WOOT WOOT! Finally i got a bout of inspiration for this story so i am updating! yay! So...yeah. hope you like it! And, hopefully, i will update Back to School soon. so look for that.

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN...darn...

I looked around, watching as Ella stepped into her dress and Elise began applying her eye shadow. Then I turned my attention back to the full-length mirror in front of me. Sighing, I spun around, watching as the elegant white gown swish around my ankles. I, Maximum Ride, was getting married…to a human. I mean, there wasn't all that much difference between us…right? I took another deep breath and Ella misinterpreted it.

"Don't hyperventilate. It'll be alright!" She smiled and moved to the make-up desk to do her make-up.

"I…I'm just nervous…" It felt weird to say that. I was normally confident and sure of myself. I had to be. I'm the leader. Well…I was…

Elise stepped behind me and started brushing my hair, prepping it for a bun. "Aren't we all…" She said. Then she sighed. "I just love your hair…it's so soft and brown…and you get blonde highlights naturally." She removed one hand from the comb and ran it through her flat, red hair momentarily.

As I watched her in the mirror, her red hair instantly reminded me of the Lissa, the red-head that Fang had dated back in DC. My stomach coiled at the thought. I snapped from my reverie as a small knock resounded from the door. Looking to the clock, I relaxed, because I still had a half-hour before the ceremony started. So who…?

It was so hard for me not to yell out her name when she entered. At the last minute, I switched to her pseudonym. "Ariel!" I yelled.

Elise let go of my hair and Angel thrust herself in my arms. We embraced for a few minutes before I pulled back to get a good look at her.

She was almost as tall as me, even though she was just 11. Her blond hair was shoulder-length and was curled in perfect ringlets. She was wearing a simple sundress in a light blue that blended perfect with the lavender bridesmaid's dresses. But if she's here, then where is...?

Speak of the devil and the devil shall appear… Or at least, I think that's how it goes.

Nudge walked in next, followed by my mother. Seeing that I was not yet ready, she glanced at the clock and groaned.

"Alright! Ella, Elise, Ariel…you girls are done so can you please move into the other room, we have to get the bride ready!" She ushered them out and beamed brightly at me. Dr. Martinez held up one finger—the universal 'hold on a minute' gesture—and turned to the dresser to grab bobby pins and whatever else she would need.

While she was busy, I turned to Nudge and hugged her too. She started ranting on and on about how great it was to see me and all that. We pulled apart as my mom finished what Elise had started. Nudge stopped talking, but only to put on her lavender dress, seeing as she was a bridesmaid.

"Everyone is here!" Nudge exclaimed excitedly.

I smiled. "Excellent!" But I was fighting the butterflies in my stomach.

But then she frowned. "Well…everyone except for F-Nick."

"What? But…"

"Yeah," Nudge said, scoffing. "He told I-Jeff that he would be here but… no one has seen him"

I winced as mom pulled my hair a little too tight and then replied, "Well…we shouldn't fret. He said he would be here. But if he can't make it…then the worlds not going to end. Right?" It was a rhetorical question, but my mom answered anyways.

"Yeah, everything is going to be great, Max! You're getting married, oh I'm sooo excited!" She sounded like a little kid in a toy store or something but I could understand her excitement…kind of. She was a mother…her daughter was getting married. I don't have a daughter (obviously!) but I think I get it.

She embraced me and when she pulled away, she beamed. I opened my mouth to say something but, faintly, I could hear a soft tune playing somewhere nearby.

Ella burst into the room. "The music!" She shouted. "It's time!"

All the girls came back into the room and we looked each other over before heading to the entrance to the chapel. The bridesmaids and the other people went as practiced and I took up the lead. I'll admit, I felt angelic. The white dress restricted my wings but though the veil, I noticed the beauty of the room. All of the sky blue and lilac flowers matched perfectly with the dresses and the tie on Sam's suit. I looked right at him…and the angelic feeling went away.

I know I'm not exactly human, but I do have hormones. Meaning that I do dream of boys. And I have dreamt of my wedding, as has every other girl in the world. You know those dreams where it is an important scene, and you are with a boyfriend/girlfriend or someone of the sort, but you don't know who the person is? Like, you know what they are like and what they do and their personality and everything, but you can't see the face? Well that's how my wedding dreams were.

But now that I placed Sam into that empty void…it doesn't seem right. I don't know how…it just does…

Moments later, I was at the altar and Sam was removing the veil from my face. He smiled at me, I smiled back, and we turned to the minister. If I looked back on this later, I would feel bad, because I was not listening to anything he was saying. I had read enough about marriage to know that he was just blessing us and all of that.

"Do you, Sam Henderson, take this woman to be your forever loving wife, for richer or poorer, on sickness and in health, until death do you part?" This part snapped me from my reverie because I knew that I would have to say something soon.

"I do." Sam murmured, looking into my eyes. Living with Mr. Silent—aka Fang—I got pretty good at reading the emotions on someone's face, and in their eyes. Sam's showed pure love. There was no hesitation, or doubt, like I was sure was in mine. Felt even worse.

The minister turned to me. "Do you, Maxine Martinez, take this man to be your forever loving husband, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?"

I breathed deeply and took the plunge. "I—"

I was going to end it here but I didn't want to be evil! Continue…

"Do" I concluded. The minister said something about man and wife and Sam brought his lips to mine gently. Pulling apart, I realized that we would spend happily ever after together.

OR NOT!

That's what you'd expect to happen, right? Well it didn't.

Before I could finish saying 'I do', Gazzy jumped up from the pew and ran down the aisle to me. "Max! Max! Max!" He was screaming. "I had a…a you-know-what!"

I gasped, glanced at Sam's bewildered expression, and met the Gasman in the aisle. "What is it Dylan?" I whispered, using his fake name, just incase someone could hear us.

"It was Fang, he…he…he was singing a song…about killing himself… And he was holding a knife and…"

I was completely shocked. I grabbed his shoulders and bent over to lean closer to him. I was teetering on the edge of sanity, hoping that I would at least last through the wedding. "And what Gaz?" I questioned, finding it hard to keep the worry from my voice.

He shook his head. "I don't know…that was it…" He looked at me with a hint of fear in his eyes, as if I would be mad at him.

I nodded, told him to gather the flock, and stood up straight. As he ran off to talk to Nudge, I looked over the crowd of confused people. "I'm really sorry, but…I just…I have to go. Sorry." I looked at Sam again, with an unreadable expression on his face, and ran to the lobby and out the front doors.

Nudge was behind me in an instant, opening a few buttons on the back of my dress to release my wings. I took a running start and took off, the flock behind me. Once in the air, I turned to the Gasman, but he was already on it. He explained his vision to the flock and then told me that Fang had been in a cave, but he wasn't sure where.

I nodded again and tried my mind-sight, searching out Fang. Finding the way, I flapped harder and tipped west a bit. The flock followed quietly. She kept her speed at 120 mph, as to not go past the flock, but it was hard for her.

"Guys. I…I have to go ahead. He could be killing himself now or something. And I can't let him do that. It's just straight ahead. Angel can find me if she needs to, okay?" They nodded and I kicked up the speed to about 200mph, stopping when I was sure I had found him. As silently as I could, I dropped down a few feet behind him. He took no notice, and I realized that it was because he was listening to an iPod. He started muttering to himself, but it was too low for me to hear. I saw a glint and noticed that he had pulled out a pocketknife. He lifted it up, examining it for a minute, before pulling to towards himself.

I don't know what I was thinking then. I just knew that he could not do that. I launched myself at him in an instant. I may not be super strong but I do pack quite a punch. And with Fang off guard, it caught him right in the right temple, causing him to black out.

I called out to Angel in my mind, telling her that I needed rope or something to restrain him. Angel was dropping down beside me in an instant, somehow producing chains out of nowhere. Well, she said she found them in a small rental cabin nearby but still… I wasn't going to argue over where they were found. I just asked her to help me hook up Fang. He was shackled to the tree. I sent Angel to go wait with the others, who were hiding out in that abandoned cabin, and settled in front of Fang. All I had to do now was wait for him to awaken.

I was unsure if I should go on or not but this seems like a good stopping point. A bit of a cliff hanger, isn't it. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Lolz. Well, I got my inspiration back for this story so I hope the next chappie will be up soonz. Hope you enjoyed it. Review!

-AMSRULE-