Thanks for those of you who read my first chapter and now here's the second! I also realized that I put Sally as a name twice so I fixed it

Betrayal and Befriend

Chapter 2 Running in Different Circles

Max POV

"MAX!" screamed my best friend Katherine (Kat or Kitty) interrupting my thoughts.

She knows all of our powers and wings which is:

Me: elements, healing, breath underwater, and super speed

Crystal (Chrissy): anything earth related, can create crystals out of nothing

Shine (Sara): sky (weather etc), mind control, see future

Shade (Shaun): darkness (shadows), light (sunshine), super strength

Spark (Sally): fire/sparks, electricity, change appearance

Force (Frank): force fields, move things with mind, control time

Angel (Ariel): read mind, mind control, breath underwater, change appearance, talk to fish (I am not giving her anymore powers, that's already a lot!)

Annie: talk to people by touching them, reads memories, read/control emotions

Well then again she is part tiger… We met her during the time we've been going to this school, well that's a WHOLE other story.

She ran up to me and I swear she was so excited she could just blow up literally!

We also met her and Shine, Shade and Force when we were destroying the School's. When we were traveling, we met Crystal and Spark along the way and together we all defeated Itex. The way we got Annie was from Jeb. He decided it would be fun to give us a baby to take care of as soon as we started school for a NORMAL life. Having a baby definitely screams normal, am I right? We usually leave Annie at my mom's house for long periods of time.

Anyways back to the present.

My oh so intelligent response was "huh? OH! Hi Kat"

"Guess what! No wait don't guess, because you'll never guess right. My parents said that they got tickets for ALL of us including the whole flock to go to Los Angeles, California for 2 weeks! That is like really far from Arizona right? I don't really know actually since I rarely pay attention in class though somehow people think I'm really smart. We get to go during Spring Break, which is in like 2 days! We can go to concerts, go shopping, look for celebrities and OMG we can even go to the beach! I can't wait can you?" she said looking as excited as ever.

O.O She just said we were going to L.A. " Umm Kat who else is going, are your parents and were are we staying? And what do I do with Annie?" I asked since she left out very important details. Over the years I have gotten less tense and a little more relaxed along with letting the flock have a little bit more fun. See how good of a leader I am?

"Oh! Don't worry Max! My parents have a beach house there, and it's on the beach I can't wait! I also told your mom that Annie would be staying with her for two extra weeks!" she squealed. She reminds me so much of Nudge, my Nudge Channel. I miss them so much, like yelling at Iggy and Gazzy for making bombs, or getting mad at Fang for scaring me. I can't believe they would even think that I would work for Itex! Well at least its gone.

I just realized Kat had called my name 10 times and is waving her hand in front of my face. "Max, max, max MAX, MAX!" she shrieked at the end.

"Oh, sorry what?" I asked as we headed to our lockers that were conveniently all placed in a row. Ahem, Angel. I put my things in my locker and headed off to music. I think I'm pretty good, but whenever I sing or play the guitar (I learned from Kat) people just stare at me with open mouths so I guess I am pretty bad. Then for some reason they say I was good, can we say mood swings or what? I went through the day and walked to the middle school and elementary school to drive home with the kids.

Angel's POV (2 days later) L.A.

Woo Hoo! I can't believe were actually here at the mall in L.A. OMG I can't wait to dress Max up and surprise her by making her perform! She will be so excited like me! Ohhh! Maybe… Kat thought. So she was going to make Max sing in front of everyone. Max is sooo not going to like that. Oh well I don't want to spoil her fun!

Ugh why must they bring me to the mall! Of all the places here in- NO! THEY ARE BRINGING ME INTO THE BIKINI SECTION! Max thought. Wow her thoughts are depressing. I am just going to go shopping with Spark!

OMG This is the cutest skirt ever! Spark thought.

"Spark, wanna go look at other things?" I asked her excitedly, she sounded like she wanted to go shopping.

"Sure!" she exclaimed.

"Max were going to go looking around, I have my cell phone and money!" I yelled over my shoulder while checking my gray Alias 2 to make sure I had battery left. She got it for all of us so we could stay in touch at all times. We also all got cards like the Max card from Jeb.

For some reason I can feel the presence of someone's mind that I feel like I know, somewhere near here. Oh, well, the only people I know are Max, Crys, Shine, Shade, Spark, Force, Ella, Dr. M, Jeb, or someone from school.

Spark and I ran into a bunch of different stores looking for things that would make us blend in better here until Max called us back.

Then I felt that presence again, but I can't tell from what. I frowned at the thought, maybe it was just because they had their mind blocked. But why would that happen? Who would know or want to block it? I'll just ask Max later.

Iggy POV

Ughhhhhh. Someone save me from the mall. Nudge dragged us here to buy new things that would make us 'blend better with L.A.' her words not mine. I can't even concentrate on where everyone is since it's so crowded and loud. I still miss Max and Angel a lot, not so much Total though since he's a worse drama queen than Nudge.

I can tell we all miss them a lot since Nudge doesn't talk as much and me and Gazzy don't make as many bombs since it seems as though it would be wrong since Max isn't there to yell at us. All of us are here because Nudge thinks we need new clothes for L.A.

We came here since we had Spring Break in Illinois so we booked a beach house to get a break. We got two new flock members after we lost (or kicked out) the other ones. Their names are Rebel and Static who are brother and sister. They also have wings like us and we saved them from one of the schools we destroyed. Yes we did keep on helping them with the saving the world mission. We also got more powers.

Me (James): feel colors, see the outline of things, see whiteness, super strength

Fang (Nick): invisible, breath underwater, super strength

Rebel (Rebecca): fire, locate anything anywhere

Nudge (Monique): metal, see what happened to something by touching it, use other people's powers by being near them

Gasman (Gary): mimic voices, atomic farts, talk to animals

Static (Sam): static, shape shifting into anything

Thump thump thump. I heard a pair of feet that sound a lot like Angel's and some other girl. I guess I'm just going crazy because I miss them a lot.

"Ooooh! Lets go here! No wait! How about here first, hey Rebel want to go get your clothes first? Ok!" I heard Nudge say then heard a bunch of foot steps going 90º to the right.

I could've sworn I heard those awfully familiar footsteps again. Oh well, I'll ask Fang later.

Max POV

We made it back to the beach house and we all went straight to our rooms since we planned on going to the beach. I was forced to buy about 4 bags of NEW clothes! Including bikinis! A while ago we learned how to make the wings dissolve into our skin so it looks like it isn't there. Oh how I wish that I still couldn't do that then I wouldn't have to wear a bikini to the beach where there are hundreds of people seeing me.

"Max! Are you ready yet?" asked Spark while pounding on my door.

"Do I HAVE to wear a bikini?" I basically pleaded.

" Yes, now hurry up, the others are waiting and we have your things so just get dressed." She said in an authoritive tone, which made her seem older.

"Ugh" I mumbled to myself while pulling in my wings. I put on my light blue, dark blue, lime green, and white halter bikini. (A.N. Picture on Profile) I proceeded to put on a big t-shirt and shorts.

I quickly ran downstairs and we flew to the beach spot we wanted and landed in a deserted section. I thought I heard big wings flapping up ahead, but I didn't see anything so I guess not.

When we got to a populated area we dropped all of our things out and laid out our towels. They wanted to go swim in the water so they were "trying" to persuade me to go in.

"Please Max? It's not that crowded!" Force begged me since they were going to play games in the water. Uh oh their using bambi eyes!

"Fine!" I yelled, getting frustrated.

"You are such a pushover" Shadow said to me while nudging me playfully.

We played a bunch of games that the kids wanted to play and then we sat down on our towels watching the sunset.

"Hey look there's a stage over there in the middle of the beach!" I heard Shine say.

"Oh yah. I wonder why?" I asked, confused because there usually aren't stages on beaches right? Well that's what I thought since I don't really go to many beaches I guess I wouldn't know… They were just setting it up so I guess that they were going to have performers soon.

"Max?" Angel asked sweetly, giving me the bambi eyes. Uh oh, I can just tell that she wants something from me. Ok lets just hear what she has to say, it can't be that bad right?

"Yes sweetie?" Ok now I'm really scared because she has her plotting face on. What's the worse that can happen?

"Can you please perform on that stage for me?" She asked using her cutest voice. Awww and they were ALL giving me bambi eyes! How can I resist!

"Plus we already signed you up" she said as an after thought.

"Ugh, I guess I have no choice…" I trailed off looking for excuses.

"You have to" Angel said in her demanding tone.

"When do I go on?" I asked as the stage crew finished the stage and set a band up.

"Right now" Force said as the announcer said "Now please welcome Maximum Ride to the stage playing guitar and singing!"

"Wait! What do I sing!" I asked quickly, panicking.

"Oh yah ummm how about…" Crys started.

So! Another chapter is done! I also made it longer, but I need advice on what song to pick, should it be by: Taylor Swift, The Fray, Train or The Black Eye Peas or the song Bulletproof, World of Chances, or She Will Be Loved? Ok well please review and tell me what to work on! Also thanks dontpopmybubbleD () for giving me advice on how to improve!