HI EVERYONE.

I'M HAPPY TODAY!

WHY?!

Uhm, I'm not sure. But I feel like smiling. (:

But I must say... I'm also in a HORRIBLE mood.

My dog is twelve, almost thirteen, and she's been limping around...

*clings to Sandy* ): I'm almost turning fifteen. I don't remember not having her!

But she's still my dumbdog, and she always will be(:

Disclaimer: Really? Need I put this? I don't look like James Patterson, and James Patterson owns Maximum Ride. Meaning, I don't.

Claimer: I own Author Notes. .-.

That, by the way, is a little self-esteem booster. (: xD

The lunch with Nudge wasn't as torturous as I thought it would be. Angel and Ella joined us, and I told them where we were having the wedding. A piece of advice? Don't tell Nudge when she's taking a sip of Coke. I don't know why I had.

"Where?!" Nudge exclaimed after a coughing fit.

"The School," I repeated and she looked at me like I was crazy.

"Are you crazy?!" She asked me, shaking her head. "You want to get married at the place that tried killing us for five years? Or, wait. Technically since we got Angel. Fourteen years?!"

Ella looked up then. "Wait, so you all met at the School?"

Nudge nodded but she was still glaring at me. "So, technically, that means Max and Fang first met there, right?" The Nudge's face relaxed.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…" She trailed off. "Awww! That's so cute! And smart! I never thought of that!" She admitted and her face was a full out smile. I smiled back then thanked Ella for getting in what I was trying to say. I was honestly surprised she figured it out.

"Soo…" Nudge trailed off, looking at Angel, now. She had barely spoken all of today. "Angel had another date yesterday."

Angel's head snapped up from her salad and she glared at Nudge. "Shut up," She hissed.

Nudge smirked. "She went over Joey's house, then they went to the movies."

Angel kept glaring. "I said shut. Up. Now." I was waiting for Angel's freaky mind-control thing to shut Nudge up but it didn't.

"Anna called me, asking if Angel was at the movies, and said she was sitting a few rows behind her and Joey." She continued, and didn't dare glancing at Angel. Her face was set in anger, and she looked like she was about to murder Nudge. "Apparently, th—"

Finally Angel cut her off with her mind. "Ange." I said firmly. "I have a feeling this is something I'd want to know. Let Nudge finish. I won't be mad, I promise." She looked at me, then at Nudge, but she still didn't relax her face.

"Fine," she said in an extremely angry but defeated voice.

Nudge looked up and looked at Angel, and visibly flinched. She turned back to me. "Anna said they were making out. The whole movie." Okay, I admit. That caught me off guard. Angel was growing up, I know. She had been. But eight days ago she'd had her first kiss and it was a simple kiss. It was Joey's first kiss, too. But a movie is like, an hour and a half to two hours, right? That's like… Her kissing for an hour and a half to two hours. But then, I'm not one to talk. My first kiss lasted a second, and it was with Fang. My second one was with Sam, back in Virginia. And my third one, the one I really consider my first kiss, it lasted for who knows how long? Fang and I had been alone, and I was stressed. He kissed me, and we broke apart eventually, but I wasn't sure how long it'd been. It could've been five hours, for all I knew.

But I was still a chicken back then, so when he tried to kiss me again I ran. Smooooth, right?

"Nudge, I wouldn't be talking," I told her, and her jaw dropped. "I remember one day when everyone was looking for you and Iggy. Five hours later, when we thought you had been captured by the School or something, we found you half a mile away from our camp. This was when you two had your first kiss. And didn't bother telling us you had wanted to kiss in the first place."

Nudge's face flushed and Angel giggled. "Angel, I'm not mad, but I'm not happy either. But I am happy for you." I smiled and she smiled back.

Ella was absent-mindedly drumming her fingers on the table while we waited for our main dishes to be brought to our table. Then I noticed something on her hand. It was a ring, but thankfully it was her right hand. "Ella, what's that?" I asked, pointing at her right ring finger.

She looked down and blushed. "Uhm… Anthony got it for me…" She murmured and took it off, handing it to me from across the table. I took it from her and smiled. Anthony was he boyfriend since she was fifteen, and they had broken up twice, but they always went back to each other. The ring was one of those claddagh rings with the hands holding the heart? And the crown on top of the heart? Instead of just a silver heart, there was an amazing opal in the shape of a heart, held in by a silver outline. It was beautiful.

I remember Fang had gotten me a simple one when I turned eighteen. It was a silver band with silver hands, a silver heart, and a silver crown. I was curious as to what the symbol on the ring meant, so I had looked it up. The heart meant love, obviously, the hands holding the heart symbolized friendship and togetherness, and the crown on the heart symbolized loyalty. I had worn my ring with the heart turned inwards, meaning I was taken. I glanced down at my left hand where it now rest on my middle finger, turned outward. That showed I was engaged.

Ella wore hers on her right hand turned inward, to show she was in a relationship. "Ella, it's so pretty!" I couldn't help myself from saying.

"Look on the inside of the ring, on the back of the heart," She told me, and I did. On the inside were their initials. A.A.+E.M. Underneath that there was the year they started going out and then a dash. Then in small writing I read the letters f, o, r, e, v, and e.

"What does 'foreve' mean?" I asked, thinking they had left off the r in forever. She smirked at me.

"Anthony, being the cheesy man he is, found this one quote I absolutely love. It says, 'I love you foreve. But no 'r', because that would be the end of forever.'" She smiled as I handed her the ring back and Nudge cooed.

"Awwww! You and him should really get married, I think." Nudge smiled, and Ella looked at her.

"Uhm, I don't know. That's up to Anthony…" She trailed off and looked down at her hand where she just put the ring again. Our food was being set on our table and I took a bite of my hot bacon cheeseburger. It was really good.(A/N. Don't blame me for not being descriptive here… I'm a vegetarian. d: So… Yeah.)

"How old is Anthony, Ella?" Angel asked. I knew the answer, but I couldn't recall it…

"He's twenty." She answered, then took a bite of her caesar salad. "He'll be twenty-one in three months."

Ella had just recently turned nineteen, and I forgot that in high school he was a grade above her. Now he was at college, Arizona State University, and she was at home. She planned on going to Arizona University, but the two colleges were at least one-hundred and ten miles apart. She had gotten accepted in to both AU and ASU, but she was torn between her boy friend and her five best friends.

"I think you two are adorable together," Angel admitted, beginning to eat her fettuccine alfredo.

Ella smiled at her and then Nudge spoke up. "Do you guys think Iggy will ever ask me to marry him?" She asked unexpectedly. I choked on the fry I was swallowing and coughed repeatedly.

"Whoa." I finally said. "Nudge, you haven't even graduated high school!" I told her. "I mean, I know you've been going out since you were fourteen, but you don't need to get married soon!"

She shook her head. "I didn't mean soon. I want to graduate high school, first, obviously. But I just mean, like, do you ever think he really loves me that much?" She asked and I understood now. She was pretty much wondering whether we thought he really loved her or not.

"Nudge, remember when you were eleven and I always called Iggy a sexist pig? That was because he went after every girl he saw. Now he only goes after you. I know he loves you." I told her, and she smiled back.

"She's right," Angel confirmed. "Whenever he's with you he's always happy. And when you're at school He's anxious. I know this because I stayed home sick that one day. And when we get off the bus, he's always excited for you to walk in."

She was squirming in her seat now and she smiled even wider. She had gotten a house salad with chicken on it, and she stabbed a piece of meat with her fork and popped it in her mouth.

We ate in silence and paid the bill when it came time, of course after we got dessert. Then we drove home in my car. It was a dark blue convertible, and I guess now I should tell you how we afford all this stuff. When we destroyed Itex, the government found it fair to give the flock and myself half of the company's earnings for saving the world. Let me just say, if we wanted to, we could easily be millionaires. Maybe billionaires. Well, definitely billionaires. But we aren't exactly the pampered type, so we took only one-fifteenth. How much was that? Well, let me tell you this, first: Itex was the largest company, and they were the top company in the entire world. They had way too much money, and way too much power, which is why we destroyed them. Our on fifteenth was still a little over fifty freaking million dollars. We didn't use much of it, but we had it. We all had our own bank accounts, and the interest for our accounts were crazy. I think the full money value we got was like… $53,795,500. So, our kids were going to be inheriting a little bit of money, I'd say. Same with their kids, and up until there were millions of 'great's in front of the 'grandkids'.

What did we do with the other half of our money that we turned down? We donated it, and now the little kids in Africa were being saved, one country at a time. Also, we donated to animal shelters, and we stopped most animal testing… Not all of it, but we're not super birds.

Okay, we are, but still. We could've stopped it all, but we were done saving the world, and, yes, I'm going to sound like a selfish little girl, but I just wanted to relax. So I did.

And now I was living the perfect life everyone wants to have.

Soooooooo...

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