Prologue

I flew through the air, speeding away as fast as possible. My eyes were stinging from the air and the tears running down my cheeks. I wasn't sure which hurt more the physical pain that hadn't quite healed yet, or the emotional pain of learning the truth of his thoughts, how he really felt about me.

Sobs racked my body as I reached up to grab the thing that had comforted me through so many perils, all the thick and thin. Then I remembered it was gone, along with him and everyone else. I was going to start new they wanted me gone so I left. I tried to harden my heart to them, show them that I, the Maximum Ride, would not break, but the agonizing truth pounded down on me.

He was right, they were all right. I had made their lives miserable. Destroyed any hope for a future. Now they had a home with my mom, they were happy. He was a good leader, I was the slave owner that tortured them, they were better off with me gone, but that didn't take away the pain of leaving.

I reached up again for my source of comfort, but it was gone. My necklace, my flock, my life gone, I was all alone in the world for good. I have decided to change my ways, I will be a better person, and someone they will be proud of someone who he can love, someone unlike me.

Chapter one

One week before

"Fang, can I talk to you for a minute please?" I asked quietly walking up to my room knowing he was following me. I walked over and stood in front of my bed facing the wall. For the past three weeks everything had settled down a little. We had found a house that we were living in for the time being, and in the past few weeks I had become very paranoid. We needed to leave and we needed to leave soon.

"We need to leave." I cut right to the point and stated what was bothering me. I didn't face him because I knew the argument was coming whether or not I liked it, that was just who Fang was.

"No, Max we can't. We have finally sort of settled down, the kids are happy. Don't destroy that, because you're paranoid." His voice was soft but the authority ringed clear, it only made me mad. I could tell that Fang was getting mad by the hardness of his eyes and stiffness of his jaw. His hands were clenching and unclenching at his sides.

"Me being paranoid has saved your life multiple times over, so I wouldn't complain. I have a bad feeling and we need to leave. I didn't ask for your opinion, I told you to come up here to tell you we were leaving, not ask if it was ok with you." My voice vose as I got angry.

I watched as Fang's eyes flashed, and the war began. Within an hour we were in an all out war, yelling and screaming at each other. Bothof us were ticked beyond reason, but so far we hadn't said anything to cause major damage yet. That was before I opened my mouth.

Fang had just stated that he thought we should stay, and I had no wright to uproot the kids."Oh yeah," I shot back with venom,"I believe I do have a wright for I am the leader, and if you can't deal with that then leave. You know what no one needs you anyway so leave, we will all be better off. Find your own flock to screw up." All my anger deminished after those words. Oh no, were my thoughts as I rushed to the still open window searching for some sign of Fang.

"Fang." I said quietly to the night as tears poured down my face as I realized I had just told the man I was in love with, my other half to get out of my life.

I slowly crumpled to the ground as the pain and horror of what I had done overwhelmed me. Sobs wracked my body, I couldn't believe what i had just done.

After what felt like years, I shot up, everything had suddenly gotten really hot, something was wrong. I slowly walked to my door and slid it open, looking down the hall. At the very end of the hall an orange glow came up from downstairs, quickly climbing towards Angel's door at the top of the stairs. I gulped. The house was on fire.