Hey Guys,

Its Candy here, my first proper story so please review and give me some help.

I also need a beta so if you would like to help me out then that would be great thanks.

I have some prewritten chapters so I can update fairly often.

Tell me if you think I should continue.

Enjoy xx.

Chapter 1

Max's POV

I woke up wishing his arms were around me, keeping away everything that could and would bring harm. But since this is my life, I was alone and cold and sitting in the snow, my body (deleted the 'was') wet and (deleted 'I was') shaking.

Wait. I did not just admit weakness. I didn't need him, I could handle myself fine.

Wow I'm weird, waking up craving for a guy - wait not 'a guy' but 'my guy' (omg, omg, omg, did I just say Fang was 'my guy' – geez I'm so deluded. And may I admit it, did I sound just like Nudge? Oh god what the hell have I become?). "Okay" I muttered to myself. Time for a new set of rules:

1. Don't ever speak like Nudge, I sound girlie and vulnerable – and that is not my show.

2. Fang is not 'your guy' – don't fantasize bout him, don't think about him in a way that may get me in trouble. He is just another member of the flock, not an absolutely AMAZINGLY hot guy, which I really wish I could go out with… Wait. I didn't mean that…

3. Work out a plan to save the world. It should be about as easy as anything – Bull Shit.

Whatever I knew I was never gonna keep to those rules. I mean c'mon I'm MAXIMUM RIDE, as if I wood pay attention to rules I made in my head. Because I'm me, I break about 5 laws a day. Yeah those rules are never gonna last, even if I do try…

Okay I need to sort this out so I can be back in time for my birthday… Angel said I HAD to be… (Wonder why?) – They say you're meant to kiss your true love the night you turn 16… mmm… Fangs soft lips... WTF? Fang is not my true love… and I am NOT Supposed to fantasize about him. There's one rule down the drain…

Anyways on the matter of the kiss – it's not like I am going to kiss some stranger so why bother even thinking about that… sigh…

I really need some discipline… don't think about Fang…

It will just make me want to go back to him even more…

Which brings me to think of Angel – she sends me on some STUPID mission to 'help save the world' to me though it sounded like bullshit.

Yeah well you don't really want to know… some of my wondrous job of saving the world – in my favorite country CANADA, in some sweet little town called Kingston.

Not really it stinks here (well if Fang was here not so much but still, I HATE being away from the flock… and Fang. Wait, wait, wait Fang is just another flock member… who I happen to find highly attractive and want to kiss… WHAT THE HELL MAX. Focus on the task at hand. Deep breaths…)

Okay so basically nice place.

But without the flock anyplace was bad… I guess. If it was only me and Fang – uh… never mind…

So what the hell was I doing in Canada?

Well as far as I knew, I was blowing up a power plant! FUN! Yeah… no - its not, trust me. Why – I don't know, curse Angel and her very vague meanings, but still it was my job so I was here with a bomb stolen off Gazzy. Yeah – I'm so bad right? Whatever this was a piece of cake I would definitely make it home for my sweet 16… I sure hope.

Fang's POV

"WHERE IS SHE ANGEL?" I yelled, getting angrier and angrier by the second.

"Um…" was her 'highly detailed' response.

Yep, I was yelling bout Max, but at the moment I didn't really care because I was SERIOUSLY worried about my girlfriend.

"She doesn't like you calling her that" a charmingly annoying voice in my head spoke.

"Yeah well she doesn't need to know" I thought back rudely, and as I slammed the blocks down in my head I added, well she is soon to be.

"Fang, she didn't want to go – I made her." She said in that charming voice, looking up and me innocently – did I mention how ANNOYING it was?

Curse her. (I secretly wished I was a wizard, then Angel would not even dare speak to me like this and Max might actually like me… *Sigh* the dramas of a teen boy…

Of course as I though this Angel happened to make it through my mind block…

And I was met by her collapsed on the ground in laughter. So I took advantage of her vulnerable position and tickled her – until she screamed, screamed for mercy.

"Where is she Angel" I said slowly pronouncing each word in a menacing way.

Angel then went on about making Max go and 'blow the top' off some power plant (she wouldn't tell me where –little bugger. But she was only doing it for 'practice I heard her say… I wonder what she meant, she started muttering and going strange at that part.

She kept insisting Max wouldn't be in any danger, but something in her tone implied that sometime she would be in trouble… what was going on here.

What does Angel know about Max and something about what she seems to know makes me worried. My dark eyes looked at Angels light, pale blue ones and something told me that I wasn't going to get anything out of this girl tonight, and that filled me with anger, I felt the need to be in the sky, something in there reminded me of Max. She was like a goddess of the Sky. She owned it and was so in tune with it that her connection with it seemed like she belonged there, as if she was born to stay there not a lab experiment but someone born to belong, to belong in the sky – to belong with us.

As I turned to go Angel whispered something so quietly I wouldn't have heard if I wasn't a mutant with enhanced hearing. "Don't worry Fang; I made sure she will be back for her 'other' birthday present"

My eyes widened in shock, but not enough for Angel to tell; only Max could see that – How did she know about my 'other' present?

I stalked off – ending the conversation. God that little girl was messing with me so bad. She had it coming – bad. And with that I took to the skies.

Max's POV

I looked up to the sky wishing that Fang would appear on the horizon to take away the boredom that gnawed at my mind.

Wow looking back on that though goes to show how sad I really am, I said before I don't need Fang to be whole.

And right now I was still sticking to that statement.

But I really did need something to do, I mean really – sitting around is definitely not my sort of thing. But since I was hearing to destroy not to be spotted I couldn't just go and take a fly in the sky.

Great now I'm so bored that now I'm rhyming, what fantaboulos timing. FAR OUT, what the hell could I do till TOMORROW. I mean at the moment I would be DEAD by then, that is how bored I am.

"ARRGGGH" I yelled while kicking a tree and uh… don't tell the environmental mumbo-jumbo-ist people… not good for my rep. (I have a rep? and I care about it? What the hell have I become people…) Okay, at the moment I don't give a shit about waiting until tomorrow. I couldn't hurt to try find a way into the power plant.

But of course my plan to 'spend the rest of the day away' was completely ruined, I mean couldn't Angel at least give me a challenge. Preferably something without a chimney in the middle of the building where if I happened to drop a bomb the whole building would go up in flames.

I mean really where can a mutant bird kid, like me find a challenge these days…

I was bored. Extremely bored, I guess it couldn't hurt to call I thought pulling out my mobile.

I dialed Mum's number, twice and got the dial tone.

I went into panic mode. What if they had been killed or kidnapped or attacked. And I wasn't there to save them, to help them.

My mind rushed, I took a few calming breaths and dialed Fang's mobile while cussing under my breath.

Don't you hate it when people don't pick up there mobiles straight away… I was going to MURDER Fang if he didn't pick up, literally.

Ring. "Shit, where is he." I muttered under my breath. Ring "Crap, he always, always, always picks up." I muttered slightly louder. Ring. "Fuck. They've been kidnapped" I said my voice wavering with horror. Ring. – Fourth and final time. He wasn't going to pick up so I said something that I would never say to his face.

"I'm sorry Fang please don't be hurt I need you." And I felt my eyes watering up.

Oh CRAP! I silently cursed – no message tone, AND THERE WAS BREATHING!

Silence… Silence… More silence… finally I couldn't take anymore so I spoke "Hello?" I questioned, worry and a little fear evident in my voice.

"You need me hey?" Aw crap….

"Um, well yeah, you're my number o-one right hand man… y-you know" Did I just stutter?

I Max, and I definitely do not stutter… please, please, please don't pick up on it…

"Some ones nervous…"

"Really you should be, the flock and especially you know better than to not pick up the phone I thought you were actually in trouble, just goes to show how wasted my concern is" I spoke snidely pressing the red end call button.

Fangs POV

I was left there the dial tone beeping as I said the four words I would never have the courage to say to her face.

I spoke softly closing my eyes "I love you Max"

Hope you liked it. Should I go on?

R&R

xx Candy.