DISCLAIMER: Now tell me, do I look , smell or even taste (I even know where that one came from .. but its for the effect!) like James Patterson. NO. I thought so. So obviously, me doesn't own Maximum Ride or the characters (other than Mr Lockwood).

Chapter 4

The rest of the week was awesome- well, duh of course it was… Fang was there! God, I'm turning into such a girl.

It was Saturday afternoon and I decided to explore the town which I would have to put up with for the next few years. My stomach was starting to rumble so I decided to scoff down some grub at the nearest diner or something.

The so-called diner turned out to be a really cosy, but packed, Starbucks. I went up to the counter and ordered some black coffee and a yummy croissant with tomatoes and melted cheese. Ahh, Heaven on a plate! I paid a couple of bucks and looked around to find some spare seats to sit in. My eyes caught sight of an empty window seat next to a guy who was leaning over the table.

I made my way towards the seat and sat down. Just as I was going to dig into my food, the guy next to me turned around and said, "Hello."

Feeling slightly confused, because the only guys I knew around here were Fang and Iggy and this dude seriously didn't sound like them, I slowly turned around and said, "Uuh… hi…?"

As soon as I saw the dude's face, my eyes widened slightly. 'The dude' just happened to be Mr Lockwood.

"Don't I recognize you from one of my English classes?" He asked.

"Oh, um yeah, I had English with you earlier this week on Monday."

He held out his hand and, reluctantly, I shook it.

"So, umm, Mr Lockwood, how's life?" Shit, did I really just ask that?

He laughed, "First off, you can call me Stefan, since we're not in school or anything, and life is actually pretty good? How about you?"

"Life's pretty cool for me as well, I just moved here about a week ago so I'm still getting to know people and the place itself."

"Where did you move from?"

"New York."

"Wow, big move."

"Yeah, I guess so…"

I went back to eating (well, nibbling) on my food when Mr Lockwood, or Stefan, got up.

"I guess I'd better get going then. It's been wonderful getting to know you."

I blushed slightly, "Awesome."

"So…bye."

"See ya!" Oh God, did I just enthusiastically say 'see ya' to a teacher? Well, that's a first…

He smiled and took off (A/N Ha, makes him sound like a plane or something. –snort-).

I saw him walking outside the café's window, he waved at me and I waved back.

Just as I was going to get back to eating, I saw Fang standing outside the music store opposite the café, glaring at me.

Hmph. What's his beef? I gave him a confused look and once again, tried to finish my food and then (once again…) I got interrupted by my phone ringing. All about interrupting are we today?

I looked at the caller name, 'Unknown'. OK… I hesitantly pressed the answer button and waited for the person to say something.

Nothing.

I waited some more. Nothing again.

By now, I was feeling more and more impatient, "Hello?" I demanded.

Still no answer.

Just as I was going to hang up, I heard some heavy breathing… and then the mysterious (…) caller hung up on me.

"Creepy or what?" I muttered to myself.

I was staring at my phone screen as if a magic Buddha or genie may pop up and say (in the uber cool Indian accent), "I will now make all your worries go away. Don't worry, there is no evil physco stalking you. Have a good day!" As if.

Suddenly, my phone buzzed and a 'New Message' alert popped up. I opened my inbox and read the message. I started to feel even more freaked when I realised that 1) The sender was listed as 'Unknown' and 2) The message was completely and utterly blank.

I sighed and pulled myself off from the stool and tried to get home quickly.

Well, Max, what have we achieved today?

(A/N God, I love writing these little random list things. Feel free, you can call me odd…)

I am like BFFs (note sarcasm) with my (extremely hot) English teacher, STEFAN.

My ACTUAL, supposedly, best friend glared at me for reasons entirely unknown.

It seems as though I have a creepy stalker who loves sending me blank texts and phone calls which only consist of breathing. Wow, what a conversational pair are we? Hmm?

A/N. Yes, go ahead and throw evil energizer bunnies at me – I have finally updated after about uhh… many weeks. In my opinion, this was actually a pretty crap chapter BUT I had to put the physco calls and texts in somewhere. Oh and sorry about the length, it's the shortest chapter so far - eek! :/

So please review my angels (…), you know you want to…

PS. If you are so kind enough to review, please give your opinion on Mr Lockwood. Right now, I'm having mixed feelings about him. Hmmm…

PPS. If you visited my profile, you may have noticed that I won't be updating for another week or so. I am actually extremely sorry! Eeek!

WhatTheFnick xFang and Iggyx