I'm glad you guys liked the last chapter! I kinda wanted to prolong the Fax because it would fall more into place later but whatever, I like that chapter too! I liked the wishing thing the best though... I mean I liked writing that part... if that makes sense...

Anyway here is your new chapter!

Seventeen

FPOV

I swear to you that this is not what you think.

I really did fall for Max, but that wasn't my first intention, I couldn't help myself. She was an amazing girl and- I can't believe I'm saying this- she was twice the girl that Ella was. Plus I felt totally obligated to protect her for some reason, and I was determined to do so ever since I got that text from Lissa. There was also the fact that I could tell that she was hiding something, and I knew it was important.

Right now I was practicing with the band. We were practicing the song Hello when I could tell that Dillon was going off beat again. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you guys. The Dillon in our band is not my friend form school they are two totally different people that I'm pretty sure have never met before. Plus this Dillon was an ass most of the time anyway, messing up songs on purpose and picking up girls and then dropping them like flies- and they have different name spellings. (A/N: now that is... hehe sorry)

Three... Two... One. I counted in my head.

"DILLON! Stop messing up the song for shits sake!" Jake roared for about- oh what number is it now...- the eleventh time that day. "I swear if you keep this up through tomorrow I will kick you both out of the band!"

Yeah that sounded right... now wait for the others to chime in...

"If you kick us out you won't have anyone to play with you for the talent concert in a week." Sam retorted.

"I would be GLAD to hire someone to fill in for BOTH of you!"

Damn, Jake was pretty serious this time...

After a few more moments of them shooting comments at each other, my phone started to ring. Interrupting their little dispute. I pulled it out to see Max's caller ID show up on the screen.

"Woah! Fang just smiled!" Dillon said sarcastically. I shot him daggers and answered.

"Hey, Max! What's up?" when the other boys heard the name they tuned out thinking I was talking to one of my friends.

"Hey! I just had the sudden impulse to call you! I don't really know what came over me... sorry if I'm interrupting anything."

"Oh, no it's fine!" then it hit me, I had like one of the greatest ideas I have had in a while. "Um, hey, can you hold on for a second."

"Yeah! No problem." I put the phone down from my ear and looked over to Jake.

"Hey, Jake, do you know where Nudge is?"

"Hell, if I knew. She could be outside the door listening to us though." he raised his voice on his second sentence and outside the room there was a slight thump. Going over to the door I pulled it open to see a Nudge that had her back up against the wall.

"Sorry! I just like listening to you guys sometimes and I thought I could hang out with you guys afterward so, please don't kill me!" she said it so quickly I lost her after sorry.

"Hey, no worries, but tell me. Doesn't Iggy play the piano?"

She nodded ecclesiastically, "He is really good to! He played a song for me a couple of days ago, he said that he learned how to play it in less than two days!"

"Awesome! Could you call him, and Dylan, and ask him to come over?"

"Yeah sure!"

Going back into the room I put the phone to my ear again.

"Hey, how good are you at picking up songs on the guitar? Tell me the truth, and I'll take you out to that movie you wanted to see tomorrow."

"Really?"

"Yeah, but you gotta tell me the truth!"

"Well... I pick up on how to play most of my songs by ear..."

"Great! Can you get to my house in like... thirty mutinous?"

"Yeah! But what's going on?"

"I'll tell you when you get here!"

Turning back to my once again arguing band I addressed Jake, who had been playing the guitar parts because I needed my hands free for most of our songs to do theatrics. "Hey, have you been keeping up on how to play the bass part for the three songs?"

"Yeah, why?"

"You'll see in a little bit. Dylan, Sam, you guys can go home for the day and I would be waiting for a phone call some time this afternoon."

They left with slightly puzzled looks on their faces and a few questions that I was so nice as to not to answer. Iggy and Dylan both showed up around ten mutinous later and I led them up to the music room, and told them to sit down. Jake introduced himself to Iggy, having already met Dylan a couple of times. I told them I would explain after Max got here and we all waited, talking about random things. The door bell rang and I rushed down to get it.

I opened the door to see the one and only Max.

"Hey there, cutie." she said smiling at me. "Do you know how hard it was for me to get out of that house? I was suppose to be doing the dishes right about now."

In reply I just leaned down and kissed her softly on the lips. "Hello to you too, my angel."

She smiled and I led her up to the music room. Once we got there I sat her down next to Iggy and Dylan.

"So, Fang, why are we here?" the two boys nodded in unison at Max's question.

I took a deep breath, "I was wondering if you guys would like to join our band."

"What?" every occupant in the room said, except for me.

Hope you like it! The talent competition will come within the next few chapters! And we will finally see what happens with Lissa there. ;)

R&R! PLEASE!

Fly on,

FangAKat