Expiration date- A Maximum Ride Fanfiction
My first one- bare with me!
Max POV
I stood up and looked at myself in the bathroom mirror and (Bonus!) saw my face staring back at me. Ever since the time we stayed at Anne's house, I'm still paranoid about seeing an eraser in the mirror. Fang, the Gasman and Iggy were doing whatever supreme being out there knows what after our flock split in two. We had recently been reunited, and though I mostly kept it inside, I was thrilled. Right now we're taking a short break at my mom's house after having just taken down the head of ITEX. Chocolate chip cookies, Total actually being quiet every once in a while (mostly because he's spoiled rotten) and being together again, along with the best mom I could possibly imagine and my half sister, Ella. I felt absolutely great, to say the least.
Back to the present: I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and dried my recently showered hair with a towel. The Gasman was watching television, Mom and Ella were cooking, and everyone else was flying around outside. I still felt a little drowsy, so I decided to watch the tv with the Gasman. I walked up behind him where he was seated on the couch and ruffled his messy, uncombed hair.
"Morning, Gazzy," I said. He looked up at me from his seat on the couch and grinned. "Hey, Max," he responded. I sat down next to him and looked at the tv- and grimaced. "Ugh, Spongebob?" I groaned. "How can you possibly watch this?" Gazzy grinned again, saying "Well, nothing good is on." I frowned and tried to make sense of the nonsense flashing through the screen, but smiled inwardly. Gazzy was really happy watching tv, and the rest of the flock was having a pretty good time too. I wished with all my heart that I didn't have to save the world, and that my family could just be happy like this forever.
After a few moments, I sighed, bored and confused at why in the world a sponge would want a drivers license, and stood up to walk away. Gazzy watched me walk away, and I heard his breathing hitch. I turned to face him. "Is something wrong, Gazzers?" I asked him with a small bit of worry on my brow. Gazzy had the most dismayed look on his face, and he was suddenly up and running out the door before I could. I decided to stay inside until he came back in and told me what the matter was. Shortly, the whole flock practically tumbled in at the same time through the door, and Iggy was racing for the kitchen.
Fang nearly rammed into me as he grabbed me by my shirt collar and pulled it down. "Hey!" I yelled in protest. Angel had a horrified look on her face, and Nudge looked near tears. Fang let go of my shirt collar shakily, and walked around me to look me in the eye. "Anyone going to tell me what this is about?" I asked, a bit agitated that my whole flock knew something I didn't. Iggy ran into the room just then, with my mother and sister at his heels. Iggy had two hand mirrors in his hands, and he somehow walked right up to me and placed them in my hands. "Look at your neck, Max," Angel whispered. I was still completely confused, but I did so, positioning the mirrors so that they would let me see the back of my neck by looking at the reflection one sent to the other. I looked and saw a small set of black numbers, lined up next to each other.
Then it dawned on me. These were the same type of numbers that had been on Ari's neck- and they showed the date of his death. Come that time, he simply lost his brain's ability to function, and died right on the spot. Now numbers were on my neck. And the date was two days away.