AN: Remember, Max is waking up to a bucket of water!! Oh, and ThAnKs a ton to all my reviewers, here's a brownie! I hand you a brownie
Sorry if you thought it was going slow, I was in the explaining stage. Enjoy!
Oh, by the way, I need to re-name the 6th grade school. It's now Jefferson 6th grade.
I choked and spluttered and turned to see a high-fiveing (AN: Augh! Sorry if I spelled that wrong…) Fang and Iggy. I threw off the heavy covers (Oh yeah, apparently Angel read the family selling the house's minds, and they're really rich so Angel got them to leave all their junk.) whapping Iggy in the face.
"What the heck!" he cried. I shook my sopping wet self off like a dog, and the water droplets showered down on them. Fang smirked at me. I gave him a death glare.
"Ah, revenge is sweet!" He said, knowing full well that I would still have to shower and then get ready, and let me tell you, blow drying my hair was going to take a while. I looked at my clock expecting it to be 5:45 or something. Instead… 6:30!
I looked at Fang and punched him in the arm. We needed to leave at seven because the middle/ 6th grade schools started at 7:25. Ange and Gazzy were lucky; their school started at 9:05. Total was in charge of them. But jeeze, now I only had 15-ish minutes to get ready. I punched Iggy too, for good measure, and left them rubbing their arms. I stormed into the bathroom and got ready. 25 minutes later we flew away from our new house and headed to our school. Angel and I had gone in earlier to register everyone in their respective schools so we were all set! Fang had decided to, in fact, use his ratty old black backpack, but I had plans to stash that some where for blackmail -if needed-, so he would have to use his My Little Pony backpack. Hahaha.
When we got to Douglas Middle, we landed behind a grove of trees, and waited for the first bell to ring. Nudge walked over to Jefferson, which was only about a ½ a mile away. I was still glowering at my fellow companions because my hair was wet, and it was cool out. My teeth started to chatter a bit. Surprisingly Fang noticed and came up and put his arm around me. I looked up at him, shocked. He glanced down and started to briskly rub my arms. I leaned my head against his chest and said, "This is almost making up for this morning, if that's what you wanted." He smiled. Then the bell rang and he let go of me as we walked into the office to get our schedules. We all had 1st, 3rd, and 5th and 6th, (There are two L.A. blocks for some odd reason.) together, so that was good. In all the classes it was the same, introductions, finding seats, and then being bored out of our minds, because we weren't sure what to do, so we didn't do anything. In homeroom -which is in between 5th and 6th periods- I decided to go over to a nice looking group of girls.
"Hi, I'm Max," I said, plopping down on the counter like air conditioner/ heater thing next to a brunette.
"Oh, hi," said a brunette-ish blonde who introduced herself as Linzie. She introduced the girl I was sitting next to as Abby, and then the one with short dirty blonde who's name is Becca. The other brunette, who was as skinny as me, was Laura, and the one with the really long blonde hair was Saana.
"We were just talking about this book that's coming out in like, 7 days, and we're totally psyched!" Linzie said. I asked her what it was.
"The Maximum Ride series!" Laura said in a 'duh, it's the greatest series in the world' tone. I felt the blood drain from my face. They all looked at each other and then Abby asked if I had any siblings.
"Well besides Jeff and Nick," We were all using our fake names, except me and Angel.. "There's Tiffany- Crystal, Angel, and," I cringed. "Zephyr." I saw Saana's eyes widen for a second and I said, "Yeah, I know, it's a very unusual name." By that time I had figured out that Linzie was basically the head of their group, and so when she asked me the next question she was unfazed.
"Oh, wow. I bet they're a handful! Do you have to baby-sit them most of the time, or do Fang and Iggy help?" After a moment of me staring at her like a deer in the head lights, she said "Oops!" and covered her mouth with her hand.
"H-how do you know our names?" Oh. My. God.
Laura rolled her eyes. "Dude, Maximum Ride is like, ruling our lives at the moment. Of course, we didn't actually know that you were real, 'cause you're never in the news around here." WHAT? Are we really that famous? I searched the room frantically for Fang, and his eyes met mine from the group of guys across the room. He sauntered over.
"Hi, Fa- Nick!" Linzie shouted, waving. I glared at her when Fang said "Hey." and she shrank back. My glares can make your blood run cold, I thought, satisfied. I whispered to Fang that they knew who we were. His expression hardened.
"Listen up girls," He said softly. The leaned in expectantly. "You cannot tell anyone who we are. Under any condition." They nodded.
"Random question, but can I meet uh, Jeff now?" asked Abby. "No offense, but I'm a pyro too, so he's a bit cooler than you." I nodded. Who cares? Iggy will be glad to have a fangirl. Fang gets most of 'em.
"Well, I like you better Fang." Linzie declared. "And your blog is pretty sweet! I'm Fanggurly if you ever see my replies." I rolled my eyes, hiding my jealousy very well. See what I mean? If anything, I should be Fanggurly.
"Oh, ok."
Just then the bell rang and the crazy teacher Mrs. Shackle told us we could go.
"Hey, um, can we sit with you at lunch?" I asked hesitantly.
"Well, Olivia," Linzie pointed to a curly blonde. "And Laura eat at a different table, but you can sit at ours," she said her blue eyes filled with hope.
"Ok, thanks." Fang said. Oh, no, is he falling for her?, my subconscious wondered. But lunch turned out to be fine and the rest of the day was too. In fact, I actually started to feel pretty comfortable with these guys. Always a bad sign.
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Linzie POV
Mrs. Shackle introduced 3 new kids who were pretty dang tall, two guys, both totally hot, though the Goth one was way hotter, and a girl who was amazingly pretty. Dang, I thought. Another popular person. Surprisingly, in homeroom she came over to my group. We were currently obsessing over how darn hot Fang was, and how it would be so cool if they were real. Laura was also figuring out when she was gonna get MR4 since she was leaving for vacation the day it came out. Since I hadn't been paying very much attention when Mrs. Shackle was introducing them, you can imagine how flabbergasted I was when the girl said her name was Max. After a few questions, we determined that she was in fact, the Maximum Ride. She ate with us at lunch, and we asked her if she ever read JP's books about her and she said no. I told her she should read them and make sure they were accurate. Saana remarked that James Patterson captured her sarcasm pretty well. But soon the conversation switched back to the upcoming 4th book. Max, Fang, and Iggy just sat and ate like wild banshees since they had no clue what James had written in his 4th book. Of course neither did we, but we didn't care. Anyhow our standards were pretty high.
Phew! Another chapter out in the open! The new characters are actually some of my real friends so they should be happy they are in my story… coughcough…
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