Chap 17 – Mamma Mia.
We were in Music lesson and our teacher Mrs. Berry. We were going through what we were going to do for our class item at our school concert. The previous week we'd decided that we would do Mamma Mia by ABBA.
"Does anyone have any ideas on what we can do?" Mrs. Berry asked the class. Everyone was quiet except for Sally.
"I was thinking maybe we could do a little skit before hand that would lead into the song," Sally replied.
"I'm listening," Mrs. Berry urged her on.
"Well maybe you could have the Mum and the Dad with the two kids and the dog and they could try to order pizza but argue about it or something," Sally continued. It was a really good idea and I could picture it in my head. I kicked myself for not thinking of it first.
"Alright, that sounds good we need someone to play the father," Mrs. Berry agreed. I have no idea why but as I watched a few guys put their hands up Fang's hand was amongst them.
"Nick, thank you," Mrs. Berry gave Fang the role of husband and father.
"We now need someone to play the wife and mother,"
"Max, you should do it, you're good at being an authority figure," Mel told me sweetly. Yes Mel could be a pain in the arse and the 'b' word but she could also be nice when she wanted to be. Without even thinking about Fang playing the husband and father I put my hand up.
"Ah, Max, of course you'd be perfect," Mrs. Berry smiled. Fang took one look at me and sunk in his seat.
"Oh shit," He mumbled. I shot him a cheeky grin but inside I was hurting.
"Oh no," I groaned just to play along. I didn't want him to know that his reaction hurt, if I told him that he'd figure out that I liked him.
Eventually I decided to overlook it and stop thinking about it. As luck would have it Iggy was to play our son and Casey was to play our daughter. Sam was going to be our dog and Dylan was going to be the pizza boy.
Fang was looking at me weirdly for the whole lesson; we finally got let out for recess.
"Ok, do I have something on my face?" I asked Fang.
"No… I just," Fang began then suddenly stopped.
"What?" I asked.
"It's just you're… you're… my wife," Fang hesitated. I opened my mouth to speak but instead Iggy opened his mouth and burst out laughing.
Nudge and Gazzy walked up to us so unsuspecting of the awkward situation that they were about to enter into.
"Max and Fang got married and then they had me!" Iggy yelled. Nudge and Gazzy turned pale.
"What?" They both yelled together.
"You… and you and then you had… that!" Nudge stammered.
"Hey," Iggy objected.
"It's for music, we're doing Mamma Mia for the concert and there's a little skit at the beginning and Fang and I are married," I explained as I rubbed my forehead.
"How did that happen, and dude why wasn't I invited to the wedding?" Gazzy demanded.
"Yeah, Max, I thought I meant something to you and you didn't even put me in the wedding party," Nudge complained.
"Hey what's going on?" Ella asked cheerfully as she walked up.
"Say hello to your new brother in-law," Gazzy grinned as he gestured towards Fang.
"Whoa, Mum isn't going to like this one bit," Ella laughed.
"Ok that's it… I want a divorce!" I demanded.
"Fine, with me," Fang agreed with me.
"Good!" I shouted.
"Good!" He shouted back.
"Good!"
"Good!"
"Good!"
"Ah, married life," Iggy sighed.
"Well if you want a divorce party then invite me!" Nudge begged.
"Yes, Nudge," I assured her. Something told me that the rest of the year was going to go by very slowly.
Before the day had even finished I was wondering about being married to someone one day and something scary came up. Every time I imagined being married to someone my husband was… Fang! Whenever I've had a crush on a guy before I've never seen their face on my future husband, he sort of didn't have a face. So why was Fang's face suddenly there? I wondered what he would have to do in order to pretend to be my husband; would he have to kiss my cheek or something?
In the car on the way home I wondered if Ella was going to try and cause trouble. I thought I was safe until she opened her mouth.
"So, Mum, Max got married," Ella blurted out.
"Ella," I grimaced through my teeth.
"Um," Mum began, it seemed as though she was lost for words.
"Who is my new son in law?" Mum asked me.
"Fang," I mumbled.
"So, do you want to explain why my eleven year old daughter is married?" Mum requested.
"It's for the school concert," I explained. I continued the story trying to ignore Ella's giggles from the background.
"Well I'm sure you'll all have lots to talk about at the movie thingy majiggy that you're having on Saturday," Mum laughed.
"Yeah, yeah," I groaned.
"Oh, don't worry, Mum, they agreed to divorce," Ella snickered.
"Lovely," Mum smiled. Her phone began to ring but because she was a good Mummy she didn't answer it while she was driving.
"Max, honey, could you answer that?" Mum asked me.
"Dr. Martinez's phone," I greeted.
"Hold on one minute please,"
"Mum, are you free for an appointment tomorrow morning on a puppy about some sort of disease?" I asked Mum with the phone against my chest.
"Um, yeah sure," Mum nodded.
"Yes, she's available," I clicked my fingers at Ella (our signal for I need paper and a pen ASAP) I wrote the details down and hung up.
"Oh, Max, your Dad called today," Mum suddenly remembered. I almost spat out the water that was in my mouth.
"What?" I demanded.
"He said he's back from his trip and he wants to catch up," Mum told me kindly.
"Did you say no?" I questioned.
"No, I said that you would call him back… which you will," Mum told me with a look that said call him back because I'm the Mum and I say so.
"Fine… I'll consider calling him, the spending time with him thing I can't guarantee," I grumbled.
"I know you're mad honey," Mum began.
"Humph,"
Mad didn't even begin to describe what I felt where my Dad was concerned. I saw the look on Ella's face in the background. She was worried about me; it didn't really affect her since Ella was only my half sister.
When I got home I picked up my phone and took a deep breath. I searched through my contacts until I found his number.
"Take the Plunge, Max," I told myself.
A/N Sorry it took me so long to update this chapter, I've sent Fang away again since he was REALLY creeping me out. Hopefully he'll come back polite but in this century. Anyways I like reviews so let me know what you think if you hate it or love it I want to know.