Heyy Charity again thought I would warn you, me and Calamity have end of year exams from the 20th-24th of October and need to study etc.

So while I do procrastinate (and Calamity probably will study for it – yeah right) expect the chapters to take longer, if we don't take a leave for this story for that time…

We don't own any part of the original Maximum Ride.

And in case you forgot this is Max's POV! And Charity is against swearing on 'paper' so she apologises.

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I held out my hand for Lissa's boyfriend. "Max", yeah I'm in a talkative mode today.

"Fang" he said but failed to grasp the simple idea of shaking someone's hand. He is dumber than I thought; he probably thinks his smirk is all cool. Pssh. So he totally deserved the frustrated look I gave him. Especially since I had been so eager to meet the guy named after Hagrid's dog, and here he was as Lissa's boyfriend. Geez.

"Daunted by my hotness?" He said with his stupid smirk. I forgot all about playing 'nice' with Lissa and before I knew it I was high-fiving him… on the face. Seeing his head turn to the left with a shocked look on his face was totally worth it though.

"Excuse me?" that was Mr Fang's great response, like I was the one to make a stupid, sexist, gross comment. GAH!

I turned to Lissa, who was fuming with anger. 'Oh my gosh! You bitch! Why did you do that to my boyfriend?'

"He just flirted with me. Your boyfriend just flirted with another girl, me. I thought you might be too emotionally wrecked to cause physical pain, so I did it for you, as a friend you know. I don't know about you but I would never date a guy who is a player." I said in the sweetest voice I could muster, making sure the words made no sense to confuse her a little longer. But in the end she would find the insult: 'you always date guys that cheat on you.'

"He wasn't flirting with you, he was playing around. You probably just miss understood." Meaning: You bitch "you should say sorry immediately or else"

Wait, did Lissa Roderick just try to threaten me? Out of the corner of my eye I saw that everyone had hurried off to period one. Don't have to play friends with Lissa anymore.

"Why the hell would I do that?" I almost snorted out.

Fang wrapped his arms around Lissa, how cute…NOT. "Hey babe, it's cool"

I saw Lissa melt into his arms, until he was fully supporting her. I almost felt sorry for the guy, and then I remembered who he was.

Iggy smiled his 'cheeky-grin' at Fang waving at it. He then proceeded to open both hands for a high ten. It, falling for the trick, high ten-ed back, forgetting about Lissa and in turn dropping her. Hope she loses a brain cell, oh wait then she'd have none.

I dropped on the floor laughing- Iggy was a genius. It was not until after I had gotten up that I realised Lissa had left.

"That was fucking hilarious" Iggy chuckled.

"'Hey, spare my girlfriend, okay?" Fang said AGAIN smirking, way to ruin the moment "Or at least till she learns how to come up with proper retorts." Or not. Wait why did he just say that, is he on our side on the Lissa matter? Shouldn't he be or hers?

"You're on our side?" I said over Iggy's laughter. And guess what he did, he dared to ignore me, instead he turned to Iggy.

"No joke." Wow, a man of many words I see. What Fang didn't expect though was Iggy telling him to answer me.

"I'm not on her side. I'm just not necessarily on Lissa's side either." Was it just me or did he say 'her' with disgust? How dare he insult me?

"Just fuck off." Ah, Opal. She just said what was in my mind.

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"Okay class let us get started on the topic. I assume you all have your instruments with you today? Ah, Ms Ride, take a seat. Why are you late by the way?" Mr Campbell was by far the most understanding teacher in the school, but all the teachers of this school were considerably nice towards me, seeing as I was an 'A' grade student. I don't know HOW I managed to even pass class yet alone get good marks.

I glanced at Lissa and her snob of a boyfriend, and I'm not going to say he didn't look hot, but his stupid behaviour kind of got in the way. And on what planet do people use words like 'daunted'? Almost, as if he understood Mr Campbell gave a slight nod. While Fang just smirked. How had they gotten here before me anyway? Then I remembered how Opal, Iggy and I had stopped by each of our lockers and left little messages, like we do every year.

"My locker wouldn't open." I lied; well at least the 'locker' part was true.

"Today, I just want everyone to play a little piece. It doesn't have to be on your mastered instrument, but I want to see your musical abilities. And since you came in last Max, you can start."

"Alright I am going to play the flute." I grabbed my flute and started playing.

The first song I played was the SpongeBob Squarepants theme song, followed by the Super Mario theme. Yeah, it was awesome.

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That's it, pretty small I know but I didn't know what to do. SORRY I'm a suckish writer. She's too modest – it's pretty decent.

You'll probably have to wait till the next update because of exams, sorry. It's a nightmare – no joke.

Charity, Calamity.