Sweet and Sour
Chapter One
March 2001
"Max, Iggy, Ella!" I heard Mummy calling us.
Mummy's back? When did she get back? Is Daddy home too?
I ran out of my bedroom and down the stairs, I was running down them too fast and I tripped and tumbled down the last five.
Tears stung my eyes as wave after wave of pain crashed onto me.
"Maxie!" My adopted brother, Iggy, yelled and ran over to me, he was six month younger than me at the age of seven, same as me.
He helped me up and steadied me as I swayed and hopped on one foot since the other ankle was hurting too badly.
"You sprained your ankle again, Maxie. You're so clumsy. Anyway lets go see Mummy and Daddy." Iggy smiled.
I nodded as he looped my arm around his neck and his arm around my waist.
We stumbled to the lounge to see our friends and family sitting in the lounge, including Mummy and Daddy. But someone was missing...Wait where's...?
"Mummy, where's Jade?" I asked from the doorway.
"I was just about to tell you all, honey. Now come sit down and what happened to your foot? Or is it your ankle?" Mummy said and motioned me to sit on her lap.
"She sprained her ankle again." Iggy rolled his eyes as he helped me over to Mummy.
I sat on her lap as she asked me "How did you do that?".
"I fell down the stairs." I mumbled as Iggy sat on Daddy's lap and held my hand.
"Where's Mum, Val?" Eight year old Dylan asked my Mummy.
I leaned back against Mummy and she ran her fingers through my wavy blond streaked hair.
"We don't really know where your Mum is Dylan, she went missing." Mummy told him solemnly.
"But who's going to look after us now Mummy's gone?" Dylan's six year old sister, JJ, sobbed.
We all knew 'missing' meant they won't return, that's what happened to Dylan's and JJ's Daddy three years ago, and now their Mummy's not returning.
"What's going to happen to them?" My seven year old best friend, Fang, asked.
"After some thinking we came up with a solution. Dylan, JJ, Jeb and I are going to look after you. You don't have to call us Mum and Dad, we're not going to replaced either of your parents." Mummy told them.
My eyes filled with tears as I saw JJ sobbing onto a silent Dylan.
I stood up, ignoring the flaring pain in my ankle, and hobbled over to them.
I threw my arms first around Dylan, then around JJ, hugging them both tightly. When I pulled away from JJ I looked them both in the eyes.
"I'm terribly sorry about your Mummy but I will always be here for you to talk to and welcome to my family, that's if you want to be apart of it." I whispered.
Dylan squeezed my shoulder and JJ threw her arms around me, soaking my t-shirt with her tears, I didn't care though because as far as I was concerned, they had always been part of my family.
I hope you enjoyed the first chapter to my new story, it took me a while to think of a story to write but I had previously written this with different characters, well a few chapters, and I thought I could use this for a Maximum Ride story. Please read and review, I'd love to hear what you all thought, I'm thinking that I'll hopefully update once a week when I can, I have the whole story planned, I just need to write it out, I know there will be a sequel but I haven't planned it out yet so for now I'll just write this one, please tell me what you thought.