Hi Readers! This is my first story (one-shot) for Maximum Ride. This is based off the manga books, and I have not been reading them for long, so please be nice. This is a free verse poem, and it is not supposed to rhyme! This is Ari's perspective.

Will I always be a shadow to you?

Am I the forgotten son?

Did you on purposely leave me in the dust?

Why did I fall out of favour?

Why did I not please you?

What is so special about winged humans that I can be ignored?

Since when does a science experiment take a father's heart away from a son?

I have become the experiment, I am now a creature of science, and yet, you are still not pleased with me.

What is so special about them all?

Why was I replaced?

When will you look away from these creatures and see your son?

What father does not give his son love, but glows when a stranger does something right?

They are not your daughters!

They are not your sons!

And yet here I stand, all alone.

Watching these mutants go.

They're very presence torments me!

Your affection to them makes me sick!

I long for the day when they lie on the ground

Never breathing again

You will be mad at first, I know

But then, you stubborn old man

Will you love me?

Okay. It is short, I admit. But was it good? Well, that's up to you! Was Ari a bit OC? Let me know! Click the review button, or I will sick Angel's mind attack on you!