One Week After Itex Fell

POV Jocelyn

Max gritted her teeth and gave in. That last flyboy had been too much for her. She had managed to defeat it, but he left plenty of battle scars. They were always upgrading. Max landed in a tree in front of a medium sized house in some nice neighborhood with two schools nearby. Max rubbed her bruises briskly. Not her best idea to tell the flock to wait and let her handle it. Stupid stupid Max.

Max took a glance at the house. It was formed in a right angle with a two car garage. It had a basement and the lights were on. Max smiled. What a nice family must live there. Max heard the annoyingly familiar buzzing noise. Crap. She stayed hidden in the tree. The flyboy continued to buzz loudly. She hoped the family inside wouldn't get hurt.

I looked out the window in my basement and gasped.

"What the hell is that?!" I screamed pointing out the window. My four best friends peered out the window.

"OH MY GAWD!" Katy squealed, totally hyped up.

"But they don't exist!" Isabella argued.

"Of course not, Iso. We're imagining all of this!" Shannon said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"What do we do?" Kathy asked, scared.

"Leah's got some lighters. They're flammable, remember? I told my friends. They nodded and we rushed upstairs. I grabbed a lighter from my sister's room. My bathroom faced a small roof. I unlatched the screen and climbed onto the roof, the lighter clutched tightly in my hand. My friends followed silently. I sparked up the lighter and stood up steadily. The flyboy hadn't noticed us yet. I looked at the flame then the flyboy again.

"Here it goes," I whispered. I took the lit lighter and flung it. The flyboy caught flame and just stood there burning.

"WAHOO!" Shannon said, throwing her hands into the air. I smiled happily.

"That was so awesome!" Katy said.

"Not bad for a bunch of fangirls," Kathy noted, grinning ear to ear.

"HEY!" We heard a voice call from my tree. Our head snapped to look at the large tree. In it was a girl, close to our age, holding herself up in my tree. Our eyes widened.

"Max…" we all whispered simultaneously.