Fang POV

"Reading is dying! Loosing its life to movies, television, video games, and other useless electronics! Help save reading, stop by the new bookstore today!" Was she crazy? No one was going to a stupid bookstore. I looked at the girl next to her.

She was new. Moved here last week, from Florida. She moved with her dad and her three brothers. Her twin, Iggy, was- obviously- also a sophomore. Her younger one, Gazzy, was ten and was in seventh grade with my younger, motor-mouth sister, Monique, or Nudge. I hear he is super smart and skipped a few grades. Ari, her youngest brother, is in the same grade as my youngest sister, Angel- who by the way, if you care, is in fourth grade. She lives in building E room 786. You may think I'm a stalker, but in reality, my room is right across the hall.

"What are you looking at?" asked a female voice grabbing onto my arm. I frowned. Lissa. The most annoying person on this campus.

"Nothing," I muttered, jerking my arm out of her grip.

"Good, so do you want to come get some coffee with me?"

"No."

"Great. I found this- wait what did you say? Did you just say no?"

"Let's see, did it sound like this? No."

"You can't say no to me! I'm your girlfriend." She had a point she was my girlfriend, but that didn't mean I had to go anywhere with her.

"I was actually heading to the bookstore Lissa. Sorry, I'll catch up with you later."

"Oh, I can come with you. I love studying." Um, ew. Why was I dating her? Seriously I don't know.

The day I moved here, she was dating this guy that was really abusive. I saw him beat her up and stepped in to help. They broke up that day and I helped her recover. We were really close friends then just started dating last year. That's when things started getting weird. I don't know how to explain it but it wasn't the Lissa I met last year. Something changed her over summer break and I know I wont get the old her back.

"No it's for my, um, World History class."

"Oh, okay, when do want to get together later?"

"I'll meet you for lunch in the common."

"See you then," she said turning and walking toward her building.

Max POV

What's the point? Sitting out here with Monique yelling in my ear was not a good way to spend my Saturday morning. Did I mention I'm not a morning person? No? Well, I'm not.

"Help save reading, stop by the new bookstore today!" Ridiculous. "Hey, are you doing anything later?"

"Huh?"

"Max, are you free later, 'cause I thought you could come over to Nick's dorm and join our movie night. It's a lot of fun. We pick out like twenty movies and stay up all night watching them. You can invite someone to come if you want. Nick usually brings his girlfriend, but I haven't seen him with her lately. Oh look! There they are right over there! Wow that's weird. We were just talking about them and pop! There they are! Right in front of us. I wonder what they're talking about. I wonder if it's the movie night! Wouldn't that be weird because we were just talking about it and I was telling you how much fun it was-" I tuned her out. Honestly she could go on for hours.

I looked over at Nick and his girlfriend. I recognized her.

"Who is she?" I asked Monique interrupting her babble.

"Who, Lissa? She's the red head, Nick's girlfriend. Then there's Ella, my best friend, she is sitting on that bench by the coffee cart. Over there is Brittany, she's by the tree with all the birds on it. And by the fountain is Abby. Then over there-"

"Monique, I didn't need you to point out every girl on campus, just Lissa."

"Oh, okay, and call me Nudge all my friends do."

"Um okay, Nudge." She smiled, and then started trying to get people to come to the book fair.

I watched Nick and Lissa. He seemed angry. Maybe she wouldn't be coming to the movie night tonight.

Movie night. Should I go? Monique- I mean Nudge- invited me. And she said I could bring someone, so I'm sure Iggy would come. So I Max had plans on a Saturday night.

"Hey, Max is it?" I looked up to see Sam right in my face.

"Um, yeah," I said leaning back. "What do you want?"

"I was wondering if you wanted to go out sometime." I watched out of the corner of my eye as Nick walked over to our table.

"What?"

"Do you want to go out sometime? Like a date?" Nick was talking to Nudge, well Nudge was talking and Nick was nodding occasionally. Then he looked my way and caught my eye. I looked back at Sam who was waiting for an answer.

"A date."

"Yes."

"No."

"What?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"She said no." Sam and I both turned our heads to see Nick standing a few feet away.

"This doesn't concern you."

"She said no. That's your answer. No. Now leave her alone." Sam turned around and went to hit on another girl.

"Hey, Nick right?" He nodded, "thanks."

"No problem." I turned back to the papers in front of me. Stupid history test.

My first day here, last Tuesday to be exact, I walked in to World History and the teacher dumped a test on me. He wrote down the textbook title, the pages I had to study and when the test was. That's it. No hello, no welcome, nothing.

"Your coming to movie night?" I looked up at Nick he wasn't looking at me, but at the handouts stacked in front of him.

"Uh, I think so."

"You should come. You could bring Iggy." He bent down to pick up more flyers from the box at his feet.

"Um, yeah." I looked back down at my textbook. Nudge had been oddly quiet. I looked around. No Nudge. "Where's Nudge?"

"She had a date with destiny." I looked at Nick blankly. He didn't seem like the type of person to want to help with a bookstore.

"Oh." That's all I could think of. Oh. How lame.

"Well, that's what she told me when she tried to get me to take her spot at this stupid thing."

"If you want to go join her-"

"Join her?" he chuckled darkly. "Yeah, like I would want to chaperone her and her boyfriend of the week."

"Of the week?"

"Yup."

"Wow." That's all I could say. I was stunned. Yeah Nudge was bubbly, peppy, and social, but I didn't think she was that kind of girl.

Fang POV

"Wow." Max was shocked. I guess if i hadn't grown up with Nudge I wouldn't see it coming either. We sat in science for a few minutes.

"Do want to grab some lunch?" I asked breaking the peace.

"Now? Whose going to stay with the table?" I looked around the quad. There were a few small groups of two maybe three people scattered around but other than that everyone was in class. I gave her a look that said, are-you-serious?

"Fine." She closed her text book and shoved it into her bag. "Where to?"

"Dining Common?"

"I found this really great chinese place down on Main Street. Um, I think it was-"

"Shanghai" we said at the same time. We looked at each other then burst out laughing.

"Yeah that place has the best chinese food around." I bent down to grab my backpack and we headed across campus to Main Street.