(I'm in the fumes of my dog right now, so this chapter might be a little weird. UGH! He smells!)
2. Understanding
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"Max are we there yet?" Angel asked me for the twentieth time.
I sighed. "Not yet Angel, we'll be there soon." I answered, clenching my teeth to stop myself from yelling at her "WE'LL GET THERE WHEN WE GET THERE!" Geez! It's fine to ask it maybe once or twice, but twenty times is pushing my sanity limit.
"I think your gonna make Max explode Ange, knock it off." Iggy whispered to her loud enough for me to hear.
I turned to him. "Shut up!" I yelled at him. Oops, I almost slipped over my boiling point. My checks flushed red and I flew a little ahead to hide it.
Fang silently crept up to my side. "You okay?" He asked me.
I almost jumped out of the sky when he asked me. "Oh, yeah, I'm fine. I just have another head ache."
Fang gave me a little look of surprise. "It's been a while since you've had one of those." He said to me. I nodded, realizing how long ago it had been. It had been five years since I had a head-ache like this one. Did it mean that the Voice was going to annoy me a lot more. It only popped up every once and a while now.
"Max?" Nudge interrupted us, "Can we land? I'm tired and starving! I could eat a cow! No, a dinosaur! No! A-"
"Okay Nudge, we get the point." I answered rubbing me temples. I saw a little clearing and motioned to it. We all landed silently, well, except for Nudge who was rambling about how hungry she was.
"WE GET IT NUDGE!" Iggy yelled at her, after she started talking about how she would manage to eat a whole T-Rex. Let me tell you, it wasn't very pretty.
Fang threw a pack of uncooked hot-dogs at her. "Enjoy." He murmured, sitting down. I raised an eyebrow at him, but he just shrugged. Well, he was a lot of help.
"OOH! HOT DOGS!" The Gassman said, trying to snatch the hot dogs from Nudge. I think he's obsessed with these things, it's sometimes a little scary.
"Gassman! Calm down!" Angel said pulling Gazzy onto the floor next to her. "It's just hot-dogs!"
"Hot-dogs give my life meaning." The Gassman muttered. I couldn't help but laugh at that. I was so glad he didn't have a girlfriend, because if he did, he'd be getting a huge smack across his little face.
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After the little hot-dog crisis, the flock passed out. Not literally, of course, but I swear that Angel almost collapsed of exhaustion. I really hoped that I wasn't working them that hard. If I was then I was a bad leader.
And something was up with Fang. I didn't know what, or what caused it, but he was acting weird. He hardly spoke a word, which wasn't that odd but he didn't talk to me was the weird part.
I decided to take first watch, considering that everyone else passed out. I'm sure Fang would have argued though; he probably would have said something like-
"You should have let me take first watch." Yeah, something like that.
I looked up at Fang and smiled. "I thought you where asleep."
"You thought wrong." He answered simply. He sat down next to me and I put my head on his shoulder.
"What was up today?" I asked him sighing. I wanted this to seem like a question I just asked because it just came to my head or something. I didn't want him to know that I had been wondering about it all day.
"What do you mean?" He asked not looking at me. That was odd, he always looked at me. Even when I wasn't looking at him I could feel his gaze on me, which forced me to look at him.
"You seemed...distant. Kind of like, you weren't really there."
"I had a lot on my mind."
I sat up and looked into his eyes. "Like what?" I asked, cocking my head to the side.
He sighed. "It was nothing."
"Liar." I accused him. "You hardly looked at me all day, you hardly talked to me, you had a glazed look in your eyes.- And you still do- What's going on?"
He pursed his lips together and stayed quiet, and that gave me a definite reason to believe he was lying. If he wasn't lying, then he wouldn't be acting like this, but since I know him too well, then I know he's lying. The Red-Haired Wonder wouldn't have known that now would she? I frowned at him and turned away. Did he always have to be so stubborn? Oh wait, I already knew that, yes he did, he's Fang for crying out loud.
"Why can't you just tell me?" I muttered, still not looking at him.
He sighed. "Max it was nothing, just let it go." I bit my lip to prevent myself from yelling at him 'TELL ME OR I'LL KICK YOUR BUTT TO NEXT YEAR, MR.ROCK!' And that would have gone over so well with everyone else.
"Fang stop lying to me. Just tell me, I won't be mad if it's something bad." I told him, turning around. It looked like I was getting through the thick ice, but I wasn't quite sure.
"Do you love me?"
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(Sorry it's been a while, I'll write a lot today, I promise! PINKY SWEAR!!)