Alright, well good news I got time to kill while I am just sitting here in school. So, I thought it would be good to start the second chapter. We left the Max about to go into her new house. She has some doubts but it's better than abandoning all hope. Fang on the other hand is facing a few problems of his own, keeping Iggy and Gazzy away from the fridge!

MPOV

So not to be a Debby Downer, but I was expecting a bit more. When I opened the doors, after fighting with the keys. There was boxes everywhere. The walls looked so bare and naked. The carpet had a bunch of wrapping tape and pieces of boxes littered all of it. My stuff had my named labeled on it, so it would be easy to unpack and not get stuff all mixed up. Sadly, the movers must have thought that it would be funny to put my crap on the pyramid of boxes! Bastards. Ella looked up to see what I had been glaring at. "Do you need help, Max?" She asked nervously. " Nah, I got this sis. Why don't you go find a room and start unpacking." She nodded her head hastily and left me with the Tower of Doom.

Once I heard a door shut up stairs I took off my sweater to let my wings breathe. Yeah, I got this. I never liked Ella or anyone seeing my wings. I mean she knew that I had them, but I think it still scares her. My mom knows as well, since she's a vet she always helps me when I strain it. The one time I went night flying I hit into the top of a pine causing me to crash all the down. I was about a mile away from the house so the walk was agony! Once I made it into the yard, I collapsed. They didn't find me until the morning. The fall had broken my left wrist, sprained a few ribs, and broken one of my wings. Mom had sentenced me to bed rest for a two months. What shocked all of us was that not even two WEEKS later I was perfectly fine! Fast healing. I guess being a mutant avian-human hybrid had its perk. Like flying wasn't enough.

I bent my knees a bit and jumped, pushing my wings down causing me to fly faster. I kicked my boxes off the top, I landed down on the stairs with a smile. Nothing makes me happier than singing and flying. I tucked in my wings when I got a text from my mom saying that we were not to bother cooking anything. We were going to dinner with the next door neighbors. Great. I forwarded the text to Ella. Then snapped the phone shut and picked up a few of my boxes and decided to room hunt. My mom bought this house so there would be more room for us to move around and roam around. The back yard was huge. There was a pool, an abandoned barn house, and a Oak tree that had a old looking tree house. I had to laugh when I saw it, it had written in blue paint "Bird house". My mom had a sense of humor, I'll give her that.

Ella had decided to stay in one the rooms on the second floor. I was about to take the room across from hers, when something caught my eye. One of the doors had a red door handle. I set my stuff down to go investigate. I am nothing if not curious. The door led to a stairs ascending up to the top. It was dark so I couldn't see anything until I saw one of the windows was covered completely. I pulled back the curtains to reveal and oval shaped room with a dome for a ceiling. I was completely astonished by it. Yep, I think I found my room. I finished packing in about an hour. Hell, I even dragged my bed up those freaking stairs with out breaking a sweat. Yep, being a freak has it's perks. My bed was a queen size with black sheeting and red fluffy pillows. My walls were littered with my favorite bands: Black Label Society, Three Days Grace, Avenged Sevenfold, and much more. Ella bounded into room and belly flopped onto my bed. I had to laugh at the way she looked slowly sinking into bed. I turned to the window and noticed on one of the doors there was a small latch. Caustiously, I opened the window only to realize there was a balcony! That's when I did something that made Ella jump in surprise. I was laughing really hard. The one where your sides hurt, when you can't breathe and it hurts to smile. "What is it, Max? Ella asked smiling. "Nothing, its just that this room... It reminds me of a bird cage. I don't know I thought it was ironic and funny at the same time." She joined me in laughing. After we settled down we just sat on the balcony watching the sunset. "Should we get ready?" My mind was somewhere else at the moment. "For what? I asked. "Remember, we were invited to the neighbor's house for dinner." Ella said smiling at me. Oh yeah, I wonder if they got anything good cause right now I was starving. "I wonder if there are any cute guys around here" Oh, god. That's the last thing I looked forward to was beating the crap out some guy who's got the hots for my sis. Her last relationship was a control freak guy. One day she came home with a black eye, he hit her because she helped some guy out in Math class. But in his twisted head, he thought she was cheating on him. So, I hunted the bastard down and kicked him so damn hard, I guarantee he's not going to be having any kids.

Ella left to go get ready and get dressed into something "more suitable". The one thing out of the many that we do not share is fashion. She goes through hours of makeup, clothing and God only knows what! Me, on the other hand, a pair of skinny jeans or some basketball shorts with a tank top is my "fashion". I don't do make up, gossip, or especially shopping. Yep, I am what you would call your average american avian tomboy. With that said, I slipped into a pair of black skinny jeans with a Avenged Sevenfold shirt and my Joker converses. Then I pushed my hair up into a loose pony tail and I was on my way. Mom made it back around 7:30, she went up stairs and changed out of her out fit. Then Ella after spending two hours in the bathroom came out with a light blue lacy tank top with a small white skirt. Her hair was french braided on one side letting the other half fall down in curls. I had to admit, she looked gorgeous. We walked together to the neighbors, and before mom knocked on the door she gave us one more once over. Satisfied, she took a deep breathe and knocked. Here we go.

FPOV

Nudge went to back to her room and the guys went back to their house to get some "nice" clothes. Which left me by myself in the kitchen. I went back to my room to lie down for a bit. My room consisted of a desk with random drawings I did over the summer. My walls had pictures of me, my friends, and family growing up. We lived here for years. My guitar was where I placed it, right by the window. I love to sit on the roof and just stare at the stars and think to myself. The open air,the wind blowing on my face, and just knowing nothing could touch me. I wonder if that's what flying could be like. I must have dozed off on my bed because I woke to Gazzy and Iggy dog piling me one my bed. Then Gazzy let go of one his famous farts. That's one way to get someone up and running down the stairs for cover. Iggy was pretending to be dying on the floor, quoting Shakespear or something. Jeb walked in, my dad, took in everything. He just shrugged and stepped over Iggy "Hi boys". Iggy still playing dead with his tongue out, "Hi Dad!" Jeb had some groceries in his hands. "Where's mom?" I asked. "Oh, she has to work a double shift. She won't be able to make it to dinner tonight." Gazzy came running down the stairs laughing like a mad man, the bad thing was that he wasn't watching where he was going and tripped on Iggy's face causing Gazzy to hit his chin on the door frame. So while those two fought on just who's fault it is, I walked into the kitchen to see Jeb trying to make dinner. He was good at many things, but as far as cooking, it wasn't his strongest point. "I'll do it, Dad. Go get ready they should be here in an hour." I said taking the rest of his groceries. He didn't argue, said thanks and went to go take a shower. Iggy and Gazzy walked in, Iggy's left eye was swelling and red and Gazzy had another chin growing on top his. "I'll cook instead YOU'RE not even ready" Ig said swipping the grocery bags. I left to my room, showered, and had on some black pants and shirt on when I remembered what Nudge said. I looked in mirror, I never paid much attention to how I looked, as a matter a fact, I never cared. My jet black hair was always ruffled and part of it covered my whole left face. For some reason, I started to feel somewhat self-concious about my appearance. So, I spent another 50 minutes trying to figure out what I should wear. After a few cuss words and trying on everything I owned. In the end, I ended up wearing what I had on in the beginning. Nudge pounded on the door demanding I get out of my room and help prepare the table and keep Iggy and Gazzy on a leash. I sighed. When I opened the door Nudge had her arms crossed, tapping her foot, with a look of sterness a mother would give Nudge started banging on the door demanding what could possibly taking me so long, so I told her I'll meet her downstairs. She talked a bit more about how I should let her do all my shopping from now on before she left. God, I love Nudge but there are days when I think duct taping her mouth is necessary. A few seconds more of starring into the mirror, I sighed and opened my door to walk down when at that second there was a knock on the door. My heart started to race. The mystery girl is at the door. Oh god! And Nudge is going to answer the door!

MPOV

It took a few seconds before the door swung open to reveal a beautiful girl. Her skin was like mocha coffee, strickingly huge brown eyes, and a white ruffled shirt with a small corset that showed off her curves, a small black skirt, with black gladiator sandals. She sqealed and started to bounce up and down, I started to back away until she grabbed me and pulled me into a tight hug. You know for a girl that looked less than 120 pounds, she was freaking strong! She released me from her death grip only to turn it on Ella. Ella hugged her back like they long time friends who haven't seen each other in years. It looked comical how they just bounced around sqealing. It made my ears bleed a little. Two other boys approached to pull the girl off of Ella. "Sorry, Nudge can get a little over excited. My name is James, But you can call me Iggy. This is my brother, Zephyr. Again just call him Gazzy" The boy that spoke looked incredibly cute. Great, not even 20 minutes into inrtoductions and here I am checking someone out. Iggy reached out his hand and shook mine then my mom's giving both of us a killer smile. When he turned to shake Ella's he stopped. He looked completely stricken by her. Ella looked like she was going through the same thing he was. Finally, he just put his down and shook her hand hasitly. Gazzy stood beside me real quick nearly scarring the shit out of me "I feel love in the air!" I couldn't help but laugh. I think I'm going to like these guys. Ella stayed quiet blushing to herself, that was until Nidge asked Ella about where she got her top. They started up on shopping, God help me. So, me, Iggy, and Gazzy talked about school and how they can all hang out. My mom talked with Jeb about some scienctific stuff. Everyone seemed to be getting along, then something caught my eye coming down the stairs. Or someone. A very attracive someone at that. My breathe stopped in my throat and my heart seemed to almost stop. He looked around until his eyes stopped at mine. Everyone and everything other than him disappeared in the background. Like there was a bubble around the both of us. He never broke eye contact walking down the steps. Now, let me get this out there I am not the gushy romantic kind of girl that gets all squirmy and happy over boys, But for a second I almost threw that out the window. I didn't know i was walking toward him until I was at the end of the steps and he was standing right in front of me. "Yo." was all he said with his head down."Hi." Wow. I seemed to be out of words. I lifted up my hand, "I'm Max." He grabbed mine. There was a weird shock that went between our hands. He must have felt it too cause he pulled away, "Fang." Well, aren't you just the chatterbox. I assumed I said that in my head, but when he looked up with questioning eyes and everyone started to laugh. "Yep, love is in the air!" Gazzy said in a sing songy voice.

Dinner went on like this, Gazzy making rhercorical remarks on love. Fang sat right across from me just starring at me every now and then. My mom and Jeb oblivious to all of this. Nudge and Ella talking about fashion. Iggy muttering off to himself. The back door opened up and in came the an angel. She was incredibly adorable. Long, curly blonde hair. bright blue eyes, and porcelean skin. She practically flew into Fang's open arms. "Everyone this is Angel." It matched." She looked at me and gave me a bright smile. I knew instantly I loved her. She jumped off Fang's lap and practicaly sprinted around the table to jump into my lap next. She wrapped her tiny little arms around my neck and gave the slightest little kiss on my cheek. Yeah, I fell in love with her. "I like your hair." She said, holding a lock of my hair in her hand. "I like yours better though" I said smiling back at her. Dinner continued on like that and Jeb convinced Angel to sit in a chair but she wouldn't agree unless she sat next to me. Once we were full and had our fill, mom decided it was best that we get back to house for school tomorrow. "Do you want a ride tomorrow?" Fang asked me when I was carrying some dishes into the kitchen. "Umm... Sure." He grabbed the plates from my hands. Any other day if some guy did that I'd be all over him like ugly on an ape, about how I don't need help. But in all honesty , he seemed like the type of person to not listen. Iggy and Gazzy took a very sleepy Angel home and said they'll meet up with us at school. Nudge and Ella had to be pulled apart with Iggy grabbing Nudge and me with Ella. Fang walked up stairs without much of a good bye or good night. Hmm. Iggy gave me and Ella a hug same with Gazzy. For some reason, it seems like this family is huge on hugging. All except Fang that is.

The moment I was in my room I belly flopped on my bed. I wasn't tired yet I felt like I had aged during that dinner. I tossed and turned trying to figure out how tomorrow is going to play out. It 2:30 in the morning, I was no where near close to closing my eyes. I kicked off my sheets and put on one of my windbreakers. The slits in the back makes it easier to open my wings faster. The crisp evening air felt great against my skin. Without delaying another second, I jumped off the balcony and into the open arms of the sky. I circled the house taking in every detail. Then flew low enough to touch the top of the trees. I spent a good hour outside loving everything. Spinning around to go back to the house something shiny had caught my eyes. I focused in on it, it wasn't coming from my house. I flew low again so I wouldn't be spotted. Whatever it was, it was coming from the roof of my neighbors house. I got close and got ready to fight or flight. It was someone holding up a pair of binoculars and they were looking right at me. Then the figure moved forward into the light just enough to see who it was. It's Fang!

Sorry, for the delay of posting this up I had a lot of school crap to do. But nonetheless I appreciate the reviews and I thought it would be nice if things got mixed up a bit. Never hurts! =) Anyway, so more reviews and I'll post the next one. Fly on!