Kind of like Maximum Ride only this has nothing to do with those books.
"When you get back don't forget to pick up your brother at Ryan's." My mother said as I grabbed my jacket and ran out the door yelling back a swift "Kay!"
I ran down the sidewalk and through the street as I headed for my friend Tiff's so we could watch a movie at the megaplex down the road.
I ran as watched the people as I passed them on my way. Many of them were strangers but some were people who knew me from when I was a baby. I waved and sent a passing greetings to them as I ran and quickly spanned the distance from my house to Tiff's in a few minutes.
I slowed to a jog as I reached her door and knocked whilst rocking on my heals from the adrenaline running through my veins.
She opened the door and let me in because she wasn't quite ready yet. "Come, ON!!!!!!!!!! Could you not be ready just once when I get here or am I doomed to wait for you forever."
"Your doomed!" She yelled from the bathroom as she was finishing her makeup. "Besides there is the possibility that Finn will be there. Don't you want to be cute when he sees you?" She said knowingly. I grumbled under my breath before replying with; "Yeah well I gave myself enough time to make myself cute earlier, and besides don't you think he will think us incompetent if we are late AGAIN!?"
I waited for a few more minutes before she came out looking stunning as usual. It always sickened me that she was so pretty.
"How do I look?" She said twirling around so I could see her. "You look sickening now LET"S GO!!!!!!" She knew what I meant and giggled as we ran out the door.
I sped ahead of her knowing that annoyed her because I was the fastest girl in school, or so said my track coach. We arrived at the theater and everyone was waiting out front for us. They all looked our way and I just glanced over at Tiff so they understood.
We all grouped inside and bought our tickets for the movie. Finn was in fact there and Tiff kept giving me "Look-at-him-you-fool" looks until I finally walked over to him and said;" Hey Finn." He turned towards me and smiled, I swooned. "Hey, Vie, I didn't know if you were going to make it." I looked back at Tiff and replied;" Yeah Tiff took forever getting ready. I was practically dragging her the whole way here just to be on time." He said with a nervous giggle at the end. He just smirked and glanced at her which earned me a "you-are-so-dead-later" look from her. We both laughed.
"Hey Vie, would you mind sitting next to me during the movie? Jason always talks through the whole thing and I don't know any of the other people here." He said looking at his shoes. I blushed. "Sure,Tiff acts better when I'm not around anyways, or so she says." I said with a big stupid grin on my face. He smiled at me as held the door for me as we walked in.
After the movie Tiff cornered me in the bathroom. "SO!" she practically screeched in my face. "So what? we just watched the movie. We only talked like once and it was because the guy next to him apparently didn't care for the movie because he fell asleep and was leaning on his shoulder, so we were stuffing candy in his was GREAT!"I said giggling in remembrance.
"What?! No smooching during the love scene? No hand holding when the guy died? What kind of girl are you?" She asked in a flabbergasted tone.
"The smart kind, I don't want things to get weird, I like him and if we started to do things like hand holding and smooching, things would get really weird really fast." I said escaping her claws. and walking out to the lobby. He was there talking to Jason but trotted over when he saw me, a big smile on his face.
"Hey Vie, Jason is having a party on Saturday, and I was just thinking that maybe you would like to come." He said, his face down but looking up at me through his hair.
I was stunned for a second. "Sure, I would love to." His smile grew. "You can bring a friend if Tiff wants to come too. See you then I guess."
"Aren't you going out to dinner with us?" I asked knowing that Jason had planned for everyone to chip in for dinner. "Nah, I have to get home and help my mom out with some stuff." He said with little enthusiasm.
"Oh, okay, well then I guess I'll see you Saturday." I said. "Great! see ya." He said before turning around and smacking Jason's hat off of his head and running outside. I laughed as he ran, not realizing Tiff was right behind me.
"You and Finn, sittin in a tree, K I S S I N G." She said in a perfect singsong voice. "Shut up!" I said tugging on her hair. " I just thought it was funny."
"Riiiight." She said sarcastically and rolling her eyes.
I gave her a glare and poked her in the ribs making her gasp in shock. Then we started a poke fest in the theater until we heard laughing and looked to see everyone staring at us. She gave me one last poke and then ran back into the bathroom leaving me there as they laughed. I smiled an embarrassed smile and walked into the bathroom. Once inside I saw a nearly balling Tiff laughing her BUTT off, Gasping for air.
I whacked her on the back of the head and walked out so we could all go out to dinner.
Later after dropping Tiff off at her house I said goodnight to my mother and ran upstairs. I walked into my room stripped off my clothes and got into track pants and a sweater with slits down the back and jumped out my three story back window.
My wings unfurled and I began to soar into the sky for a night flight. I was completely unaware of the boy standing on the sidewalk watching me with amazement.
Okay, you are probably wondering "WHAT THE...." At this moment so I will explain. I was born with wings. A lone scientist was posing as a doctor to further his own personal experiments. Only the scientist who did it to me was killed, leaving my parents with a choice. They chose to keep me a secret. But how many other children did he mess with? And were they like me? Would I ever find them? Or am I just all alone. A freak among normal people cursed to keep myself a secret. I am who I am and my wings are part of that.
Well, after a minute I looked down and saw the boy watching the amazing flying girl and realized I was now in deep crap. I divebombed and landed in some trees behind my neighbors house knowing that if I was still he wouldn't be able to see me.
He ran around back to find me and stopped under the tree. "He..hello?" He said timidly. "I saw you flying around. Who are you?" He was looking hard at every tree branch. I was trying not to make a sound. Breathing was on the minimum and I still felt like he could hear me.
He looked at all of them and then his eyes fell on the branch I was on and I stiffened. He paused on it and started to climb. I nearly peed my pants.
What now? What do I do? Expose myself and let him know or fly away as fast as I could? I realized that I wasn't breathing and took a staggering breath. He paused again then continued to climb. He was only ten feet below me now. I was wearing all black but I had a few stray blond hairs poking out of my hoodie.
He stopped and sat on a branch six feet below and to my right. "I won't tell anyone you know. I think it's awesome!" He said with almost a giddy voice." I can see you ya know? I just can't tell who you are." He said with a smile as he cocked his head to the side.I could see him perfectly with my enhanced rapter vision. "You can trust me. I would never hurt anyone." He said with a serious tone.
"I can't" I whispered so he could hear me but not tell who I was. The baggy clothes helped also. He nearly fell off of his branch when I spoke.
"You are there! I almost though you were another branch for a second." Dag it!!!!!!! He almost gave up! I am SO Grounded for this.
"Do I know you? I know someone from the building across the street. Does she know who you are?" He was excited now. I wanted to tell him.
"I can't tell you." Said in a whisper again masking my voice with a little help from my syrinx.
He was leaning forward now trying to see me but not wanting me to fly off without him finding out who I was. I could tell from his movements that he was being careful.
"So........." He said in an awkweird sort of tone."Do I call you shadow or what?" He said with a smirk. I smirked too, Finn was always trying to make a joke in an awkweird situation.I thought about it for a second trying to come up with a nickname he could call me. "Syren." I said not knowing what else I could use. The syren being the only mythological creature I could think of.
"Cool. So Syren, Why are you hiding? It's not like people would hate you. You are amazing! How could they think anything different?" I wanted to hug him but I stayed where I was and leaned harder against the tree and tried not to cry. "They do think I am a freak. They tried to kill me once. They think I am an abomination and That I am too powerful and dangerous because of my abilities. Or they try ad catch me and make me their property and experiment on me." I said mainly with my syrinx, my voice dripping with venom.
He sat there in silence for a moment in shock. "they thought you were an abomination? Their crazy! And you are nobodies property. You are a person. A free person with freewill to do as you please when you please unless it's against the law. I hate stupid people!" He said hitting the tree with a fist.
I did start to cry then and he heard me sniffle. "Don't cry. I could never think something as amazing as you was anything but fantastic. I only wish you could be as free as you should be." He said with such sincerity. "Thanks Finn. That means alot." I said.
His eyebrows shot up. "You know my name?" I gasped. I had said his name. What NOW?
There was nothing else to do but show him who I was. I stood and he thought I was going to leave. "Don't go! please. I like talking to you." I jumped from my perch twenty feet from the ground and snapped my White-blond wings and coasted to a stop on the ground with my head down and waited for him to climb down the tree.
He jumped the remaining six feet to the ground and stood there not wanting to spook me.
He took a step towards me and stopped. Then he took another he was only a few feet from me. He took one more step and he was right infront of me. I stiffened as he raised his hand And touched the lip of my hoodie and pulled it back revealing my face.
He stopped breathing and just froze with his hand on my hoodie still, just staring at my face.
I looked up and saw his face of shock as he took a step back and fell on his butt. "Breathe." I said and he took a deep breath almost choking
himself as he did. "Vie?!" He said staring at me.
I sat on the ground at eye level with him. "Yes, I am the girl with wings. I have been hiding from the world for my whole life. You are the first person to see me of my volition. I am an avian hybrid." I said with an informative tone.
"You have wings and you are not the most popular kid in school?" He said with a sort of unbelieving tone. I almost panic'd. "You can never tell anyone! Do you understand me? NEVER! If you told I would be forced to move half way across the globe and start all over again. I won't let that happen no matter how good a friend you are." I said sitting bolt upright and looking him in the eye. He gave me a look of fear and then his look turned almost tender."I would never tell anyone. I was just voicing my thoughts out loud." He sounded genuine but I was taught to be careful to the point of near paranoia.
I stood and he got up shakily.
"By the way. What were you doing outside of my house at this time of night? Your house is in the opposite direction isn't it?" I asked.
He got a sheepish look across his face and looked at me through his hair. "I was uh........ I figured you would be coming back from dinner around now and thought I would ask you to go to the party with me as a...... date." He said running his fingers through his hair and looking at his sneakers like they were the most interesting thing in the world.
"Oh. Uh... I would love to." I said sort of stunned. He snapped his head up and smiled. "Awesome." He was bouncing on his healies.
He looked at my shoulder like he was trying to see my wings and then he saw me looking and looked back at his sneakers.
I sighed. "Would you like to see them?" I asked. He grinned at me again and nodded furiousely. "Well, I can't show you here there are too many windows. Can you climb into my room?" I asked with a blush assaulting my face. He looked at my window and the fire escape and nodded again.
I jumped up and grabbed the ladder fifteen feet off the ground and pulled it to the ground for him. He looked at me like I had two heads. I laughed a small laugh and climbed up and into my room. He foolowed me in and I closed the window and curtains.
He scanned my room and I blushed again. It looked like three boys lived in it. Oh well.
He looked at me ezpectantly and I situated my wings so they were behind the slits and then extended them to their full twenty feet span. My primarys touching the wall on either side of my room. And the light from my lamp shining on the underside feathers.
He gasped and stared in astonishment. "You know it isn't polite to stare."I teased. He looked back at my face and then HE blushed.
"Could...could I touch them?" He asked looking like he wanted nothing more in the world. I nodded and he reached his hand out and stroked the feathers on the top of my left wing sending a shiver down my spine and making me twitch my wings. He looked like he was about to die of excitement. I couldn't help but laugh. He looked back at me and laughed also.
Then I heard a sound outside my window and turned around pulling my wings in so fast it was like they were never there. HE stared at my back wide eyed and I started for the window.
I crept over to the curtain and ripped it back to reveal........ Tiff.