A dozen Apologies...I just got lazy and this was supposed to be longer but I didn't know how it would work so Yeah now it's like this...forgive me?:P

Max POV

So far, school was going my way despite how hungry I was and the fact that in every class the teachers seem to like calling me Maxine. I checked on their attendance sheet and it said Maximum Ride. I have no idea where they are getting this Maxine name from but it's not mine. Fang turned out to have a few more classes with me when we compared schedules. Besides English we had Biology, Ability training, PE, and lunch together. The butt head had geometry, French, and Art/Computer animation instead of the other classes I had. Algebra and Spanish were both interesting. I met a guy named Iggy who apparently loves to blow stuff up. He could also see through walls(a/n take that white coats!). I think that's really cool, what other weird stuff could people do here? He said it was and that came in handy if anyone was there when he was about to set up an explosive. That made me nervous but I laughed anyways. He invited me to sit with his friends and his high self. Quoted directly from his highness. Then in bio I was placed in the sitting group with Fang, a girl named JJ and Sam. There hadn't been any group assignments yest in the year so everyone did their own thing. That's where I learned that even though Fang wrote a lot he doesn't say much. I talked mostly with JJ and Sam when he wasn't talking to his friend...did he say Dylan? And sometimes with Fang. After, Biology Sam invited me to sit with his friends but I turned him down. Gotta stick with earlier plans. I'm not one for ditching. (a/n did that make sense? Sorry.)

Finally, LUNCH! I practically ran to the lunch area. It wasn't hard I just followed the troop of students. I was almost the first one there but some jerk went in front of me in the line. It was pizza day by coincidence that appealed to me very much. When I reached the salad bar I grabbed everything in sight except raisins. Dried up grapes. Who eats that? On second thought... I was hungry. I grabbed those too. I got three cookies which was the sad limit. Finally, when I bought my lunch I waited around a little to see where Iggy would be.

"Max!" I turned around. There was Iggy with his plate full of food. "Come on, I'll show you where we sit." He walked forward and I followed.

We sat in the far corner of the cafeteria. It looked like a cozy place and not many people were there, decidedly I declared the area a claustrophobia free area. "Nice place."

Iggy smiled. He looked at my lunch plate. "That's an awful lot of food, Max. Are you sure you're going to be able to finish all of that?"

"Are you kidding? I'm starved!" I looked down at my plate, It was only a cookie over what I usually ate. Speaking of cookies that one on the left looked like it was gooey in the middle. That's the way cookies were meant to be. I picked it up but before I could take a bite...

"Hey, Max. you're eating with us?" I looked up and saw Fang and JJ standing behind where Iggy was sitting. 'Apparently.' I slowly nodded my head.

Iggy looked at all of us. "So, you've already met JJ and Fang?" I nodded numbly and tried again to take a bite of my cookie but was interrupted again.

"Yo what's up people?" I turned to my right it was some guy I never saw before. He had a type of skater look and he had a strange type of shade of blonde hair. He looked at me. "Hey,new person," He smiled. "What's your name?"

I looked longingly at my cookie but remembered that it was rude to talk with your mouth full. I refrained from taking a bite answered instead, "Max."

"Cool name," He said. "My name's Justin." Everyone sat down.

"Nice to meet you Justin but I'm very hungry right now and I would love to take a bite of my cookie," I said preparing to take a bite. But there was yet again another interruption.

"Yeah and watch out she eats like a pig." The voice was completely recognizable. It was Ella's voice. I turned around to see her going to sit by me with the girl Nudge that was supposed to be her guide. I nearly growled at her.

I rolled my eyes. "Mm-HM, Ella but I can't do that if people keep interrupting me." I took a quick bite of my cookie before anyone could interrupt me again. Fang was sitting to my left and smirked at my quick move to my food. I swallowed so I could stick my tongue out at him. He stuck his tongue back out at me. I rolled my eyes and started devouring my food. It was what I had been longing for this whole day. It was like I was at fast food places again. I decided to slow down so my eating wouldn't freak anybody out. I grabbed a cookie and looked up at everyone. They were all looking at me eat. Maybe I was just too...not lady like when eating? I never did learn the dinning etiquette rules. No manners at all. There was one thing I did notice. The only one not looking was Fang. I smiled gratefully but he didn't see because he had his head bowed as he was eating his own lunch almost like I had been doing. He looked up.

Fang pointed to the side of his lips. "Something there."

I laughed and proceeded to wipe my mouth. "Yeah, thanks."

Ella looked at everyone else. "See? I told you she ate like a pig," but she said it kindly and I knew she didn't mean to offend me. Her next words reassured me of that. "But it's better than having a sister who doesn't eat at all." She grinned at me. Yeah, that would never happen.

"Oh, my, gosh! That is so true!" Nudge burst out. "I mean I don't have a sister or anything but that would be so weird having a sister with anorexia. I mean how sad is that? She would be making her self weaker and weaker just because she's trying to make her self sure and confident about her self. Then you would be trying to convince her that she's beautiful but she doesn't believe you and she keeps hurting herself that way. Oh, and it's so bad for your skin. I read somewhere, um, I can't remember where? Uh, I think it was on Beauty Blog but anyway it said that some effects of anorexia could be that your skin could turn yellowish. Like, ewww how humph."

Iggy had placed his hand over Nudges mouth. "Okay, Nudge, enough on the anorexia parade." He took his hand off revealing Nudge smiling sheepishly.

JJ looked at me. "Her talking could take some getting used to." I nodded flustered by how much Nudge could talk. I'm not even sure she took a breath between all that.

Justing nodded in agreement. "So, you two related?"

Ella and I nodded.

"That's so weird," Iggy said. "You two look nothing alike. The height, the hair, a lot of stuff."

Ella smiled sweetly at him, a little too sweetly, if you ask me. "Well, yeah we are different. In everything, even personality. We have different dads." I stiffened. Fang looked at me. "I look more like our mom but Max looks more like, Ow!" Ella looked at me accusingly. I had kicked her beneath the table.

"They don't need to know," I whispered darkly. I was talking about my dad and Ella understood that. She nodded and made a more to stroke my arm but I involuntarily scooted away. She looked hurt but she knew why I had. "Sorry," I muttered.

I turned my head to see Fang staring at me intently. I tried smiling but it came out as a grimace.

"So,um, where did you two move from?" JJ asked this time. Fang and I looked away from each other.

Ella looked at me before answering, "South California." I nodded.

JJ's eyes brightened. "Really? Sunny beaches and stuff?" We both nodded. "Interesting, I always wanted to go there."

"Speaking of interesting," Nudge said and I thought she would start ranting again. "What can you two do? I mean you are in this school and all." I don't want to be mean and say I was relieved that she only asked a question and didn't give a whole speech. But nor can I lie.

Ella pointed at herself. "I can teleport," She the pointed at me. "And Max can-"

"Heal stuff," Ella, Fang, and I finished in unison. Ella and I both looked at Fang. Me face reddened as I remembered how he found out. I turned my face away.

"How did you know?" Ella asked.

Fang shrugged. "She showed me."

Iggy looked excited. "Really? You can do that? Can you show us?" Everyone else looked at me just as excited as Iggy. If I were to tell a group of five years old that they one a free supply of candy they wouldn't have looked more excited than them.

Ella raised her eyebrows in question at me. I nodded. "With what?" Ella asked. I looked around. Just as I was about to reply Ella sliced me with a butter knife. It stung really bad, I lifted my arm to show everyone what was already happening. Everyone looked in awe. Ella looked at me apologetically. "I didn't want you to freak."

I grimaced. "I don't freak." Ella gave me a look that reminded me about the plane, car, and mall. "At least not that bad," I mumbled. I looked back at my arm seeing it cleared of any injury. Turning back at everyone I saw them with big grins, except for Fang; he had a smirk, I don't think that guy can smile.

Iggy, however, was staring at Ella he was grinning though. "How about you, Ella? How does your teleportation work?" Ella turned a faint shade of pink and turned her face away for a minute. 'Am I missing something here?'

"Yeah, Ells, Show them what you can do," I nudged her on the side a little. I picked up the butter knife. Who said plastic knifes aren't dangerous? "Get rid of this while you're at it." Ella took the knife. In the next second she was gone.

Everyone at the table looked around. "Uh, where'd she go?" said Justin. I pointed to the other side of the lunch area where Ella was waving next to a trashcan. Iggy waved like an idiot. Then Ella blushed again. 'Oh, wait, I think I get it now.' Less than a second she was back next to me.

"That was amazing," Iggy smiled at Ella and she blushed. I smirked. I know where this is headed, just what Ells always wanted.

I went back to wolfing down my food. The rest of the lunch pretty much went that way. Nudge can hack into any computer, Technopathy. Ever heard of that? Not me. Iggy says that's how she always gets a good report card. Nudge claims she only messes with the school computer system if she has anything less than a B- minus. JJ can attract any piece of metal, copper, steel, and things with similar attributes. Justin can animal morph. He said it comes in handy for the end of the quarter. I didn't know what he was talking about but Ella seemed too I didn't bother asking. Then there was Fang.

Fang was being stubborn he wouldn't tell us. No matter how much we all tried to make him tell Ella and I he refused to budge. Nudge even tried helping by saying that she wouldn't talk for a week. It wasn't long until she cracked. Ten seconds to be exact, all Fang to do was raise his eyebrow and she ended up giving a whole speech instead about why he should tell us, getting sidetracked talking about flying unicorns and taco shells for breakfast. Don't ask, all I can say is that she was serious. It wasn't until Iggy slapped his hand over her mouth that she stopped.

JJ couldn't stop laughing. "Nudge, I think you went a little off topic. I mean really how did you end up talking about Tabasco and fries in tacos?"

"No," I put my hands up as if to ward off an attacker. "Don't get her started up again." Ella could only giggle. I turned my head to face Fang. "Come on why won't you tell us?"

Fang opened his mouth to say something and for a split second I was hopeful before he shut it again. "You'll see."

"More like they won't," Iggy muttered. Fang scowled at him.

I on the other hand was giving him a dark look. "When?"

Fang shrugged. "Soon."

"How soon."

Another shrug.

I rolled my eyes. I looked at my lunch plate. I happily full with this school food, which turned out to not be that bad. There was only one thing still on my plate. Raisins. Making a face I stood up to throw the plate away. Hasta la vista raisins. "Yeah sure," I said to Fang before walking away. What was I thinking? Raisins? I'd eat anything other than raisins. Even dessert rats. Now that sounded more appetizing than raisins. With one last look at the raisins box I tossed it in the trash along with the lunch plastic plate. Wait oops wasn't supposed to throw away the plate. Uh. Before anyone noticed I turned away. I crashed into someone. Shaking my head I looked up a little to see who it was. Sam's friend Dylan and then there was Sam right beside him

"Sorry," We both said at the same time. I have to stop bumping into people. "Uh, yeah, sorry, I've been bumping into people a lot lately. You didn't get hurt did you?" I was thinking back to the cut on Fang's neck. I inspected Dylan's just to see.

Dylan gave a slow, deep chuckle which startled me. "No, I'm all in one piece." He looked around checking him self jokingly. "I'm fine. Don't worry." He smiled a slow easy smile like his chuckle. 'Stop it, Max.' "Actually, Sam wants to ask you something. I just came to throw away the rest of my lunch."

I turned to look at Sam he was standing right beside me. When did he get there? "Hey, Sam." There was something going on.

"Hey, Max," He grinned at me kindly. "I was wondering if you'd like to go to the movies on Saturday and maybe I could show you around so you can get used to things around here."

I blinked. Did he just ask me out on a date? I never went on a date. "I'm not sure, my mom would probably want me to stay home," I was saying but then if Ella found out that I declined another offer to go on a date she would kill me. My mom would probably be happier than Ella if I decided to go. I didn't want to stay home either. "On the other hand," I looked at Sam's hopeful face. "Yeah, sure."

Sam smiled a big smile. "Cool," Dylan came to his side. "I'll see you at class." They both walked away.

Walking back, I noticed a few people staring at me for the first time. Most were girls and it was weird. Quickly I almost started jogging back to the group. I sat down thankfully. I looked around at everyone they were staring at me. "Uh, what?" Why was everyone staring at me? Did I accidentally let my wings out? I tightened my back and felt them press against me.

"What did Sam and Dylan want?" JJ asked suspiciously.

Oh, that. "Dylan, nothing but Sam asked me out on a date." There was an awkward silence.

Fang broke it surprisingly. "A date?"

I nodded my head.

Ella scowled at me. I knew she thought I rejected him. "What did you say?"

"Sure?" It sounded more like a question.

Evidently, Ella and Nudged didn't care. "Oh, my, gosh, MAX! No way! You finally said yes to someone!" Ella hugged me tightly. "Oh, there's so much we have to do! When is it? Where are you going? How long?"

I grimaced and said, "Saturday and I don't know, a movie I think?"

"That is so amazing! I can't believe your going on a date with Sam! He is like the most popular guy in school along with Dylan!" This time it was Nudge talking. And wait. Did she say he was popular? Oh, God, if there is one, this is a bad idea now. "You were talking to Dylan too! Wow, everyone must be so jealous! I mean even I'm a bit jealous. The coolest guy in the school asked you out!"

"It's her first date too!" Ella felt to add.

They both squealed. "That, like, changes everything!" Nudge practically screamed. "We have to pick out clothes, not that there's anything wrong with them of course. Then we have to do your hair! I'm amazing with hair. And your hair looks amazing so all we have to do is..."

I turn to look at everyone as Nudge kept talking about what they were going to do with me before my 'date'. JJ and Justin were laughing, Iggy was looking at me with raised eyebrows and Fang...he wasn't there. I looked around he was putting back the lunch plate. Then I looked back at Nudge and Ella. The more I listened to them the more I knew this was a bad idea. What had I gotten my self into?

And no...Fang is not already in love with Max or something like that. He is NOT jealous...he just really hates Sam and Dylan...much like I do...I hate Dylan more though... Haha yeah anyway Hope you liked it

better than I did I promise things will get better later. At least, I...I hope they will. Notice my liking for ellipses?oh nevermind.