Awkward things we say- So this is basically things my friends, family and I say that are really awkward...- DON'T POINT, YOU'LL KILL A PENGUIN! ~ To Dylan when he, well, points.

I paced the length of my room, phone in hand. I've been doing thing the last hour or so, trying to think of what the icy pole I'm going to do.

Fang and I had gone into uncharted territory earlier and it's been stuck in my brain ever since.

It's two in the morning and I can't sleep because the part of my brain that over thinks things is nagging the part that wants to sleep, not cool. Should I just ring him to talk about it? No, he's probably already asleep. Should I call Angel? After I'd gotten together with Fang she had told me to call her first. No, that wouldn't work either. Her mum just had a baby and the phone ringing would probably wake Sarinah (The baby for all of you slow people out there) and 1) get Angel grounded, 2) get me in trouble with mum and 3) prevent Gazzy from EVER entering our front door again (Yeah, his parents forbid it. I mean, one time!). Then who is there left? Ella was no help last time I was in this kind of situation, Nudge will kill me if I wake her up now and Ari will kill Fang if he finds out what happened. There's always Iggy, but I'd rather not go down that road unless it's absolutely necessary. There's only one other person that I would even consider talking to this about but it's a long shot...

I knocked on mum's door and waited for her to answer. When I heard a grunt I took it as my signal to enter, if I dared, of course, but there are always risks in this kind of thing.

"Mummy," I whispered in an innocent voice.

"Oh no, what did you do and/or want," She asked with a weary tone.

"I need to talk to you about something, and I don't know if you're going to be mad at me or not," I explained.

"Why? What is it?" She asked as her eyes started to close.

I took in a breath. "I think Fang and I almost... yeah," I told her, my voice getting smaller with every word.

Mum's eyes snapped open and she flew into a sitting position, turning to face me. "What?" She whisper-yelled.

"I don't mean we actually did it, we were just kissing and then... I dunno. We didn't do it though, I told you I'm not doing anything like that until I'm, like, forty (AN: It sounded like a max thing to say)," I explained quickly as I matched her stare until she calmed slightly.

"Sorry," She apologized. "I just can't stand the thought of any of my daughters losing their... pureness at such a young age."

"I know, I just... I don't know what to do now," I confessed. "I know Fang doesn't want to either, at least I think he doesn't... I'm just scared, I've never really thought about it and now it's just happening and I'm so confused."

Mum smoothed down my hair. "You'll get through this, honey. Just give it a bit of time and this will all start to make sense," She assured me.

"And what do I do until then? Ignore my boyfriend? I can't do that, I hate being away from him for even the shortest amounts of time."

"That's why you need some space. I'm not saying you should cut yourself off completely, just loosen the thread a bit, go out with the girls, and have fun. Your sixteen, Max, you don't need to be together all of the time."

Is that true? Are we together all of the time? It's just how it works out, like that we have almost all of the same classes so then we do homework together. Isn't that normal?

But still I found myself agreeing with mum, that I needed some breathing room away from him, that I needed some Max time. All I had to do now was find a way to get that.

"Why not join a club?" Mum suggestion slipped through my thoughts.

Hmm, a club, And I know just the one.

***FANG POV***

Max is avoiding me, I can tell. This morning she was 'too busy' to give me a hug, in class she was 'too busy' doing work to talk and now, at lunch, she's 'too busy' signing up for a club to even acknowledge my existence. A CLUB!

"Max, as in my Max, is joining a club?" I repeated Angel's last sentence. She shrugged.

"That's what she told me," She answered. "And wipe that pout off your face; your guess is as good as mine. Maybe she's broadening her horizons."

Ari laughed and pecked Angel on the cheek before telling me, "Please, Max doesn't 'broaden her horizons', whatever that crap means, she's avoiding you. What did you do? It must have been pretty bad to make her sink to this level."

"Ari," Angel snapped and elbowed him in the ribs. "I'm sure she's not avoiding you. I think she just needs a break from all the relationship stuff, you know how she's not good with that sort of thing."

"A break? You mean she wants to break up with me?" I asked.

Angel palled. "No, that's not what I meant; I mean that she just needs some space. Just ease up on the romance for a while, she'll come around."

"Or not," Ari muttered.

Angel turned on him. "What is your problem?" She screeched. "This is your cousin's boyfriend talking about their relationship and you're not willing to help? Oh, my gosh you are pathetic!" And with that she stormed off.

"Uh-oh," Iggy said as he walked to join us. "Looks like there's trouble in paradise."

Ari and I both glared. "Shut up," we both mumbled.

ME: I'm so sorry these are so short. They will be about 1000 words but I'm kind of tired and... yeah.

FANG: It's two in the morning so we can't think straight

ME: So tell me how your liking the sequel, better that Maximum awkwardness? Worse? About the same? Let me know!

Team Bex, signing off