Okay, I hope you guys like it. Fang was almost gonna die in this chapter but you guys changed my mind... for now. Just kidding I could never kill him. I love him. Any way, I don't own Maximum Ride. In case anyone thought I did..

Enjoy, thanks for all the reviews guys:) Keep 'em coming! sorry its kinda short though...

Fang POV

I walked to Max's house and saw her mom's car wasn't there. I hope she is okay being home alone.

I knocked on her door and no one answered. I tried the knob and it was locked. I sighed and turned around to leave when the door swung open. Max was standing there, looking as beautiful as ever. Even with her messy bun that had fallen from the top of her head down to the left side, right above her shoulder. Even with her sleepy, red eyes looking at me so sadly. With her basketball shorts and a Mayday Parade t-shirt. She was gorgeous. I've never even felt like this before.

I realized I had been staring and I stuttered, "Hey, how are you doing?" Stupid question I know.

"Better." She sniffled a little bit and opened the door up wider, inviting me in.

I stepped through and waited for her to shut the door. "What do you wanna do Max? If you're tired and want to rest, I can leave. I understand." I said, looking at her intently.

She shook her head quick. "No. stay please." She practically begged. "I hate being here alone."

"Of course. I will stay." I grabbed her and wrapped her in a hug. God, she smelled so good. I wish I could hold her forever. She needed me and I needed her. As friends. Although I want to be much more, I know she is not ready for that. After all she's been through... Sure, I am really upset and heartbroken that both my best friends, Brigid and Samuel, and my brother had died in that car accident, but if I lost Max... I shook my head.

Max walked up to her room and I followed behind. I tried shaking my thoughts from my head. But I just couldn't stop thinking about the way her hips sway when she walks and how effortlessly beautiful she is.

When we got to her room, she shut the door behind us. She walked over to her bed and quickly cleaned the mess of Kleenex's off of her pillows. I sat down at her desk and watched her walk over to her trash can to throw garbage away. Gosh, Max. What did you do to me?

"Hey Max?" I asked.

"Yeah Fang?" She asked turning around to look at me.

"Has anyone ever told you that you're beautiful?" Shit, hopefully I didn't just ruin everything. She's gonna freak out and think I like her. I mean I do, but I don't want her to know. It will just ruin everything.

She blushed, "No one but my mom..."

"Well you are beautiful. You are the strongest, most beautiful you woman I have ever met." I said quietly.

She stared at me. Crap. Oh well, I can't take it back now. What she did next completely surprised me. She was walking toward me and as she neared, I noticed her eyes looked glossy and tear filled. Then she wrapped her arms around my neck and leaned down to where I was sitting. She started sobbing.

"Oh Max, shh, it's okay, it's going to be okay."

She was shaking so hard, it was breaking my heart to see her this way. She climbed into my lap and laid her head on my shoulder. Her knees were folded up into her chest.

"Fang," She said, her sobbing calming down. She sniffled and looked up at me.

I put a hand on her face and said, "Yes Max?"

"Thank you." She whispered.

"Whatever for?" I asked, holding back a smile.

"Just being here," She waved her hands at my body.

Oh god, her face was so close. The next ting I knew, my face was getting closer to hers. What happened to staying friends. But this girl... I needed to kiss her, it felt like my life depended on it. My lips are so close to hers now, I start to close my eyes, and she's gone.

"Fang..." She says, standing up. "I barely know you. I mean I trust you and you're really nice but.. after what I've been through... I want a friend. And yes, I like you a lot, you know as a friend. I'm sorry, I just can't do this right now."

I just stared.

"I think you should go..." she whispered. Good one Fang. You really effed things up this time. Crap crap crap.

"Okay, Max. I am so sorry. I don't know what I was thinking."

She smiled lightly and said "You weren't. I just need you to leave so I can think and I don't want to do anything stupid."

I nodded and walked out her door. I screwed up bad...

Max POV

Fang had just left.

I sat on my bed. We almost kissed. What was I thinking? I need to stay away from him. All boys want is sex and I can't give him that. He seems super nice and he punched Dylan in the face for me… he's perfect but I don't know if he is just acting until he can get in my pants. I doubt he even likes me. He's probably laughing right now because I'm falling for it. He can probably tell that I need him so bad and he's using it against me. I can't trust him. I can only trust my mom, Ella, Nudge and Iggy.

I cannot believe I almost kissed him. He's a liar. His story probably wasn't even true, he probably doesn't even have a brother that died in a car accident.

Or it all was true and I'm sitting here judging him and he really does care about me. I started crying again. I don't know what to do. No one knows about anything but him. I sure hope I can trust him with my secrets because it's too late now.

Fang is just so gorgeous looking and the way he talks to me like I'm the only thing that matters. He called me beautiful. Dylan always called me 'hot' or 'sexy' never 'beautiful' or 'gorgeous' or even 'pretty'.

I decided to go to bed early tonight and shut off my phone. It was 7pm and no one was home still so I wrote a note telling Mom and Ella I was going to bed early and went back upstairs to cry myself to sleep.

Hopefully it wasn't too short! I just only have so much time to type it and I get too excited and want to post the chapter ASAP! I get too eager to keep writing. But school starts in a few weeks so I think I'm gonna have this story wrapped up by then,

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