Me: I finally post!

Nudge: Yes! You really have to post these things faster, ya know? Or else people might think you stopped the story. Or-

Me: WE GOT IT, NUDGE.

Nudge: You don't have to yell.

Me: If I don't, who knows how long you could ramble on?

Nudge: Touché.

Me: Then again I could also ramble on for forever… Anyways, before I forget:

Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride or any of the flock or probably anything else in this story. But I DO own me and the plot!

Me: --Ahem-- And I'd like to dedicate this to all my friends who put up with my random, crazy, and most of the times intelligible talk of my stories. And all the people who read my stories, too! Y'all rock! On to the story!

I was walking around the mall in Phoenix, Arizona looking around for a store with some decent clothes. By decent mean that I can hide my wings with, but still look fashionable. I walked past a big store with lots of clothes and shoes that looked pretty good so I walked in. I didn't have to go that far to find a best short black skirt and these rocking black suede heels.

Now I just need a shirt that matches," I muttered to myself as I do way too often for my own good. I looked at the clothes again, thinking of what would match. I didn't see anything that screamed "WEAR ME!" so I continued walking and smacked right in to a clothes rack.

"Oh crap!" I said and I landed on the ground. I popped right back up like nothing happened. "Nothing happened here. It's all good," I yelled to no one in particular. I looked at the rack I ran into to see the cutest lace leggings ever and grabbed them.

As I was walking to the dressing room, I found a dark green shirt with the names of cities written on it. It totally worked with my outfit, so I grabbed and hummed the Mission Impossible Theme Song while I spy-walked in the dressing room. I put on my clothes and looked in the mirror.

"Not too shabby looking, Alice. Not too shabby," I spoke to myself again. God, I might be going crazy. "So now I get to work," I stated once more aloud. I pulled out my handy-dandy scissors and started cutting the shirt so my wings could come out comfortably. Then, I started hollowing out my shoe's heels so I could fit a dagger into each hollowed out heel. I then put the bottom of the heel into place to make it look as if I didn't carry weapons sharp enough that could behead you

"M'kay let's go," I spoke to myself again. I'm positive I'm going to get into major trouble one day because I talk to myself so much. I walked right on out of the store. Surely enough the alarms went off and I ran like hell. Luckily I made it out of the mall without being caught. This whole town is pretty much surrounded by woods which was great for me. It meant I could fly away unnoticed with my new clothes.

Some 10 minutes of running later, I found a meadow to take off in. I'd already dumped my old clothes in some trash bin so I didn't have any thing to hold except my bag. I jumped up and extended my wings. It was around the middle of the day and the sun felt warm against my wings.

I looked at my wings. They were dark red at the top then went to orange then yellow and gold. They were also purple speckled all around and I could see them really well because of the late afternoon sun. I looked back out at the sky and tried to decide where I was going. Maybe Texas, or possibly into another country.

As I was flying, I was deciding where or not to listen to my Ipod. I'd probably drop it if I did listen, and it would end up hitting some poor dude in the head. The Ipod was staying in the bag.

It was now getting dark after a few hours of tiresome flying and I needed someplace to sleep, so I landed in the trees for the night. I sighed. The woods were so quiet. Only the sounds of trees, animals, and… yelling?

I looked around for who was yelling. Trough the trees I could see a house with all the lights on. I suppose I should go look to see what was happening.

I walked to the yard, but stayed close to the woods. There was a dark skinned girl with poofy hair yelling at some one.

"How could you rip up my NEW scarf?!" she screamed.

"Akila need a scarf and yours was perfect. Except it was too big so I asked Iggy to cut it." the dog said. Wait a second. The dog?

"Iggy! Why did you cut up my scarf?" the girl yelled.

"Total said it was just some cloth," the dude with reddish blonde hair said.

"Well, you still shouldn't have cut it up!"

"Ok guys. Stop yelling. Nudge, we'll get you a new scarf," said some girl with dirty blonde hair who had walked out of the house, probably to see what was happening.

"And some shoes," the girl said angrily and stormed inside.

"Total, you shouldn't have touched her scarf," the girl said

"Whatever," the dog said.

"I'm gonna go back to what I was happily doing before Nudge started yelling," the guy said before running and jumping into the sky. He opened his wings and flew away.

I was basically in shock. Who knew there were other bird kids? Before I knew what I was doing I walked up to the girl.

"Hi," I said.

She just kind of stood there for a second before replying, "Who are you?"

Ugh. Whatever happened to the kind and normal "Hello. How's it going? Would you like some cake or cookies?"?

"I'm Alice, and I think I would rather fit in here," I announced.

Before she had a chance to reply, I opened my wings.

Me: That was the beginning of my new story!

Nudge: That's kinda obvious.

Me: --glares-- I felt the need to announce it. Anyways, I hope you guys like it!

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