A/N: Hey Guys this is my first fanfic so i'm not sure if it's any good. When your done please please tell me what you think. I want to know what you want to happen next, if you even like it, parts you dident like parts you loved, or even if i'm just totally wasteing my time. So any way here you go:

Disclaimer: Ok I'm going to say this one time, I do not own Maximum Ride. I do own the characters i make up and themes.

Chapter 1: Secrets in the sand

Max's POV:

You know how there's that one guy that you're great friends with and nothing between you guys could possibly be going on, but… of course there is? You do? Really? Wow, a connection to a normal kid. Neat… Yea well, anyway…

The flock and I had just set up camp somewhere in Michigan in who knows what town. Why Michigan, you ask, Well because the kids were dying to see the Great Lakes. (Just hearing that you can't see to the other side of them which,— by the way, I don't see why it's so exciting they have been to the ocean countless times.)

I was sitting on a wide curved tree branch, Nudge, and Angel above me, Gazzy and Iggy below.

Everyone was sound asleep, so when I heard a rustling among the yellowing leaves I jumped up, ready to take on an Eraser.

I was about to raise the alarm when, I heard a chuckle and my paranoid fear melted away to be replaced with cool relief and pink satisfaction.

It was Fang. "Hey." He laughed.

I nodded. "Hey," I had no idea where he was in the trees. His voice seemed to be coming from all around me, hiding away all the other sounds of the night.

"So what's the plan," he paused. "or better yet is there a plan?"

I sat back down. "Well, we're going to let the kids have their fun, splashing around in the freezing water," I smiled with fake enthusiasm. "And while we're at it, we're gonna save the world." That has pretty much been the Maximum Ride master plan if you guys haven't noticed yet.

Fang jumped down from wherever he had concealed, landing right in front of me on my branch with perfect accuracy, making little to no noise, and dodging the punch I had thrown at him which was meant for an Eraser.

"So,.. pretty much the usual?" he asked, amused with himself… or maybe it was the look on my face. I wiped it off before he could comment on how shocked I was at his appearance.

"Yeah, basically but I'm not sure if-..." I stopped talking, noticing the way he seemed to be in his own world. Before I could ask what he was thinking about, he jumped up, pulling me with him.

"What!?" I hissed ready and listening for whatever he had heard.

He leaned down so that he was whispering in my ear, making me shiver. "Let's go for a fly."

He leaned, back just letting himself fall from the branch. I heard a sudden 'whoosh' of air as he gained altitude. It took a minute for me to process what he had said before I quickly and… eagerly followed him.

I followed his flight pattern as he veered closer and closer to the open water, which was black from the clear night sky. He landed just at the shore line and, dare I say it?— the scene was breathtaking. The full moon glistened in the sky and the water was giving me just enough light to see Fang's face when he turned around. Holding out his hand he said "Walk with me." I hesitated, but only for a second, and took it.

I wanted to say 'Well, how unFang like of you' but restrained myself, not wanting him to stop. But it was just the bait. He flung his arms around my shoulders and pulled us into the ice-cold water. I tried, I really did, but I couldn't help it. I screeched like the little schoolgirl that I would never be and then started splashing him while splashing him giggling.

"Fang, you jerk!" Still in the water, I squealed but of course I didn't mean it.

"Sorry," he answered, almost looking sincere, "it's just that, being around you so much, a, guy gets clumsy."

I sprung from the water and jumped up into the air.

"Oh, really?" I challenged, and he nodded rapidly. "Well, clumsy guy, try to keep up!" I started flapping my wings as hard as I could when I felt his fingers brush across my ankles and then down my shoes as he attempted to pull me back into the water but I 'the clumsy girl' was too quick for him.

Once I was maybe twenty feet in the air, he was by my side again. "Well, I was expecting more of a challenge, but it seems as though I have already caught up with you." I turned my head, stuck my tongue out at him, and pulled five feet ahead. But he was still quicker and flew just two feet ahead of me. I didn't want to use my super speed, oh no that would be cheating. That was when I thought of a plan. It was simple, easy, and would scare Fang enough for me to have a good long laugh.

I let out a small scream and pulled my wings in, quickly closing my eyes just to the point where I could still see.

Not knowing what to expect, Fang turned slowly and breathed "Oh my God!"

I dropped quickly, like a rock. I slammed into the water. Hard. I would have a bruise on my back from the impact but I didn't make a move. The water was cold and un forgiving but I had already adjusted to it. I floated back up to the surface of the icy pit where Fang scooped me up like a small child and then flew high into the air, trying desperately to find a place to lay me down. It took all of my self-control not to start laughing.

On a smallish bit of land that you could loosely call an island, he laid me atop a smooth-surfaced rock.

Putting his hands on either side of my face he spoke my name softly but urgent. "Max?" When I didn't answer right away he rested his forehead on mine and breathed the words 'oh God, why?' to himself.

"Yes?" I answered his question causing him to jump away from me, realizing that I was okay, spring back to me, pulling me into a hug, and then finally understanding that I had tricked him.

He jumped up and started yelling at me. "Was that supposed to be a joke? Why would you even do that? Do you get how much you mean to me? It hurts me tenfold when you're in pain! Max, do you know how scared I get when you have brain attacks?"

He paused giving me time to answer. But I couldn't. I had expected him to get irritated but not furious. I felt awful. It had seemed like a great idea before. but before, I didn't know it was going to blow up in my face.

He made a disgusted face in my general direction and started walking the shore line of our mini-island, no doubt trying to cool off. I decided that an apology would help the most here. If I mean so much to him, then surely he would be able to find it in his heart to forgive me… I hoped.

I ran to him, grabbed his arm, and pulled him so that he was facing me. "Listen, I'm sorry. I didn't think it was going to- I just- I can't eve-." Before I could finish my helpless apology (that was going nowhere by the way because of my rambling) he leaned down, whispering in my ear so quietly that I wasn't sure that I had really heard it. "Forget about it Max." And he kissed me in a way that only the deadly, easy to love, confusing Fang could.

I was putty in his hands. I melted to the way that he somehow smelled like cinnamon, the way he curled his fingers of one of his hands into my hair, and the way his other hand wrapped around my torso and pulled me closer to him. I loved it. Suddenly I didn't feel as though I had just been fished out of the water. Instead I felt like I was sitting in a warm cabin cuddled up next to a fire place.

He was everything that mattered: the world could have ended and I wouldn't have known. Iggy could have screamed "I can see again" and I wouldn't have cared. The lake was gone, the sand from the beach was gone, the mini-island was all gone. I was a mere pawn fallowing his every lead and command.

This time I didn't run away. This time I stayed with him not wanting it to end. Ever. But it did.

Fang pulled away looking up at the moon. It's glow was frosting itself over his dark mysterious eyes. He was still holding me in his arms, one hand in my hair and the other holding me around the waist, keeping me close to him. And then, to my complete and total horror I whimpered causing him to look back down at me.

Smiling he pulled me into a strong hug the scent of cinnamon hypnotizing me again. "We need to get back to the flock he reminded me."

I thought I could hear some longing in his voice as well. Something that made it sound as if he didn't want it to end either. This gave me a bit of comfort. I let out a heavy sigh.

"Okay." He nodded and in a swift motion he had me in his arms. "Fang, I can still walk."

He smiled. "I know."

"So then put me down!"

He shook his head stubbornly. "No."

"Fang. Put. Me. Down!" I growled in a deadly voice, doing my best imitation of him when he was telling off an Eraser.

He shook his head again. "Nah I don't think I will."

Then he gave me a serious look that said 'You-tricked-me-into-thinking-you-had-a-brain-attack-you-owe-me. I sighed a very over-the-top melodramatic, actress sigh, pulled my gaze away from his and stuck up my nose.

"Well, fine then." I muttered.

He just smiled up at the stars, spread his wings and flew us 'home.'

A/N: Okey dokey. Thats chapter one guys PLEASE tell me what you think.