People I'm working overtime for you oops did I forget the Disclaimer thingy in the last two chapters???? I probably did. Anyway here goes.
I am not James Patterson or Stephanie Meyer and never wish to be there for I do not own or even have any legal rights to the book I borrowed these characters from. (Albeit I have no intention of returning said characters and I did ask for them).
That's all I'm saying for the whole thing.
Mildly important legal stuff aside hope you enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 3: Second First Day
Max's P.O.V
I was woken by a blonde haired, blue eyed, uniformed, Celeste clutching, six(ish) year old Avian-American known as Angel.
"Wake up, Max! Don't make ma get Akila!"
"I'm up, I'm up, yay first day of school," Angel didn't understand sarcasm yet. She was only six.
"Okay. Great!" She was all smiles. "Oh, and Max you don't have a uniform." Yes! Angel walked off. "Oh, and Max me, Gazzy and Nudge are gonna check in on you guys at bigger lunchtime." She wasn't in school then. She left. I flopped back on the bed.
"Max," The Voice cautioned "Don't make me"
"What? Don't make me what?" I shot back.
"You're asking for it," the Voice replied. I realized he meant a headache. And I got up.
"Atta girl," The Voice mocked. I repeatedly thought "shut up" until he did.
I grabbed a bra, tank top and my favourite, clean T-shirt. I wondered would I have to have "the talk" with Nudge soon. I grabbed a pair of jeans and pulled on my combat boots. I ran downstairs. At 120m/ph I skidded to a halt, and walked in the kitchen to see my beloved Flock acting umm... hyena-ish. And Sarah looking repulsed as she left for work. Fang was stuffing his face and protecting a portion of food for me. He pushed it over but never stopped eating. Gradually we slowed and finally stopped.
Everyone stood at the same time. Angel gulped the last of her coffee down.
"Angel. You're eight or at least pretending to be. You cannot bring Celeste to school," I was firm.
"But...oh fine," she said with an exasperated sign, which made us laugh.
"Oh, god we're going to be late!" Iggy shouted after placing his hand on the clock face.
"Anyone mind running?" I asked, but it wasn't a question. We grabbed our bags and ran as fast as we could without getting stared at too much. Angel, Gazzy and Nudge's school appeared first.
"Nudge, get them sorted," I whispered as we approached it. They veered off left. We ran, I mean ran the full hog. Drivers were staring at us as e rushed past. We slowed as we got nearer and we were at a walk when we arrived at the school office. We walked in not even breathing hard.
"Oh, hello you must be Maxine..." She began
"Max," I corrected automatically.
"...Max, Nick and James Ride, "Over friendly much?
"Yeah like Sally Ride the astronaut," I said sort of politely. It started raining again. Stupid Forks.
"Now Jason you're umm...blind right?" she continued not waiting for an answer. " A Mr. Batchelder has insisted at least one of you are in every class with him,"
"Tell him thanks if you can," I told the Voice. She handed me and Fang a map each, a copy of each other's timetable, and a copy of Ig's timetable. Finally she handed us locker keys. They were next to each other. I attached mine to a purple converse key ring and house keys of; Sarah's house, Mom's house, Anne's house and Jeb's house in Colorado, it was weird still having it after all this time but it wasn't something I could throw away. There was also the key to my closet back in Colorado and my cabin key for the insert ship name here. There were so many memories on that one purple shoe.
"Marty, the caretaker had to pull some strings to get you those," She said. "Oh go on you'll be late if you don't go now," The bell rang just as we dumped unneeded books in our lockers.
"Iggy you're with me first," Fang said.
"Iggy could be a nickname, pretend, his name sounds like Gazzy's," I did the eye speak thingy.
He mulled it over "Yeah it would be easier" I had to run off for German.
"See ya, next class Iggy,"
"Ha-ha, very funny," he rolled his blind eyes before Fang grabbed his shoulder and hauled him off.
In German there was a free seat in the back next to a girl with long brunette hair. (A.N. I know Bella does Spanish but I don't and I'm too lazy to learn any.)
"Introduce yourself in German," barked the teacher.
"Umm... okay" my German was a bit spotty. "Guten Tag! Ich heiβe Max. Meine Vorname ist Ride. Ich bin siebzehn Jahre alt. Meine Lieblingsfarbe ist rot," I was showing off but that was a good chunk of my German vocabulary. I sat down beside the brunette at the back.
"Hi. I'm Bella Swan," She wasn't shy, just quiet.
"I'm Maxine, but if you call me that I swear I'll kill you," I was only half joking.
"Geez, okay Max I know what you mean," She laughed silently. We whispered back and forth like this for the whole class.
I picked Iggy up at some Math class; we were on our way to Geography. His pale and grasped my wrist he was terrified of losing himself in this maze of noise. We'd managed to get there without incident. Except when some jerk walked into Iggy and yelled "watch it idiot!" I tripped him up. Oops. When we walked in we'd gathered a couple of stares cause we were holding hands. Actually Iggy was clutching my wrist.
"Introduce yourselves go on no need to be shy," said the teacher.
"I'm Max and this is..." I elbowed him.
"Oh right I'm James," Iggy said simply, he didn't know people were staring.
"Come on James, I see a double at the back," I guided him on. People started realizing he was blind and moved bags out of the way. People who didn't heard me going "Make way, blind kid coming through," I walked past a guy with copper coloured hair. He stiffened then relaxed as we went past. The whole way through class I wrote down notes and explained stuff to Iggy. I wrote his answer to a really hard question.
At lunchtime we waited outside in the rain for Nudge, Gazzy and Angel. About 5 minutes into it, they arrived we charged into the canteen. Me, Iggy and Fang were able to get lunch. But Nudge and the others couldn't so they'd brought their own. Nudge got Total sorted and handed him to Iggy. Bella from German waved at us over a sea of stares and I walked over to her empty almost table.
"Come on guys," I whispered, to low for the non-bird people to hear. My Flock followed me.
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