Just so there's no confusion, it's January. And that's summer in Australia.
And I still want reviews. They do help!
Disclaimer: James Patterson owns Maximum Ride, not me
Claimer: I own ruby
My life as a mutant bird-kid
This is where I belong
Ruby POV
I woke up the next morning to the smell of bacon, and my sister in my face. She was in my room looking down at me with a look on her face that reminded me of circus clowns.
"Go away, Heidi." I mumbled into my pillow.
"Bite me!" she snapped, offended and left my room.
"If I'm hungry enough." I sighed and got dressed. Plain grey top and mini shorts.
"Mum? Can we go to The Rock today?" Heidi asked at breakfast. (The land is flat around here, except this huge rock that spread about 2 kilometres in diameter.)
"Sure Heidi," Mum replied, setting breakfast on the table. I dug in. "But Ruby?" she asked me.
"Hmm?" I mumbled, my mouth full. I grabbed another piece of toast.
"No flying till we get there. You need to stay on the land cruiser." She said sternly.
"Yeah, yeah." I replied, after swallowing the last of my breakfast. Last time I flew to The Rock, I was almost spotted by the neihbours. I got up and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth. When I came out, Mum and Dad were putting food into a box and getting a rug for us to sit on. Heidi came out of her room with a spare change of clothes. She got a towel from the linen cupboard and sat down on the couch, ready.
I had gotten over swimming in the tadpole ponds years ago. "Don't you want to do anything besides swimming with the tadpoles?" I asked. She just poked her tongue out at me like a 5-year-old.
We all piled into the land cruiser, Dad driving, Heidi sitting on Mum's lap and me in the middle. When we went onto the side road, Dad stopped the land cruiser and me and Heidi got on the back. We laughed while dodging branches and talked until we got there.
"Can I fly now?" I asked, now that we were out of the trees.
"No," whined Heidi, "I want to see the well."
"Fine," I mumbled, walking over to the trees on the right. Dad held most of the
branches out of the way. If it were just me and Heidi, she would have made every branch snap back into my face.
When we got there, I peered down for about, I don't know, 5 seconds, then walked back. Mum was already a couple of metres up the rock. I let out my wings with a whoosh, and flew up to join her. "How's the old well?" she asked, not much question in her voice. I almost laughed.
"Same as always. Saw a few camels." I said sarcastically. The well used to be a place where camels and everything could come and get water. I guess it lost it's popularity.
Just then, Heidi came running out of the bushes and came bounding up to us. "Don't run," Mum scolded, "You know what happened last time." I laughed. Last time Heidi ran up here, she tripped and fell into a pond. Heidi scowled at me.
"I'll meet you at the usual spot." I said to Mum, before flying off to the right, up to the rocks with holes big enough to sit in. Once there I sat in my favourite rock and pulled out my mp3 from my pocket.
After we had our little picnic, we headed home, to airconditioning and our old, beat-up, practice car, Little Kev.
I do have an old, beat-up, practice car at a place we go to on the holidays. And yes, I can drive it. I drove it when we were up there this holidays.
Anyway, I still need a name for the doctor and if none of you give me a name, then I don't know if you will like the back-up name that I have.
I hope you liked this chapter and please REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW. Your ideas realy help.
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