Okay, This is based off a dream I had a few months ago. I wrote it then but didn't get it good enough to post until now. I might just leave it at this because it's not very good and I'm not a great writer but if I get a bunch of pretty good reviews I'll try to continue it. Hope you like it!
(Disclaimer: I don't own any Maximum Ride related stuff, although I wish I owned Fang XD)
I watched as the bus pulled into my middle school for the last time. Today was my first day of high school but the school always insisted on bringing new freshmen to their middle school one last time and give them their schedules and divide them into their teams before heading off to their new school.
As I walked into my old gym, I saw three sets of gym seating set up, one for the red 'A' team, one for the blue 'B' team, and one for the green 'C' team.
My friends were waving at me from the 'B' team bench, so I walked over to them.
"You're on our team, Max!!" Nudge shouted at me, trying to be heard over the roar of the other students. Luckily with my excellent hearing, I understood what she said. Our old teachers talked for a bit but I mainly drowned it out. Then they herded back onto the buses, but this time, by team.
On the first 'B' bus we sat down near the front, my not-quite-boyfriend-but basically-we're-going-out-just-without-titles, sat next to me. There were two other boys waaayyy in the back of the bus shouting stupid things at the kids outside. Our bus driver took one look at the kids outside, and not liking what she saw, closed the doors and drove away.
As we drove away, I saw that... Lissa, outside, fuming with anger.
"You'll pay for this Max, you bitch! I'll get you!" she screamed, her face turning red. My eyes widened, she though this was my fault. Crap.
Well, now that we're on our way, I should probably introduce myself. I'm Maximum Ride, Max for short. Short like, don't you DARE call me Maximum! And, oh yeah, I have wings. Definitely not your average girl here!
Yeah, Nudge has wings too, and all of my closest friends know about them... well except for Sam, I'm not sure how he'll react yet so I haven't told him.
Well anyways, when we finally got to the high school, we got off of our buses and when through our first day.
"Ughhh!" I fell back onto my bed with a 'flump!' Today was terrible. Sam had broken up with me, and most of my friends abandoned me for other 'cliques'. Only Nudge and I were left. I sighed and rolled over, hopefully the carnival thing at school tomorrow would be better...
I woke up the next morning when I rolled out of bed, landing on the floor loudly.
"Ouch!" I muttered rubbing my head. I looked up at the clock, it read: 8:17. Shoot! I'm late for school on my second day! This would not end well.
My aunt skipped in, looking like a fairy princess, complete with pink tutu and sparkly star-shaped wand. Oh. My. God.
"You're still here?" she chirruped, "Well I'm leaving for your school in five so if you can be ready I'll bring you." I just nodded, still shocked by her outfit. I got dressed and went outside, ready to go. When I saw my 'ride' my jaw dropped. It was one of those carriage things that you pull while riding your bike. And it was pink. And frilly. Oh, I am SO gonna catch it from my friends later.
My aunt skipped, yes skipped, out of the house and got onto the bike, then motioned for me to get in the carriage on the back. I got in slowly and we were off to my school... great.
Okay, a lot of things happened at that carnival thing at school today, to say the least. But basically, I got in HUGE trouble and nearly expelled and I am now the least popular kid in school. It's not like I was popular before but it's bad when you drop down the least popular in a few hours... So here's what happened.
Flashback
When we got to the school, I jumped out the other side of the carriage thing and sneaked around to the back of this weird spy tent with the help of Nudge and our friend Dani. Dani is really quiet in school but insanely cool outside of it. She's a senior too, so we won't be having any classes with her. Dani let us in through the back and we sat down with her.
"What was that thing that brought you here?" Dani asked me in disgust. Her real name is Daniella Isabella Rose, but she hates her name and refuses to be called anything but Dani. I just shook my head.
"It's my aunt's tent," I moaned, putting my head in my hands. They both just stared at me. I nodded at their unspoken question. I knew that they would be humiliated to be with me after people found out that that was my aunt. It didn't matter too much. I already had lost most of my friends, why would the last two matter? I sighed loudly and then looked up as Dani handed me something that looked like a weird cell phone.
"What's --" I began to ask but she cut me off.
"It's a really cool device. invented by a really cool person might I add," said Dani. I looked at the back of it and saw her name on it. I grinned at her and rolled my eyes. "Okay, it's a cell phone that has GPS, a laser pointer, and a bunch of other cool gadgets. It'll take too long to explain them all so I'll let you figure them out on your own. But any ways, that's yours," she paused and pulled out two more, "and these are mine and Nudges," she finished, handing the third one to Nudge, whose eyes looked like they were gonna pop out of her head.
"Oh-Em-Gee!! That is so totally cool Dani! I've always wanted a cell phone... laser pointer, GPS, thing!! Now I can call people and find places sooooo much easier! Like the mall! Don't you just love the mall? I do, it's just so full of colorful stuff and awesome clothes an-- Mmph!" I quickly put my hand over Nudge's mouth to cut off the 'Nudge channel', as we called it.
Dani rolled her eyes. "Whatever, I have to go. My parents are expecting me to help with their demos and such." She winked at me and I sighed. Her parents were retired secret agents, it was kinda weird because they were very dramatic all the time and acted like they were always on a mission, but they were really cool.
Nudge skipped out of the back of the tent, probably off to try to find the 'perfect job outfit'. I got up and slouched out of the tent too. As I walked out of the tent and walked out front, Sam came up to me.
"Hey, Max. Is that your parent's tent?" he asked, snickering and pointing to the pink tent with my aunt dancing around it.
"No, my aunt's..." I muttered, ashamed. He cracked up for a minute as I flushed with embarrassment and rage and his poking fun at my family. Then he got very serious.
"Wow, your aunt's even more of a nut ball that you." He sneered. I looked at his retreating figure after that last comment. Tears of hurt, range, and pain filled my eyes and I blinked rapidly to clear them, but I just couldn't. I started to run, I needed to get away from this, it was too much. As I ran I felt people watching me, confused. Whatever could cause the normally tough girl to break down?
It was then that I bumped into something that collapsed away from me. I opened my now bloodshot eyes to see what I had done, and the next few minutes felt like slow motion, as the tent collapsed into the next one and then that one into the one after it. It was a giant domino effect, and I could do nothing to stop it.
I ducked out of the way as some kids ran screaming from the chaos. What had I done? I cowered in the shadow of this remaining tent as the carnival collapsed around me.
The tent I was under began to fall, and I screamed. Was I going to me smooshed flat and killed? It hit the ground right next to my shaking figure. I looked up and saw the entire student body, most of their parents and a very red-faced principal glaring at me. I chuckled nervously.
"Umm... hi?"
End Flashback
Yeah, so now they don't want me back at that school anymore. They didn't expel me, but they basically said to go away, so we're complying. My mom was a little disappointed but quickly got over it while she searched for a new school. We found one pretty quickly. It's called, Ashlen Memorial High School. Luckily it's close so I can still live at home. I'm going to start there next week. Joy. AMHS actually sounds pretty good, but the pictures make the school look 'oh so perfect' and I knew it wouldn't be that was.
And I was right. I walked into the office to get my new schedule and meet the principal and stuff and the first thing I saw was 3 boys and a girl sitting, waiting to see the principal. The girl looked like she had been crying and the two tough looking guys looked bored. What really surprised me was the other boy. He was tall with dark hair and he looked a lot less hurt than those two big guys, which surprised me because he looked to be only maybe 120 pounds while they were MUCH bigger than that.
He had dark hair and chocolate brown eyes. Even while he was sitting he was very tall, at least six feet. Plus, he had something about him that the other kids didn't. He seemed... different. I don't know how though.
Just then the secretary called me into the office. I jerked me head up and started towards the door. As I passed I sneaked one last look at this strange boy. He was looking up at me through his long dark hair, confused, so I quickly looked away and walked into the office to meet the principal.
The principal was a nice man, I liked him. Very relaxed and kind, but you could tell he could be really strict and mean if you got on his bad side.
"So, Max, what was it that made you come to our school anyways?" he asked me kindly. I stiffened then closed my eyes for a moment, I hadn't really wanted to talk about it. He took one look at my expression and backed off.
"Never mind that, well, I'd bring you to your first class but I have some *ahem* business to attend to so.." with that, he ushered me back into the office and out into the hallway. But not before I heard the secretaries say, "He's free, you can go in now Nick."
Nick. Was that the mystery boy's name? I glanced back quickly to see the boy walking into the principals office, so I suppose it was.
I walked off to my next class when the bell rang, jolting me out of my thoughts. I got there and sat in my seat just before the bell rang. Our teacher, Ms. Lerner, handed out math worksheets and we all got to work, scribbling down answers.
What is the square root of the function, when the value of x is 20?
Uggh, I'm terrible at math. I thought to myself for no reason. My thoughts kept wandering to Nick. I'm sure I've seen him somewhere before. I just don't. Know. Where.
To keep from bashing my head off of my desk, I tried focusing on my worksheet. It wasn't working too well, I had only finished the first three problems when there was a light knock at the door. Everyone in the class look up to see... Nick standing in the doorway, looking mischievous. He strode towards the teacher and handed her the slip of paper in his hand before sitting down in the open seat, right next to me. Of course.
I did start bashing my head off the desk lightly this time, only to stop when I noticed Nick looking over at me, one eyebrow raised in an expression that said, "What the in the hell are you doing?"
I blushed slightly and looked away. I swear he snickered. I glared at him but he was looking at his math paper, quickly solving a lot of the problems. I swore under my breath, how come he was so good at this! I kept struggling through my worksheet and just managed to finish it before the bell rang. I quickly hastened off to my history class.
History was dull, but easy, as always. The teacher seemed really nice and very interested in the subject though, so that made it a little better. Okay, so I checked my schedule and next I have.. English. Okay, no problem. Not to brag or anything, but I am excellent at English. I walked into the classroom, feeling confident, and then noticed there was only one open seat. And it was right next to, you guessed it, Nick. I sighed, then resigning to my fate, I walked over and sat down before anyone could say anything.
Our teacher was a wonderfully funny and nice lady. I already knew I would LOVE this class.
"Okay, My name is Mrs. DePierro. As you can tell, I'm gonna be your English/Language Arts teacher for the year. It'll be a great year, I promise, as long as none of you get on my bad side that is," she said, winking at us. Then she handed out a sheet for us to fill out about ourselves and then she was gonna read some of them out and see if people could guess who it was.
I sighed, was her class really going to be this easy? Okay, question one.
1. Favorite Color.
Okay, that one was just stupidly easy. Blue, of course.
2. Describe yourself in three good adjectives.
Hmm. Not too bad. Let's see... tall, different, and.... strong. That fits me.
3. Do you play any musical instruments? If so, which?
Well I can play guitar, and my parents made me learn cello and flute, which I surprisingly loved after a while, too so yeah, I do play instruments.
4. What kinds of hobbies do you like?
Well I'm pretty good a drawing, and I love to sing, I'm really good at sports but I don't like many of them, I love to be outdoors, and I'm not sure why, but I love to be the center of attention, so I love theater and and stuff. I quickly wrote all that down, then peeked over at Nick's paper.
His was relatively empty, which surprisingly, didn't surprise me. His favorite color was black, he said he was quiet, different, and strong. Wow, very similar. He also wrote that he plays guitar and piano.
That's when he caught me looking. I blushed and looked away as he looked up at me. After a minute I looked up to see him smiling at me. He also looked kinda confused, I wasn't sure why though. I just smiled back and looked back to my paper, still smiling. He seemed nice, and suddenly I didn't feel quite so lonely. Maybe this school won't be half bad, I thought.
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