"Wake up!" Ella called from the hallway outside my room.
"Go away," I called back, burying my face in my pillow trying to block out the bright sun.
"Max! Let's go!" She yelled back, characteristic cheer somehow in her voice, despite the absolutely ridiculous hour in the morning.
"I'm sleeping!" I replied, though the effect was ruined by pillow which now happened to be in my face.
"It's 8:15 Max! Move it lazy butt!" she yelled from her room now.
"8:15?!" I yelled back incredulous. "That's like the middle of the night! Why am I awake?"
"Shit that's hot!" I heard her cry out and drop something, I'm gonna guess a straightener or one of those things that like magically curls your hair, like a Magic Stick. Something like that.
"Ella! Watch your mouth," mom called from the kitchen. Tired of all the yelling, I rolled sideways out of bed, but kept the pillow pressed against my face to prevent my poor little eyes from being burnt out of their sockets by the blinding sun.
"Sorry, it's hot!" she yelled back to my mom. Then to me, "Max, I swear if you're not up I'm going to give you a makeover and paint your nails in your sleep!" Now if that doesn't absolutely horrify you, then I don't what will and I immediately dropped the pillow and ran to the bathroom.
"Blackmail is not nice," I called back to Ella as I managed to take a glimpse of myself in the mirror. Even I had to admit, I looked pretty bad.
"Get in the shower!" Ella yelled probably assuming that I looked like a mess, which let's face it, I did.
I groaned but then hopped in the shower, letting the warm water run over my shoulders.
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"Could someone please tell me where the heck we are going?" I asked for about the millionth time.
"No," Fang replied smirking at me, knowing that answer would drive me crazy. I just rolled my eyes and stared at Iggy, hoping he would cave.
"I refuse to tell you, just because you asked again," Iggy replied grinning at Fang. Ughh, I was stuck in the car in between two obnoxious boys that were basically kidnapping me. Ella was in the front seat next to my mom who was driving, and Nudge was in the way back of our van. Of course she was talking, but we all are just so used to it we automatically tune it out.
"Max, calm down. Really. I promise they aren't kidnapping you," my mom added with a chuckle as she turned off the interstate onto some other road. "I wouldn't let your and your sister's boyfriends kidnap you. Let's be reasonable." That wasn't necessarily comforting since I had a feeling she would let them kidnap me in a heartbeat. They were basically like sons to my mom.
"For some reason I highly doubt that," I muttered under my breath as Iggy snickered, knowing I was right.
"OMG! You guys guess what?" Without waiting for answer, Nudge kept chattering away about some online shopping website she was obsessed with. "It's called Wanelo! Like WA for want, NE for need and LO for love and they have hundreds of pairs of boots and all this makeup and hair stuff! And sooo many cute dresses! OMG and it's all like reasonable pricing cause I mean normally everything online is ridiculous! And I'm like how could everyone not absolutely love this website!" She rambled on and on about her online shopping. Unfortunately no one was riding in the back with her to get her to shut up.
Finally, Fang, Iggy and I all turned around at practically the same time, "Nudge!" She blushed and then laughed, and turned to look out the window. I don't know why she wanted to look out the window since all you could see was corn fields. The corn fields were what was making me suspicious about being kidnapped.
After what seemed like a bazillion years, I knew where we were. We pulled into the stretch of cars that was waiting to drop people off. Heck yeah! My summer was no officially complete. Wanna know where we were? My almost favoritest place in like the whole world…Six Flags, Great America! Woohoo! My mom is now officially the best mom ever. No exceptions.
"Alright guys, make sure you stay together and just keep your phones on you. Just call me and I'll be come pick you up," my mom said as we piled out of the car. Altogether, it was Fang and I, Ella and Iggy, and Blake and Nudge.
Much to my surprise and delight, nobody was here. Okay, that's a huge exaggeration but the weather was perfect and the amusement park was not crowded at all.
"Where we going first?" Ella chirped once we'd passed through tickets and security.
"Raging Bull!" I decided just as Fang yelled "Superman!"
We turned to face each other and it reminded me of when we'd first met how we'd always have stare downs to see who would win an argument.
"Raging Bull's better," I told him, standing on my tip toes to be eye level with him.
"Superman's closer. It's not like were not gonna go on either sometime today," Fang reasoned. The sun caught his obsidian eyes, causing the golden specks to shine. Why did he have to be so damn attractive?
"Fine. But only if we ride front row," I finally agreed. He smirked and ran a hand through his dark hair.
Ella reached over, grabbing Iggy's hand and he smiled, blushing a little. I think that it's easier to tell when he blushed since he's so pale. That makes sense, right?
Fang grabbed my hand and we started walking towards Superman. Since today was just my lucky day, there was like no line and we sprinted up to the top and got in the front row of Superman. Ella, Nudge, Iggy and Blake got in the row behind us. The ride went up slowly and as I looked down I laughed seeing all the gum people had spit out right when they'd gotten to the top!
"Aieeee!" I heard the high-pitched screams of Nudge and Ella behind me the entire time even when we weren't going down or anything.
We hopped off the ride, adrenaline rushed and I convinced Fang to take me on Giant Drop. On the way we stopped at V2 which is like a giant U that goes straight up and down. It was freaking awesome.
We got in right away, and Fang and I were sitting side by side in the 4-chair seating, with Iggy and Blake next to us. The girls had been to scared to do this, and I was so excited and actually a little nervous. But I'm Max. I don't get scared. Ever. So this was surprising and nice since I never got scared. We slowly started to go up and my feet were swaying in the breeze, my flipflops growing smaller and smaller as we got higher up in the sky. By the time we'd reached the top I was actually a tiny bit nervous. I mean I love heights, they don't bother me at all but looking down and realizing that I was going to free fall that far was exciting as all get out, but also a little nerveracking. Just a little though. So I grabbed Fang's hand and found it to be sweating a lot, which meant he was more nervous than he showed. He grinned at me, and we heard the click and then the cart dropped and we flew down.
It was a tiny bit terrifying at the beginning but by the time I reached the bottom I was laughing so hard I was hiccupping and could barely breathe. It gave you such an adrenaline rush and I was all shaky once I'd stood up. Ella and Nudge came over and were talking and talking about how dangerous and scary that would be.
Dangerous my ass. I got in line to do it again, dragging Fang with me. Well not dragging, he was as eager to go again as I was.
Once we'd gotten our fill of the Giant Drop, we ran over to that big water ride where you go in a huge round tube with like 8 people and get soaked. It's supposed to be like you're white-water rafting and I've heard it's awesome.
All 6 of us piled into our own raft, and then hurriedly made our way to the entrance of the river where we'd start the ride. Now I'm not exactly a huge water ride fan, but this one was awesome. It was so warm, that I wasn't even mad when I got drenched from head to toe by waves pouring over the sides. My hair was sopping and plastered to my face, and Fang was grinning ear to ear which he normally doesn't do. I mean let's be real here…he's Fang. I heard Ella and Nudge muttering about how they had thankfully worn waterproof makeup so nothing was smearing.
At the end of the ride, we all got off and grabbed our phones and stuff which we'd left in those little cubbies. Yeah I know it's probably unsafe since someone could easily steal them, but it was better than letting them get trashed by the water.
Iggy started snickering, but I had no idea what was so funny. Ella's jaw dropped and Nudge couldn't hide her giggling. Fang was the only one who was good at staying straight faced, and even he had the trace of a smile on his face.
"What?" I asked frustrated.
"Nothing Max, I just really enjoy the color of your bra," Iggy said managing to not laugh saying that.
What…? I looked down and noticed that my entirely white T-shirt and gotten soaked which made it become see-through, providing a nice accent to my bright pink bra I had on underneath.
I muttered a few colorful words under my breath while glaring at Iggy.
"It's not that bad Max, it could be a swimsuit," Nudge tried hopefully. I rolled my eyes knowing that was stretching it.
"Here," Fang said pulling off his own black shirt and handing it to me. I put it on over my wet one and then slid the wet shirt off underneath.
"Thanks Fang," I replied giving him a hug. The little things he did like that were what made him so sweet. He wrapped his arms around me, and I couldn't help but notice how nicely his stomach and chest were toned. Not gonna lie, his abs were pretty nice looking.
"You know, taking a picture would last longer," he teased and I grinned shoving him playfully.
We grabbed lunch from some place in the food court and I scowled, noticing how expensive everything was here. We hit some more rides for a while, until it was about 6 or so and started to get tired. My mom was on her way, but we had time for one more ride.
"Viper!" Nudge called and we all agreed, and set off towards the wooden rollercoaster making an outline against the setting sun in the distance. Of course there still wasn't much of a line so we all hopped in cars, mine of course had me and Fang.
The carts were shaky and unstable as we started making our way up to the top of the ride. Now if you haven't been on the Viper, it's wooden and probably old and it always stops once it gets to the top, before it goes down. I looked to my right, where the sky was pink, purple, orange and blue. A mixture of all the colors melting into each other as the sun set for the night. It was one of the pretties sunsets I'd seen in a while.
Right when the first car reached the top, we slowed down and were positioned near the peak of the coaster. I heard an exciting buzz of voices, and people started to put their hands up to go down. Fang turned to me, leaned in and kissed me sweetly. It wasn't a hot kiss or anything like that, but nice and sweet and his hand moved up to hold my cheek. His other hand found mine, interlacing our fingers as we kissed. It wasn't a long kiss, especially since that was when the ride decided to shoot forward and sent us propelling at full speed down the track. I grinned at Fang, and he smiled back. His signature smile causing his obsidian eyes to sparkle. We got off the ride, and we tried to ignore the giggles from the girls as they talked about how romantic and cute that was. It was pretty sweet though.
We went up to grab one last refill in our huge drink cup before hitting the road.
"Hi, can I get a refill of Dr. Pepper," I asked still smiling from the last ride. The guy working there was probably sixteen or so and gave me a quick smile, flashing his sparkling teeth at me as he got me my drink.
"Of course," he replied with a wink. "You know the park's closing soon…you should stick around and I could take you on a few rides in the dark."
Before I could think of some smartass comment to say back, I heard Fang reply, "Well that would be just wonderful if her boyfriend could come to."
The guy blushed embarrassed and quickly handed me my drink and then turning around, pretending to be busy with something. Fang put his arm around me as we headed out to where our friends were waiting to get in the car to end this perfect day.
I leaned into his chest once we were in the car and his arm fell around me once again. I was still wearing his shirt which smelled just like him, and I breathed it in. I smirked up at him since I still found it funny that he was still shirtless. He just returned his lopsided smile and then turned his gaze out the window. I smiled to myself and closed my eyes, letting myself relax for the rest of the ride home.
Hi guys! Sorry it's been forever since I've updated this! And sorry that's it's a short chapter too. Please review and let me know what you think about everything! Especially all the FAX, if it's too much! I'll try to update again sooner, and also be sure to check out my other story, The Trust Game which is another Maximum Ride fanfiction! Thanksss! Read and review!