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I feel so bad that I didnt update sooner. Those of you i talked to on Maximum-X saying i was updating, Im sooo sry. I found out I had midterm the next day for science and needed to cram like crazy.

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Onto the chapter.....................!!!

Chapter 4- Insanity and school (Not with a capital S)

I rang the doorbell and rapped on the door slightly with my knuckles. I was standing on the porch with the Flock surrounding me, us all fitting on the small space the best that we could. I heard footsteps coming to the door and it was flung open to reveal…

"Jeb!?" My jaw dropped when I saw my father sporting a pair of jeans and a burgundy polo.

"Uh…" Jeb seemed at a loss for words too, but he wasn't surprised to see me. After all, he was the one who sent me here. "Valencia!" he called.

My mom came striding up behind him and had a huge grin on her face. "Max!!!!" She came out on the porch and gave me a huge hug. "Come in, come in." One by one, the Flock stepped through the door into the entrance of the house. I could smell the aroma of cookies and was about to ask about it when my sister herself walked in the room.

"Ohmygosh!!!!" A huge grin spread across her face and she whipped her arms around me in a lethal hug. "It's so great to see you guys! All of you!" I had noticed that she had grown, now her head reach almost to my nose (A/N I just picture her short.). Before Ella could go to anyone else, Nudge stepped up and practically tackled Ella. Once her arms were free, Ella walked up to Gazzy, ruffling his hair and giving him a warm smile. She kept walking over to Iggy who had heard her walking towards him and gave her a big grin. She took a quick look over to her mom and Jeb, who were occupied talking in hushed tones, and gave Iggy a quick kiss on the cheek, causing his cheeks to burn up. My eyes widened a bit and I looked to Fang, who looked impassive as always but slightly smug. If anything, he was not surprised. Angel giggles, Nudge joining in. Was I missing something? My mom and Jeb looked up too, suspicious.

Ella then walked up to Fang and spread her arms like she was going to hug him, smiling. Her smile faded to a small smirk as she rethought her actions, brought her hands down and used one to pat Fang on the shoulder. I coughed to cover up my laughter but fooled no one, causing everyone else to start laughing too. Except Fang, I noticed. He was glaring at something and I brought my eyes in the same direction to see that he had been glaring at Jeb. His eyes flickered to mine, hinting that he meant, "Are you going to ask him what he's doing here or will you make me open my silent and sturdy mouth." Right. Down to business.

I spun around on my heel and stalked up to Jeb so that I was inches away from his face. I put on my most menacing glare and did not avoid looking him in the eye. Funnily enough, this full grown man seemed intimidated by me. I smirked on the inside, but kept my act cool. In a scarily calm voice I said, "Alright, Jeb. Do you want to tell me why you are here first or do you want to tell me why we are here?"

Well, Max, I can tell you both things actually. I heard myself growl a little bit as I said, "Don't mess with my head, Jeb. Not if you're right in front of me." The truth? It wasn't that I hated Jeb or that I didn't trust him at all. I just hold grudges. And he did give me all of those mind explosions….I was still glaring at Jeb, who was not even squirming the slightest bit under my stare, when Fang walked up beside me and gently scooted me out of the way. He continued what I was doing, glaring at Jeb, but it was move affective. His eyes were at the same level as Jeb's, while I had to look up to his. Fang crossed his arms and I couldn't help but stare as the position of his arms made his muscles look even more formed, the bumps visible from under his t-shirt.

Jeb was practically cringing under Fang's intense stare and he broke soon enough.

"Alright I'll start with why I'm here. But let's go sit in the kitchen to talk." The whole Flock plus Jeb, Ella, and Mom walked into the kitchen and took a seat. I discovered I was right…chocolate chip cookies sat on a dish in the middle of the kitchen table. I took one, broke off a piece and took a seat next to Fang who raised an eyebrow at me questioningly.

"Wha?" I said, my speech severely affected by the cookie in my mouth. I placed the rest of the cookie on the table. Everyone else was getting drinks before we started talking. "No one can resist cookies."

"You're right." He took the rest of my cookie that was on the table and stuffed it in his mouth.

"Hey!" I exclaimed. He smirked and I just realized how close our faces were to each other. Looking away quickly, I picked the first thing I saw to look at, which just happened to be Ella. She looked excited about something and I gave her a questioning look. Speaking without words, she glanced to make sure Fang wasn't looking and did this thing with her hands where she pointed to us and brought the fingers together meaning, "You and Fang are together?"

Making actual sound I said, quite loudly I may add, "What?!? No!!!"

Fang looked at me and said "Huh?"

"Uh…" I grabbed a cookie from the plate. "Nothing! Here have a cookie." I held it out for him to take. He didn't to anything so I tapped his shoulder with it. A smirk clear on his usually impassive face, he opened his mouth slightly, wanting me to feed it to him. Unsuccessfully trying to smile, I rolled my eyes and shoved it hard in his mouth, making him choke. It was mine turn to smirk as I looked back to Ella. She had a doubtful face on her look and looked between me and Fang. She put up her thumbs and fingers to make a heart. Making sure mom was still getting her drink; I flicked her off, causing her to laugh.

Just then, Jeb walked up and sat down at the end of the table. Angel and Nudge were sharing a chair, Nudge had her own next to Ella, Gazzy sat on the floor, Dr. Martinez and Iggy stood behind Ella's chair.

"Okay, to answer your first question…"

"Jeb's been living with us for two weeks now," Mom said. "He's helping us out financially now that Ella has been attending her new private school and it costs more." Oh. Well, I guess I over reacted. Just financial support. At least he wasn't mutating babies into part birds. Oh no wait. That's me.

"Which brings us to your second question…" Jeb continued. "Well, I was talking to your mother and we thought it was time that you all calmed down for a while and settled down."

I interrupted. "Yeah, isn't that what this break is for?"

"Exactly Maximum," I cringed, noticing he sounded like the voice talking to me, reminding me my voice was sitting in the same room as me. You might be like, 'Yeah, so, whatever.' But really, it's like sitting in a room with your conscience. How many of you would like that? You of you would like that? You 3 in the back? Well then your idiots. Haha I'm just joshing, kiddies.

Jeb continued, interrupting my internal monologue. "We, your mother and I, thought it was time for you all to experience a somewhat normal life. I know that it didn't end so well in Virginia…" as he trailed off there, I remembered the Red Haired Wonder and my hands involuntarily curled into fists. I hated school. Going back there would be sooo…Then it just occurred to me that this was his way of easily telling us we were going to school.

Under my breath I muttered, "Same your subtly, Jeb." Fang stared at me but I ignored him and said to the whole Flock, "Okay, guys. In case you haven't caught onto the point, how do you all feel about going to school?"

Complete and utter silence enveloped the room. I mean, come on, not even Nudge was speaking. After a long time of a room full of breathing, hopeful stares from my parents, and a confused look from my sister, who obviously was not aware of this, someone finally spoke up.

"Are you completely out of your mind!?" It was Iggy, who looked outraged. His hands were tightly clenching the back of Ella's chair, and I half expected the wood to crunch in his hands. Even Fang had the slightest bit of shock on his face.

"Okay, I have an idea," my Mom put in. "Why don't we all go around saying how we felt about school in Virginia and then we will finalize. You start, Angel."

Angel looked thoughtful for a minute before saying, "I liked it. I thought it was fun playing Swan Lake with my friends. I would want to go again."

Sorry, Max. She had heard my groan on the inside, but I was fine.

It's perfectly fine honey. I'm glad you were honest.

She gave me an angelic smile and Gazzy spoke up. "I don't care either way. I didn't like it or hate it. So…pass."

"Okay," my mom agreed. "So, Gazzy's vote is a neutral, he doesn't have a vote. Great, that leaves it at an odd number anyway so we can find out the winner easily." I was mad.

"What ever happened to a Maxocracy?" The whole Flock moaned and I put and innocent look on my face, making Fang roll his eyes. "Okay, okay. Fang, what's your input?

He actually looked like he was deep in thought. I had a deep feeling he wouldn't want to go, though. But, he surprised me.

"Sure. School's fine."

My jaw dropped, and I didn't have to time retort because Nudge rambled on in her agreement to Fang. That left us at 2 for no school, 3 for yes.

"Alright!" Mom clapped her hands together in a concluding manner. "School it is!" The younger kids cheered and ran off upstairs. Iggy and Ella suspiciously enough walked into the living room alone while Mom and Jeb went to call the school that we would all be attending. I wondered where we would all be staying….

Being my voice, Jeb called out to everyone, "Guys, Fang, Gazzy, and Iggy share the room to the left of the hall with 2 beds and a sofa, while Nudge and Angel share."

"Well, what about me?" I asked with a hint of annoyance in my voice.

Jeb turned and smiled at me, "We agreed you deserve your own room Max. Relax. Enjoy your break. Your room's off on the far right of the hall." His warm smile and thoughts made me feel guilty about my thoughts before.

"Thanks Mom. Thanks Jeb."

Being the only one left in the room, I sighed and picked up the now empty plate of cookies over to the sink. Halfway over I collided into something, sending me crashing on the floor, something falling on top of me too. Whatever it was it knocked the wind out of me. I figured some kind of furniture had fallen on me until I heard it say, "Shit," I involuntarily replied, "Language!" But then stopped myself. I rolled over, still breathing heavily, to see Fang looking down at me worriedly. My eyebrows pulled together, confused about what just happened. Fang helped me up, the gears in my brain still ticking. How could I not have seen him? If he was moving and not standing still…

Realization hit me. Fang was looking at me like I should be in the nut house but I just said, "Fang stay very still."

"Huh?" he replied intelligently. "You mean turn invisible?" I nodded, motioning for him to hush up.

Once he was out of sight, I said, "Now walk around."

I heard footsteps on the ground. My eyes widened and Fang asked, exasperated, "Max, what are you getting at?"

"I can't see you, Fang."

"What are you talking about?" His voice raised. "I'm right…ohhhhh."

Wow. I knew Nudge could be like that sometimes, ya know, the ditz-like figure of the flock but it took forever for Fang to get what I was talking about. He repapered suddenly, smiling. "Sweet," he said.

"Yeah." This was pretty awesome. I mean, being invisible is cool, but it's way better if you can move around while you do that. Fang was looking out the window, looking deep in thought, and I took that as my dismissal.

I walked up to the room that Jeb talked about, trying to discover which one it was. All a sudden a voice from behind me says, "I think your room is right here." I knew it was Fang talking.

"So, you're using your new power against me already?"

He suddenly reappeared out of nowhere, and it was obviously no coincidence that he repapered millimeter away from my face. His face was so close that our lips brushed when he quietly said, "Yup." I looked up into his dark eyes, which had a playful spark in them. Challenging me to look away, he looked right back. I looked away first though, before anything happened like it did last night on watch. His face was still close to mine when I looked at the ground though. He continued to talk.

"But that's okay," he said. "I'll try to make my heart content without scaring the crap out of you." Wow. A long sentence for Fang. All the same, I glared at him.

He rolled his eyes and kissed my cheek so fast that it made me jump. He left me there, chuckling as he walked away to tell the Flock about his new power.

Watching him walk off until he was out of sight, I let my breath that I had been holding out in a 'huff' while shaking my head slightly, straightening my thought. I opened the door to my room. I the center of the room was a king sized bed with a red quilt and yellow sheets. The walls were a cream color, matching the carpet, and the was a red shaggy rug in the middle of the room. Going over to sit on my bed, I was beginning to relax when…

Maximum, do you want dinner? We are ordering pizza.

I shot up from where I was lying down. My voice is talking to me when he's really in the same house as me. Shaking my head, I walked downstairs to give my 'rents my pizza requests. It was going to take a while to get used to this…

You likey? didya catch that iggyxella in there? huh? huh? anyway, I thought it was kinda boring, but not terrible. its kinds just a super long filler kind of chapter. Believe it or not, I wrote this chapter with absolutley no trace of fax at all but i thought i might get virtual flick offs for that and it wasnt quenching my need for fang. so i went back and added it. now, anyone hav any requests on what to happen? also, i kinda wanna put a song fic either i here or in another fic so if anyone has any max ride songs that not a lot of people use, please tell me, i will right the fiic, and put u name in creditors for the song! any other ideas for this fic or other oneshot-like things are very very welcome!

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