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We all march after Max, who has us an apartment room waiting. Its not the best, but theres a good little woods by our window, just a little, which is still no small feat in N.Y.C. We get comfortable on the floor.
The flock sits in a semi-circle around me, all eyes intent on mine. Chase is sitting beside me, listing to every thing I say.
"Chase....This is my family." I motion to the Flock sitting around me. "There's Max, Fang, Nudge, Gazzy, And Angel." They each nod in greeting. Total humphs indigently. "Oh, sorry, and our dog, Total."
"Hi." Total says. Chase squeaks in surprise and holds out her hand to Total. She gets over her surprise quickly.
"May I pet you?" She asks, and Total prances over to her, plopping down in her lap and wagging his short little tail.
"Thank you for asking." He says, shooting Gazzy a meaningful glare.
"Anyways," I continue. " We all come from a place we call the school. There are mad scientists doing horrible experiment on us. We have avian D.N.A from them. We all have wings and superpowers. In one of the experiment, I even lost my sight. But...when I'm around you, I can see."
Gazzy squirms and holds up three fingers, unable to resist.
"How many fingers am I holding up?" He says, and I roll my eyes.
"Three, Gazzer." The Flock stare at me in awe.
Chase takes a deep breath and starts to talk.
"So …. You expect me to believe your blind, have avian D.N.A in you, and that you have wings?"
She says, her voice skeptical. "And on top of that, these random freaks are after you guys 24/7?
Oh, Max is met to save the world?" Her voice is rising with each question, fear and awe blinding her from the proof - my wings spread out - in front of her. "But the most unbelievable, that I can make you see?"
Chase seems winded, and Max takes the chance to talk.
"Yes. To every thing. I don't know about the last part, but I know every thing else is true ." She spreads her wings to, and Nudge, Gazzy, Angel, and finally Fang follow my lead.
Chase looks a little faint. I wrap my arm around her and pull her in close, but she pushes me away.
"Iggy....This I amazing, but its all coming so quickly. Please." She holds out her hand for me to take, and I gladly place mine in hers. "Let me get used to this."
She seems to be thinking hard, and right as Angel opens her mouth to talk, Chase says whats on her mind.
"How to you expect to keep your sight once you leave?"
Oh, God. It like a billion- zillion bricks are crushing me, forcing all the air out of me.
"I...I didn't think of that..." I admit.
"Well, we cant carry her around with us every where...." Max says, leader ship coloring her voice.
How annoying. "Iggy.... We have to leave her." She says, patting my knee comfortingly.
"Wait...." Fang says, finally saying something. His eyes are dark, and for moment her seems a bit...evil.
"We could get Jeb to make wings for her." Silence meets his words, and I think of how I had thought of that earlier. Good God, could we? I think I love her, and on top of that, my Chase gives me a wonderful gift. I would worship her.... But I realize its all up to her.
I would never, ever never make her do something she didn't want to.
The girl I'm thinking of is quiet, playing with my long fingers, and I want to shiver at the tender feeling. Her eyes seem darker blue as she thinks.
"Iggy...." It seems she looks to me for guidance. I feel proud. "Would it hurt?" Her voice is small and frighted, and I feel guilty.
"Yeah...." I say, wanting to hold her close and look at her forever. I want to do more than look. I want to feel, to small, to be with her forever. I know that simply seeing her is not enough, not anymore
"How bad?" She asks in the same tone, her hand holding one of my fingers, like a child holding the finger of a trusteed adult
"I don't know," I admit. "But badly." I sigh and close my eyes, trying to get myself ready to be plunged back into the darkness.
"Okay." Chase says. "I want wings. I want to fly with you guys. " Chase, my Chase, looks around and smiles at the Flock, and Angel hugs her.
"I'm so happy!" She says, smiling big. Nude starts a conversation about Chases hair, and it gives me, Max, and Fang to talk while Gazzy and Angel join Nudges conversation.
"Iggy, are you sure you would let a human do this, just so you can see? You would make her an out cast? And on top of that, you don't know what could go wrong!" Max says, trying to be leaderly.
"She could die. She could even be a spy!"
"Angel would have let us known if that was the case..." Fang says. "I say, we need Chase. The fights are getting harder, and we can't keep babysitting Ig. We could train Chase to fight like us, make her keep by Iggy, and come out of the fights a lot less bloody." His words make my blood boil, but I know he's right. I'm so sick of no seeing, of being in the way, or a burden. They had all gotten hurt by trying to help me, just because I couldest carry my own weight.
"Chase is not a tool! She's a human being!"
"And she said she wants to fly with us. Jeb, as we all know, has the tools and craziness to make her one of us. All we need to do is get her down to New Mexico, with your mom, and Jeb would be there in heart beat."
Max is fuming, and I'm put off a little at Fangs thinking. Its very dark, even for Fang. But when I look into my brothers eyes, I can see that all he's think about is how to make it so that we can survive.
"Max...." I say, and she turns to me, fire in her brown eyes. " I think I love her."
Max sighs and rolls her eyes, giving a God-help-me look to the ceiling.
"Iggy....you just met her! The waaaaay to early to be talking' about love!" She says, loping down on the bed in the dusty apartment. She looks tired, and I feel bad. She's so stressed, and this can be helping....
The color scheme isn't that good here, I can't help thinking. Ugly browns and golds. Bleh.
"But I do, Max. I can't explain it but.... There's this big pull. I cant help it." I say quietly, and look over at Chase in time to see her eyes roaming my body. She reaches my face and blushes, her eyes widening. 'Were you checking me out?' I mouth to her, and she quickly turns away, blushing harder. I laugh and turn to look at Max, who is flabbergasted.
"Was she checking you out!?" She asks. I nod as Fang laughs and tugs Max back to her feet and they walk to an arm chair, where Fang sits down and pulls Max into his lap. I feel envy roll in me, and I look at Chase, wanting that to be us.
She smiles that smile at me, and I walk over to her and pull her to her feet. The littler kids scamper off to go do....something.
It just got a lot harder to think, with Chase staring at me with those deep blue eyes.
"Are you sure, Chase? This could ruin you...." I have to warn her. I don't want her doing any thing she might regret.
"I know Iggy. But I have no need to stay in this City. It offers me nothing but failure."
"What about your family?"
She scoffs and looks away, her eyes resentful. "They don't want me, Ig. I'm not good enough."
She dose not look back up, and I know then that she's crying. A tear rolls down her cheek and I want to take her into my arms. So I do. And she pulls herself closer as I kiss the top of her head, wanting to protect her, make her feel better.
"Iggy...Why do you have such an effect on me?" She whispers. "Its like a pull. I want to be with you, Ig."
I smile when she looks up.
"Thats how I feel." And then, just like that, I could feel a kiss coming. Butterflys fluter in my stomach as we got closer and closer, and right when my lips were over hers- A scream rips the air, and I jerk away, pulling Chase behind me as something flies through a window.
A bomb.