The Hardest Task: A Maximum Ride Fanfiction

by Gnarlish

A/N: My first Maximum Ride Fanfiction. I read the entire series from start to finish for the first time last week and have to say that although it borrowed a lot of elements from other writer's and stories (x-men...cough cough) it was a fun enough read for me to laugh, tear, and squeal excitingly at the appropriate parts. It was also a good enough series for me to write a fanfiction in which I attempt (keyword: ATTEMPT) to imitate James Patterson's writing while adding my own style and ideas. So...here I go. Sorry if I waste a few minutes of your time but seriously if you don't have time to waste you shouldn't be on this site! :) R&R!

Disclaimer: I'm not James Patterson. I do not take other people's ideas and rewrite it to sell to poor little children and teenagers who will become obsessed and be forced to buy all four books in the series. I am simply someone who will take other people's ideas in a fashion that I hope will get me a review or too on. So don't sue me!

Chapter 1: Eyes

We had been sitting there for a while now. Fang put his hands on my shoulders and then on my chin. He tilted my neck up so my eyes met his. His hands felt soft, and his eyes, although looking straight into mine, distant. I took a deep breath and stared at him. My pulse became more rapid and, as my face tightened, I realized I could not read through him. I wanted to know what he was thinking so I could figure out what he was going to next, but instead I was left with nothing but complete confusion and emptiness filling my mutant mind. I was staring right into his eyes but could not see a thing through his soul despite our long friendship and so call unbreakable bond of saving each other's lives more times than we could count.

It used to be so different. When we were kids, I knew when he felt uncomfortable and when he felt that we should leave just by looking into his eyes. I could tell when he was happy, angry, or sad. It use to be that when our eyes met, we could pass messages because we knew each other so well. Not literal messages like Angel, but just normal signals so when I looked into his eyes, I could see that he cared for me, and trusted me. Now, I couldn't tell any of this as I stared into his emotionless face. It was almost like he was trying to be unreadable, as if he had was changing into someone new, different, passive, incompatible, distant, and strange on purpose so I could no longer relate and see beneath him. As if he didn't want me to know what he was thinking. As if he wanted to get away.

He gave a deep sigh, kissed me passionately, his unexpected soft lips pressed hard against mine, before his eyes gave me another unreadable look, and Fang flew away off into the distance. I could tell, by the way his wings flapped against the wind that he would be flying for a long time and possibly never come back. It all happened to quickly that I didn't have a moment to say anything. I just sat there, like an emotional little bird-kid who had no idea why her best friend and possible love of her life flew away.

You should have read his eyes. The voice sudden acts of interruptions were already driving me near insanity (if you have in a voice in your head you are already insane right...so you can't really drive your way to insanity? not sure...) so when I heard the voice this time I clenched my teeth and accidentally bit my tongue. My tongue, in case you were wondering, is human so when I bite it, it hurts just like normal kids. So this time, because I was so angry and full of emotion, I bit it so hard that I literally screamed like a girl.

I could still see Fang's wings soaring at a distance. Where was he going? "Fang! Fang!" I heard myself scream as tears rushed down my face. Why was he leaving me? What about the flock? I was going in hysteria, screaming, and sobbing. "Don't Leave me!" I cried. He kept on flying. "How could you do this to me?"

For hours I sat waiting for him to fly back. Yesterday is gone forever. The sun moves as the days goes by. Don't let it go without you. The voice chanted. "Aah! I don't need your advice!" I screamed out loud. There was only one time before where Fang had left me. We had split up because I wanted to let Ari, an evil wolf-boy who had recently turned good, into our group and Fang didn't want to have to be around him. I didn't want Ari to have to leave so instead Fang left. When he left, I had been broken. My world was not complete without him. Back then we were foolish and naive and when we joined back together we promised that we would never leave each other again. And yet I was sitting here, in the darkness, broken once more.

I thought over the passed few days. Why would he want to leave? He hadn't seemed angry. I had put to bed Angel, Nudge and Gazzy like I always do while Iggy had gone off to get some food. Iggy came back and went to bed because he was tired, but Fang stayed with me. That is when he started staring into my eyes. "If only he was more readable," I thought. "Then I could have known what he was up to."

The sun began to rise. I had been sitting up all night. My eyes hurt from staying up but realistically, how could I have slept knowing that Fang was out there somewhere. That he wasn't here with me.

That is when I remembered his blog. Maybe something was in there. Maybe what he was not telling me through his eyes he was typing on his blog. He loved his blog more then anything and sometimes I wondered if he loved it more than me. He was so attached, so caring, eager, and loyal to keep the rest of world up to date on his adventures and thoughts.

Jealously rose through my throat. Why don't you keep me up to date? Why don't you care if I know what's going on in your head? His head, to my best luck, was extremly hot and was getting hotter everyday, his hair growing out long and shaggy. This detail made me even madder as I logged into my computer and opened up his blog. He had taken his own computer with him of course but luckily we had gotten a hold of another thanks to Angel's mind control back in town. I chuckled. This was obsurd. He took his computer, but not me. WHY COULDN'T HE HAVE TAKEN ME!!

I took another deep breath (I've been needing to a lot these days) and began to read his blog. Slowly.