Awkward things we say: Don't trip! ~Me to some random I saw running... he tripped!

***Nudge POV***

I flopped down on the bed next to Gazzy.

"What's going on lately? Everyone's acting so on edge, I don't get it!" I told him. "Max is avoiding Fang, that one's obvious, Fang's sulking, Angel has kind of gone all overemotional, and Ari's being, well, a dickhead and I think that Ella and Iggy are the only ones who are actually have a normal relationship."

"What about us?" Gazzy asked as his arms wrapped around my shoulders.

"Don't get me wrong, I love you and wouldn't change a thing about us, but our relationship started by me fake dating your best friend. I don't really think that's what you can call normal," I explained.

"But you're still happy like this, right?"

"Of course," I assured him. "I wouldn't want it any other way."

"Good," He whispered into my hair. "Because I don't want to lose you. Ever."

I bit my lip slightly and leaned into kiss him. Our lips were inches apart when someone crying from the doorway.

I drew away, blushing, and saw Angel in the doorway holding a sobbing Sarinah. She was crying, like she's been for the past two days, and she held the baby out to us.

"Please, take her," She begged. "I can't take it anymore." I did as she asked, grabbing Sarinah from her and rocking her from side to side. I looked back over at Angel to see her being engulfed in a hug from her Brother.

"Why don't we give them a moment?" I asked the infant. She gave a little noise that I chose to take as a yes and took her into the nursery down the hall.

Sarinah let out a little popping noise and then the room filled with a toxic smell. "Ew, Sarinah, that is so gross!"

***ANGEL POV***

"Angel, baby, give me a chance to explain," Ari begged from the other side of the line.

"Explain what? How you are completely unsupportive of your cousin's relationship? Or how you never take me out to dinner? Or maybe you would care to tell me why I'm still dating you because; right now I have absolutely no idea," I asked.

"Angel, just give me a few minutes and I'll tell you exactly why," He tried again.

I let out a dry laugh before saying, "Well if you want to tell me so bad then why don't you come over here and tell me face to face. Until you decide what you're going to do, I think it would be for the best if we have a little break."

"Baby, please don't-" Was all Ari could get out before I hung up.

I felt the tears streaming down my cheeks as I sat on my bed. What was I going to do now? What had I just done?

The sound of my little sister, Sarinah, screaming zapped me out of my thoughts.

I picked her up and rocked her back and forth but the crying didn't cease. By this time, I was in hysterics; I couldn't calm Sarinah with myself in this state. I was going to have to get help.

I made my way down the hall to Gazzy's room and slowly opened the door.

Gazzy was lying on his bed, Nudge lying next to him; her dark brown hair sprawled across his chest. "Good," I heard Gazzy whisper. "Because I don't want to lose you. Ever."

Nudge slowly leaned in to kiss him as I made a kind of choking noise. The pair snapped around to look at me and Gazzy's eyes had a sad look to them.

"Please, take her," I found myself begging. "I can't take it anymore."

Nudge got up from her spot on the bed and took Sarinah from my arms, and the extra weight from my stressed shoulders. Nudge rocked her back and forth until her sobbing became only a murmur of displease. I felt a new set of tears come to my eyes as Gazzy wrapped me in a hug.

I hugged him back tightly and rubbed my running nose on his shoulder. "Sorry," I mumbled.

"Why don't we give them a moment," I heard Nudge say and Sarinah gurgled in response.

"I'm sorry I ruined your date," I sobbed. Yeah, the best date Gazzy and Nudge can go on is at our house with someone else in the house. It must suck to not be able to take your girlfriend out to dinner at a restaurant but at least he cares enough to ask Nudge out on a date, even if it's with his blubbering idiot of a sister a few doors down looking after a baby.

I guess half of my problems with Ari are that he doesn't seem to care about those things. He thinks that now that we're officially dating that we don't need to actually go out on a date. It's been four months since I've seen him outside of school and I don't need a degree in sociology to know that we don't have the foundation for a healthy relationship.

I don't know why I haven't broken up with him yet, I should and I would if I didn't love him as much as I do. It wasn't intentional, this was supposed to be a fun relationship, one to get my mind off of Rudy and it ended up being where I started, in a relationship that only had a horrible end to it.

Gosh, what was it about me that attracted all of the wrong kind of guys?

"Why does this keep happening to me?" I cried. Gazzy smoothed my hair down my back and kissed my forehead.

"Why does what happen to you?" He asked.

"Why do all of my boyfriends turn out to be different to what they seem," I rephrased.

"Just give it time, Ange, the right guy will come around the corner some day and you will be so happy that you'll forget about all of those other guys that made you feel like you weren't good enough," Gazzy assured me.

"Yeah," I said. "Maybe one day."

ME: Hey guys!

GAZZY: HI!

ME: So I can't be bothered rounding up the others so it will just be Gazzy and I for now

GAZZY: Bex is trying her hardest to update fast

ME: but with school going back they won't be as frequent as with Maximum Awkwardness 1.

GAZZY: But we aim for once or twice a week, but depending on homework ect. this might not last/

ME: So thanks to all my awesome readers and reviewers, love you guys!

Bex, Gazzy and the rest of my Avian-American buddies!