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Meeting and greeting.
Crystal POV
"Hello Max." I grinned. "Remember me?"
I glanced around at the Flock and tried not to suddenly leap into the air, shouting 'I found them! I found them!'. All this time spent researching the Flock and finally it had paid off. Eventually the small girl with the blonde hair, who I presumed was Angel, broke the stunned silence by remarking:
"Max, I can't tell who she is but she's really excited for some reason. Her thoughts are all muddled up."
"Thanks sweetie." replied Max, smiling reassuringly.
I remembered her vaguely from when she had rescued me from the Institute. She looked older and sadder than when we had first met. Come to think of it, so did the rest of the Flock. Like the things they had seen had aged them beyond their years. Which, of course, was entirely possible, what with monsters from Itex chasing them, getting captured by Itex numerous times and being experimented on by, wait for it, ITEX! I ground my teeth together as I thought about the company that had made my life hell and received a concerned and sympathetic look from Angel. Forgot she could mind-read. I could see this becoming a problem in the very near future. Then my attention swung back to Max as she fired a question at me, frowning.
"Sooo… who are you and what are you doing here? Are you a test from the School or did you escape as well?"
She was leaning forward to intrude my personal space and crossing her arms menacingly, while sending me a look that could have started another ice age. I recognised it as an attempt to intimidate me so I backed down submissively.
"My name's Crystal and I come in peace, not to sound too cheesy. I just wanted to find you, for reasons that will soon become obvious. And as for that last question, I should think you know the answer."
I knew this wasn't all too helpful but I wanted to see if they remembered me. After a few minutes of deafening silence it had become obvious they weren't going to guess it and I decided to give in and tell them. But, again, I had forgotten the mind-reader.
"No… Really? It couldn't… but it is! OMG!!" Angel squealed. I wondered briefly if she was going to do this all the time.
"You're the one we rescued from the Institute!"
"So… How about a get-to-know-you game, I'm sure Fnick won't mind us borrowing the laptop to find one?"
This was Iggy speaking. Not Max. Max was sitting in the corner, glaring. She really didn't like me for some reason and acted all suspiciously around me. I supposed she had to; after all, she was in charge of five young bird-kids and their dog, all of whom having a life ambition of living to see tomorrow. And to her I could just be an experiment from Itex, come to infiltrate the Flock and then betray them. I could understand her reasons, but that didn't stop it hurting.
"Hel-looo! Anybody home?" I blinked in surprise as I noticed Iggy waving his hand in front of my face. As if seeing it (though he couldn't, he was blind… right?) he stopped waving.
"You kinda drifted off there, didn't ya?"
I nodded, embarrassed. Then, remembering he couldn't see it, I agreed and was thankful he couldn't see my bright-red face either.
"That's alright, at least you don't mutter when you're thinking, like Max."
At that Max jumped up and shoved him, hard. Then Iggy started running round the house, closely chased by Max. It reminded me so much of the relationship between me and my brother, Coal, that it brought tears to my eyes. That was all before he had expired.
I sighed and fought back tears. Usually at this point I would crawl off into a corner to cry, sometimes staying there for days on end. However, just as I was preparing to do that Angel came over and looked at me with her big, blue, innocent eyes and asked if I could read her a bed-time story. Deciding it couldn't do any harm I began and within five minutes had completely forgotten about crying.
I could get used to this.
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