Disclaimer: No matter how much I wish, Maximum Ride and its characters will never belong to me.
Hope y'all like the story, and make sure you check out my other stories! I've been having major writers block so ANY ideas, reviews and suggestions would be great since I just can't come up with anything! The Trust Game and Maximum Ride of Highschool!
FPOV
I cringed as I saw a familiar flash of dark red hair standing by a nearby tree. I looked away, turning my face downwards and picked up the pace. My strides quickened as I watched the white rocks fly under my feet. White dust erupted from the rocky path, and all I could do was pray she wouldn't see me. Unfortunately my prayer was too late, and I was greeted by red-haired girl as she made her way onto the path next to me.
"Fang! What a coincidence! I never thought I'd see you out here!" she squealed, her voice almost as unattractive as she was. Lissa. Long, red hair that trailed down her back. She had sparkling green eyes, above her shining white teeth. She was pretty. But her personality was nowhere near that. She was probably one of the fakest people I'd ever met, and she absolutely refused to leave me alone. We aren't dating, we aren't friends, and I don't want to even look at her but she freaking follows me wherever I go.
Instead of responding to Lissa, I just shrugged my shoulders and kept walking, still at a near jogging pace. "Fangy, slow down! You're almost running," she chirped. I don't understand girls. At all. She found me walking alone on this same path every single day, and every single day she would "coincidently" run into me and would stay and try and flirt with me (read: try to make out with me) constantly. If she'd been doing it every day, wouldn't she get the hint that I didn't want anything to do with her? I ignored her, tried to avoid her and never tried to please her. How long would it take her to get it?
But the sad part was that Lissa wasn't the only one. All the girls in the school, not just my grade, the entire school seemed to follow me wherever I went. I hadn't found a single one that was halfway decent. They were all sluts who had zero personality. It was gross. And yet they all still thought they could follow me around.
She pulled out a tube of pink goo and put in on her lips, as if that somehow would make her more appealing. I continued to ignore her, as usual. "Come on Fang!" she tried using a seductive voice, but honestly it just made her sound constipated or something. "We can go in the trees and have a little fun," she asked gesturing to the overgrown bushes, trees and shrubs that surrounded our paths.
I turned towards her and watched her face light up, "No." I said simply, making it obvious I wanted nothing to do with her.
"I promise it'll be fun, and we can always do something afterwards too," she added a wink this time, closing one green eye to reveal layers of mascara, eyeliner and some other powdery stuff on her eye.
"No," I replied again. We got to a busy street a few miles from where I lived and I turned around beginning my walk home.
And that's when she pounced. I groaned, as I knew it was going to happen, since it took place almost every day. She tried to throw herself on me, but I was ready for it. I took off sprinting, leaving a cloud of dust in my trail. I took a glance behind me to see a desperate Lissa chasing after me. I took my chances, and veered off the trail to a smaller path entirely surrounded by trees and plants. It was dark with tree roots shooting up out of the rocky soil, and I stayed at a steady jog watching the ground carefully to avoid tripping. I wasn't sure if Lissa had noticed me leave the trail, and I grit my teeth hoping that I hadn't come to a dead end.
I turned around one last time, and I could hear the heavy footfalls of her fancy gym shoes slowing down near the entrance of my secret path. I wasn't watching the path in front of me and I fit a huge tree root and went face first into the dirt. I broke my fall with my wrists, and quickly got up not noticing the flow of blood leaving a gash in my knee. By this time, I was sure Lissa was going to find me and I began to get ready to sprint off if I needed to, when I looked up and I saw a pair of beat up Nike gym shoes, blocking the trail in front of me.
A girl with natural sun streaked light brown hair, and a pair of chocolate brown eyes looked down at me warily.
"What are you doing?" she asked, looking confused.
"Long story. Do you have any hiding spots around here? This girl has been following me for miles and I need to get away from her," I blurted out, realizing how desperate I was.
She looked me over, and then with a slight grin gave a quick nod. She motioned for me to follow her and I quickly nodded, giving a silent thanks. "Here," she said quietly pointing to a giant tree. I just looked at her for a second, and she rolled her eyes. "It's really not that difficult, just climb the tree," she muttered under her breath to me. I glared at her as she quickly scaled the tree, getting to a high branch decently fast. I heard a few twigs snap, and made the immediate decision to go up the tree with this girl.
Her brown eyes swirled as she looked down at me, watching me climb. Once I'd made it up the tree, I looked back up to find where to go and the girl was gone. My eyes quickly scanned the tree searching for her. I heard her laugh and then she moved and I saw her come back into view between several branches which made her invisible. I rolled my eyes, and carefully made my way up the branches to where she was covered by shadows and darkness. My usual attire of all black helped me blend into the trees quite well, as did my natural behavior of silently standing still. Unnoticed.
"Fang!" I heard Lissa call and I couldn't help but let a small smirk creep onto my face as I looked down, and saw her searching right and left for me. Sucks to suck, I thought and felt relieved that I had escaped for once. I kept completely still and watched her get closer and closer, until she was right beneath me. She had no idea where I was, and her curious eyes turned frustrated and angry as she stormed back onto the main path. I waited in silence, listening to her footsteps grow quieter until they disappeared altogether. She was gone.
I watched as the girl who had basically saved me leapt down from her high perch on one of the branches. She landed gracefully despite how high she had jumped from, and turned around to see if I was going to come down. I didn't want to get shown up by a girl, especially a stranger, so I jumped off of my branch without a second thought, landing almost as neatly as she had.
We both stood there listening to the birds chirping and studying each other. She had no makeup on, or at least I couldn't tell, and she had long tan legs, with dirt covering her knees. She pushed a piece of hair behind her ear, and I realized she wasn't ugly. I'm not saying she was pretty, just different.
"Well thanks," I muttered breaking the silence, turning to go back the way I came.
"Sure," she replied simply. As I started the walk back home alone, I realized I had no idea what her name was, or how old she was or anything. Not that it mattered. But for some reason, I couldn't get her out of my mind. She struck me as different. In a good way. Not that I even knew her enough to determine anything about her.
She was very guarded. She seemed to be hiding something.
Just like me.
