Chapter 18

"How much more time?" I whine still in the car.

"Almost there" He says.

"How much longer?" I whine again after a minute.

We had been driving for a while now and I'm pretty sure we just passed Sacramento. He still hadn't told me where we we're going for our date and the anticipation was killing me. I was a really hard person to plan a date thats acctually nice for but Fang isn't any better. He is just as hard to figure out what he'd plan for a first date.

Most girls get to say 'we're going out to dinner' but no I have to go through hours of torcher to get ready for who knows what, he could kill me for all I know, just kidding I trust him. Then I have to sit in a car for who knows how long to a place I have no idea how to get back home from and to top it all off I actually have to go on a date with a guy I actually care about who makes me act weird and be nervous and stupid shit like that. He's lucky I love him. Wait no rewind! I totally ment like. Yeah like not love.

"We're almost there" He replies.

"Well while were on the topic of 'there' where is there and what are we doing there." I say.

"Nope it's a surprise" He says.

I turn to face him copying my sisters best puppy dog pout. Fang glances at me and starts to laugh. I replace my pout with a frown. Fang smiles at me, but turns back to the road.

"You really shouldn't pout" Fang says still smiling.

"And why not?" I ask.

"Cuz you can't rock the whole innoucent thing" He replies laughing all over again.

"It was worth a try" I say looking over to the road again.

I was starting to get clastuphobic. I may have a high pain tolorence but my one weakness was being in a small space for a long period of time and being off the ground (afraid of hieghts). I don't know where Fang is taking me but it better be somewhere close.

"We're here" Fang announces turning off the engine after he parked the car.

I had been so busy thinking about getting out of the car I didn't notice the millions of diffrent color lights flashing. He took me to the fair. I steped out of the car taking in my surroundings. There was diffrent rides everywhere. Hundreds of kids running from ride to ride with gianit smiles on their faces.

I feel my own eyes widden. I've never been to a fair. I was always to busy playing grown up. My vains pumped with the adrenaline any five year old would have when they first get to go to the fair. I'm about to run off into the fair when a sexy chukle brings me back.

I turn to see Fang looking at me with amusment in his eyes a smile on his lips and a chuckle on his tounge. I can't help but smile back.

I push him playfully and say "Shut up, I've never been to the fair"

"Oh I can tell" He replies entwinning our fingures.

I glare at him but it's totally ruined by the smile on my lips. He just chuckles at me leading me forward. I allow him to lead me. As we get closer more sounds fill my ears just as more smells fill my nose.

Fang hands the guy at the front our tickets. He get little braclets on our wrists to go on rides. After that we walk around the fair grounds. We pass multipul stands. Theres food stands game booths and store like stands too. The ferther we go into the fair the more smells fill my nose, more laughter fills my ears, and more lights cover my eyes.

"Come on" Fang says pulling me in the direction of a ride named 'The Waver Catcher'.

We sit down on the ride and buckle our selves in. Nerves fill my tummy but I'm Maximum Ride, scared of nothing. A fat almost bald old guy starts the ride. The ride is a big cirlce that has seat inside the circle. I spins but starts to go higher then tips from one side to the other.

After a while I lose my nevers. I don't know what went through my head but I raised my arms. Fang raises his too. I feel my face portay emotion of happiness. I turn to Fang with a big smile to see his eyes swarm with happiness from my happniess. I put my hands down but not beacuse I was over the excitment but beacuse I relised that I am so lucky to have such an amazing guy.

I wrap my arms around his neck and pull him in for a kiss. His arms restraned by the bar still manage to wrap around my waist pulling me closer. Our kiss overflows with so many diffrent emotions I can't point them out. Our kiss is so powerful but so weak at the same time. Echos of Aww's surround us reminding me we have an aduience. I pull back with a hot blush on my face.

"I love how you can be so tough but when we kiss you get pink" He says as the ride comes to a stop.

"Being tough is easier than showing emotion." I say finally reliseing how true that was.

I remember so clearly everything I did. I remember racing so fast it felt like I was flying. I remember putting all my anger in every singel punch I made. I remember seeing my sisters face in every shot of tequila I took. I remember the gang meetings where I would feel like I actually belong. I remember always acting so tough.

I guess the reason I did all thoses thing were beacuse I didn't care if I lived to see morning again. I hated my life so much I took every risk I could to end up dead. But I was nor will I ever be strong beacuse someone who is strong is someone who doesn't need any of the things I did to servive.

"Your brother Dylan use to tell me 'A strong person doesn't need a tequila shot to forget. Too bad we ain't strong' I didn't paid much attention to his adivse that night beacuse to him life was a game and we all knew we were losing" I say.

I feel my mind break through the barriers I put up in my mind.

"Your brother was never a loser in the game of life even back then I knew it beacuse he could be such a good person he just needed someone to take that cup out of his hand." I add.

"I'm here Max and I'll take that cup out of your hand" Fang says bringing me back to reality.