My name in Maximum Ride, Max for short. I'm recounting everything that's happened since school let out two months ago. Let's recap.
The final bell rang and everyone rushed to their lockers. And then I heard someone talking rapid fire behind me.
"Hi Monique," I said as I slammed my locker shut.
"I already said hi a couple times, but as I was saying..." Monique is a motormouth. You could hang up on her when you're talking on the phone and, if she was talking, she wouldn't notice for a couple minutes! Jeff and I both usually need to give her aa nudge to be quiet, so sometimes we call her "Nudge".
Jeff's real name is Iggy, but he looks like a Jeff. And we usually call him Jeff because it annoys him.
Me and Nudge pushed our way to the school doors and waited for Iggy to find us. Iggy has the best sight out of anyone I know. He could pick someone out of a crowd when he was twenty feet up!
The three of us were walking home when it happened. A big, black van pulled up aside us and we were pulled inside as it started to move again.
There were three other kids with us in the back of the van. One boy was tall, black haired, and cute, looked about mine and Iggy's age. The second, another boy, looked a few years younger than nudge. The last one looked young and fragile, with big eyes that made my heart melt.
The guys who pulled us in were two big guys with muscle shirts on. They put on gas masks and sprayed sleeping gas or something out of cans. I was the first to go.