AN: Hey everybody! I'm back! And I still don't own Maximum Ride! Alright, so here's chapter three. I hope you guys enjoy it! And review!

(Fang's POV)

"Brace yourself for this." Max said. "This school is screwed up." She grinned wickedly at me and opened the door. Feeling even more nervous than before, I followed her in. There were kids just lounging about, throwing paper balls at each other, yelling, screaming, laughing, and spitting spit balls at each other and the teacher.

"Rich snobs," Max said, gesturing around the classroom, "think they can do whatever they want whenever they want. Here, we get to see them in their natural habitat." I chuckled. She made it sound like she was hosting some animal show.

Max sat down in a random desk and motioned for me to sit beside her. "You better be glad I'm doing this." she said. "I get in a lot of fights here, so most of the annoying snobs avoid me for fear of ending up in the hospital. But I have a feeling some of the sluttish snobs will actually try and come up to you, despite the fact that they might lose a leg from getting to close to me." she said. Great. She thought I was a hindrance. Lovely.

I rolled my eyes and was about to respond when this red-headed girl that wasn't wearing nearly enough got in between us. "Hi. I haven't seen you around before. Are you new?" she asked.

Max rolled her eyes. "You want to know how she knows that?" Max pretended to whisper to me, but was speaking loud enough for everyone to hear. All of a sudden, it was dead quiet in the room. "Because you're the only guy in this school she hasn't slept with."

The red-headed girl's face turned even redder than her hair. "At least I can get a boy to want me in the first place." she sneered. I noticed how she didn't deny the accusation.

Max rolled her eyes. "I'm too busy knocking all of your heads in to find a boyfriend right now." she replied in a "duh" tone. "Look, Lissa, stop trying to corrupt the boy. I'm looking out for him right now. And that includes letting him date sluts that are just going to dump him as soon as they get what they want."

Lissa glared at Max. "Nobody here even likes you! Why do you even go to this school?"

"Because somebody has to knock you snobby idiots off your high horse." Max said. "Now, you've got two seconds to get away from me before I break your nose."

Lissa paled, and practically ran to the other side of the room. Max chuckled lightly and I joined her, more than amused. It turns out that homeroom was just like study hall. We just sat there and did nothing for an hour and a half. It was awesome. I got to talk to Max the whole time. She told me about all the kids in our class. She knew each of them by name, how snobby they were, and whether I should hang out with them or not. There were only two or three she said were alright.

"I'd rather hang out with you and your friends. You guys seem pretty cool." I said.

Max grinned. "Good. You'll like it around us. There's hardly ever a dull moment." That's when the bell rang. Chemistry was pretty cool. I came on a lab day, so that's all we did the whole class. Then it was lunchtime. I walked with Max to her table. All of the grades have lunch together, so Gazzy and Angel could sit with us. I wondered if Nudge will sit with us too. I was just thinking this when she found me.

"OMG! Hey Fang! You were right, there are a lot of snobs here. This one girl said that my outfit was tacky! Can you believe that?! I–" I cut her off by clamping my hand down on her mouth.

"Nudge, these are my friends, Max, Iggy, Gazzy, and Angel." I said pointing to each of them as I said there name. "Guys, this is my adoptive sister Nudge."

"Hey guys." she said, but it was muffled by my hand over her mouth.

Max looked confused. "She lives with you?" she asked. I nodded. "Why didn't she walk with us this morning?"

I chuckled. "Mom offered to drive us this morning. I said that I wanted to walk, but Nudge took up her offer." I said.

"Ah." Max said, getting it. She looked Nudge over. "Well, I don't know a lot about this stuff, but I think you look great." she said, smiling at Nudge.

Nudge beamed at her (I'd already taken my hand away from her mouth.). "Thanks!" she said.

The rest of the school day went without too much trouble. A couple of the snobby slut girls came up to me, but Max always chased them away. She told me that I needed to watch out for them, that she wouldn't always be there to chase them away. She made it sound like a nightmare, which I guess was pretty close. I mean most boys would love it, but I didn't. I'd much rather have a girlfriend that wasn't conceited. And there was always the little matter that I don't want her wearing clothes that show all the other boys everything.

Max and Iggy burst out the doors at the end of school, yelling, "Freedom!" Most of the other students gave them looks that clearly said dorks, but the rest of us just laughed.

We ended up going to Iggy's house. It was pretty cool. "So, how're you liking Hollywood so far?" Max asked, sitting beside me on the porch steps. We were in the back yard, watching Iggy and Nudge play with the kids.

"You know, I thought I wouldn't like it here, but it's actually pretty cool." I said, looking at her. "After all, I've only spent a few days here, and I've already found great friends."

She smiled at me. Not her usual sarcastic smirk, but an actual smile. It lit up her eyes and face and made her even more beautiful. My breath hitched and my heart sped up, and I couldn't help but smile back.

"We've got to take you guys sight-seeing. There are all kinds of stuff here. We can even show you the famous Hollywood sign." she said. "We can walk around the city, probably meet somebody famous."

I chuckled. "Do you even know any famous people?" I asked.

She thought back. "Hmm…I met Taylor Laughtner once on the street." she said. Then she rolled her eyes. "I was with my friend J.J. She went nuts. It was pretty interesting. He's hot, but there's just something I don't like about him."

I don't know why, but I liked that. I smirked. "So, you don't know any famous people?" I asked.

Max rolled her eyes. "This is Hollywood." she said. "You can walk down the street and find a bunch of famous people if you look close enough."

"Why are you in Hollywood?" I asked.

Max looked surprised, but answered. "My dad and I moved down here six years ago. He chose Hollywood because it he knew for sure that there was a job opening down here he could take. He's a scientist." she said. When she talked about her dad, her eyes darkened, and her jaw tightened. They were very subtle differences. If I hadn't been watching her closely, I wouldn't have even noticed.

"Do you and your father not get along?" I asked.

I saw panic flash through her eyes for a second before she pushed it away. "We don't exactly see eye to eye."

"What about your mom?" I said. I knew I was being snoopy, but I was curious.

Max shrugged. "I don't know who my mom is." she said. I wanted to ask her if it was always just her and her dad, but I could tell Max was clamming up. She wasn't comfortable with all of my questions, something I could totally understand.

"My mom and dad recently divorced. Mom figured out that dad was cheating on her with one of her work friends. We literally kicked him out of the house." I told her, figuring that she trusted me with some of her story, so I should trust her with some of mine. "That's why I moved down here. We used to live in Arizona. I guess mom wanted to get as far away from my dad as she possibly could."

Max sighed. "That must suck." she said, shooting me a sympathetic look. I didn't really want sympathy though. "It must be tough on you guys."

"I think it was worse for mom than it was for me and Nudge. I mean, she loved Dad. Nudge and I had been suspicious of him for awhile. We noticed that he would get home really late. But we didn't want to worry Mom. It probably wasn't our best idea, but we were worried about how she'd take it." I replied.

She looked at me. She seemed to be studying me. "Max!" Angel said, tackling her and ruining the moment. "Max, save me!" she said.

Max looked confused, but then she saw Iggy and Gazzy running towards us. She grinned wickedly and ran towards them, tackling them. They went down and started rolling, wrestling each other. Nudge huffed as she sat down beside me and watched Angel as she joined Max, Iggy, and Gazzy.

"How can they have so much energy?" she asked.

I shook my head. "I have no idea." I replied. Suddenly my phone went off. "Hello?" I asked, answering it.

"Fang, I need you guys to come home now. It's time for dinner." my mom said.

"Okay." I said, keeping to my short answers. "Bye."

"Goodbye, Fang. Becareful coming back home."

"Alright, Mom." I hung up and turned to Nudge. "It's time to go. Dinner time." I said.

"Okay." she said. "Max!" she yelled. "We've got to go home!"

Max looked up, surprised. She walked over to us. "Why?" she asked, frowning.

"It's time for dinner. Our mom called." Nudge replied. "Mom will get ticked if we don't get home soon."

"Ah. Alright. Well, we'll see you tomorrow." she said, waving as she went to join the others.

"See ya!" Nudge called. I nodded in a goodbye sort of fashion. The others waved to us as we made our way back home. Maybe Hollywood isn't so bad after all.

Alright guys, that's it for now. Review! And can somebody tell me how to make those lines that go across the page? I don't know how to do those.