Fang POV
I watched hopelessly as Max silently cried into Dr M's sweater. I wanted to just reach out to her and pull her into a hug. But I couldn't.
All of a sudden I heard a familiar voice from down the hall. "Max! Fang! Gazzy! We're here!"
I turned in the direction of the voice and saw Nudge and Angel coming towards us. In each of their arms were grocery bags with something in them.
Max looked up from Dr. M's shirt and saw Nudge. She ran up to her and gave her a hug. Nudge dropped the grocery bags and wrapped her arms around Max.
Dr. M cleared her throat and told the rest of us, "Why don't yall head back to the waiting room? I have to go do some more paperwork."
Without any response, we all walked silently back to the waiting room. I opened the door and plopped down on the green sofa.
Everyone came in and we were all silent. Even Nudge; and she never shuts up.
Then Angel broke the silence. "Who wants to play a game?"
Nobody answered.
"It's really fun."
Still no answers.
"It involves food."
"I'M IN!" we all shouted at once.
"Okay then. We're gonna play Never Have I Ever. It's usually meant as a drinking game or you can use your fingers but we're gonna use food."
Angel pulled out 4 large bags of gummy
"Oh my gosh gummy worms are my favorite!" Max exclaimed, no longer sad.
Angel continued to explain the rules. "Okay we each start out with 10 gummy worms. One person will say 'Never have I ever...' and then they will say something they have never done. If you have done what the person says they haven't done then you put one gummy worm in the middle of the table. The person who still has gummy worms at the end wins and get all of them in the middle."
"Got it. Now give me the bag." Max said.
After Max almost ate a whole bag herself, we started the game.
We all encircled the round coffee table. Max was on my right and Gazzy on the left. Next to Gaz was Nudge then Angel.
"I'll go first!" Gazzy announced. "Okay. Never have I ever... been out of the country."
Max sighed and moved one gummy worm to the middle of the table.
I raised an eyebrow and she explained. "It was for a school project. We had the opportunity to go on a week long trip to Italy, Germany, and France back when I took Latin in 7th and 8th grade."
"OMG that is sooooo cool! I would have totally gone. Did you go to Milan in Italy? It's the fashion capital of the world! I've always wanted to go there. Did you go by yourself? I would be terrified to go by myself. What about Paris? The city of love! That would be so romantic. And if I went I could've gone on the-"
"Nudge shut up and go it's your turn!" We all shouted.
Her cheeks flushed red with embarrassment and she said, "Oops. Okay here I go. Never have I ever used a karaoke machine."
Gazzy pushed his candy into the middle next to Max's.
Before anyone could say anything Angel said, "Never have I ever been in a relationship."
Gazzy slid another gummy worm in.
Apparently Max has never had a boyfriend.
Without hesitation Max said, "Never have I ever dyed my hair."
Everyone turned their head towards me.
"What?" I asked.
"Aren't you going to put a worm in?" Max asked.
"What? No! It's natural!" I told them.
"Sureeeeeeeeeee." Gazzy said and leaned back onto the sofa.
"It is!" I exclaimed.
"Fang, buddy, nobody has natural jet black hair." Max said.
"Okay first of all it's not jet black. It's midnight. And second of all it is 100 percent natural. Right Nudge and Angel?" I asked.
They caught my eyes for like one second but then looked down.
"Nudge? Angel? Yall do know it's natural right?" I asked
"Well. . ." Nudge started to say but then stopped.
"Are you kidding me? It's totally natural!" I exclaimed.
"It's more of an obsidian black..." Angel murmured.
"What? No its not!" I retorted.
"Fang just put a gummy worm in the middle so we can go on." Gazzy said.
"But-"
"Just put a gummy worm in the middle already!" Max exclaimed.
I sighed and realized that there was no way getting out of this. I slid the gummy worm across the table and put in the middle.
"Never have I ever," I started to say. "Been stung by a wasp."
I silently watched as Max, Gazzy and Nudge put a gummy worm in the middle.
I looked around at the others gummy worms. Max and Gazzy both had 8 worms left. Nudge and I had 9. Angel still has 10. It looked like Angel was the real competition.
We had all gone so it was back to Gazzy.
"Never have I ever, painted my nails."
Not even 3 hours after we had moved here, Angel and Nudge had painted their nails like 4 times. I don't even know how.
I was surprised when I saw that Max didn't put a worm in. I always thought girls painted their nails.
Huh. You learn something new every day.
One by one we took our turns.
One by one the gummy worms made their way to the middle.
One by one everyone ran out of gummy worms and lost.
By the end of the game, Max had won.
"Whooooo! Food!" She squealed and grabbed the pile in the middle.
We all watched hopelessly as she gobbled down the gummy worms.
Just then I heard my phone vibrate on the sofa.
I picked it up and saw 23 missed called from Mom and 142 texts from Mom.
Oh crap.
I quickly scanned through the texts and the majority of them were, "Where are you?!", "Nicholas Walker you better pick up this phone!", "Fang!", and ect.
How did I not hear my phone go off? My stupid ringtone should have at least gone off.
Then I heard it.
All this wild wild love of ours
It can't be tamed, no
This wild wild love of ours
It can't be tamed, no
For better or worse
A blessing or a curse
Long live this wild wild love of ours
Long live this wild wild love
"Nooooooooo!" I mentally screamed in my head.
I quickly grabbed for it and tried to turn it off.
"Stupid I Phone's." I thought. "Why didn't I get an android like Nudge and Angel?"
When I finally got the ring tone to stop, I looked up.
I saw Max, Nudge, Angel, and Gazzy all staring at me.
Oh *insert your choice of curse word here*.
"Fang," Max said slowly and quietly. "Is that your phone?"
"Yes."
"And is that your ring tone?"
"Yes."
I could see all of them were about to burst into laughter.
Then it went off again.
All this wild wild love of ours
It can't be tamed, no
This wild wild love of ours
It can't be tamed, no
For better or worse
A blessing or a curse
Long live this wild wild love of ours
Long live this wild wild love
"Nooooo!" I screamed inwardly again.
Everyone burst into laughter.
Well now I know how Max felt when everyone laughed at her car.
Mom was calling again.
This time I picked up.
". . .Hello?" I said.
"NICHOLAS WALKER WHERE ARE YOU?!"
"With the girls."
"NICHOLAS WALKER THIS IS NO TIME FOR FUN AND GAMES MISTER!"
I said nothing.
"DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS?!"
"Uhhh. Tuesday?"
"NICHOLAS, IT'S YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S 90 BIRTHDAY!"
"Okay. So. . . ?"
"SHE IS HAVING HER PARTY IN 20 MINUTES AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE YOU ARE!"
Oh yeah. I remember now.
"WHERE ARE YOU? WE'RE GOING TO BE LATE!"
"At the hospital."
FOR WHAT?!" She shrieked.
"Stuff."
"Fang," She lowered her voice. "Which one? We're coming to pick you up. I have your suit and a couple dresses for the girls."
"Memorial Herman."
"Well when we get there be ready to change into your clothes then get in the car."
She hung up.
"Angel! Nudge! It's grandma's birthday and we need to go to her party."
"Oh yeah! Is Mom bringing the dresses? It's so cool how grandma is 90 now? That's almost 100 years! Even though we haven't known grandma for a while, she seems cool. I hope she gives us cookies like most grandmas' do. Speaking of cookies did you get that fundraising packet at school today? The fundraising company is Itex. Isn't that a coincidence? You know because of our-"
Before I could beat Nudge up, Angel tackled her against the sofa pillows.
I saw Max's eyes widen for a fraction of a second when Nudge said the word "Itex." but then they went back to normal.
Gazzy exchanged a glance with Max.
I don't know what got into Nudge. She knows that the number one rule is to not speak of anything related to our wings. Sigh. I was probably going to have to talk to her again about it.
Then the worst thing happened.
My phone ringer went off again!
Fuck! Shit shit shit shit shit!
All this wild wild love of ours
It can't be tamed, no
This wild wild love of ours
It can't be tamed, no
For better or worse
A blessing or a curse
Long live this wild wild love of ours
Long live this wild wild love
"We're here!" I heard Mom yell from the phone after I picked it up.
Before anyone could react, I hung up and yelled "Nudge! Angel! Downstairs!"
I watched as they ran out of the room with excited looks on their faces.
Ugh. Girls.
Not even 3 minutes later, they were both upstairs trying to figure out what dress to wear.
By the time they had chosen, I had my suit on.
I watched as they looked from the last dress to Max.
Then from Max to the dress.
I swear I saw a light bulb appear over their heads and they grabbed the dress.
Then Nudge whipped out her phone and texted someone.
She smiled at the response and nodded to Angel.
I watched as Nudge and Angel both grabbed Max and dragged her to the bathroom with the dresses and a box of makeup.
"No! Fang! Gazzy! Don't let them take me! Please!" Max screamed.
Gazzy and I didn't say anything.
I already knew she wasn't getting out.
20 minutes later, (thankfully) Mom texted me and told me to go downstairs so we could go.
"Nudge and Angel let's go!" I hollered.
I sat there completely bored out of my mind.
Then I looked up.
And I saw Max.
Wearing a dress.
ooh lala
QOTC: how are you doing
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remember to stay swaggy and peace out