Chap 27- Year 7
I was more ready than ever to begin the new school year. I hadn't seen or spoken to Fang in six weeks and I missed him like crazy but I had finally gotten over him. I missed the rest of the flock as well. I had seen my brother Ari all the time, I missed Angel who was with Fang, I'd seen Nudge once or twice and I'd run into Iggy in the shops. I'd seen Gazzy a few times but it wasn't the same. We didn't want to have any flock meetings without Fang.
We arrived at school and I immediately spotted Fang and smiled.
"Fang!" I screamed.
"Hey, Max," He smiled I could tell he was glad to see me.
"How was your trip?" I asked eagerly. I wanted to hear everything.
"It was good, Angel missed you like crazy though," Fang told me. I knew I wasn't going to get a lot out of him.
"Angel missed me?" I asked.
"Yeah," Fang nodded.
"So Angel's the one who missed me?" I asked him.
"Ok, fine I missed you too, there are you happy now?" Fang laughed.
"Yes," I laughed while trying to keep a straight face.
I really wanted to wrap my arms around him but I held it in for the one hundredth time.
"Max!" I heard a familiar voice scream. I turned and braced myself for Nudge to come barrelling at me.
"Oh hi, Fang," She shrugged.
"Jeez, you've seen Max how many times and I've been away," Fang scoffed.
"Yeah but Max is important," Nudge explained. Fang was about to open his mouth to speak when Iggy and Gazzy showed up.
"Hey, girl!" Iggy grinned and gave me a pat on the shoulder.
"Hello!" Fang exclaimed.
"Oh, hey mate how was your trip?" Iggy asked him casually.
"Yeah, was it fun?" Gazzy added.
"Yeah, it was great," Fang answered.
"Max, I missed you," Iggy said as he placed his elbow on my shoulder. He'd definitely grown over the holidays.
"Hello you guys saw her probably heaps in the holidays and I've been gone for six weeks," Fang said.
"Um, we didn't see her a lot, we didn't have any flock meetings," Gazzy informed him.
"What?" Fang asked as though he couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"Max insisted," Ella explained.
"Why?" Fang asked me with questioning eyes.
"It just wouldn't have been the same without you," I shrugged. Fang didn't say anything, he didn't need to I could see the warmth fill up in his dark and mysterious eyes. After a moment of silence Fang finally spoke.
"You're now my favourite," He joked.
"Oh, come on mate I missed you," Iggy complained.
"Why is Max your favourite?" Gazzy demanded.
"Because she missed me and wanted to see me and thinks I'm important," Fang explained probably a bit too seriously.
"So, Fang, Max, year seven this year are you guys excited?" Iggy asked us.
"Hell yeah!" Fang exclaimed.
"Um, yeah," I lied.
"Awesome," Iggy nodded. I could tell that he was going to drive us nuts this year. We went to walk to our new classes but Fang stopped me.
"Ok, what's wrong?" He demanded.
"Nothing," I lied.
"Max, what are you so nervous about?" Fang asked me.
"Fang…" I began.
"Max, you know I know you well enough. You can't lie to me," Fang gave me a cheeky know it all look.
"Fine, look we just got kind of close and now what happens after this year?" I confided in him.
"Hey, Max, its ok we'll pull through," Fang assured me and put a hand on my shoulder.
I couldn't believe it, it was the first day back and everyone was already talking about what high schools they're going to.
"Max, where are you going?" Iggy asked me.
"I have no idea," I shrugged.
"Me either, I think Fang does though," said Iggy.
"Yeah, I'm going to the Parks Secondary College," Fang added.
"Never heard of it." I told Fang.
"It's a really good school, you guys should check it out," Fang told Iggy and I. It would be really cool to go to high school with Fang and Iggy, I couldn't imagine going through school without them.
"I'll see what I can do," I smiled.
"Good!" Fang said enthusiastically.
"Do you want both of us or just your darling Max?" Iggy asked.
"Both of you and she's not my darling Max," Fang insisted.
"Oh, real nice!" I scoffed.
"No I didn't mean it like that… I just meant that he meant that we were but we're not we're different," Fang stuttered.
"Ok, ok you're starting to sound like Nudge," I laughed.
"Oh God," Fang gasped.
"Look what do you say this weekend we hang at Jeb's house?" Iggy asked me.
"Yeah it's my weekend with him anyways and he loves you guys… foolish him," I agreed.
"We'll celebrate the return of the flock since Fang was in Queensland and we could only talk through the phone," Iggy said and shot a look at Fang. I felt a pang of jealousy. I remembered how Fang had left just before I could give him my phone number and I had missed him like crazy.
He was someone who I could talk to when I was down and he was someone I could talk to and somehow he always knew how to make me feel better.
"You guys spoke on the phone right?" Iggy asked us.
"No," We replied with a tone of regret.
"Why?" Iggy asked.
"I never got her phone number," Fang told Iggy.
"I tried to give it to you after school but when I caught up you'd gotten in the car," I explained.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I should've asked you," Fang apologised.
"You did before you found out about my Dad, so it was my fault," I said to him.
"No, I should've asked again," Fang insisted.
"Um, hello I'm still here," I heard Iggy speak.
"Sorry, Ig," We apologised.
I suddenly remembered Iggy's behaviour when Fang and I first became friends. He had seemed jealous of the friendship between the two of us. The last thing that I wanted was to get in the middle of Fang and Iggy since they had been friends for a really long time.
At recess I decided to talk to Iggy about it.
"Iggy, can I talk to you?" I asked him. Fang looked at me in surprise along with the rest of the flock. I never asked to speak to Iggy.
"Ok, Max, what's going on?" Iggy demanded.
"I just wanted to make sure that you were ok with me and Fang," I told him.
"Yeah, why would that bother me?" Iggy asked me. I gave him a look that seemed to refresh his memory.
"Oh… look, Max, at first I was jealous but I'm fine now, I had just never seen Fang become so close to someone so quickly before. You make him happy," Iggy assured me. I gave a sigh of relief that made Iggy laugh.
We walked back to the flock who had gotten on with what they were doing except for Fang who was still looking at me weirdly. I noticed that Gazzy was having a nice conversation with Ella and that Nudge was glaring at Gazzy. I thought back to last year, the way Nudge used to look at Gazzy and something clicked. I didn't want to come to a conclusion just in case I was wrong but I was pretty sure that I wasn't.
Nudge and Gazzy were now in the same class as Fang, Iggy and I since they were now in year six and it was a year six and seven class (duh). I asked her if she wanted to come over and do our stupid title pages that we had to do for homework. Mrs. Smith was really into art so everything had to be pretty. If it wasn't pretty you lost marks. Yeah you can tell she really focuses on our education.