So, hi everyone!
This is my first story. I actually posted it quite awhile ago with a few errors, so recently I decided to rewrite it a bit and post it again :)
Anyway~ Please review! I would love to know what you guys think, good or bad. Thanks for reading!
Max's POV
Okay, I'm going to take a wild guess and say that you've never been flying. And I know, that's a hypocritical thing of me to say since I don't know you. You should really try it sometime. Everything about it is so freeing, the wind whooshing in your feathers, your hair getting thrown about and teased with. But the thing that makes it so great for me, is flying with my family. Though they aren't really my family by blood, they are the closes thing I've ever had. It's that one feeling of family that makes this moment so hard for me.
Because I'm flying away from the person I trust most in the world, my best friend and right hand man, Fang. Now, before you go all crazy fangirl on me, let me explain. It was all his idea actually, to be left behind. We had talked about someone getting in on the inside. (Actually he had talked, I had dismissed the idea.) Just one of us getting captured purposely so we could get more information on the company that's going to take down the world. That's their plan, anyway. But we are getting off subject here. So, back to how Fang decided it would be really awesome to go behind my back and stay behind. Okay, it went something like this...
~flashback~
"So, you think it's a good idea?" Fang asked after telling me his stupid, crazy idea.
"Yeah, let me think... No." I said flatly.
"Why? It's perfect. We get the information we need and no one gets hurt."
"No one gets hurt? Yeah, great idea! So, you go, and take Total, will you? Then you can have someone to fight on your death bed with! Peachy! Honestly Fang, what goes on in that pretty little head of yours?" I was mocking him. He was being an idiot. Did he seriously think I was willing leaving one of my flock with the most horrible people in the world? I think not.
"Max, just think about it. We fly over, I give myself up, say I can't handle the running anymore. I stay just long enough to get this," he holds up a small Z-drive. A perfect fit in his back pocket. "Into one of their main computers. Angel listens for my go and you guys break me out." I just stared at him, blankly. Why did he think this was such a good idea? I couldn't think of a better way to set ourselves up for trouble and he was parading around with balloons! Boys. I will never understand.
"No. I won't let you. That is worse then Iggy's idea to buy a beach house so he could work on his flirting skills! And I thought that was the worst thing I had ever heard! Have you even thought about what could happen if you pissed them off? Without even trying! They could inject you with some crazy liquid and you might walk around singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for the rest of your life! Whether that be when I kill you or otherwise. Either way, no. Bad idea."
No way I was giving on this. I couldn't lose Fang. I couldn't lose any of them. I would never be able to live with myself. The flock was my whole world and I would do everything in my power to keep them out of danger. When did I get so Hearts and Roses? Maybe I'm falling ill...
"I think this is a good idea," Fang mumbled softly.
"Well, I don't. And unless someone died and crowned you leader, it's my opinion that counts." I folded my arms over my chest, the picture of authority.
Suddenly, Fang's eyes went emotionless. I hadn't noticed that while we had been arguing his mask had fallen slightly. And I felt guilt. Guilty because he was really just trying to help, take some of the load off my shoulders.
"Fang, I'm..." he cut me off. "Whatever. Forget it." And with that, he spun on his heel and was out my door in 1 second flat. With a sigh I flopped back on the futon that was in Ella's room.
~End flashback~
So, there you have it. See, at the time I thought he had just let it go. Realized it was a horrible idea and went on to greater thinking. If only I would have known he just became more determined from there.
Maximum, you really shouldn't have left him there.
I know, Voice. That's kinda why we're going back tonight. Once all the Whitecoats escape to their caves.
Time is not on your side, Maximum
What do you mean? Against my will, feelings of panic strive to overtake me. Was Fang okay? Was he drugged? Hurt?
The Voice didn't respond. Maybe it was for the best, I reasoned as I tried to slow my speeding heart.
I signaled to the flock that we were going down. After 2 days at the school, us mutant Bird Kids were low on calories. We landed behind a few trees and walked to a Jack in the Box. The cashier almost had a stroke when I ordered. It would have been funny if I hadn't been so miserable. We ate in relative silence, all lost in our own thoughts.
Or, at least I thought it was our own thoughts. Until Angel looked up at me with her sweet, innocent eyes and said, "Max, why is that girl over there thinking about Fang?"
I turned my head sharply, and there, was a teenage girl about 15. And she was looking at me with eyes as black as Fang's T-shirts.
Only one thought passed my mind, holy crap.
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