"Morning." I whispered snapping out of my thoughts.

"Morning." He replied in a groggy voice and I knew that he still wasn't fully awake. I managed to turn around in his arms and gave him a lazy smile. "How you feeling?" I asked softly.

The embarrassment was back and he looked down at the bed.

I was about to open my mouth to speak but there was a load knocking on the door. "Nickolas, are you up? We're leaving in an hour so get up and get ready!" I could tell it was his dad and rolled my eyes. They were such an odd family, nothing like the one I remembered having, I could remember being very close to my parents while this lot were all over the place.

"Who calls you Nickolas anymore?" I mumbled snuggling back up to him, really not feeling like getting up.

He chuckled and took my lead laying his cheek on my head. "You never told me why you call me Fang." He mused.

My hand came up to his neck and I fiddled with the fang hanging around his neck. "I thought you'd figured it out." I replied honestly. I mean I didn't exactly know your name then and it was either give you a name or keep thinking mystery man. Now I'm sure even you can tell-" he stopped me midsentence.

"Mystery man huh?" I could almost picture his grin and I swatted his chest.

"Keep quiet." I grumbled embarrassedly. "You were a mystery. I mean the first time I saw you-" this time I cut myself off, I had unknowingly done something really stupid. Mentioned what had happened last night.

"What?" he asked confused, wanting to know why I had suddenly stopped.

Well there was no going back now, may as well tell him. My voice softened as I spoke. "You remember the first time you came across the spring?"

"Yes?" now he was extremely confused and I could feel his eyes on me so I naturally took a sudden interest in a button on his shirt.

"Well I was there, in a tree." I stated. "I was beyond angry that an intruder had found one of my places but then you looked up and I saw your eyes." it was barely a whisper at the end. He started rubbing small circles in between my shoulders and I relaxed slightly. "They were in so much pain that I actually fell." I couldn't help but giggle at the thought. I remembered clinging desperately to the tree but he just wouldn't look away! "I was so close to losing my grip but you just wouldn't let it go and kept staring at the spot where I had slipped from so I came up with a bird call." I trailed off, hoping that my idiocy at the end would lighten the mood slightly.
"That was you?" he asked incredulously.

"Mhmm." I nodded against his chest just breathing in his Fangish smell and loving the fact that I was allowed to be this close to him without having to be dying. "I wanted to know why you seemed so sad so you were mystery man." I answered his question from the beginning and peeked up at him to find him staring off into space. "I never did find out why you seemed so empty." I whispered as an afterthought and he broke out of his thoughts.

Of coarse we seriously couldn't catch a break because there was another knock on the door. I groaned and clutched him tighter when he moved to get out of the bed seriously wishing we could just lounge around for the rest of the day. Apparently everyone else had other ideas he smiled at me and kissed me softly before sliding out of my grip and walking over to the door opening it slightly.

I was pouting on the bed with my arms over my chest extremely displeased that everyone wanted to disturb us.

"Is Max here?" A small tired voice asked and Fang opened the door fully to reveal Angel still dressed in her Pj's.

"Hey honey." I grinned at her and she ran over to the bed and jumped up, throwing herself into my arms. "Baby what's wrong?" I asked, worried now.

She loosened her grip on me and pulled back to look at me with her bottom lip jutted out and her eyes shining.

I felt the bed dip slightly as Fang sat back down but I ignored him.

"I had a nightmare." Her bottom lip trembled and she sniffed back her tears.

"It's ok Ange, everything's fine." Fang assured. I climbed off the bed with Angel.

"We better go get ready hon." I said cheerfully, "I have a present for you." I hoped that would cheer her up slightly and it did, she looked up at me and grinned.

"Really?"

"Yes, but it's in our room." I said and placed her on the ground again. "I left a small brown pouch on the table beside my bed, why don't you go get it?" I suggested and she was out the door before I could finish the sentence.

Fang was behind me then and he wrapped his arms around me. "You are brilliant with her, I honestly don't know how you do it." he admitted.

"Neither do I." I turned my head and kissed his cheek.

There was a loud squeal from down the hall and I knew Angel had opened the pouch.

She was over the moon about her present. When I opened the door to our room Nudae was laughing on her bed with her legs crossed watching Angel dance around the room with her ankle bracelets in place, making clinking noises as she went along.

Then she spotted me and beamed happily. "Thank you Max!" She squealed excitedly continuing her dancing.

I plopped down next to Nudae and we both watched Angel dancing for w a while before she turned to me. "What happened last night, you didn't come back." Her brown eyes were swimming with question and suspicion.

"I must have fallen asleep." I shrugged like it was nothing hoping she would just drop it.

"Did he tell you?" She enquired in a whisper, trying not to alert Angel of our conversation.
I shook my head. "He'll tell me when he's ready I suppose."

Nudae nodded thoughtfully.

"I have something for you too." I stated standing up and picking up my pouch from the bed. Angel didn't seem to notice the other items in the small bag besides her ankle bracelets. I picked up the bag and took out the bracelet. I handed it to a confused Nudae and she looked down at her hand picking up the object to look at it properly.

"Wow!" She gasped eyes wide that the simple thing. "It's gorgeous Max!" She continued the same happy grin Angel was wearing spreading across her face.

"I'm glad you like it." I had really been worried she wouldn't like it, I had worked hard on all the gifts and I really hoped it showed.

Nudae instantly slipped it on and examined it closed, picking up each dangling pendant and staring at it in aw.

"Oh Nudae it's so pretty!" Angel had stopped her dancing and was now enchanted by the bracelet.

"When did you make this? It must have taken ages." Nudae asked not lifting her eyes from it.

"The two days before you left." I said slightly embarrassed, I had worked through the night to get them all done, I was going to leave them in their tents but by the time I was done it was too late, they were already on the beach ready to leave and I couldn't face them. My gifts were meant to be a silent goodbye.

I also studied the charms and smiled proudly, I was pleased with how it had turned out, it was unique and suited Nudae perfectly just like Angel's ankle bracelets did with their pink shells, it had taken me hours to find enough. One I had carved from a hard bright yellow stone that gave me quite a lot of trouble. It was in the shape of the stars, something I knew Nudae had always loved about the island. You could see so many and from what I understood there wasn't as many where they were from. Another was just a rough red stone that glittered when the light hit it and another was an amazing mix of blues all changing different shades depending on the lighting that had taken me the longest, it was a type of flower that covered the island with an intense yellow on the centre and fading as it moved out, the petals overlapped and it looked very real which I was very happy about (Pendant on profile)

"It's amazing Max, thank you." Suddenly the breath left me in a whoosh as Nudae and Angel tackled me to the ground all of us landing with a thud on the ground in a giggling mess.

"What happened?" a panicked voice came from behind us and all three of us turned to find Jeffry by the door with huge eyes. "I heard a very loud thud."

To which we all dissolved into giggles again when we noticed Jeffry was –once again- in nothing but a towel.

"This is happening rather a lot isn't it Jeff?" I managed to let out and Nudae's giggles halted as her eyes flickered from Jeffry to me suspiciously.

"What do you mean?" her voice was laced with betrayal and sadness and I then remembered I hadn't told anyone about dodging Dylan in the corridor.

"Aw don't worry Nudae, I'm not going to steal you're man. I've got my own. Besides why would I want that?" I pointed accusingly in Jeffry's direction and he gave me a sour look.

"Hey!" He whined.

"Explain." She was still suspicious and made no sign of giving in any time soon so I just told her.

"Yesterday when I tried to escape the wrath of Nudae getting hold of me with make-up and jewellery I made a break for it remember? I was cornered by Dylan in the hall though and ran into the first room that I saw which just so happened to be his." I jerked my thumb over at Jeffry. "He was surprised to say the least." I chuckled at the memory of Jeffry's goldfish expression.

"Fine." Nudae stood up accepting my excuse.

"Right well. I have humiliated myself enough for a lifetime so I will leave now." Grumbled Jeffry before he left the room.

Is that a little better? I'm trying hard to get back to how I wrote in the beginning so please helpme! Lol. Thank you guys for being so supportive I luv every single person reading this I seriously do! Review and tell me what you think!

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