Welcome to my new story!

Sorry I haven't updated my others in a while (it's been kind of hectic)

So Maximum and Maxwell Ride are twins of a prestigious family. When Maxwell dies Max is forced to take his place and she becomes him. Meaning she has to attend her brother's new school, an all boys boarding school. FAX! Au.

Disclaimer: I don't own MR but I do own the plot line and any characters that haven't been mentioned before.

Max POV

It is one weird thing be standing at your own gravestone. Well technically the body that was in there was my brother's. But still the gravestone isn't his. It was mine. Yeah this confuses the crap out of me too.

The inscription read:

Maximum Ride

1993 – 2009

There was a gravestone on the other side of the cemetery, in the child section. This one read:

Maximum Ride

1993 – 1993

Yeah I've 'died' twice.

But inside the most recent one was actually my twin, Maxwell. He wasn't a newborn. He was 16 like I am. I still remember his laugh and his smile. Well actually I can't remember that, he hated me quite frankly, I'd like to say that I could. But that would be lying and although I can lie with a straight face, I don't like doing it.

I need to tell you the whole thing. Yeah then this would make a lot more sense to you. Okay the beginning, 1993.

My family is one of the oldest and richest families alive today. The Rides. Hence there are a few things that get passed down as tradition along with other things. The women in my family have a tendency to bear twins. Every time a twin is born, the male one or the first one born is chosen. The other child becomes a shadow, a replacement in case something happens to the first one.

I am my brother's shadow.

The second one always 'dies' at a very young age. Generally during the first 3 years of their life.

So that was how I acquired my first gravestone.

My brother was always slightly weaker than I was. He had bad lungs. It was cold outside and he just died of an asthma attack.

This is where the second gravestone comes in.

Nobody bothered to read all the gravestones; if they did they would be here for about a week. So they thought that they would just re-kill me.

When the 'chosen' twin dies, the shadow replaces them. It doesn't matter if they are different genders. They have to become them.

Yesterday I was Maximum Ride, the shadow of Maxwell. As of today I am Maxwell Ride, son and only child of Jeb Ride. As of tomorrow, I am a boarder at an all boy's school.

Kill me now.