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I was four when I saw my parents die.

My real parents.

I won't go into detail. Let's just say, my mother was insane and my father hated me. I still loved them, even though they didn't love me back. I guess I wasn't old enough to realize what was really going on, at least I know now.

While growing up in the foster homes, I was never a bad kid. I tried to help anyone I could because I knew what it was like to hit rock bottom. I was just lucky enough to get back up, some aren't that lucky. I was adopted when I was 10.

My new "parents" were nice. They had a big house and you could tell by one look at them that they were rich. I never fit into the rich life style, and I guess I still don't. We are moving to Arizona now, I don't really mind much since I didn't have any friends any way.

I just hoped that the house we were moving into was smaller than the last one. I like big houses and I like my privacy, don't get me wrong. But when there are only three people living in a three story house, you can start to feel lonely sometimes. We pulled up to the house and I sighed.

Same size as the last one, at least this one had a pool and a garden in the back, our last one only had the pool. I got out of the car and flipped my navy blue hood over my head. I looked at the neighborhood. We had the biggest house by far. It looked kind of out of place since all the other houses are pretty much one or two story houses. I signed and grabbed my stuff out of the back of the car and went inside. When I got upstairs I went right into the room with the balcony. I opened the doors to the balcony and stepped outside. We had a big backyard, and it was beautiful and all, but I would have rather had one of the smaller houses. I'm not really into the big and extravagant things; simplicity is more of my kind of thing. I sighed and walked back inside to unpack, this was going to be a long week.

Fang P.O.V

I saw the new family pull up to the house in a limo.

A white limo.

I whistled under my breath, they must have a lot of money to be able to but that house and pull up in a white limo! A chauffeur got out and opened two doors; I saw a man in a suit get out and a woman in a blue dress step out and go inside the house. After a few minutes I was about to go sit down until I the chauffeur open another door and a girl step out. As soon as she stepped out I saw a flash of blond hair with dark blue streaks before she flipped up her hood and walked around to the trunk of the car pulling out some bags and walking inside the house.

Hmmmm…so there's going to be a new girl at school. I really hope she's not a snob like the girl that used to live there.

Lissa.

I clenched my teeth at the thought of her and turned away from the window.

"Mom! The new neighbors across the street just got here!" I yelled down the stairs.

"Thanks hun!" She yelled back up to me.

I smiled and sat down on my bed looking at my homework that I still have yet to finish.

Oh well I can do that later I walked down the stairs so see Iggy making chocolate chip cookies.

"I'm making them for the family across the street; mom says were going to see them later, and I want us to make a good impression. Did you see that huge limo that pulled up? The must have some money in the bank if they own that ride." Iggy said while still making cookies at hyper speed (a/n Iggy can see in this story!).

"Yeah that's what I thought." I said to him.

"Where's mom?"

"She went out for groceries. She'll be back soon."

"Cool. I'm going to watch T.V tell me when you're done ok?"

"Sure."

I walked over to the T.V and lay down on the couch.

I flipped through some channels until I found the news.

"Breaking news! There have been rumor of illegal testing on animals and humans at a pollution research center. All rumors have been denied by the scientists and workers there, but others have different ideas about this. We go to Cindy in California near the site." The announcer said.

I sighed as the Cindy lady rambled on about the rumors and supposed "strange sightings". I turned off the T.V and went up to my room. I got out my Guitar and started playing softly. A few minutes later Iggy called me downstairs again. I rubbed the tiredness out of my eyes and walked downstairs. I don't know why but I had a feeling this was going to be a long week.

Time skipppppppppppppp a few hours later…

(STILL IN FANGS P.O.V)

"Mom, do I really have to come? I have a lot of homework to do." I said to her as she wrapped up the cookies Iggy made.

"Yes Nick, you have to come and introduce yourself. It would be impolite not to. And it's not going to take all that long, now go get your brother. Were leaving soon."

I sighed and ran up the stairs.

"Come on Ig, mom wants tom leave soon." I said knocking on his door.

"Be out in a minute!" He yelled from inside the room.

I walked back down the stairs and waited until it was time to go.

Max P.O.V

I finished unpacking all of my stuff and lay down on my bed. I looked at my clock to see that it was only about 6:45. Oh well I stood up and spread out my wings. It felt so good to have them stretched out after being cramped up in the car and plane for about a day and a half. It took a while to get from California to Arizona.

I relaxed my wings into my back but didn't tighten them down completely. I walked down to the art room and started sketching whatever popped into my head. I was half way through a drawing when I heard the door bell ring. I dropped what I was doing and ran upstairs to my room.

I changed out of my sweat pants and hoodie into some jeans and a loose fitting sweater with a scarf and some sandals (link to see the ooutfit on my profile) the one thing my mom cared about most was appearances. I sighed and went downstairs, to meet the new neighbors.

Fang P.O.V

We got the door and rang the doorbell. Exciting right?

Any way after a really long doorbell ring, a man opened the door and smiled at us.

"What can I do for you?" He said in a deep voice.

"Were the neighbors from across the street and we wanted to welcome you to the neighborhood." My mom said while smiling at him.

"Oh, well then please come in." He said while opening the door wider so we could come in. He led us to the family room and left to go get the others.

After a few minutes he came back with a very pretty woman. I suspected it was his wife. I looked at Iggy and there was a faint blush spread across his cheeks. We stood up and shook her hand.

"Max will be down in a minute." She said wile smiling at us.

We all sat back down and started talking about random things. My mom told them about the private school nearby. Iggy and I went to that school, it wasn't a school for people that don't care about school, I'll tell you that. About half of the kids that go there end up in Harvard. No joke. My mom continued to talk about the neighbors and who was nice and who was a little less kind. I started to talk to Iggy out of pure boredom.

A few minutes later we heard footsteps on the stairs.

"Were in living room number one Max." The woman that introduced herself as Valencia Martinez said.

Max walked in and my eyes widened, she was…prettier than her mother.

I looked away after I realized I was staring.

"Max, these are the neighbors from across the street. This is Stacy Rinaldi and her two kids, Nick and James.

She smiled at us and walked over to shake our hands. After that Iggy moved over so she could sit between us.

"So chivalrous…" I heard her mutter with a smile.

She sat down and the adults started to talk again. We were silent for about a minute before Iggy had to stop the awkwardness.

"So Max, where did you live before coming here?"Iggy asked.

"I lived in Los Angeles, California. What about you guys, have you ever moved?" She said turning her head back and forth to look at both of us.

"We've lived here since we were born."I said.

"Cool." She said looking at me.

"Max, what school are you going to go to?" Iggy asked her.

She turned to look at Iggy again and said,"I'm not sure but I think it's that private school down the road, a couple of blocks away from here."

"Do you mean Stanton Academy?" I asked her.

"Yeah! That's what it was called!" She said excitedly.

I saw her mother look at her and shake her head and as soon as that happened Max sat up straighter and lowered her voice, apologizing to us for her outburst.

"Would you like something to drink?" Max asked standing up.

I looked over at Iggy and shrugged, we followed Max into the kitchen. It was even more impressive than 'living room number one'. I smiled at my own humor. The kitchen was sleek and clean. It was also huge. It had an island in the middle with really tall chairs and on the other side of the room there was a very expensive looking table with six chairs. Weird, I thought only Max and her parents lived here why the need for soma my chairs? I decided to ask her.

"Max?"

"Yeah?"

"If it's only you and your parents living here why are there so many chairs at the table?"

"I have a big family so some of them sit in here and the others sit in the dining hall when they visit."

"Oh." That was my-oh so clever response to her detailed explanation.

She laughed and got out three glasses.

"Ok, so what do you guys want to drink? We probably have any kind of soda or juice you could ever want." She said and laughed.

"Ummm…Coke?" I said.

"Sure, what about you Iggy?"

"Apple Juice," He said excitedly, "I love hat stuff!"

"Haha, ok." She said and walked to a door next to the stove. She opened it and walked in. Ig and I were nosy so we looked in the doorway. Our jaws dropped. There were two rows of soda, of all different kinds. Max stood there and grabbed the Coke and walked to the other side of the room and grabbed the Apple Juice for Iggy. She turned to walk out and Ig and I walked back to our seats before she could tell that we were amazed by her super awesome fridge.

She gave us our drinks and poured herself some coke. We sat there talking about ourselves for a while. Then Ig brought up the fact that I play guitar. Great, here we go again.

"Fang is the best at guitar! He plays acoustic and electric! He used to be in a band but then the lead singer quit and we couldn't find a replacement. But he still practiced and now he's even better! Wow you should hear him, it amazing!"

I blushed a little at the praise abut I was glad that Iggy thought I was this good.

"You play guitar? Me too! Here follow me I want to show you guy something." She said standing and grabbing her drink.

She walked over to the stairs going down to the basement I guess.

"Hold on give me a sec." She said and ran over to her mm and whispered something into her ear. Her mom just gave her a flick over her hand and I saw Max roll her eyes as she walked back over to us.

"Come on." She said walking down the stairs.

We followed her, and there were about three or four flights of steps. We passed about four rooms on the way down. We got to the last flight of steps and Max got to the door and turned around. She smiled at us.

"Close your eyes." She said, and we did.

"Okay, now no peeking, walk forward. A little more, more…okay stop. Ready? Open your eyes." She said and we did. It was amazing; it was like a musicians dream. There were many different instruments and even a recording booth with equipment and speakers next to it. There were some couches and bean bags scattered around the room.

"Woah…" Was all that Iggy could say. I was thinking the exact same thing.

"Here take a look at this." She said walking over to a room and going in.

"Okay, don't faint when you see this." She said turning on the lights.

There were a couple of guitars in glass cases with signatures on the guitars.

"Is this a Fender Telecaseter Guitar signed by Jimmy Paige from Led Zeppelin?"

She nodded, "And this is a Vox 12 string signed by him too." She said pointing to the case next to it.

"Now this one is my favorite, it's a 'SG' style double neck guitar that's signed by all the members of Aerosmith." She said smiling.

Our eyes widened, we were speechless.

"That's so cool Max!" Iggy said. Max smiled at him.

"Well we should probably go find your mom; they can only talk for so long before they come looking for us. And I wasn't really supposed to let you in there so don't tell anyone ok?" She said.

We nodded and followed her up the stairs. We found our mom hugging Max's mom, and her dad shook my mom's hand.

"Oh Nick, Iggy I was just about to come and look for you two. It's time to go. You both have school tomorrow." She said.

"Fine, bye Max." I said.

"Bye Maxxxxxxxxxx!" Iggy said loudly walking out of the house in front of me.

I turned around to close to door and Max was about to go upstairs when I heard her mom yell.

"Max you have to learn some manners, the way you were sitting was just completely barbaric and what did I say about appearances? You came down late, your hair that I straightened got curly again, and you're just a mess! No one will think you're beautiful if you don't try to look it! Just go to bed, I can't stand to see your face anymore." Her mom said turning away from her and grabbing her husband's arm and pulling him into the other room with her.

I saw Max's hands clench before she and up the stairs, to her room I guess. I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to see that. I shut the door softly and ran across the street to catch up with Iggy. Well I think I was right; this is going to be a really long week. Let's just hope I can get through it in one piece.

Wow that was longggg! Hope you guys liked it! R&R please! Any ideas WELCOME! Thanks for reading! XD I will try posting soon!

Maximum Flight~