So what do you think would have happened if the flock stayed a little while longer in Virginia? This is kinda what I always thought about and I thought it was high time I put it on paper. Or, you know, in a file on a computer….

So enjoy!

Disclaimer: I am a teenage girl. Not a middle-aged man. Therefore, I do not own Maximum Ride. Unfortunately.

Info: This is after Max's date with Sam, little bit before the Iggy-finding-his-parents incident.

Max's POV

I weaved my way through tables, seeing J.J. a little bit farther off. I realized before I sat down the excited look on her face. Uh-oh.

"Hey, Max," a happy smile lit up her face as I cautiously sat down.

"What's up? Why so excited?" I said.

"Dani, Ash, Night, and Jay are coming back!"

"Who?"

"Oh, I haven't told you about them, have I? Well, they've been gone. Their mom's a wildlife photographer and they've been somewhere in Mexico, taking shots for some hot-shot magazine like National Geographic. But, tomorrow they're coming back! I can't wait for you to meet them, I think you'll like them."

"Uh, if you say so."

"Trust me, you will. Their really cool. Unless they don't like you. That would suck. For you."

"Uh, okay."

"But there's no reason for them not to like you, so it's all good. Are you gonna eat your apple?"

"Yep."

"Dang."

When I sat down at lunch the next day, it was only J.J. sitting at the table.

"Didn't you say there was going to be some new kids or something yesterday?" I felt obliged to ask.

"Yeah, they're in the office picking up some make-up work and other slighty-depressing-yet-critical-to-your-educational-future things of that sort. They'll be here in a couple minutes."

Sure enough, about 10 minutes later, I looked up to see a girl and two boys headed for our table. The girl had a dark skin-tone, brunette hair, and bright green eyes that were wide and curious. She kinda reminded me of a kitten, actually. Adorable in an irrestistable way and yet scarily mischievous. One of the boys was African-American, and the other was white and had blonde hair with brown eyes.

"Hey JJ!" The girl said as she took her seat.

"Dani! Your back!"

"Well, nice to see you, too, JJ," one of the boys said, the white one.

"Sorry guys. Nice to see you, Jay. You too, Night," the one who spoke smiled, while the African-American only nodded.

"Where's Ash?" JJ asked.

The girl, Dani?, smiled, showing off a row of white teeth. "When we got there, Jay and Night had their shirts untucked, I was wearing jeans under my skirt, and Ash kept popping her gum over and over just to piss PMSing-Pruitt off. So we had to sit pretty while he told us how insignificant, disrespectful, and stupid we are and how we will grow up and amount to nothing if we don't stop our foolish behavior. After he was finished making a laughing stock of himself, he asked us if we understood. Ash, apparently, had an overwhelming urge to tell him that no, she did not understand, she was too busy wondering how many episodes of 'Gay Eye For The Straight Guy' it would take to wack that unibrow off his face and get him a wardrobe that doesn't make her immediately think the words 'Ello, Governa'. She then asked him to say 'Ello, Govna' because apparently it is her life-long dream to actually hear a British person say that in their awesome accent. While on this topic, she let him know that he is a disgrace to all British accents, seeing as he can't control that anger management problem of his, and he can't even say a simple sentence without turning into a human sprinkler. She is currently in the office, happy as can be and will be with us shortly."

"Did she really say that?" JJ seemed amazed. Hell, I was amazed. I wish I could say that to him and not have any consequences. But unfortunately, I'm me. And me just can't seem to get a break.

Dani nodded. "And more. I swear she is the only person who can say something like that and get away almost scot-free. Maybe her evilness gives her powers of persuasion."

"Her evilness?" I asked. Oh, great. Here we go again with the evil people.

Dani laughed. "Yeah. She's not as innocent as she looks."

"I think she might possibly be possessed," the guy, Jay, I think, said.

"Oh, definately. She makes Emily Rose look like a Tele-tubby," Dani agreed.

"Next thing you know, she's gonna be turning her head all the way around."

"She would happily push a priest down the stairs."

"No, she would hire someone to sniper the priest as he was about to go down the stairs."

"I stand corrected. It really is sad. Our poor girl has gone and lost her innocence."

"Woah, woah, woah. Hold up. When did she lose her innocence?"

"Satan forcefully entered her body when he clearly wasn't wanted. It's practically the definition of rape."

"Oh my God, our poor little girl got raped by Satan."

"All rapists are Satan."

"Good point."

"What about rapists and Satan?" everyone seemed to jump at the calm voice behind Dani's head.

"Ash! How was your reprimand?"

The girl that had walked up looked about as unemotional as Fang. She had pitch black hair, black eyes, and an olive skin-tone. Now that I thought about it, she actually looked like Fang. The curve of their lips, the shape of their eyes. . . .

"Same old, same old. Now, back to the rapists and Satan." Yes, like we wanted to get back on that topic.

"Rapists suck Satan." Dani answered her.

"That made no sense, whatsoever."

"Neither do sporks."

"I'm still failing to see what your point is."

"You should have been listening."

"I was listening. I heard you say that rapists suck Satan very clearly."

"Then what's the problem?"

"That it would make any English professor want to shoot you."

"And?"

Ash sighed. "Your hopeless."

"And yet I only take that half-offensively."

"Of course you do."

JJ spoke up as soon as she sat down. "Okay, now that you're all here, I'm guessing your wondering who this is," she gestured to me. Funny, I was wondering who the hell they were.

"I didn't really notice her," Ash said.

"Well," said JJ, obviously annoyed by that answer. "This is, well, I'm gonna let them introduce themselves first, seeing as you probaly don't know who they are." A much more satisfying answer.

"Hi, I'm Dani, and I like to eat apples really loud when Ash is in the room because she hates that."

"HI, DANI," Everyone chorused together.

"FUCK YOU, DANI," said the one-who-hates-loud-apples.

"Hi, I'm Jay, short for Jay, and I eat cake with a spoon. It bugs the hell outta Ash."

"HI, JAY."

"FUCK YOU, JAY." You can guess who said that.

"Hi, I'm Night, and I like to sing off-pitch to songs because it pisses Ash off."

"HI, NIGHT."

"FUCK YOU, NIGHT."

"Hi, I'm Ash, and I like to randomly hit my family because they piss me off."

"HI, ASH."

"Grrr."

"Max, your turn," JJ turned to me.

"Um, hi, I'm Max, and I have a feeling something I do at some point in time will piss off Ash."

"HI, MAX," said Jay and Night. Dani was laughing and Ash was glaring at her.

"Haha, I like you," Dani said to me.

"Um, thanks?"

"Do you guys seriously do all those things purposely just to piss me off?" Ash asked.

"Yeah, that's the funny part," Dani replied.

"Why?"

"Because it's hilarious."

"Bitch."

So, I have to ask you to Review. I'm kinda obliged.

R&R?

(p.s. rapists suck Satan)