Short story one: The bad boy
“Hey Fang, taste this.” Max put the fork full of lasagna into Fang’s mouth.
“It’s great baby,” Fang lied. “It’s just...”
“It’s just what?” Max asked impatiently.
“It’s just, I think you should reread the instructions.” He put his hand on Max’s shoulder.
“Maybe I should just leave the cooking to Iggy.” Max looked down.
“If it gives you more free time.” And with that, Fang swooped her up and walked into their room. Fang placed his soft lips onto Max’s. Max held the back of Fang’s head.
Oh, Max, I love that you’re happy with Fang. Max stopped kissing Fang and froze. Fang felt her stop and pulled away.
“What’s wrong?” He asked concerned.
“Angle’s reading my mind.” Max looked at the ground embarrassed.
“Shoot,” Fang muttered.
“What?” Max asked.
“Do you think she read my mind?” Fang asked worriedly.
“Wha... why?” Max raised her eyebrows.
“Umm... because, I don’t know.” Fang scratched the back of his head embarrassed.
Nock, nock, nock, Iggy came in. “I hope I’m not intruding on anything.” He wiggled his eyebrows, “Anyway Josh is at the door.”
“Who’s Josh?” Fang asked.
“Iggy,” Max hissed. “He’s no one, just my science partner.”
“I didn’t know you had a science partner, why didn’t you tell me?” Fang asked.
“It didn’t seem important. He just asked if I wanted to be his partner so I-”
“He asked to be your partner?!” Fang roared.
“What’s wrong with that?” Max put her hand on her hip.
“He obviously wants to steal you.” Fang narrowed his eyes.
“Fang you sexist piglet. I’m not yours, and he’s not trying to steal anyone. Are you seriously going to make a big deal about this?” Max asked.
“I’m gonna go,” Iggy said.
“Max you have to admit that he obviously likes you,” Fang said.
“No, he doesn’t, he just needs a partner!” Max crossed her arms
“Max, he wants to be a different kind of partner,” Fang said.
“Fang your not going to stop, and I have a project I have to do. Love you, Fang.” Max stepped out the door. Fang couldn’t deny that whenever Max said I love you, his heart melted.
Max opened the door to find Josh leaning against the house. “Finally, I’ve been waiting for like, hours,” he said in a bad boy tone. He smoothed back his greasy black hair. “You gonna let me in Max?”
“Oh no I thought we could do it at your house.” Max tried not to look into his electric blue eyes.
“Okay, hop on.” He smirked and gestured to his motorcycle.
“Nevermind. Let’s just do it here.” Max threw her hands up.
“Maximum Ride, I never took you for a scaredy-cat.” He raised his eyebrows at her.
“You think I’m a scaredy-cat!?” Max slammed the door.
“Oh no.” Gazzy gaped.
“Yep, and it’s true.” Josh got closer to her.
“Really?” Max spat.
“Really. One look at my motorcycle and you run away.” Josh began to close the gap between them.
“I didn’t run away, I just don’t want to be found anywhere near you. It would ruin my reputation. That’ll happen to you if you hang out with an arrogant, clean-cut, disgrace of a biker. So I suggest you shut your mouth when you are around me.” Max smirked.
“And why is that?” he scoffed.
“Because I will put you in your place before you can say, bad boy.” Max gave him a sarcastic smile and sat at the table.
“You think you can beat me?” Josh smiled and raised his eyebrows.
“Yeah, why not?” Max stood up trying to intimidate him.
“Well, no offense but you’re a girl.” He gave her a too-bad look.
“WHAT!” Max lunged forward, but Iggy and Gazzy held her back.
“Yeah, you need guys to help you,” Josh muttered.
“Can we just let her?” Gazzy said struggling to hold Max back who was still trying to kill Josh.
“No!” Iggy, Angle, and Nudge yelled in unison.
“Can we just do the project and get it over with!” Josh yelled.
“Fine!” Max snarled.
“Oh, and Max it’s going to be really difficult to work with me so just put your feelings aside.” Josh grabbed his backpack and sat at the table once again.
“Yeah well, I’m sorry I hate you.” Max rolled her eyes and took out her notes.
“Yeah hardly,” Josh muttered.
“Excuse me?” Max raised one eyebrow.
“I mean you are obviously in love with me, so I’m sorry but I’m not interested. It’s not that I think your ugly altho you could use a makeover.” Josh pushed his hair out of his eyes.
“I’m am officially ignoring you.”
Three hours later
“Ok, we’re done.” Max pushed all her leftover clay into her backpack.
“It doesn’t look very good.“Josh blurted out.
“You try modeling the Ifel tower out of clay.” Max pushed the structure into the center of the table.
Fang had come out once to get milk, he basically lunged at Josh when he called Max hot. He went to bed after that. An hour later everyone else went to sleep. It was now midnight and Max and Josh were both exhausted.
“Bye,” Max said.
“Oh I’m not leaving,” Josh said matter of factly.
“Yeah, you are.” Max laughed.
“You kept me up late I’m sleeping on your couch.” Josh got up.
“You’re not sleeping on my cou-” Max gave up and went to bed. She crashed into her bed. She looked over to find Fang sleeping on the bed next to hers. Max quietly got up and went over to his bed. She laid down next to him and whispered, “I love you Fang, It's been a really long day huh. See you in the morning Fang."
"Goodnight Max."