Hey!!!! Glad you guys liked the last chapter. I know chapter 2 was really short, but I hope chapter 3 sorta-kinda made up for it.

Thanks for the reviews, also.

You know how I told you about it snowing where I live? Well, the day after I had no school, we had a 2-hour delay. My bus almost crashed. Which led me to a very odd thought.

Worst Case Senario: The bus spins out and goes into a ditch. It's smashed on the side where the door is. The back emergency exit door is somehow smashed in also, and you can't get out that way. The gas is leaking and the bus is going to blow up in a couple minutes, but the tow-truck person is tied up with another bus who spun out. The only way out is through the teensy-weensy windows. Remember: TEENSY-WEENSY WINDOWS.

How are the fat kids gonna get out?

I consider that a valid question.

So, I was in school and I lost my notebook in first period. At the end of the day some random guy I had never seen before and didn't even know came up to me, gave me my notebook, and walked away without saying a word.

WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!

I opened up my notebook and one the first page he had written (well, I'm guessing it was him):

'You finally get your harriers then.................BOOM.

Nubtub.'

HUH?!?!?!?!

Can someone please tell me how the Fnick someone can even comprehend that?!

Most of the time, weird things don't happen to me. I have to find humor in the most simple and insignificant things. But this? It's just too good to pass up. I had to tell somebody.

So, help? Is it like, code or something? Does it mean, 'THE GODS HAVE SUMMONED YOU...............INFIDEL ' in some random and stupid language that no one has ever heard of?

I'm dwelling too much on this. My heads going to explode. I'm going to make a really big deal out of this, and it's going to turn into my life-long quest to find this random guy and ask him why he would write that. No one will want to be in my company because it will be all I talk about and I will constantly mutter 'You finally get your harriers straight then............BOOM. Nubtub.' over and over to myself. Someone will eventually call the men in white and I will be put in a straight jacket and diagnosed as mentally insane and schizophrenic. I will eventually die of an over-dose of electric shock therapy.

I apologize for that last paragraph. It was uncalled-for, odd, and slightly depressing. Just ignore it.

In other news:

My transporting pen has found it's first cousin once removed! To UNDERLANDERfromtheOVERLAND: My pen says it misses your pen. Can't wait for the next family reunion. Next time they have got to remember to keep Granny out of the the ink-but-her-dementia-thinks-it's-tequila.

And, on to the story!

So I figured I'd check the house first. I ran all the way to Anne's.

Let's hear a round of applause for that bird-kid endurance, eh?

Night didn't lie, the trail in the woods wasn't hard to find and it did lead to the road we took to walk home.

I burst through the door of Anne's house without even stopping. I went into the kitchen, but unfortunately there was not a mutant to be found.

Just as I was turning around to go check upstairs, someone grabbed my arm. I swung around ready to fight, the adrenaline already rushing through my system to find . . .

Fang.

"Max, what are you doing here?"

That did it.

"You asshole!" I yelled and pushed him as hard as I could.

Of course, he pushed me back and I almost ran into the countertop.

"What's your problem?"

"What's my problem? You almost gave me a heart attack! I didn't know where you were! Why the hell are you here?" I yelled at him.

"How'd you know I was gone?"

"That girl, Linda or Lissa or whatever, asked why you weren't in school and you didn't answer my question."

"They might come back."

"Wha. . .?" then it dawned on me. "You wanted to be here when they came back. You wanted to catch them."

He shrugged.

"Well your a bigger idiot than I thought!"

"What?" he asked.

"Yeah, Fang? Suppose they did come back. Emphasis on they. They'd obviously bring more than one! And what were you going to do? Fang, you can hold your own against a couple pretty well, but you against however many they would bring? Last time I checked, that's not very good odds. And what were you planning to do when me and the flock were waiting outside the school for you so we could walk back to Anne's, huh? You didn't think tis through, did you?"

He seemed to ponder this and obviously didn't like what he came up with because he changed the subject.

"How'd you sneak out?" he asked.

"I'd rather not discuss it."

Thankfully, he dropped it after that.

"Come on," I told him.

"Where?"

"Back to school."

"Seriously?"

"Yes, seriously. The flock's gonna be worried when they realize we're not in school."

He reluctantly followed me out the door. We walked back to school in complete silence.

Excuse me. Complete, awkard silence. That is until I went to turn off back onto the trail.

"Where are you going?" he stopped and looked at me like I was crazy.

"Just come on. Night told me about this trail. It leads to the school."

When we did come back around to the school, I think Fang finally realized how I had snuck out. Maybe it was the wide-open window to the boys bathroom complete with the snapped string to the blinds. Maybe it was the way the ground was flattened under the window from where I fell. Maybe it was how my face turned bright red when said window came into view. Maybe it was all three of those things put together.

"You snuck out the boy's bathroom window?"

"Maybe."

He just looked at me. He was gonna laugh. He was gonna crack up in T-9. . .8 . . .7 . . .6 . . .5 . . .4 . . .3 . . .2 . . .1 . . .

He threw his head back and laughed. I so called that.

"Alright, alright. It's so funny. Ha ha. You can stop now," I said in a monotone. He just kept laughing.

"Shut up!" I said a little louder. He stopped laughing with difficulty.

"How are we gonna get back in?"

Oh. I hadn't thought of that.

"Good question," I responded.

"You don't know the answer, do you?"

"Nope."

"Well then, we tried." He turned around and had taken 2 steps before I grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled him back to me.

"Uh-uh. I don't know where you think you're going. We're getting in that damn school, whether you like it or not. Give me a boost."

"Are you serious? We're gonna climb in that window?"

"How else are we gonna get in?"

"Throught the front door?" Yeah, right. Like it's that simple.

"The headhunter might see us. Well, the headhunter might have someone monitoring the boy's bathroom now also. . . We're SOL."

"Why would he have someone monitoring the boy's bathroom?"

"Um, just a hunch? Now give me a boost."

Turns out getting out of a tiny window is easier than getting in a tiny window. Curse you, Rapunzel's prince, for making it look so easy.

You know how I said walking in the front door wasn't so simple? Apparently, it was that simple.

After the window-blowout Fang somehow convinced me to try the front door. No one was in the front hallway, we got five steps in and the bell rang. Then we just blended in and went to our last period class.

Stupid Fang for being right.

When we were walking home I was telling the kids what had happened, excluding the part about why Fang was home because Dani, Ash, Night, and Jay walk the same way home with us.

"Why didn't you just wait outside the school for us?" Nudge pointed out.

Stupid logic for making sense.

The Harrington Crew, as JJ calls them when she doesn't feel like wasting time saying all their names (their mom's last name is Harrington), were acting perfectly normal. Like nothing happened. As if they didn't suddenly go all freaky know-all Oracle on me in the lunchroom.

I missed the beginning of the their conversation due to my spacing-out, but I caught the end of it.

"Well, fuck you too, Ash," said Dani.

"When and where," Ash said back.

"And there, with three words, you have confirmed my long-termed suspicions about your sexual preferences," Dani replied.

"What?" Ash asked.

"I always thought you were a lesbian. Let me guess, your the guy, right? It makes total sense. You never were very girly and never even showed much interest in men. Don't worry, we still love and support you."

"I'm leaving," Ash said and turned away.

"Wait, Ash! I'm sorry. If you come back, I guess . . . I don't mind if you fantasize about me. It's not as if you don't already."

"Screw you, Dani," Ash threw back over her shoulder.

"Exactly! You know you want to!" Dani said as she started to jog to catch her.

"Is that why you guys have always been so close?" Jay yelled after them.

They both stopped where they were.

"Oh, nice knowing you. You're gonna die," Night muttered.

"What?" Dani said, her voice dangerously low. Jay started to slowly back up with his hands up in the international 'woah, Nelly' gesture.

"Jay, come here," Ash said in an unnaturally calm voice.

"No," Jay said.

"Jay, front and center," Dani said.

"Uh-uh."

"JAY!" Dani and Ash yelled at the same time. It was really creepy.

"Get away from me!" Jay yelled as they started to run after him. Jay can run pretty fast, actually. Dani and Ash were at the same speed for a little bit, but then Dani started to really run. And I mean run. Like, abnormally fast. Faster than a fourteen year-old girl. As fast as me. Maybe faster. She caught up to Jay in less than 10 seconds and tackled him.

"Take it back!" Dani yelled as she straddled his wriggling body and punched him in the throat.

And that is how we left them. The flock and Night just kept on walking right past Dani and Ash beating the shit out of Jay in the middle of the road.

I looked at Night. "Shouldn't you be stopping them or something?"

"Jay has a huge mouth. He needs to get beat up every once in a while to be reminded of his place. Dani and Ash have anger management problems. They need to beat somebody up every once in a while to get it out of their systems. If you haven't noticed yet, I'm the only sane one in this family. I keep it that way by not getting involved in their insanity."

"Ah, I see."

So, get this. Their house is like, 3 minutes before Anne's. Down a road I had never noticed before. It makes sense, though. I still didn't know it was there until Night disappeared into the trees and I really looked for it.

I couldn't sleep again that night. There was just a lot on my mind. Let me make a handy-dandy little list for you:

1) Who raided our house

2) If it was Ari, why

3) Sam

4) The Harrington Clan

Is it just me, or are they weirdly weird? I mean, there's normal-people weird, then there's people-like-me weird.

And they are both.

I mean, what was up with lunch today?

And the way Dani ran? I've never heard of a fourteen year-old normal girl that can run faster than me. It's impossible. I can run as fast, most-likely faster, than any grown man in the best shape of his life.

I just can't seem to forget the way Dani's big, light blue eyes seemed to glow as they bored into me when she told me to go at lunch.

My last coherent thought before I fell asleep was, "Weren't her eyes green yesterday?"

She didn't come out again tonight. Still, my team stayed out all night even though Sector 1 said she was asleep.

She'll come out eventually.

And when she does, we'll be waiting for her.

We'll always be waiting.

I had a dream about random-nubtub guy.

I was in the school hallway, at my locker preparing to go home. It was as usual, kids swarming about, gossiping about nonsense, people talking smack to start some drama so they had something to talk about. Then everyone disappeared. I was alone in the hallway except for random-nubtub guy in a black coat gliding towards me. Like, gliding. As in, it seemed like he was floating and didn't have any feet. Yes, it was as creepy as it sounds.

He stopped right in front of me and handed me a notebook. I opened it up, and on the first page it read,

'You finally get your harriers then...............BOOM.

Nubtub.

YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN.'

Not only did it say the 'YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN' but the random-nubtub guy said 'Ello, Govna. YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN' in the most awesome and epic British accent I have ever heard in my life.

Then Tyler texted me at 5:33 in the morning to tell me school was closed again cause it snowed again last night and woke me up. He will pay.

But how giddytacular is that?!

You don't get much more epic than that.

I was the most giddy person in the world when I had that dream.

Definitely top five best dreams of my life.

I just thought you would like to bask also in my giddytastic light.

R&R.

(I don't know if you noticed, but I have taken to putting giddy into any possible word. I suggest it. Just using the word giddy makes me giddy)

BAZINGA.

I don't know if you watch The Big Bang Theory, but that is my second new catch-phrase (my first one's giddy). Thank you, Sheldon.