I was running as fast as my legs would carry me. They burned. My life counted on my legs. Thorns and branches dragged across my skin. I tripped on a root that was sticking out of the ground.
"Times up." The man said, pulling me up by my collar, and sticking a gun to my back. I screamed.
I jerked up. My sheets and blankets where in a heavy mound on the floor. It was only a dream; it had seemed so real. Sweat trickled down my spin. I dragged my self out of bed and looked at the clock. 6:15. 15 minutes before I had to get up. I looked out the window. The ground was covered in a white blanket of snow. Great.
I walked to the bathroom and stretched. I stripped my clothes and turned on the shower and stepped into it. The warm water felt good running along my back. In a few minutes I stepped out, put a towel on and walked to the closet. I pulled out my school uniform and got dressed. It had a blue jacket, black and red tie, black dress shirt, and a black skirt. To put my own twist on it I but on my black skinny jeans and my black Vans. Walking back to the bathroom, I grabbed a brush and pulled my knotted brownish hair into a pony tail.
I gave my self a once over in the bathroom. Brown eyes, tan face, brown/blonde hair, and a scar on my chin. Yep, I looked like Max. I walked down the stairs and walked in to the kitchen. My mom was standing by the stove, cooking eggs and sausages. Enough to feed an army or a hungry Max and Ella. I never knew why, but I and my sister, Ella, never looked alike. While I looked like my mom, she looked like my dad. Who was now dead.
"Morning, Maximum." Mom looked at me with a smile.
"Morning, Mom. Can you hurry with my plate?" Mom sighed and gave me a plate full of eggs and sausages. I wolfed it down in no time flat. Today, I was going to a boarding school high school. Great, this should be fun. The only reason is because I've been kicked out of every other school by fighting. I was not big on people bullying other people.
"Are you all packed?" my mother broke the silence.
"Yeah." I answered.
She looked at me. "Look, honey, I truly am sorry you have to go to this school. It seems like the only way to get you to stop fighting, but you will get to meet new people. Do you remember Iggy? The boy who lives next door?"
"Well, yeah, he is like one of my best friends, Mom."
"He is going to be attending St. Daniel Academy, as well."
I brightened up. "Really? That's awesome." I guess that it wouldn't be that bad then.
Mom smiled at me having a smile. "His parents think it would be good for him to go to the same school as you, with his… disability."
I laughed at her. Iggy was blind, but he could hear better then anyone I know. "It's not a 'disability'," I made air quotes around the word. "He can hear better then anyone. Its way cool. Are we driving him?"
She looked at the clock. "Yeah, we better get going, grab your stuff." I huffed at her and ran up stair to get my bag. My other stuff had already been shipped out to there. I said bye to Ella, and walked to the car.
I slid in, and saw Iggy start to walk over to the car. His light blue eyes shining and his strawberry blonde hair has still long, about to the middle of his nose. He was cute, but I didn't like him like that. Besides, he had a girlfriend, who already went to St. Daniel Academy. Iggy was wearing the school uniform, for boys it was a blue jacket, red and black tie, and black button down shirt, with kaki pants.
"Sup Max." he muttered as he entered the car.
"Not much Iggy, not much." My mom started the car, and drove off. The car ride was quiet and slow. It was like waiting in line to have yourself executed. So boring. I could not believe my mother was making me go to this school. At least it wasn't an all girl's school. All I knew, though, was that it had grades pre-12 (in the same school and dorm areas), little tolerance of bad behavior, we could not leave the campus with out an adult, and we had classes from 9am to 3pm. The rest of the day would be spent hanging out and relaxing.
I never gave much thought to it, but I didn't think I belonged with people, ever. I felt the same thing with Iggy and his girlfriend. Whatever, if we didn't belong with other people, then we are good together, right? I sure hope so.
I heard my mother say something, but wasn't listening. Then it slinked in, we where there. I looked around. There was a huge iron gate that had the initials S.D.A in big letters, people were getting out of there cars. A fountain the size of five mini vans was in the middle of the court yard, benches rested beside it. The school and dorms where four stories tall. Wow.
"What does it look like?" Iggy asked from the back seat.
"There is a huge iron gate that had the initials S.D.A in big letters, people are getting out of there cars. A fountain the size of five mini vans was in the middle of the court yard, benches rested beside it. The school and dorms where four stories tall. It has sidewalks going around the campus." I told him, he nodded. We got out of the car and walked to the office.
"Hello, welcome to Saint Daniel Academy. How can I help you?" The woman behind the counter sound like she worked at a restraint.
"I need to sign the two children." Mom gestured to me and Iggy.
"Okay, what are their names?"
"Max Ride and Iggy James." The lady behind the counter tipped quickly at the keyboard.
"Ah, yes. Okay Mrs. Ride. You can leave your children here, and I will get my student assistant to walk them to there dorm and show them around." Counter Lady waved bye to my mom and me and her had a never ending good bye, as did her and Iggy. Counter lady called her assistant over and Iggy smiled brightly.
"Yes?"
"Can you show Miss. Ride and Mister. James to there dorms please?" Counter Lady's smile faded.
"Yes ma'am." As soon as we were out of the room, she squealed. "Iggy! I'm so happy to see you!" Nudge jumped in his arms.
"I'm happy to see you to, babe." He hugged her tight and shared a quick kiss before she pulled away.
"Max, I'm happy to see you to." She hugged me to. I laughed and hugged her back.
"I'm happy to see you to. So where are the dorms?" she laughed at me.
"Let's see," Nudge looked at the little sticky note Counter Lady had given her. "Iggy, yours is dorm 306, Max yours is dorm 309. Max you're rooming with me, Iggy is rooming with… Fang." She laughed a little.
I looked around the room. A couple was making out in the corner. The girl had bright red hair a slim figure. She looked like a freaking stick. The boy had black hair and black eyes. He was tall; about as tall as Iggy which was 6'3, he looked good in his uniform. The sleeves where pushed up his arms, showing muscular arms. The girl moved down to his neck, away from his lips, and he looked right me and smirked.
I blushed and averted my gaze to two little children fighting over something. They looked like angels, and they had to be brother and sister, with their blue eyes and blonde hair. I laughed as the girl started to fake cry, which got the boy to feeling bad and he gave it to the girl. She smiled and trotted off, followed by the brother.
"If you guys want I will take your rooms. Its not that much trouble, since Iggy is, like right next to us." Iggy wrapped his arm around her waist.
"Sure." I was following them. I was about 5'10 and Nudge was the same height as me. She had uncontrollably curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin. Yes, she was black, if you have a problem with that, then stop reading this. I was looking at the ground until I ran into something hard. Great, my first day and I run into a wall already.
I looked up to see where Nudge and Iggy walked. I didn't run into a wall. "Uh, hi." I laughed nervously.
"Hi." It was the boy who was making out with the red headed girl. I felt a bolt of electricity when our eyes meet.
I looked for my friends. "I need to go find my dorm, so c'ya later." I tried to walk away, but he grabbed my arm.
"I could help you. What is the dorm number?"
"306." I looked around and saw his girlfriend talking to some blonde girl.
"That's right next to mine, come on." We started walking side-by-side. He was really cute; to bad he had a girl friend. His black hair was covering his left eye; he had snake bite lip rings.
"I'm Max." I said.
"Fang." The name was so familiar.
"Have we met before?" I oh-so stupidly asked him.
"I would remember if I met you be for, trust me," I blushed. "You really do blush a lot don't you, Maxi. And here -"
"It's Max." I interrupted him.
"I know," Fang smirked. "And here I thought you were too strong to think anything like that."
How did he know I thought he was hot? "You have no idea what I am thinking." I snapped.
His smirk grew wider. "Are you sure? I think you're pretty cute you're self." I blushed. Again. Why was I blushing so much? I was Maximum Ride for God's sake; this was getting weirder by the minute.
"Oh just shut up and tell me where my dorm is." I snapped at him.
He chuckled; it made me think I was in heaven. I fell against the wall; I was having flashes of pictures in my mind. Fang, Iggy, Nudge, those two little kids I saw, and I were all flying. Fang had pretty black wings.
I gasped and my eye's fluttered open, to see Fang looking at me with worried eyes. "Are you okay?"
"I… I don't know. Just take me to my dorm." Right after I said the, he picked me up and walked two doors down from where we were and opened it. I heard a squeal and Fang mumbled sorry, the door closed then another open.
My head was pounding so hard I started crying, and I never cry. Ever. Fang set me down on a bed and went and locked the door. Probably so his girl friend wouldn't walk in and think he was cheating on her.
"Max, Max open your eyes and look at me." He had a worry tone filled in with his monotone. I opened them and looked past my tears. His eyes looked into mine. He hugged me. I felt electricity flow threw me.
I stopped crying long enough to mumble into his neck. "Thank you, Fang. Why are you being so nice to me, we just met?"
Fang pulled back and looked at the bed spread. It was black. "I just felt like it was the right thing to do, I guess." I heard a knock on his door then Iggys voice.
"Uh, Max, can I come in?"
Fang looked at me and I nodded. He went and unlocked the door; Nudge was the first to run in and hugged me. "Ohmigod, Max are you okay? When Fang came in, I was… Iggy had… um." I laughed at her.
"I think I will be just fine."
"I think that since, you know, Max has gotten to know my roommate better then me in the past five minutes," Iggy said. "I should introduce myself. I'm Iggy or Ig." He put his right hand out.
Fang took it. "I'm Fang. Nice to meet you, Iggy. And I was just showing her to her room. Okay? Nothing happened."
Iggy chuckled. "Yeah, okay, whatever. Oh, and I'm blind, just a btw thing there."
"I know."
"How?" Iggy looked astonished. I laughed at him.
"Your eye's, although you're hair covers them, I can still tell by the color."
"Aren't they gorgeous?" Nudge asked, walking over there and locked there fingers together. I walked and stood by Fang.
Fang was about to answer when his girl friend walked in. "Oh, Fangiepo there you are," she hugged him. Her skirt was a bit too high up, and when she stood on her tippy-toes to reach him, it almost showed her butt. How classy. "I was looking everywhere for you."
"I was showing Max to her room." He gestured to me.
The Red Headed Wonder had a look of disgust on her face when she saw me. "Then why is she here?"
"I was showing her friend to this room, which is here." Nudge told her in a snooty voice that made me hold in a laugh.
"Whatever. Just leave." I wanted to slap her.
"I can stay if I want. Iggy is my friend, if you know what that is, and he needs our help unpacking." I smirked at her.
"Why would he need you're help?" Fang had gone to the bathroom. The Red Headed Wonder walked up to Iggy and pushed him against the wall, with a flirtatious smile. "I could help you, ya'know." Her fingers where walking up his chest.
"Well, for one he is blind, and two I'm his girl friend!" Nudge pushed her and got between them right when Fang walked in.
"What's going on?" He asked.
"I don't know, I was being nice by offering to help him with his unpacking and the girl pushed me." The Red Headed Wonder started looking innocent.
"Yeah a little too nice." Iggy muttered.
"Right." I laughed. Her head snapped over to me.
"Just help him unpack and leave. We have to get ready for dinner. Lissa, I think you should go and get ready to, its in a hour, and your dorm is pretty far away," she nodded and kissed him. I wanted to kill her. "Love you, bye."
"Love you to, Fangiepo. Bye." I watched her stare down me and Nudge when she walked off.
"Well, we should hurry up and get me unpacked. Would you like to help, Fangiepo?" Iggy asked, chuckling.
"Why not, Iggiepo." I laughed. We started helping Iggy unpack and it only took about fifteen minutes; then Nudge and I walked back to our dorm to get ready.
At dinner I noticed the clicks. The Jocks and Cheerleaders sat in the front, which were three round tables pushed together. The Emo's sat in the back left hand corner. I watched as Iggy and Nudge walked to a table. Iggy had already met most of the people at this school, by hanging out with Nudge all the time.
I scanned the crowd. If I sat with Nudge and Iggy, I wouldn't fit in with there friends, they are more of skaters. I saw Fang and Lissa sitting with the Jocks and Cheerleaders, Fang saw me and gestured for me to sit with them. So I did.
When I sat down I gave Lissa a huge friendly smile, and it made her so pissed off. It was hilarious. Me and Fang started talking about how he looked gay.
"I think you look about, uh, 60% gay. At lest you would in skinny jeans." I laughed at his expression.
"I have skinny jeans. I'll wear them tomorrow, after classes are over." He grinned. "What about without the skinny's?"
I looked him over. "About 45% gay."
"That's all, 45% gay? Ole' Fang here is about 100% gay." A boy butted in to our conversation. He was tall, not as tall as Fang but tall. He had light brown eyes and Justin Beiber hair.
Monotone Fang was back. "I'm not as gay as you are, Cody. At least I've been laid." I chocked on my soda, Fang gave me a weird look.
Cody snorted. "By who?"
Fang pointed towards a crowed of girls. "Them." I couldn't believe it. He had had sex with all those girls, good lord there where at least seventeen or eighteen.
Cody ignored his, and turned to me. "Hey, I'm Cody."
"I'm Max." I looked at his smile and thought, He's cute, I wonder if he's single?
"You're new here, right?"
"Yeah." I gave him a flirtatious smile.
Cody gave me one right back. "You're boy friend must be a bite mad, that you have to go to a boarding school and all."
"I don't have a boy friend."
He looked me up and down. "Do you want one?" I giggled and glanced at Fang. He was staring at me with his black eyes, and looked like he wanted to strangle Cody.
"Maybe." After saying that, I stood up and walked away, swaying a little. I turned to see if he was looking at me. He was, and so was about every other guy at that table and even some at the Emo's table. I giggled. I dumped my tray and walked towards Iggy and Nudge.
"Hi Max." Nudge said happily.
"Hey, Nudge. Ig."
"Yo. Dude, it's cold." He shivered. Nudge scooted closer to him. His smile widened and he put his arm around her neck.
I got a weird look form a guy who was sitting across from us. Then his gaze shifted to me in another way.
"Take a picture, it'll last longer." I snapped at him.
"Okay," he got out his phone and took a picture of me flipping him off. "Perfect." He laughed.
He had a beni on and was very hot. Looked almost emo more then skater. I looked him up and down and smirked.
"Hey Nudge, I'm beet. I'm headin' to bed. Night," I looked at the skater boy. "Bye." I gave him a flirty smile and walked away.
This will be fun.
A/N: Awesome right? No flaming comments. Fax is coming, I assure you of that. Maybe some more Lissa drama. R and R, guys and gals. :D-Winter.