hey guys sorry for the wait! my computer's been stupid, i couldn't upload chapts on , and also bcuz i've been really busy, with everything bak 2 sckool, n bcuz i started yet ANOTHER story! its called max plus iggy equals an angry fang, go check it out!

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"Don't stop, ever. Don't ever leave me again." I moaned into Fang's shoulder.

"I won't, not ever." He promised, his voice music to my ears.

I looked up at him. My arms were wrapped around his neck. His arms were firmly on my waist.

"I love you." I cooed.

"I-" but his voice was caught off, and I felt myself being pulled away from our perfect moment. "Max." I heard Fang's voice call.

I struggled reaching out for him but getting nothing. "Fang. Fang. Fang!" I wailed, horrified that I wasn't with him anymore.

"Max." his voice said again. I threw my arms in front of me, and felt something, so I put my arms around it, and then I felt a tug at the back of my neck.

"Max." the voice more clear now. I snapped my eyes open. Holy crap! It'd all been a dream! Darn!

But I still felt my arms around something, and I focused my vision and Fang's face was only centimeters from mine. Oh God. I was holding onto Fang. Suddenly everything seemed to freeze except me and Fang. We were both breathing fast. I felt his breath tickle my nose and lips, and felt an incontrollable desire to reenact the dream again, so I slowly disentangled my arms from Fang, but he didn't straighten up, and for a moment, I thought he was going to kiss me. He just stood there, staring at me.

I gave a little cough and he seemed to react and straightened up, before I actually did something I'd regret later.

My head was still in Fang's lap, and I was staring up at him. My cheeks heated up as I realized what I'd almost done and what I'd been dreaming.

"You um, you talk in your sleep." Fang murmured. I shot up into a sitting position. Oh crap.

"Um, what exactly did I say?" I asked and forced myself not to groan out loud, maybe it hadn't been that bad.

"You, uh, you kept moaning my name." Fang said looking anywhere but at me.

I really groaned this time. "What were you dreaming?" Fang asked curiously.

"None of your beeswax." I muttered lamely.

Fang cupped my chin with his hand, and turned me to face him. Our faces were only centimeters apart now, and his dark deep eyes bored into mine. "It's…. a secret." I whispered. Fang was still holding my head in his hand.

"Aren't you gonna tell me?" he asked in the same tone. My breathing got faster.

"N-no… then it wouldn't be a secret, would it?" I stammered. Fang was leaning into me, and I could breathe in his scent. I felt his leg touch mine while he turned towards me, and I shivered at the contact. My cheeks were probably scarlet by now. Fang ran the back of his hand lightly over my cheek. "You're so red…" he murmured. My eyes widened.

"Uh, Fang?" I asked weakly.

"Yes Max?" he responded.

"Uh, well shouldn't we go to bed?" then I thought about what I'd said. "I-I mean sleep." I reminded myself to kill myself later for being such a dork in front of Fang.

Fang grinned at me, making my heart beat faster, and I was sure he could hear it. "I'm still on watch, but you can go back to sleep…Sleeping Beauty." Fang said softy, but in a mocking, yet, I don't know, caring, loving? way.

I rolled my eyes at him. I got up. "Where you going?" Fang asked.

I started towards a window.

"Uh, I need some air." I said opening the window. I looked and saw Fang's face fall. He thinks I'm running away again. I thought to myself. I sighed. I didn't want to ruin things and make them awkward. Nothing even happened this time. "I'll be right back though." I said reassuringly. I saw Fang relax and he nodded at me, a half grin on his face.

I flew out onto the roof of the Gryffindor tower. I sighed and enjoyed the night air. What was that dream all about? And then, right now. Oh God, Fang and I are being too comfortable around each other. Too vulnerable. But I liked it, and that was the bad thing. It was stupid and irresponsible to be doing this. I'd almost kissed him! Then, very deep, in the back of my mind, my conscious whispered, "You would've liked that."

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"Max, come on, we're going down to breakfasts, we got our classes afterwards, but I'm sure Dumbledore will take care of you." Hermione whispered to me the next morning.

I nodded. I looked back at my flock. I couldn't help giggling. They were unnaturally clean and in non-bloody clothes. Robes, actually, but whatever. The downside? Us girls had to wear those stupid gray skirts under the robes, Nudge had been thrilled, but I was just realizing how inconvenient these would be during a fight. Of course, the only fights that occurred around here were done through wands, and no hitting was actually involved, so I guess the attire didn't matter to the wizards.

But it did matter to butt-kicking-bird-kid-mutants, but at least we'd all been able to take nice long showers. "Nice skirt." Iggy commented though he couldn't see it. Gazzy and Fang snickered, and I whacked Iggy on the head. "Wipe that stupid smirk off your face!" I said rolling my eyes and stalking past him. I caught up with the 3 wizards who were leading us back to the Great Hall.

"So we're gonna go see the Minister right? Do you think he'll like us much?"

"He's a madman sometimes, but he'll come along." Ron said nodding at me.

"Okay. I guess that's supposed to make me feel better."

"So how are things with you and Fang?" Hermione asked as we took our seats at the table. I stopped short.

"What?" I asked, unbelieving.

"Oh, well isn't there something between you two?" she asked glancing at him from across from us.

"Uh no." I said. "Why would you think that?"

"Well, you know, it just seems you two have some sort of… connection."

"Oh. Well, nope, nothing's going on." I said and quickly changed the subject.

After breakfast, the wizards left to class, and left us to talk to Dumbledore.

"I've talked to Fudge, we're going to go to the Ministry of Magic later today, after lunch, so enjoy yourselves and feel free to explore the castle, just remember, the Forest of Darkness is highly dangerous, even for pupils like yourselves." He said smiling at us. Then, he gave us free passage to the whole castle.

"Just stay out of trouble." He'd called.

"Okay guys, I say-"

"Well, if it isn't the filthy muggles! What are you still doing here? I thought muggles weren't supposed to see the castle. Did Dumbledore bring down security? That old, muggle lover." Draco sneered coming up to us. I heard Nudge gasp behind me, and I got ready to beat the heck out of him.

"Shut up Malfoy!" I snapped at him.

"Oh, would you look at that, the muggle dares to talk to a pure blood!" and his stupid bully-friends, cackled behind him.

"I am not a muggle! I'm a human, and I don't think anything about you could be possibly pure!" I said, and made a move to punch Draco's scowling face, but Nudge held me back.

"No Max! Don't!" Malfoy and his stupid friends backed away quickly.

"My father will hear of this!" Malfoy called behind his back.

I whirled on Nudge. "Why the heck didn't you let me punch him?" and I saw Fang raise an eyebrow at me, saying, "Violent much?" I ignored him.

"Max, you can't go around punching students! Its' their castle not ours! We're supposed to be behaving! And plus-" she stopped, and blushed.

"Plus what?" I asked.

Nudge blushed, "Nothing." She said turning away.

"We'll talk later." I said, and she nodded.

"Okay, let's check this place out."

"Max, can we go to the library?"Angel asked coming up beside me.

"Oh hello!" a girl with a high pitched voice called out to us. More accurately, Fang. "My name's Lavender, how about you?" she said walking up to him.

"Fang." He said boredly.

"Oh, well hi Fang!" then she turned and seemed to finally see the rest of us. "Oh, and who are you guys?" she asked with a stupid smile.

"I'm Max, that's Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, Angel, Total, and you know Fang."

"Oh. And are you new here?"

"Yes." I said.

"Oh okay. Well, um do you need any help?" once again, she was looking more at Fang.

"Can you show us to the library, please?" Nudge asked.

"Oh, of course!" and she skipped and led us to the library.

"Oh, is she your sister?" I heard Lavender ask as I stalked past her and led the flock into the library. I turned and saw Fang shake his head. "Uh no… she's a friend of mines."

"Oh, okay, well, I hope I can be your friend too." Lavender said batting her eyelashes at him. I stood jaw agape.

"Uh, sure." Fang said shrugging. I ran into the library and slammed the door behind me.

I rushed over to a shelf, and found Nudge there. She was sitting against one of the desks. She looked dreamy. That reminded me we still had to talk.

"Nudge? What's up with you?

"Oh, hey Max. Uh can I talk to you?"

"Sure Nudge, what's up?"

"Well, you know Malfoy?"

"Yeah?" I asked crossing my arms over my chest.

"Well, don't be mad, I don't know what's happening, but, I think I have a huge crush on him.

Just then, Fang walked by, and turned to me. He started walking towards me, but the image of Lavender batting her eyes at him made me sick, and Nudge's little declaration wasn't helping.

I darted out of the aisle, and made a dash for the next one, and then walked my way towards Angel.

"Angel, honey, I'll be back, I need to go for a walk." I whispered.

"Okay Max, but don't worry, everything will be okay." She said and gave me an angelic smile.

"Right." And I pushed the doors of the library open and almost crashed into Harry.

"Harry!" I said staggering back. He caught me by the arms and straightened me up. "Sorry Max, I was in a bit of a rush there."

"Oh, okay. Well I'm just going out for a walk."

"Oh, I'll join you! I have a little while before my next class, and I lost Ron and Hermione."

"Oh okay." I said sighing. Whatever.

"Let me just get a book." He said and walked to an aisle. He was back in no time, and we walked towards the door. While I swung the door opened, I turned and saw Fang's head popping out of the aisle.

"So is something wrong Max?" Harry asked. We were out on the grounds. We were taking a walk around the lake. "You seem upset." Harry said.

"No, just, I don't know, I just don't like gushy emotions, and well Lavender was like all over Fang, and Nudge was-"

"Lavender? Oh don't worry about her. She's like that. She gossips a lot too. Oh and I guess I understand, you and Fang are going out?"

"What? No! No, no, no. We're just friends." I sighed. I leaned against a tree, and Harry stopped and watched me.

"Do you want to be more?"

"Ye- what? No. I'm fine. We're friends. That's it. He can go out with whoever he wants, I don't care."

"Right. And Ron is a better wizard than Hermione." I cracked a smile.

"So, how do you deal with everything? It's like every time you think you're safe, the storm starts again."

"Yeah, I- I don't know. I guess its Ron and Hermione, they're good mates. The best."

I smiled at Harry. "We have so much in common."

"Yeah, in a sense, we do."

"So tell me more about this Voldemort guy, why's he always trying to kill you?"

"I guess cause he thinks I made him loose his powers. I didn't die because my mum sacrificed herself to save me, so I guess he wants revenge."

"That sucks." I said feeling sorry for Harry.

"Yep. But it's OK. I haven't heard of him or anything all summer, so I suppose that's a good sign."

"When do you have your next class?" I asked.

Harry looked around for a clock. "In five minutes time." He said.

"Oh, you should get going." I said.

"Yes, would you like to come? I've got Care Of Magical Creatures next, Hermione and Ron should be there, and Hagrid won't mind you coming."

"Is Draco gonna be there?" I asked.

"Yeah. We take the class with the Slytherins."

"Oh, never mind then. I don't wanna run into him again, I almost punched him in the face again today."

Harry grinned. "Really? Hermione punched him last year."

"Hmm, guess he's used to it then."

"Suppose so."

"So Draco's 14 too right?"

"I suppose so, I don't talk to him."

"Right, okay, well I'll see you later then."

"Alright, bye, good luck at the Ministry!"

"Thanks!"I called back as Harry left for his next class.

I made my way back to the library, and found the flock. "Okay guys! We only got a little while till lunch-"

"Oh good! Cause I'm starving!" Gazzy said.

"Anyways, be ready, we're going with Dumbledore to the Ministry, and these folks can really do magic, so I don't know what to expect, conprende?"

The flock nodded.

"So Max, are you mad, about what I told you?" Nudge asked coming up beside me. The flock and I decided to go back to Gryffindor tower.

"Not mad, I guess you can't control those feelings, but Nudge, he's too old, and you can't let your feelings get in the way of your life. You need to survive. That's more important than some crush you have on someone, no matter how big. Promise me Nudge you won't let this get in your way?"

Nudge looked away. "Promise me Nudge?"

"Max, please!" she begged. I knew she didn't want to promise this. But it was important. "Don't you know what it feels like? You feel like he's the only guy in the world. That he's adorable and perfect, no matter how much of a jerk he is. You fall in love with his hair, and his eyes, and his personality… well maybe not his personality, but you know! I mean he's so cute!"

"Nudge, honey, you need a new definition of cute. Shoes are cute. That's the kind of things you should like."

"Max, I'm serious. I can't get over him."

"You only saw him for a couple seconds!"

"It was love at first sight." Nudge insisted.

"Nudge," I began. Oh how could I explain this? "You see sweetie, sometimes you need to set your priorities. Its either you or them. If it comes to that, I need you to pick yourself, okay?"

"Max, what if it was you or Fang, who would you pick?"

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