Thank you thank you thank youso much for the reviews! It really made my day :)

Chapter 2

I felt so much more better once I was outside and I no longer felt trapped, knowing that I could just fly away whenever I wanted. I shot up straight into the air and unfolded my wings half a second later. Once I was high in the sky, I shot straight forward, flying as fast as I could. I estimated that I was clocking around two hundred seventy five mph, and I willed myself to go faster. The frigid cold felt like it was slapping me in the face, so I kept my head down. After about ten minutes of flying, when I felt that I had cooled down some, I started back towards Dr. Martinez's house.

When I went inside, I saw Gazzy and Iggy looking at me nervously, (or in Iggy's case, turning his head in my direction nervously) and Nudge and Angel kept giving me concerned looks. I sighed. It wasn't like I was going to explode or anything and shower everybody with little pieces of Max bits. I didn't see Fang, but he was probably working on his blog. I tromped upstairs and instantly fell face down on my bed. I was dead exhausted. I heard a knock at the door.

"Go away," I moaned. The door opened slowly.

"Hi Max," Ella said, and closed the door softly behind her.

"What do you want." My voice was muffled by my pillow.

"I just came to see if you were alright." I lifted my head to look at her peering at me anxiously.

"No, I'm perfectly fine. I feel great. In fact, I feel particularly peachy this afternoon." I let my head drop back onto the pillow.

"Max-" she hesitated, and put a hand on my back. "You can tell me anything, you know."

"There's nothing to tell," I told her.

"Well, you know that you can come to me if you need to talk about anything, anything at all, right?"

"Sure," I mumbled. Where was this headed?

"Well, okay." Ella made herself comfortable on my bed, crossing her legs.

"It's just that I have like, midterms soon and Jose' and his friends are now messing with my friend and on top of that, it's like Iggy barely knows I'm alive even though I really like him, and I just wanted to listen to someone else's' problems for once, you know?"

My brain stopped functioning after processing the words, I really like him. So you can't blame me for my next sentence.

"What?" This had to be my most creative, original, intellectual sentence that I had ever strung together. I was sure of it.

"Oh, wait. Didn't I tell you?" Ella asked. "I thought I was making a little obvious… but maybe not. Well, I like Iggy."

"You like who?" I repeated dumbly.

"Max? Are you okay? Your face looks a little… purple." I realized I hadn't been breathing a sucked in a huge lungful of air, and I felt the little hamster in my head start running again on his little wheel.

I guess that explained why she had been gazing at him earlier. I decided to try and reason with her.

I sat up. "Okay. Ella. Let's look at the facts. We're refuges. We travel everywhere, and we won't be able to take you with us. And besides, maybe you might want to try sticking to your own species?"

Just what I needed: another love story. There once was a human girl who thought she was in love with her half sister's friend who also had wings!

She sighed. "Yeah I know it's pointless. But I was hoping that you would kind of try and find out what he thinks about me?"

Was she asking me to try and be Cupid and shoot arrows of love into Iggy's hienie? I couldn't imagine it. Well, except for the fact that me and Cupid both had wings. Maybe I would make a good Cupid, I mused. I could sneak up behind people and hit them with a powerful dose of Max-controlled love. I deviously started plotting ways to attack Iggy's unfortunate blind butt.

"Max?" This time Ella's voice was more urgent, and I regretfully gave up on my plans to control love.

"Are you sure you're okay? Your nostril is kind of… twitching."

I didn't know if Iggy even considered Ella as anything more then my half sister, but I sure as heck could find out for her.

"I'll try," I sighed. I felt the bedsprings creak and I was suddenly ambushed by Ella, as she gave me a big hug that threatened to squeeze the life out of me.

"Ella," I choked out.

"Thankyouthankyouthankyou so much! And if everything works out between us, I'll try to help you and Fang to finally get together!"

"Wha-" I started, but she had already shut the door behind her.

The door opened again, and Ella's head peeked in.

"It could be much worse. I could be in love with him," she said, grinning widely.

"YOU'RE TWELVE YEARS OLD! YOU'RE NOT IN LOVE!" I screamed and threw a pillow at her. Unfortunately the door was open long enough for my words to be heard throughout the whole house, but closed fast enough so that the pillow merely rebounded off the door. I shook my head. "Kids," I muttered.

I know this chater was kinda popped outta nowhere, but I just had to write it :)