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Max POV

"'Kay Alex. We'll be right there," I spoke into my Blackberry Storm while pulling a dark denim jacket with golden wings on the back over my white tank top. Do you really think I'm gonna go out in public with my wings showing.

"Jay! The guys are already down at the beach! Come on!" I exclaimed from my room to the closed, black door across the hallway. We were headed to the beach that was about five minutes away since our band was one of the five to provide the entertainment for today.

"Kay!" Jade exclaimed as she came out of the navy blue and black room with a pair of black skinny jeans, a black tank top, and black denim jacket on. If you don't know who Jade is related to, I don't know what to think anymore.

Okay, you're all probably thinking, why is Maximum Ride living with another girl? Well, before any of you sickos start getting any ideas, we live in the same apartment because we're really close friends and her brother is, or rather was, my right-hand man. Now you're all thinking, where's the flock? I'm psychic aren't I? Ha. Well, two years ago when Iggy, Fang, and I were nineteen, the Voice told me, "Maximum. You need to get away from the flock. If you don't, let's just say they'll 'disappear'." So, guess what I chose to do, I left in the middle of the night, after leaving a note, and flew to California, although it practically tore my heart out as I did so. Like really, what would you do if you had to choose between having your family killed and leaving them behind alive. I thought so.

I'll only answer one more question before getting back to my story. All the readers out there are probably wondering how I ended up with Jade. Well here it goes. A month or so before I left, Jade snuck away from us in the middle of the night. She left a note on top of the pile of our small amount of belongings saying that she didn't feel like she belonged with us and that she was probably just getting the way of the flock and that she was headed off to California. Out of all of us, her leaving affected Fang and Iggy the most. You can't really blame Fang, his sister left after they had been separated for six or something years for crying out loud! But Jade's leaving affected Iggy because, well, he was in love with her even though she did have a boyfriend (who happened to dump her a few weeks ago) so he was left heartbroken. I do think it's a little harsh though that I, Fang's best friend, had to leave him just awhile after his twin sister left, but he wouldn't wish me much. I was nothing special to him wasn't I?

I didn't head to Arizona to live with m sister and mom because I didn't want anything to happen to them just because of me. So, I followed Jade to California so I would have someone who was close to me at least the tiniest bit. Now, the two of us are almost as close as Fang and I had been, but only by a little bit. Sure, she was a whole like her brother, but she wasn't Fang.

Anyway, now that my story is over let's move on to the present. Jade plucked the car keys from the table in the small living room and we headed outside of the small apartment and hopped into our used, black pick up truck. Do you really think two twenty-one-year-olds can afford a new car? Okay, maybe we can, but we didn't want to spend too much money. But the good thing was that it was a great vehicle to travel in with the band, The Silver Wings, okay our name wasn't original but it was good. In about five minutes, we were at the shore heading toward our group who was standing off to the right of the platform in the middle of the beach.

I could have sworn I saw someone familiar dressed fully in black on the left of the platform but I pushed the thought aside. I couldn't get my hopes up it hurt too much. After we crossed the blazing sands, Jade and I got to the other three members. Jade and I were the two singers and only females of the band, then there were Alex and James, the guitarists, and Matt, the drummer.

"Finally! What took my ladies so long?" James joked, he was the pervert of the group but he was a great older brother figure at the age of twenty-two.

Jade rolled her eyes and chuckled, "Knock it off James. It was only a few minutes." She elbowed the tanned brunette playfully. In return, James gave Jade a noogie, but her red-streaked naturally jet-black hair drifted back to its straight position. And no, the two were not flirting, they just did this everyday to get on Matt's nerves.

Alex laughed. "Break it up you two. We're up second after The Night Hawks. Let's gets some drinks then we'll practice 'kay?" (AN: Ok, I know my band names r cheesy n all but live with them lol)

The rest of the band groaned. Alex had made us practice almost the whole day yesterday. The five of us headed off to get some smoothies from the refreshment cart. I happened to see three familiar looking teens from the left side of the stage but I shook it off, my eyes were playing tricks on me.

Fang POV

"Iggy! Gazzy! Come on! Ben and Eddie are already at the beach getting' ready!" I shouted from the bottom of the stairs. The three of us now owned a house in California about ten minutes or so away from the beach. Now, the readers of this are probably wondering where the girls are (and Total if you care about him). Well, originally, Angel, Nudge, Gazzy, Iggy, and I (and Total) had moved over to California in hopes of finding Max. When she had left us two years ago, I happened to be the final flock member to know why she left and where she went. Since she had taped her note to a tree and Angel and Total happened to find it and show me last, knowing how I would react. For awhile, I had been a little depressed, but after a few months, I finally got out of my little faze and was set on finding Max. Of course, she had told us not to follow her, but do you think I would listen? No, I wouldn't, and she had told us where she was going, so she had to be hoping even the tiniest bit for us to find her. So, I made the flock move to California. After a year, Angel and Nudge started to get bored just lounging around the house while us guys were busy, so they got me into letting the move in with Mrs. Martinez, Max's mother. She was overjoyed and welcomed the girls easily and gave me a hard-look that I had seen on Max's face many times saying that I'd better find her daughter soon or I was in for it.

Somehow, Gazzers, Iggy, and I got involved in this band called The Night Watchers when we got here. Iggy and I were the guitarists/singers, Gazzy sang sometimes, our friend Ben was the drummer and our other friend, Mike, got us gigs and he was pretty much or manager, just a year younger than Ben, Iggy, and me. After a few months, I talked Mike into changing our name into The Night Hawks.

So today, our band was going to be one of the five bands that were going to provide entertainment down at the shore. And we were going to be the first ones up.

Finally, the guys came down, both wearing jeans and T-shirts, we didn't really care as long as we were wearing something. Then, we got into my (guess the color) black Ferrari. The way we earned so much money to buy both a Ferrari and a house was because all of the flock members (aside from Max of course) were pitching in so the three of us could make a living by ourselves.

With me driving, we finally arrived at the beach in about seven minutes. The three of us stepped out the car and pulled our two guitar cases out from the trunk and walked over the sands towards our band on the left side of the platform, which was placed in the middle of the beach. As we walked however, I could have sworn I saw a familiar blonde girl and another black and red haired girl, both of them pretty fit. But I dismissed the idea, probably a couple of lookalikes.

"Kay guys. We're up first in about ten minutes. Since we've got time, how 'bout we scope out the beach?" Ben suggested and Iggy quickly agreed, thankfully, the kid got his site back thanks to Mrs. Martinez, so I wouldn't have to describe girls to him anymore. After a few minutes, a loud voice came over the speakers, "Okay ya'll! Give it up for our first band, The Night Hawks!"

Here we go.