Ok so I know this is going to sound weird and like I am just making excuses but I checked my original doc and all of the quotation marks where in there. When I got your reviews I thought you meant that I just left them out in some places but there are actually none there. Which is really weird and I am not sure why. I know I suck at grammar but there is no way that I would have missed all of them.
Anyway I am droning on so I have tried reloading the doc…
In Protection: The new me
Chapter 2
I am lying on my bed in, although they are calling it a bedroom I think is a former Cell. Five more days here and tomorrow I start learning basketball, I used to play Netball at my old school how different can it be? I mean its probably easier seeing as you can bounce the ball and all.
The lights around here are on an automatic timer up at six thirty and to bed at ten. As soon as the lights turned of the room is plunged into the darkness. I sighed this routine stuff was not my type of life style.
I am currently standing in the middle of a basketball court holding a ball bouncing it uneasily on my hand. The Physical instructor is teaching me. If I'm being honest I don't think that he knows Basketball much better than me.
He scratches his head awkwardly "So um just Aim it at the hoop…like Netball except that its got a…rebound…backboard" See he clearly has no Idea.
I turn to the hoop I play GA so I am a pretty good shooter. The man seems surprised when the ball goes in without touching the net. "Oh" was his smart reply. "So just keep on…um…practising that and read this" He hands me a Basketball rulebook and walks awkwardly out of the Gym.
Well that was a very short session.
The remaining days have flown by and Officer Bachelder is now fully convinced that I am "Maximum Ride".
I am currently sitting in the police car watching houses go by. They all look the same. White. I dressed my self today in black skinny jeans with rips, a black leather jacket a tee-shirt that has black bars on the front and says "Black stripes Prison Uniform" (Inspired by my stay at the police station) a pair of navy blue converse and my fang earrings. Well I think I do look the part. Badass.
Soon we pull up to a house that… well looked exactly the same as all of the others. I get out of the car and head to the boot, Officer Batchelder goes to get my bag out for me, but I cut him off and grab the bag my self.
"Good job your playing the part," He says with a smile.
Playing the part. * Snort *. It's more that I actually don't like him.
We walk up door that is surrounded by precisely cut hedges. Either they are very rich and pay someone else to do it or they have a lot of free time on their hands. By the size of their house I would go with the first.
Just as we reach the door it swings out in front of us. In the door way stands a very pretty. Very perky lady...
"Hi Max its so good to see you" Well for a lady who's job it is to look after me she sure is exited. I wonder how much she is getting paid…
"Come in come in" She says ushering me past. Behind her stands I girl about my age with mousy brown hear and big brown eyes wearing a pair of light pink skinny jeans and a fluro green top, next to her stands the cutest kids I have ever seen. The little girl looks about 6 and the boy 8. They both have lovely blond hair and piercing blue eyes. They are both dressed in the stereotypical clothes for there ages. The girl in a cute pink dress and the boy in a pair of dark blue jeans and a light coloured top. Standing next to them is another boy. He looks around my age with black hair that flopped lazily in front of one of his eyes. The other one that was visible beneath his fringe was pitch black with tiny gold flecks and just to complete the whole emo look he is dressed head to toe in black. Note: He was way better looking than my ex Sam.
"So this is Ella," she points to the first girl, "Angela but we call her Angel, this is Gusto but we call him Gazzy" she indicates to the to kids who are obviously related. "And Fang" This is obviously the last one in the line.
"Guys this is Maximum Ri…" I cut her off. "Max, call me Max" "Ok Max" she turns to the kids "Why don't you show Max around me and Jeb have to talk" Jeb so that's his name. Well I can't say it doesn't suit him.
I follow them up the stairs and for a bunch of kids they are awfully quite. "You know you don't have to show me around I'm sure I will figure it out. Just show me were my room is" Since Fang was the one leading he nodded and they took me down a corridor.
They stopped in front of a plain white door. All the others down the corridor were painted different colours on was hot pink, one was yellow and the last one black (guessing that it was Fangs). Ella sprang forward and opened the door with a little flourish. I gave her a weird look but passed her into the room… the totally pink room. I mean everything was totally pink, pink dresser. Pink rug. Pink bed. There were even already pink clothes in the dresser. I chocked stumbling back slightly.
"Max what is wrong?" Ella asked sounding alarmed.
"Ugh…I..." I stutter trying not to be rude about the fact that my room was totally pink.
"Ok I'm sorry to be blunt but .Pink." There I said it.
Angel and Ella looked shocked, until Ella got a knowing look on her face. "Oh for your cover", she said winking.
"Uhh no I actually hate pink…" I said awkwardly.
Someone sniggered from behind me. I swung around to find Fang there with an amused look on his Face. I glared forcefully at him. He looked slightly freaked for a moment before regaining his composure. I felt very satisfied because over the last week I had spent much time infront of the mirror getting my "death glare" down to an art.
"But all girls like pink" Said Angel sounding shocked. Next to her Ella was shaking her head vigorously.
"Well I don't," I stated shrugging.
I am pretty sure that Ella was going to say something more but just then we heard a lot of pounding up the stairs then in bounded a dark Hispanic girl closely followed by a light heard boy with blue eyes barrelling into the room with grins on their faces. "Oh My God. You must be Max, I'm Nudge and this is Iggy. Iggy… Max… Max… Iggy. He lives next door and I live down the street. So any way it is like so so so so good to like finally see you. I mean I spent like all of last week doing you room and it is like so so so so pretty in pink and…" Ella cuts her off "She hates Pink Nudge".
Her mouth practically hits the floor. "What? I mean how can you hate pink…" This time I cut her off. Scared of the possible rant to follow. I can already tell that this girl has a "big mouth" no doubt the school gossip.
"I just do and I really don't want to go through it again…" Then I realized I must be picky or spoilt or something. "Sorry to be picky" I blurted out looking apologetically at all of them.
Iggy Shrugged "I did tell her this might happen" He said looking pointedly at Nudge. "We could do a lawn sale I want to clean out our garage so we should do it together".
Nudge seemed to brighten remarkably at this prospect. Fang shrugged his shoulders. "We should totally start to make flyers and stuff. Me and Nudge will go start on them now" says Ella. She seems to be as perky as Nudge just in fewer words.
I have now realized just how forward this bunch of people are not that that is a bad thing. Its nice to go somewhere and just be accepted straight off. You know skip all of the beginning awkwardness.
But this did not prevent the awkward silence that settled over the rest of us now that Ella and Nudge were gone. Me, Iggy and Fang all seemed hesitant to touch the pink and Angel and Gazzy Just stood there. "So…" starts Iggy. "Yep…" I replied (what a weird conversation).
"Everyone downstairs now" The perky lady from before yelled out.
Seeming relieved to have found an escape Iggy led the way back down stairs followed shortly by the rest us.
Well for all I am worth seems like I have been assigned a new family. This should be interesting.
So what do you think? I am not sure whether they play netball in America. But for this story I'm just going to pretend that they do. I will try to update as soon as I can.
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