Gazzy POV
In the world there is balance. The good and the bad. Whenever something good happens, something bad needs to occur to balance it out. Whenever something bad happens, there will always be good to make it even. For example, good: you get new shoes, bad: they get muddy and ruined. Or how about the good: you get straight A's for the whole school year, bad: the stress from managing your grades causes bags to form under your eyes and gray hairs to grow. For me right now it's this, good: I finally had the guts to ask Nudge out on a date, bad: Iggy calls and fucks it all up.
"What do you want Iggy? I'm on my date with Nudge!"
"It's Ella." a feminine voice said.
"Ella?" I questioned. I held up one finger to Nudge signaling that I would be a minute and walked away from the table we were sitting at. I made my way out of the restaurant and took a seat a bench with a plastic shark next to me. It was one of those photo opportunity things where the park character has its arm around you. "Why are you on Iggy's phone?"
Ella took a deep breath. "Iggy is on the house phone with Dr. Martinez. She's instructing him on setting something up."
This couldn't be good, I thought. "Setting what up? Ella what's going on?" I ran my fingers through my hair.
"Max is hurt." Ella choked out. I could hear her sobbing through the phone. "F-Fang and her were going to the game and Max got attacked." Ella blubbered.
"What?! Who did it?!" I demanded. I was gonna kill that motherfucker. It may not show but I care for Max. I mean I have to because like in the movies and TV shows, the older brother is always protective over the younger sister.
"Some guy named Roman. Fang beat him up pretty good. Dr. Martinez wants you home right now." Ella informed me.
That would mean I would have to leave my date with Nudge, I thought. "Can Nudge come back with me?"
I heard Ella ask Iggy something. Then she went back to the phone. "No. we need you here A.S.A.P. to get Fang out. Fang can't stay because we are going to need to look at Max's wings."
I groaned and popped my back. Whenever I am stressed out popping my back and my fingers helps reduce the stress. "Okay. I'm on my way."
I hurried back into the restaurant. As I walked in I was greeted with a ginormous fish tank. Inside it were little Nemo and Dory fish from Finding Nemo. I made my way back upstairs. The stairs curled around another cylinder fish tank which extended from the floor to the ceiling. It contained various types of fish along with plants such as seaweed and coral. Finally upstairs I hurried to the table Nudge and I were sharing which was next to, you guessed it, another fish tank. This one was full of rainbow fish and goldfish (not the food). The tank had a black light above it making some of the fish glow.
Nudge cleared her throat and I turned to her. "Everything okay?" she asked cautiously.
"Umm," I started. "Well I kinda have a family emergency and I have to go."
Nudge's smile dropped. "Oh. Okay so you'll drop me off at home?"
I winced. I didn't want to leave her here but I had no choice. "That's the thing-" I started to say but Nudge caught me off.
"I get it. You don't have time. It's fine I'll just find my own ride." Nudge got up from the table and grabbed her purse. She then proceeded down the stairs but I stopped her.
"Nudge wait!" I cried. "Are you sure you can find another ride?"
She turned to me with tears in her eyes. "I'll manage."
"Why are you crying? Look it's an emergency okay?" I sighed. Girls. Always so emotional.
"I guess Lissa was right. You always have to leave the date early for your "family emergencies"." she did the finger motion that showed "family emergencies" was in quotation marks.
"What? Why the fuck are you talking to Lissa?" I asked clearly confused. Who would ever talk to Lissa? I wondered.
"I wasn't. She came up to me and warned me about you. About how you're a player who always leaves the date early because of your "family emergencies" when in reality you just fucking other girls!" Nudge exploded.
"What?! I don't fuck other girls. What the hell are you talking about?" I demanded to know.
"Why don't you tell that to all of the girls whose lives you've screwed up! I'm just lucky I realized what was going to happen beforehand." Nudge countered.
What the hell was Nudge talking about? I wondered to myself. I've never slept with anyone in my life. In fact this is one of the first few dates I've actually been on.
All of a sudden in mine and Nudge's stare off my phone started to ring. I looked down at it to see who it was. Ella. I sighed. "Look I don't have time for this. We'll talk about this on Monday or something." Then without looking back I hurried out of the restaurant, Kemah and made my way to Max's car. I started the car and drove off. I looked back only once and saw Nudge standing there all alone in the dark. Pushing the bad out of my mind, I turned my focus to something worse than what had just happened.
Max.
Fang POV
"Max come on stay with me now." I urged even though I knew she was unconscious.
Of course this happens to me, I thought. Out of all the girls at the game and all of the nights this could've happened. It had to be Max, our game, and tonight.
Now I know what you're thinking. Fang, why did you kiss Max? To be honest I don't even know myself. I'm just going to hope when she gets better she doesn't remember that part. Or any part of tonight.
After I accidentally kissed Max I put my shirt back on. I couldn't have people staring at my wings. Then I picked Max up bridal style and hurried back to my car, avoiding police and people in general. Hopefully it looked like Max was just sleeping. I lay Max down carefully in the backseat and climbed in up front where I then proceeded to call Dr. Martinez. I had expected Dr. M to be angry with me but she seemed quite calm for some reason. She told me to take Max back to the house and she would try to get there as soon as possible.
All of a sudden the car in front of me suddenly stopped and my hand instantly went to the car horn. "HONK!" The car in front of me rolled down their window and gave me the middle finger. I resisted the urge to roll down my window and shout "Fuck you!" when I saw why we were stopped. One word. Traffic. Houston traffic to be exact. Houston, also known as the city of traffic. This was going to take all night, I thought. But Max didn't have all night. For all I knew Max could be bleeding internally right now. Max could die any second now.
Just then I caught sight of an opening in the jumble of cars. I put the car into drive and quickly squeezed through the opening. I got tons of honks from cars in return but I didn't mind as long as it meant Max would be closer to getting home.
After about an hour of squiggling in and out through the traffic I finally found a back road that would get us to the house quicker. Cutting yet another person off I hurried down that road. Before I knew it I was at the Rida household carrying Max out of the car bridal style. When I got to the backdoor I used my head to knock on the window. But before I could even have my head touch the window Iggy opened the door.
"Bring her in and set her on the kitchen island." Iggy instructed. I hurried and gently set her down. Looking around the kitchen I saw all of these different kind of doctor tools laid out.
Ella and Gazzy rushed out from the other room. They must've heard me come in with Max.
I grabbed Max's hand and held onto it like my life was on the line. Iggy hurried over and grabbed a stethoscope.
"What exactly happened?" Ella asked quickly wanting to know the answers.
"Long story short I forgot the game tickets in my car so I went to go get them and when I got back Max was gone. I looked around for her and finally found her about to be raped by some guy name Roman. He beat Max and I both up pretty good before I finished him off." I blurted out.
Gazzy put his hand on my shoulder and said "Come here." I gulped and expected another beating but it never came. Gazzy lead me to the back door and opened it pushing me out of their house. "Look," he started. "We can't have you stay . You've done everything you could and now it's our turn to do everything we can."
"But-" Gazzy cut me off before I could finish.
"Nope. No buts. Thank you for helping but we've got it from here. Also Nudge is still at Kemah Boardwalk last time I checked. You might want to go pick her up before anything bad happens to her."
As if on cue my phone rang. I glanced down at it and saw it was a call from Nudge.
"Well looks like that's her. Thanks again." Gazzy said and shut the door in my face. I looked through the window but Ella caught me. She hurried over and closed the blinds, shutting me out from Max.
How could they expect me to stay out of this after everything that had just happened?! I spit out bloody saliva onto their driveway and got into my car. Slowly and sadly I left the Ride household and drove to my baby sister, who was supposedly still at Kemah, so I could hurry home and pack. Because after tonight there was no way dad was going to change his mind about moving once he finds out about how I showed a normal person my wings. If anything, he was going to make us move before Christmas break even started.
Okay so it looks like this will end up being a 4-part chapter thingy. I'm sorry if you think this is short. I've been busy with school starting up and such.
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Apologizes in advance if I am slow with updates. I have school starting up and the cross country season.
QOTC: What time do you go to bed?
AOTC: I try for 10:30 pm
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