realized that Lissa was standing right in front of me. Had she always been so short? I was at least a foot taller than her. Anyway, she looked unhappy.

"Fancy meeting you here," she said sourly.

"Yeah, you, too," I replied lamely. Allison bounced over, and for the first time, I appreciated her babbling.

"Oh, my gosh! Hi, Lissa! I didn't know you knew Nick! Isn't that just totally ironic that you guys met here? How funny! Haha! Where did you guys meet each other? It must have been a long time ago…"

She said more, but I wasn't listening. I was trying to find means of escaping. I was about fifty feet from the closest exit. Someone would notice me trying to escape by the time I got there. There weren't any windows, and even if there were, an up-and-away would be too risky with all these people. I'd just had to tough through this one.

"So, Lissa, what were you doing here?" I asked casually, interrupting Allison's babbling. Lissa looked from Allison to me.

"I got transferred here after the school got shut down and my dad got fired. We moved over here. It wasn't a far move, so I still keep in touch with most of my friends. Most, except you and your…'siblings'." She said siblings coldly and sarcastically. It made me wonder what she knew. "Where are your siblings, anyway? I thought you guys 'stuck together.' " When she said "stuck together" she did that annoying air quotes thing.

"They stayed home," I lied. "I was the only one who got invited to the dance."

"I don't see any of you guys around school. Where are you going?" she asked. I thought for a minute about an answer.

"Oh, he goes here," Allison said. I silently thanked her for intervening once again. "I can't believe you guys haven't crossed paths! He's been going here for two years!"

Lissa raised her eyebrow sceptically. "I think I'd know if he'd been going to this school for two years," she said, talking to Allison now. Lissa looked back at me. I rolled up my sleeve, realized I didn't actually had a watch, rolled it back down, and turned to Allison.

"Look at the time. Allison, you're mom's gonna be pissed if I didn't get you back before ten." I grabbed her hand in mine and dragged her across the gym. "Great seeing you again, Lissa."

Once we were safely out of the school and sliding into Allison's mom's car, I said, "That was way too close."

Allison smiled at me, buckling up her seatbelt. "I thought it was a great night." I smile to myself. Good

At least someone did.