Sing.

It wasn't until Angel made the rest of the flock have a karaoke night, did they learn that Max can sing.

Molt

There was a certain time of the year when suddenly there would be many feathers all around the house. Ella huffed and picked one of Max's feathers out of her hair. "I hate this!" Fang smirked, "Me too." And picked off a feather.

Ring

Fang looked into the small velvet box in his hand, then back into the mirror. With a start he wonders when he started thinking words like marriage.

Late

It didn't matter that it was late, if Max needed him, he would be there. Fang would even stay awake sometimes, knowing that after a tough day, she would need him later.

Promise

As Max laid in her bed, she remembers a much simpler time. A time that was so distant now, it could have been a fairy tale. "I will always be here for you, Max. You know that right?" But he wasn't.

Confused

Gazzy didn't always get things right away. He was kinda…slow. Like when Nudge got her 'Time of the month' the scary time, when Nudge would be mean to him and it always came at the same time. He was mystified. All he knew was that in the middle of the month, he should be hiding somewhere.

So when he noticed that Max and Fang would dance around each other, and make goo-goo eyes, he didn't get it. All he knew was that he never wanted to be a teenager.

Nightmares

Some times, Fang would wake up in a cold sweat, screaming. Max was always there, she would sing him to sleep, and the rest of the flock would come and sit in his room to listen. On those nights, the flock all slept together on the same bed. Max was the balm to Fangs splintered nerves, and everyone knew it.

Daddy

When Angel was really young, with her downy chicken wings, she saw Max as 'Mommy' and she saw Fang as 'Daddy'. Sometimes when she was scared, she would run to Fang and curl up on his lap, she would call him Daddy. And Fang would never admit it, but he loved those special times, because he felt that his little angel wasn't growing up quiet so fast.

Mother, Sister, Best friend.

Max is everything at once, she never takes a break. She will be a mom to Angel and Gazzy, a sister to Nudge and Iggy, and a best friend to Fang. How does she do it? He has no freaking idea. But he knows that sometimes Max needs to take a break. So he'll swoop down and kiss her on the mouth, and even though he would most likely get beaten up later, it sure takes her mind off of everyone else.

Silence

Nudge just didn't understand how Fang could just never talk…Nudge always had to fill the silence, because she was terrified of the silence. Silence meant death, and Nudge didn't want to die.

But when Fang told her to just sit and listen, at first she didn't hear anything and that was uncomfortable.

Slowly, she began to hear things, the rustle of the wind, the faint hum of bees hovering around the flowers, the clicking of a beetles legs in the silence. That's when Nudge realized that there was no such thing as silence. She wasn't afraid anymore.