Uh, I don't own MR, JP does. I just own the plot(s) and my original characters. Oh, and I own myself, although my dad doesn't think I do until I'm eighteen.
Nudge's POV
Fang, of all people is my half brother. Yup, that's right, Mr. Strong and Silent. Mr. Rock and No Emotion is my half brother. It turns out the guy in the video with my mom begging to bring me back to her was in reality, my step dad. Fang and I's dad is some guy from Italy, so I'm actually part European. You'd never tell from the sight of me. Maybe that's where I got the talking gene from, Italians like to talk from what I've heard. God knows I didn't inherit that gene.
Lets see, I've known about this for about a week. We left Dr Martinez's house who we just found out is Max's mom and Ella is her half sister. And Max does not look Mexican AT ALL, except maybe for the brown eyes, but I had brown eyes. It's really not all that uncommon to have brown eyes, Fang does too, probably the only thing we have in common, with exception of the whole wings part. So, I found out when I stole Fangs laptop and started practicing hacking into the School's files. I was experiment 112 and Fang's 73. So when they had a file named experiment 112 and 73, I thought, what the heck and clicked onto it. It turns out that we had the same dad, which of course made us half siblings.
Oh, and by the way, you're not crazy. Yes, we both have wings, and I can easily hack into pretty much any computer. Once, on a school field trip I broke into the president's personal account, but don't tell Max that or she'll get pissed, real pissed. Long, painful story short, a few mad scientists put wings on us so we're only 98% human and 2% bird. We escaped and are trying to hide from them. We also have other special abilities that we have no idea how it's even possible, like Angel's mind reading (and controlling) and Gasman's uh, weird digestive system.
Max, by the way, is a girl. Her full name is Maximum Ride. She picked out the name all by herself, and I personally thinks it's a really original name. She's our leader and kind of a mother figure to the younger kids of the flock. She used to be a mother figure to me before I turned ten, but I can kind of take care of myself now. Not that I would leave Max, or Angel for that matter. I wasn't sure about the guys though, they just left us like it was no big deal and I wasn't completely ready to fully trust them again.
Fang is the back-up leader, I guess you could say. He takes over if Max is having a weak moment. Which, let me tell you, rarely ever happens. The beach scene was the only one that was ever her own fault. The brain attacks were actually helpful because of the voice and the voice gives us important information. Besides being my new, not so long lost half brother, Fang also has a blog that he does. I'm pretty sure that he doesn't give our location away. He's smarter than that, hopefully.
Iggy, our blind guy. He's not helpless at all, escept when it comes to chores and he uses his blind excuse. He can build a bomb with practically anything, so Max doesn't fall for it. Max only falls for the bambi eyes Angel and I have. Which, I have to admit, their pretty awesome.
Me, I'm the only black in our whole group. We don't really think much about it until we have to lie about us being siblings, it's kind of hard for people to believe. Why does it have to be so hard for people to believe a lie? I mean come on, can't you all just make our lives easier. I do have to admit that I do talk a little much sometimes.
Gasman, also nicknamed Gazzy or Gasser. Trust me, you want to stay far upwind from him or else you might choke on one of his occurrences. Well, there was something funky with the kids digestive system. Let me tell you, we never let him have boiled eggs, ever. He can also mimic people's voices perfectly. Which has caused many fights in the past years. He's also Iggy's apprentice in bomb making.
And last, our sweet little Angel. Sometimes, though, she can be the opposite of her name, with the mind controlling and all. She also has a dog, (and get this) that can talk. His name is Total, a dog that looks a lot like the dog in the movie the Wizard of Oz. So we named him something that was close to the name of Toto. Max would have thought it was too girly. Plus, we're all about the original names, so we named him Total.
So you're probably asking yourself why I haven't told anyone yet. Well, I wasn't really sure of how people were going to react. Fang might be disappointed to be related to me. I mean, I think he loves me, but if it came down to actually being related to me, it might be different because I'm kind of annoying. And who wants to be related to an annoying person? I loved him that much to spare him the truth for awhile. They also might think that I'm lying, which I've never told any of them a lie before. I've lied to other people before but only to keep us alive. I wasn't really sure how I was going to break it to them. There was also Angel who might read my mind and 'accidently' spill the secret to everyone.
I snuck into Fang's and Iggy's hotel room, sneaking around was something I had learned from him. It was hilarious how he always snuck up on Max and scared he. Iggy and Gassy wanted to share a room and Angel and I wanted to, but that didn't work out. I mean, that way, Max and Fang would have to share a room. One word, awkward. There was no problem with Gassy and Angel sharing a room since they were siblings. So Max and I were sharing a room. The computer was back in its original spot and I was out of there until I ran into something.
"What are you doing?" I looked up to see Fang.
"Nothing." I lied. Okay, so maybe a lied once in a while, but nothing big.
"Hacking?" He guessed.
"Maybe…" I said.
"Are you sick?" He asked.
"I don't think so, why?" I answered.
"You're being quiet." He pointed out.
"Yeah, well…so are you." I said.
"Touche." He agreed.
"I'm going to go now." I announced, stepping back and around him to go into Max and I's room.
He looked at me, to anyone else outside of the flock, his face would be impassive, but he looked a little suspicious. Maybe I was acting a little strange. Oh well, he was letting me past him, so that was a good sign I guess.
"You do that." He said.
Iggy was in my room, laying on my bed. HE was staring up at the ceiling with his sightless blue eyes. Sometimes I felt really bad about that. Other times I thought he was lucky to not see some things that went on in our life.
"Why aren't you in your room?" I asked him, sitting next to him.
He shrugged. "Just wanted to say goodnight." He guessed.
"Aw, how sweet." I said sarcastically, another skill you have to have to survive in the flock. "Now get off my bed, I'm tired."
"Aren't you in a good mood today." He said.
I rolled my eyes, then remembered. "I'm rolling my eyes."
"And your point is?" He said.
"Just making conversation." I said.
"Ah, I see." He said.
"Fine, if you're not going to go, I'll just go to sleep here." I said.
"Go right ahead." He said.
This was weird, he always moved when I told him I was going to go to sleep. I wondered what was different. I eyed him skeptically, wondering what he was up to. If he had silly string, he was so dead. I pulled back the covers and slipped under them. I expected him to leave really soon. After awhile, I was really curious.
"What are you still doing here?" I mumbled, only half awake.
"I'm trying to figure out what has been up with you for the past week." He responded.
"That's great, but I really don't think that it's going to work with me asleep." I pointed out. "How have I been acting weird?"
"you're not talking as much. And when your are actually talking, then it's serious, not about shoes or hair or shopping."
Did I really talk about shoes that much? Yeah, I guess I did.
"I'm sorry." I said.
Iggy laughed quietly. "You don't have to apologize."
He started stroking my hair. I didn't dare to look him in the eye, even if he was blind. I was too tired to say or do anything, so I just fell asleep with him playing with my hair. Which was really weird, if you ask me. But I live with weird. I have freaking wings for God's sake. I should be used to strange things by now. But there's still some things that totally take me by surprise, like this.
I'll try and get some Fax in the next chapter. I just had to do this. Anyways, I don't care how you all review, as long as you review. It would make my day, especially if there was nothing to do.
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