Ch 11: Fine

Max's P.O.V.

Fang opens his mouth as if he is about to speak, but as soon as he opens his mouth, it closes. He looks almost surprised and relieved at the same time.

"You're her." He said his voice cracking while he points a finger at me.

"What?" I asked confused.

"Her. You. Are." He said.

"Who are you, yota?"

He runs to me and hugs me tightly. At first I'm stunned then settle for two pats on his back.

"Um. You wanna explain?" I asked.

He grabs my shoulders and shakes me. "Why didn't you tell me!?" he says his eyes big.

"Oh, you mean this song writing stuff."

He nods his head rapidly as if to say yes.

"Well I was gonna tell you, but I haven't figured out how to. But thank god I don't have to do that anymore."

He takes a step back up and reaches into his pocket for something.

"Dammit." He runs out and goes downstairs. Twenty seconds later he returns and starts to dial a number on his phone.

"Iggy looks like you owe me twenty bucks." He says matter-of-factly with a huge grin on his face.

"Uh, Fang, what are y-" I was cut off when he put a hand up to tell me to shush.

"Yes, and guess who it is"

"No." he said frowning like a two year old.

I look at him confused. He notices and smirks at me.

"No, dude guess harder." He says whining.

Oh my glob.

"No, and yes I'm with her."

I look around for the 'her' and notice I'm the only girl in the room.

"Oh make sure to tell the rest and bring them over. Oh and tell Nudge to bring Ella back." He said.

Frustrated I stand up and stomp towards Fang and snatch his phone away.

I put the phone to my ear and talk.

"Iggy."

Fang doesn't bother to take it away and sits down on my bed.

"Iggy?"

There was silence for a while and finally Iggy speaks.

"Max?!"

"Yea, what are you and Fang talking about?"

"Let Fang explain, I got to go pick up my dogs crap. Bye"

"Wait, Ig!" I yell into the phone.

I look over at Fang and throw his phone at him, and it hits him straight on the forehead.

He groans in pain and glares at me.

"What's with the hissy fit?" he said frowning.

"Oh I don't know, maybe its because no ones telling me what's going on. You're smart enough, take a hint Walker."

He giggled. In the Fang sorta way.

"Calm down you'll know in the next fifteen minutes Martinez." He said smirking.

-14 minutes later-

Fang and I were sitting on my bed across from each other sitting pretzel style. Playing Go Fish.

It was my turn. "You have any five's?"

"Go fish."

"You have any two's." he says.

"Nope-" I said popping the p. "-go fish."

"Do you have any-" but I was cut off by the doorbell.

Our eyes lock on each other for a second and he smiled. Then we threw our cards and raced down the stairs.

Halfway to the door I manage to push Fang and he falls to the floor. As I reach for the handle I feel two muscular hands pick me up and drape me over his shoulder.

It took me 10 seconds to process what was happening, but before I started pounding his back for picking me up he opened the door, and when I looked over his shoulder I see five surprised faces. Especially Ella's, considering I haven't told her about the whole song writing thing and the song book which is still MIA.

Iggy was the first to speak.

"Looks like we interrupted something. Good, lets go guys." Iggy said walking past Fang and slapping my butt.

Gazzy then walked in and also slapped my butt. Looks like it caused an assembly line, because everyone slapped my butt when they walked in. Even after everyone walked in Fang slapped my butt.

"Ow, what's with the sexual harassment?" I said rubbing my butt, while I was still draped over Fang's shoulder.

He didn't answer while he was carrying me to the living room where everyone was sitting somewhere. Gazzy, Nudge, and Angel on the couch. Igg was on the recliner, having the footrest reclined.

Fang put me down and I went straight to the kitchen after a light slap against his cheek.

When I entered the kitchen preparing drinks for everyone.

I walk over and offer to help. "You want help."

"No." she responded right away.

"Um, Ells, are you okay?"

She abruptly turns around and sorta whisper screams to make sure no one else hears.

"Am I okay?!" she says outraged.

"I find out my sister keeps a songbook, has songs in said songbook dating back to middle school, and is the mystery girl singer of their band from Iggy! Of all people, Iggy has to tell me. And then said sister asks if I'm okay! I saw the book Max, Iggy has it. I cant believe you."

"Why are you making such a big deal out this!" I yelled not caring who heard. Is she really that pissed for keeping a single secret from her.

"Because I'm hurt! We tell each other everything, I never kept anything from you! And you keep this, this, Max, this is huge!"

"I kept it from you because those songs are personal! Have you ever thought about that, or are you that clueless?!" I yelled fury visible in my tone.

By now everyone was watching and whispering to each other to see whether they should cut in or not.

"Ugh! Forget it, I'm done!"

I pushed everyone out of the way and ran upstairs to my room to cool off.

I slammed my door shut and slumped on my bed.

I grabbed a pillow and yelled into it.

Break.

Fifteen minutes later I dozed off and woke up to knocking on my door.

I groaned and opened it. I came face to face with six worried.

"What do you want?" I said bitterly.

"We need you downstairs. Please." Gazzy said.

I looked at them, regret filled me for talking to them in a bitter tone.

"Yea, please Max." Angel said.

I smiled at her. I mean who wouldn't, her eyes are like really blue. They can give the ocean a run for its money.

"Please." Iggy, Fang, and Nudge said in unison.

I smiled.

I look over at Ella. Her cheeks stained from previously fallen tears.

I go over to her and hug her.

"I'm sorry Ells, for not telling you."

She nods in my shoulder.

I barely heard what Iggy, Gazzy, and Fang said. "Girls."

I laughed and punched them playfully.

"Okay guys lets go down, you're kinda clogging my hallway."

Once down stairs Ella grabbed and extra chair for herself to sit down. I grabbed two extras, one for Fang, one for me.

We all sat in silence for what felt like an eternity.

Then Iggy-of course- broke the silence.

"Okay. So its as simple as that. Max is our girl."

"Yup." Everyone said in unison.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. How do you know its me?"

"Gazzy! The evidence!"

"Yes sir"

He reached into his bag-which I just noticed- and pulled out a paper bag, and a few papers.

He opened the paper bag and tool out the most beautiful thing in the world. My song book.

"Okay, as I examined, the handwriting in the in the songs match the handwriting of Max's in this report she did on Napoleon Dynamite, for English two months ago."

"Okay, Fang will you show the other piece of evidence."

He reached for his phone in his pocket when I spoke.

"Wait, why are you guys acting like we're on Criminal Minds?"

"Shhh! Listen!" Iggy yelled.

"But she's got a point." Angel said.

"Guys, shh, I quite want to see what happens next." Nudge said, while Ella nodded agreeing.

Fang played a recording of me singing Decode.

My face went cold. "So it was you who was at the music department." My jaw dropped.

"Yea, clearly, so were you." Fang said.

"So we wanted to ask you something important." Angel said.

Fang stood and looked me in the eyes.

"Will you sing for Finite State Of Mind?" he said serious in his tone.

I looked at everyone, all anxious, heck even Ella was anxious.

Five. Ten. A Thousand minutes passed.

I finally sighed and nodded my head.

"Fine."

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