Chapter 1

I was sitting in my last class for the day, staring at the clock and waiting for it to ring so I could be set free from this hell. I glared at the clock hoping that that would make it tick faster because I really had leave and pick up my little brother and sister.

The bell finally rang and I was the first one out of the class room. You would probably think that I, being as fast as I am, would be able to beat the crowd, right? But no, that would be too easy.

So as soon as I was ten steps away from my nice locker in an empty corner, I crashed into some big football jock. My things went flying all over the hallway.

"Grrreeaaattt," I sigh

I looked up and saw that the poor excuse of a human had completely ignored me and had kept walking along, laughing with his friends. Of course. After all, I'm just Max.

And that's why I hate school. Because at school, I'm Max, the anonymous student. But that doesn't matter because outside of school I'm Maximum Ride: leader of the Arc Angels, Big sister, protector and badass extraordinaire.

But that didn't matter at the time because I was late to pick up Gazzy and Angel from they're elementary school.

So I hurriedly picked my stuff up from the ground and shoveled it in to my locker and then shoved a select few binders into my backpack. After that I rushed out to the back of the school to meet up with Nudge.

Her real name was Monique but most people called her nudge, it just seemed to fit better. Nudge was my adopted sister, well kind of. Here's the story: our parents had just died (me, Angel and Gazzy's) so instead of us getting separated with the whole foster family situation, we started to live off the streets. That worked for a while because I just made up fake information for Angel and Gazzy to go to school and I went to work as a mechanic's assistant. But eventually we got tired of living off the streets so I went in search of a house for us to live in and lo and behold I found this semi decent house for us to live in.

Flash back

"Ok guys," I said talking to Gazzy and Angel. "This is going to be our new home."

We started to unpack some of our things when out of nowhere I here this screaming. Next thing I knew, something jumped on my back and started yelling.

"THIS IS MY HOUSE GET OUT!" screamed my attacker.

Well I am not defenseless so in no time I had my assailant pinned to the ground. It was a young girl around twelve years old with crazy curly brown hair and matching brown skin, she had dirty ripped cloths and she looked really thin.

"What are you doing?!" I asked the girl. She kept struggling but managed to answer me.

"I'm trying to get you out of my house! I was here first!" she spat in my face.

I let the girl up seeing as she wasn't a threat. I leaned over her as she started to rub her wrists where I had held her.

"Ya know I think we can work out some sort of agreement." I said to her.

End flash back

After that Nudge, joined our family and oh and what a difference she made! Nudge was the one who convinced me to go back to school and she is the sole reason we can actually live in our house today—she completely cleaned it out and redecorated it into a livable condition.

"Hey Nudge." I said to her as I walked up to her.

"Hey Max! OMG the best thing happened today, you know Jeremy Tomas he actually talked to me he said he liked my hair and it was amazing I thought I was going to die because ya know it was Jeremy Tomas! He is just soooo mpgh!"

I put my hand over Nudges mouth, damn she could talk!

"I get it Nudge you had a great day but come on we have to get to Gazzy and Angel." I said to Nudge as I started to head off towards the elementary school. As soon as the elementary school came into sight I saw Angel and Gazzy on the playground just messing around.

"Angel! Gazzy! Come on time to go home!" I shouted at them when Nudge and I reached the fence. They hopped of the play set and rushed forward to hug me and Nudge. Soon Nudge started blabbering to them about their day as we walked home. As soon as Nudge was enveloped in a story Gazzy was telling about a boy in his class who glued his hands to his desk, Angel turned to me and said:

"Max?" she asked.

"Yeah sweetie." I answered

"Nathanial wasn't in school today do you think he's sick?" She asked me.

"I don't know Angel why don't you ask him when he comes back to school." I told her.

Hmmm that's strange.

I wonder why Nathanial wasn't in school.

I knew his older brother Luka, he was in my gang, and he wouldn't let him skip… still he probably just had a fever or something.

I looked up as we got to the front steps of our house. It probably used to be really nice but now it was run down and smelled funny and looked condemned.

But that's what made it perfect no one would suspect that it was the main base for the notorious gang the Arc Angels.

Our house wasn't very big if you're just looking around but that's ok because all that mattered was the huge basement it had. The basement was very spacious it could easily fit over two hundred people in it witch was good because my gang had about one hundred and fifty members so the basement was great for meetings.

When we moved in with Nudge, we ummm, 'borrowed' some furniture with no intention of giving it back and spoofed up the place. So now it was a popular hangout for the angels to chill.

We all headed into the living room of the house where I had Angel and Gazzy start their homework while Nudge headed to the kitchen to fix a snack. I went to my room in the back to change into my "gang leader clothes" which consisted of a black wife beater and some dark wash baggy jeans.

I looked at myself in the cracked mirror I kept in my room (not that I'm conceited or anything) and looked over my shoulder at my back. You could just barely see my gang tattoo sticking out of the back of my shirt; it was two black wings tattooed on either side of my back marking me as an Arc Angel. I raised up the bottom of my shirt to the middle of my back where there was a small crown between my wings, this was what marked me as leader of my gang.

I turned around and put my shirt back down, covering up my tattoos. I headed back out to the kitchen and grabbed a chocolate chip cookie, they are amazing by the way, and started to head down to the basement to get an update from any of my scouts that were down there.

I sighed as I looked down the stairs. Time to switch personalities from invisible school girl to strong gang leader.

Ugh, why is my life so complicated?

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