Hi guys, I'm so terribly sorry it's been a long wait…. My parents have to log us on to the computer now, and so I am never really on anymore…. I 4got to do the disclaimer last time, so here it is for the whole story:
Disclaimer: I do not own MR, that would be ol' Jimmy Pats.
Claimer: I own my characters, and other random stuff. Like schools and such.
Oh, by the way it's all in Max's POV unless otherwise noted.
Chapter 2
Me and my flock had set up a little camp in some woods, right smack-dab in the middle of a clearing, and me and Fang were researching while the others were off somewhere, doing something.
"Ok, remind me what town I'm Googleing (A/N: is that right?) again." Fang asked me.
"Hilliard," I replied. He shot me a glance when it came up and said, "But that town is kinda small," I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah, I know. It's small enough that people probably haven't heard of us, but big enough so that people won't pry." I smirked, pleased with my logic. "So what are the schools?" He moved his finger over the touch pad, clicking on some things every once in a while.
"Umm, there's a middle and a 6th grade building right next to each other, and an elementary building right down the road."
"They have separate buildings for 6th graders? Weird. Wait!" A horrifying thought struck me. "That means Nudge is all by herself!" I wanted at least two of the flock at each school. Fang reassured me that since the schools were right next to each other we could be at her side in an instant. I sighed. "Ok, what are the names?" I asked.
"Douglas Middle School, Shackley Sixth Grade School, and Oakmont Elementary School." Just then Gazzy and Angel came running towards us, followed by Total and Akila. They were laughing really hard.
"That was classic," Total said excitedly. "We should do that again sometime."
"What's so funny guys?" I asked, smoothing down the Gasman's wild hair with my hand.
"Ig- Iggy, he was messing around," Angel paused to catch her breath, "And he flew straight up, and through tree branches, and slammed into Nudge, and she fell over and he fell on top of her, and they both got the wind knocked out of them and then Akila jumped on them, and so we just made it one big dog pile and then Akila started licking Iggy's face, and he started laughing, and then she licked our faces, and it was really funny!" Not exactly my idea of fun, but whatever. Iggy and Nudge raced into the clearing too, out of breath and laughing.
"Why do they call it a dog pile anyway?" Total asked. "Dogs do not pile on top of each other like that. Well, not too often." I laughed at him. Silly dog.
When everyone had settled down, we told them about the schools and when we got to Ohio we would start on the next Monday.
"No bombs," I told Ig and Gazzy sternly. Iggy looked shocked and said, "But Max, where will the excitement come from?" He got down on his knees as if begging for mercy. "Noooo," he wailed. "Please, Max! I promise to not blow up anything too important!" By this time we were all cracking up. I swear, Iggy could make it big in the acting industry. Too bad they aren't talent scouting mutants that live in forests and are always on the run.
"Hey, Max, I was thinking, like, we should all get cell phones, so we can contact each other so, like, we would never be lost 'n stuff. It would be really neat, ya know?"
"Oh, Max please?" Angel threw her arms around my waist and looked up at me with bambi eyes. Shoot.
"Oh, fine," Fang shot me a glance that clearly said 'Have you finally lost your marbles?' "Fang, yours can be black." I told him. He grinned.
"Yes! The Fang Phone of Darkness and All Things Mysterious!" He grinned evilly and wiggled his eyebrows. Angel laughed and the rest of us smiled as she climbed into his lap. I wished things could stay this way forever. Maybe after we get a house they can. Hmmmm, I wonder what the limit is on my Max Ride card. We could by a nice house, cell phones, get new clothes, yeah! I like it! As I was imagining how normal our life could be, Gazzy snapped his fingers in front of my face and I snapped out of it.
"Ok, so yeah, um, anyway, Angel will be in 1st grade and Gaz will be in 3rd at Oakmont, Nudge is going to Shackley, and Ig, Fang and I will be at Douglas. They are all relatively close to each other, so we shouldn't be worried."
"House…" Fang prompted.
"Oh yeah! I almost forgot! We'll buy a house and settle in, in some nice little suburban neighborhood." That reminded me of some funny quote I had heard somewhere, 'Suburbia: Where they chop down trees and name streets after them' or something like that.
"How will the sellers even let us buy the house? We can't pass for like, 20 year olds." Iggy was just so darn realistic sometimes.
"Angel can help us with that."
"Oh, right." Iggy blushed, embarrassed.
Fang clapped his hands and said, "Well, kiddies, we better get to work if we're going to sleep here tonight. Ig, Gaz, firewood. Nudge, Angel and Max and I will set up camp." He lifted Angel off his lap, and set her down. Then he got up and the rest of us followed suit.
I won't bore you to death with how we made the fire and set up camp and ate and all, so I'll just say that nothing unusual happened that night.
I woke up the next morning, stretched and lovingly shook the younger kids awake. Iggy was already cooking and Fang was using the laptop. He is so weird.
"Ok, guys," I said, "We've got a lot of miles to cover, and it's already Thursday. We need to be ready by Monday, so I have a schedule. Thursday is flying day, Friday is looking for a house day, Saturday is finalizing the sale of the house and shopping day, and Sunday is rest up and study so we don't look like people who have grown up under a rock and don't know anything when we go to school day. Monday is our first day of school."
"Um, Max, we don't really know anything. We kinda did grow up under a rock." Thanks for the news flash Gazzy.
"I know, but we need to act like we didn't."
"Oh." Yes. I know I'm brilliant. A few minutes later we put out our fire, put our things in our backpacks, and took off into the morning sun. We were headed east, chasing the sun. I swear, there is absolutely nothing in the entire world that can even come close to it. Feeling your powerful wings beat up and down, your hair whipping behind you from the wind, the sun on your arms, being free! Not closed up in a cage, or in fancy clothes (ours are polar opposites of that), or confined to the ground. I looked at my flock and smiled. When my eyes skimmed over to Fang, his dark eyes looked straight into mine, and my smile started to fade. I didn't know what he wanted from me… still. Ugh. But then he flashed my favorite lop-sided grin (A/N: Why do the hottttt guys in books always have adorable lop-sided grins, or crooked grins or watevs? No hotttttt guys in real life do!) and I grinned right back at him. We were nearing Hilliard and so we started our descent. God, I sound like an airplane pilot or something, "We are now beginning our descent, please fasten your seatbelts and put chairs in an upright and locked position, and make sure carry on items are safely stowed away in the compartments above your seats. Thank you." I giggled out loud and Iggy looked - you know what I mean - at me like I was crazy. I don't know why, I mean I act sane… I think.
Sorry, that probably wasn't the best chappie ever, but my church had a lock-in last night, and I was up till 5:30. Then I woke up at 7 cuz I had to leave at 8 for to get Starbucks and go to my school for a study session for the big tests coming up. Ugh. But the lock- in was SO much fun! We played games till like, 3:30. I love the game Catacombs now! I am sosososososo good at it!
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Lah-Ve,
FaNgGuRlY
