This is ma very first Fan Fiction so please go easy. I hope she doesn't mind, but I'm sorta basing ma story off of Lainiesawesomeness. There's a lot in the begining that was based on her story, so sorry! Remember this is my first one!! Fang, Iggy, Gazzy, and Nudge are one family, and Max, Angel, and Ella are another. All of 'em (except for Ella) are 2% bird, but that doesn't come up for a while. None of their powers have 'activated yet.' oh yeah, and sorry I kno some (or most) of my retorts are lame. I know this is a long chapter, I just don't know how to make another chapter so..ya..
Max POV
Great. New state, new house, new school. Just what I need. My mom, Valencia Martinez (I'm adopted as a foster, so I go by my awesome made-up name Maximum Ride), said it's a really great school, and might be a challenge for me, because I'm sort of a low-key brainiac, and blah blah blah. Right, sure, whatever u say Mom! We all know the REAL reason we're here is because my mom is hoping to get engaged to her boyfriend. Nick, the guy she's dating, is cool and an awesome dad, and I TOTALLY want my mom the be happy and everything, but I think she's taking it too fast. She really thinks he's the one and all, but she's made the same mistake more than once and I don't want to see her that brokenhearted again. Anyways, our new next-door neighbors are coming ovr for dinner. I know that they have 3 boys, and one girl, in comparison to my 8-year old sister Angel and 15 year old sister Ella. Ella and Angel are the exact opposite of me. Angel, with her flowing blond hair, and Ella, a green-eyed brunette, are all girly and weak. Well actually, Ella's weak, Angel's pretty strong for her, or anybody else's age. But they care about fashion and boys and looking pretty and whatnot. While I'm just a paranoid freak with wavy brown hair, rough, tanned skin, and brown eyes. This is the first time me and Ella are going to go to school together. We're in the same grade, but I went to a private school for geniuses and Ella went to a public school for...non-geniuses. It's also because, even though me and Ella are tight, Ella didn't really want me going to the same school. I don't hold it against her. I mean, who could blame her? I was the loner at my 2 old schools. The freak. I'm thinking this school is no different, and so this dinner won't be fun. Ugh. Their here. Might as well get it over with.
Fang's POV
I just got finished with convincing my mom to let me wear normal clothes. But why would my mom try and make my dress up you may ask? We were going to our newly moved in neighbors house for dinner. They had three girls, and two of them were my age. So this could go many ways: 1. both of them will be all girly and annoying. 2. One of them will be all girly and annoying while the other would be tough and tom-boyish 3. Both of them will be tough and tomboyish. I like numero three, but knowing me, I'll probably get number 1. I'm not all that lucky. My own family consists of 15-year-old Iggy, who's the same age as me. He's blind, with long blond hair and blue eyes. The Gasman, or Gazzy, is 8, and has dirty blond short hair. He's pretty tall for his age too. Well we all are but...Nudge is 11 and is dark skinned and dark haired and a motor mouth. Then there's me. Long black hair, dark eyes, and tan-ish skin. Wasn't to blessed in the looks department like everyone else, but I make the most of it. Now you might be thinking, how could all these people possibly be related? Well the answer is, we're not. We're all adopted, but are very close.
Fang POV
We walked to the Martinez/Ride (I don't get it eithr)'s house, obviously. Next door neighbors for crying out loud. Even though, if they were next door to China, the walk/swim wouldn't tire us down...Anyways, Mrs. Martinez opened the door and I could seriously almost FEEL a bond between her and my mom.
"Hi! I'm Valencia, I'm so glad you could make it today. Come on in. My three daughters, Max, Ella, and Angel will be right down."
"Oh, hello! So great to meet you. I'm Natasha, and these are my kids Iggy, Gazzy, Fang, and Nudge. I noticed the herbs and plants you have in your garden..." and they droned on about the garden. Wow, I am glad I will never become a middle aged mom.
Anyways so Mrs. Martinez calls her daughters down and she goes, "MAX, ANGEL, ELLA! Come down for our guests!!" and I then notice the extremely loud music, sounded something like Monsoon by Tokio Hotel in appose to the usual..I dunno Hoedown Throwdown or whatever.
So one of the older girls said, "Is it the guy from Dominos? Because I'm not showing HIM any courtesy. THAT PIZZA IS AN HOUR LATE, THAT MEANS FREE DRINKS!!" Ya, I couldn't believe it either.
"Its not like you'd show him or anybody else too much courtesy anyways. Come down here and meet the our new neighbors! Wear the dress on your bed!" Mrs. Martinez yelled back.
"Wear did u get a dress from? I didn't even know I owned a dress!! AAAH!!-" she screamed, obviously seeing the dress for the first time "- ITS PINK!!! And I mean how short is this, up to my tighs? Good one mom, like I'm REALLY gonna be caught dead in THAT. I'll just give it to Angel. It'll probably reach up to HER knees. Thats how FRIKIN short this dumb dress is." So she walked downstairs and I could feel Nudge's disappointment, becuase she REALLY wanted a girly girl to hang out with and Max (as I later learned was her name)..well.. so she comes downstairs with: a black..tank top? Its the one with the sleeves that are in between a spaghetti strap and tee and black skinny jeans. No makeup or anything. Her brown, sun-streaked hair was tyed up in a low ponytail and her dark brown eyes darted around curiously. Then Ella (again, as I later identified was her name) came bounding down in a maroon, not-too-tight-that-its-skanky-but-not-flowy, dress with white buttons. Number 2 it is A/N Oh, don't be perverts. You know what I mean.
Max POV
So I walk downstair after have the usualy type of conversation I have with my mom, the sarcastic type that you could totally record and post it on YouTube and get like a 5 star rating and see the Vian family. So Fang, as I later learnt was his name was, (and I got all this from first glance and appearance, so I might be wrong) is the quiet, yet cool and funny kind. He had dark hair and tanned skin. His eyes were so dark, you couldn't see the pupil. They were deep, like if you fell in, you wouldn't stop falling. And it gave off a dangerous aura, like he's daring you to tick him off. A/N yes, I got some of this from MAX, in case you noticed. He was wearing a white hoodie with a design like green and blue lines randomly criss-crossing and leather skinny jeans and DC's.. yup, definitely the popular type. Just my luck. Then the other one, who I think was either the same age, Iggy, was obviously blind. I think it was the kind of blindness where its like you put mesh over your eyes or something..He had blond, wavy-ish hair and sea blue eyes. He was wearing those t-shirts with the sunglasses and (oooh, shock) skinny jeans (is that all guys wear these days?). Then the younger boy who looked like 10 or something, Gazzy, had dirty blond hair and had the shortest hair of all 3 of them, up to his neck . He was wearing one of those t-shirts that were like, I'm with stupid or Danger is my Middle Name. Exept his said Part Human, Part Bird, ALL danger. Hm..I shoved that thought to the back of my head..coincidence? It had to be. Then there was the like 11-year old girl who was jumpy and had like a bubbly feel to her. She was waaay tanned, but had like a bronze-y 'from the Islands' look to her skin. She had dark, unmanageable looking hair and a tie-die t-shirt with a peace sign on it. She had bright green shorts and matching shoes. At least she was young, if she was my age, I KNOW we wouldn't have gotten along.
"This is my oldest daughter, Max. Short for Maximum. And this is Ella. I think they're both Fang's and Iggy's age? My youngest daughter, Angel, is 8. She should be coming down soon." The Vian kids were staring at me, in that way that isn't intense, but is pretty nerve-wracking, like I wasn't what they expected. Which I probably wasn't. I never am.
Fangs POV
So we engage in some small talk like, "hey I'm Max" "wassup, I'm Iggy" "I'm Gazzy" "Fang" "Ella" "I'm Nudge! It's great to meet you! I was hoping for some girlier, cuz I'm always stuck with guys and-" Nudge was cut off when the younger one, who couldn't possibly be related to Max, Ella, or Mrs. Martinez because of her blond curls and blue eyes, Angel, came running down the stairs and leaped into Max's arm, as if to prove that that Max was a VERY good big sister though she might not be girly.
Of course, Max proved that on her own when she stroked Angel's curls and said, "Angel, this is Nudge. I think you'll really like her because from what I can tell she seems like the talkative, girly type. You guys could go to the malls, and the park or whatever and be like sisters! Doesn't that sound fun?" When she listed each of those possibilities, both Nudge's and Angel's face got eager and excited.
"Alright, why don't we get to know eachother over dinner. I bet you guys have a lot in common," said Mrs. Martinez
"Yay!" Angel and Nudge cheered together. Yup, they were definately going to be good friends.
Max POV
I guess Mom really wants to impress these people because she outdid herself with dinner. Before, I didn't know that what we were having for dinner or even that we had guests cuz I was upstairs in my room most likely deafening myself with music. There was potatoes, and yams, and mac and cheese, and a bunch of other delicious stuff. But no chicken, or turkey because they're part of the bird family. Anyways, we dug in, and unfortunately for my mom, her and 's and Angel and Nudge conversations was the only cross-family talking going on. It was weird how Iggy could dig his fork into his potatoes without missing a bunch of times. Whatever, I've seen weirder. Anyways, Gazzy was pretty quiet too, except for his chewing. "Maybe you guys could talk more freely if you went upstairs to Max's room?" my mom 1/2 asked 1/2 stated. I didn't think anybody except for Nudge and Angel really wanted to 'talk freely' so we tried to take our time eating, except all we had were crumbs so that plan didn't exactly work out. Angel showed Nudge around so the guys just followed me and Ella and we led them into my room. Yet again, I don't think my room was what they were expecting, but they just had to get used to it. I wasn't about to start conversing then so I just plopped down on my bean bag and started channel surfing. Ella sat on the pink bean bag next to mine and started texting. Of course, based on my luck, there was nothing to watch so I just switched off the T.V and said, "So..."
Fang POV
We tried taking our time with dinner so we wouldn't be forced to talk to each other- I think it was because we were all a bit shy, which is a first- but that didn't really help because all we had left were some crumbs. Angel gave Nudge a tour of her house and we weren't about to board Barbie Girl Airlines so we just followed Max and Ella. She led us to her room and let me tell you I was wrong, baby, wrong about her personality. Her ceiling was painted like a sky, and not in a fairy tale way either. More like what you see when u look out of a jet. She just went to her ink-purple bean bag and tried to find something good on TV. Most girls in my school would get all spazzy if they were in a room by with a bunch of guys, espicially US, but she seemed fine. She just let us do our thing, so we sorta went through her stuff (not like closet, but like books and CD's).
Finally she got bored and looked to us and said, "So, you guys like it here?"
Iggy responded before I could, 'Well, you kno, typical city. The popular kids, the rich kids, the gansters, the skater dudes, the dorks..You've seen the movies."
"And experienced it day to day," Max replied. That kind of broke the ice and we started joking around a bit and whatnot.
Finally, Max asked the question I knew was coming, "So..who are they? The popular kids I mean. So I could like, watch out for them."
"There's two main guys..Me and Fang. and one girl, Bridgit, Fang's girlfriend,"
Iggy replied before I could. Her response was not what I was expecting. Guess what she did. Go ahead, guess......................................she laughed. Just cracked up. "What's so funny?" Gazzy asked (he just came back from the bathroom) what was on all our minds. "I dunno..I guess I wasn't expecting you guys to be the popular kids becuase...well aren't they supposed to be like..hot?"
Max POV.
So Fang, Iggy, Gazzy(sorta), Ella, and I were having a great time laughing and cracking jokes, when I heard how they were the populars in my new school. I remember in my old school in California how people like them made my life miserable. The only postitive outcome was that I learned to not hide the fact that I could break their necks and became more self-riteous. I really like Fang, Iggy, and Gazzy though, they were like brothers, and that was after only one night. I didn't want this little piece of information to ruin that friendship, so I decided to let it go. Sure, Fang probably has a jerky girlfriend, but that wasn't gonna affect me in anyway, so why let it ruin this friendship? Anyways, guess what I did when they told me they were the populars? I totally subtly cracked up. Oh yeah, thats me, smooth as butter. But hey, I at least covered it up by instulting them. What can I say, I have a gift. You know, other than wings.
"What's so funny?" Gazzy asked, just coming out of the bathroom.
"I dunno...I guess I wasn't expecting you guys to be the popular kids because...well aren't they supposed to be like...hot?"
"Max!" Ella said reprovingly and jokingly threw a pillow at me.
"Oh hey there's the pizza guy. You guys still hungry?" I asked. They all said no, but we were able to finish the pizza anyways.
Angel and Nudge joined us for pizza, and after we finished pigging out, Nudge said, "Max? Ella? me and Angel were wondering...well..Angel REALLY wants to see the mall here, because its waay bigger than the one at your guyses old house and.." Nudge rambled on.
"...and you want us to take you? sure we'll go. But just so I make myself clear, I'm not shopping, I'm just your humble chaperone," I finished.
"Oh, well actually, I can't go. I have an appointment with the school counselor. Since we're going in the middle of the year, I might not be able to make it on the cheer squad, but I really want to, so I'm going to meet her and beg for a place in the squad."
"Really?! Thanks so much! You won't regret it. Your going to have a blast, and-"
I cut Nudge off. "Remeber, I'm not buying anything."
"Oh, no, suure you aren't," she said in a way that meant you keep believing that. But whatever, I'll deal with that later. Then ran off, probably to play with dolls or something.
Fang looked at me weird and asked,"You look like you hate shopping, why'd you give in?" Wow, your kidding me right?
"Hello, did u not SEE those puppy eyes?"
Fang POV
When we finally had to leave, I can't believe I'm saying it, but I wasn't ready to. It was weird leaving the house and not having Angel, Ella, and Max follow, becuase in the course of one night, they had become like sisters to me. Even though Ella and Angel are all girly, there actually pretty cool too. Max was going to the mall tomorrow with Angel and Nudge. Iggy told her that she shouldn't be surprised to see one of us there, because thats usually where we hang out. I was definately taking Blake and Sam there, so they could 'meet' (cuz I don't think they're really going to talk to Max) her. I don't know why I wanted to show them her, I guess because she was a different type of girl. Maybe I should ask Morgan and Kira to come too, that way, if Max does come up to talk to us, she could meet some them, and could maybe become friends. I mean, she's taking an 11-year old and 8-year old shopping, not exactly the coolest or funnest thing to do. Oh well, what choice did she have, I know I don't stand a chance with Nudge's puppy dog face either.
Fang POV
Max dropped by to pick up Nudge. She was wearing forest green jacket over a black tee that said Fly Away. She had on a pair of dark skinny jeans and was wearing Converse. They were going to walk there, which was O.K for Nudge because she or any of us don't get tired easily, but I was a little worried about Max and Angel. I mean, it wasn't really that nearby. But I guess it wasn't far away. I offered to give her a ride, since my mom was dropping me off there anyways but she declined. Then my mom joined in agreed that she shouldn't walk all the way there, so finallly agreed to accept the ride. I wanted to invite her to come and hang out with my friends, but didn't want to ruin Nudge's first oppurtunity to go to the mall without our mom, or any of her friends mom so let it go. Maybe some other time. I just felt so sorry for poor Max having to lug kids around the mall all day. As if having to lug yourself wasn't bad enough.
Max POV
It was hilarious, Fang and were making a huge deal out me and Angel WALKING to the mall. Ya, like THAT was going to tire US out. I thought it was weird, because they never mentioned anything about Nudge getting tired. I guess they were just trying to be polite because it would sound really bad if you said, I'm not letting you walk my Nudge to the mall. So I had to get a ride from them, since she was dropping Fang off at the mall anyways. Which would have been O.K except curiousity got the better of me and I heard my self asking, "Do you have a dad?" Apparently his dad is a scientist in California. He says his dad comes home on leave once a month. So anyways, we got dropped off at the mall and me, Nudge, and Angel walked to one side of the mall, the kiddie side where there was like Old Navy and Gap, and Fang walked to the other side where there wers stores like American Eagle and Hollister.
Max POV
After about 3 hours of shopping, which is how much I did in a year, I couldn't take it anymore. I was carrying 6 shopping bags, 5 of which were the girls.' Big shock, they convinced me to do some shopping. They didn't let me do it in any of the stores on 'their side' though. The one bag I had was from a shoe store where I got some high tops. I was kinda nervous because I was heading to 'Fang's side' where his little popular friends were. I mentally slapped myself Come on Max, get it together. You might run into some of Fang's cool friends, big whoop. You can handle them. And if not, then you could always get home schooled or fly away or something. So I was heading, well more like being forced by little kids whose puppy faces I couldn't refuse, to Abercrombie when, big surprise, I run into Fang. Well more accurately, Iggy somehow realizes its me, and calls us over. I'm starting to think Fang and Iggy were just playing me when I confirmed whether or not Iggy was blind. There were two other guys with him and two other girls who, surprisingly, weren't all decked out in pink, but dark colors like me. And then the boys...well I can't say I liked them too much. I mean sure, they were cute, but I could tell they were the popular, jerky types. One had blond, long hair that reached his blue eyes (you know, the beach boy look) and the other had curly hair (like that one dude from that Disney boyband) and dark skin. They both had too tight skinny jeans and brand shirts, checking out the girls in the mall..you've seen the movies. But I'm not superficial, so I'll give them a chance
"You guys, this is Max, and her little sister Angel," Fang said.
Fang POV
I watched as Nudge and Angel dragged Max towards the Abercrombie store next to were we were hanging. "Hey you guys, there's that girl I was telling you about, Max," I said to my friends, Blake, Sam, Kira, and Morgan. They all started cracking up seeing how she was hanging out with little kids, which you've gotta admit, is pretty funny. "Come on you guys, she couldn't help it. You remember how Nudge once did puppy eyes at you guys? Imagine that, except twice as worse," I tried to get them to stop laughing at Max.
"Hey Max! Over here!" Iggy 1/2 shouted.
She walked towards us in a leisurely pace, like she was coming to talk to her Bf's.
"You guys, this is Max, and her little sister Angel," I said.
"Hey, I'm Kira. It's really cool to meet you. Fang said that we might run into you"
"Nice to meet you. Nice mall you've got," Max said rolling her eyes.
"Not much of a shopper, huh. I'm Morgan by the way."
"Yup. One of my fatal flaws. This is probably more shopping then I've ever done. I'm used to just ordering online. Less walking. Less lugging."
"Oh, hey this is Sam and Blake." I said. I saw a little bit of distaste in her eyes and who could blame her? They barely moved their head up to look at her face when they introduced themselves.
"Hey look Angel, that's one of my friends, Caroline, lets go with her and her mom. That way tomorrow, you might know somebody, even though she's not your age.." said Nudge, and I was so proud of her unselfishness when she realized that Max wanted to hang out with Kira and Morgan.
"Ok, cool! Is that O.K Max?" Angel asked.
"Sure sweetie, you go have fun," Max replied relief badly disguised in her voice. And they were off.
"Sweetie?" Morgan scoffed.
"What can I say. I have a soft spot for kids."
"So, you wanna go to like the cafe and like hang?" Morgan asked Kira and Max, not us.
"Sure, that'd be cool, I'm beat from all this shopping, blech."
They turned to walk away, but Max turned back to say, "By the way, my face is up here," and she walked away. Blake rolled his eyes and shook it off but I could tell he was horrified. Sam didn't bother not showing his embarrassment. He was blushing, hard. My mouth quirked, which was about as much emotion your gonna get from me.
"Uck. Let's leave," Blake said.
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