I AM SO SORRY THAT I HAVEN'T POSTED YET! Seriously you don't know how guilty I feel for not posting and then you guys reviewed! But I have had a ton of homework cuz I'm a sophmore and I always have a ton of homework. But I'm trying to get better at doing homework and updating its just that things are crazy in my life right now. I'm going to try to update at least once a week. Sorry if that seems long to you guys but I don't have time to update more than that.

Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride nor will I ever.

Claimer: I do own this plot and the characters that you haven't heard of such as Cassity, Nessa, Danny, etc.

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After breakfast I got to meet Juli in person.

"Max, this is my sister Julianna." my mom said.

I smiled like a polite girl would. No need to let her know that I was acting totally the opisite of how I would around any other normal stranger I was barely meeting for the first time in my life. "Hello."

"Juli this is Max, Nick, Jeff, Monique, Zephyr, and Ariel." My mom said to her sister we all just nodded and smiled.

"Hello. You all can call me Aunt Juli." she said leaning down to our level.

"That's unlikely." Iggy muttered. I elbowed him in his ribs. Not hard enough to crack one though, although almost doubled over. I smiled at that.

'Aunt' Juli flickered her eyes to Iggy and for a moment her smile faded but returned a second later when she regained her composure. A normal person would have missed it but I noticed it. I took a mental note to keep tabs on her.

"Well I'll see you all later for lunch. Afterwards we'll get started on the days activities. 12 o'clock sharp." she said and turned to disappear into the house.

After our little fiasco with aunt Juli the flock decided to go swimming. Unfortunately for me that I had to wear my bikini in front of everyone. In the day time. Not at night when it's hard to see.

After I got on my bikini and slipped my towel on over it just for the walk over, we all met up at the pool. We were gonna play chicken again but decided against it. Personally I just think their all sore losers just cuz Fang and I can beat them any day.

Fang decided that he was going to play marco pollo with Angel. He asked if I was going to play and I declined. Casey and I sat talking on the edge of the pool.

"So how does your mom afford all this?" I asked gesturing to her huge estate.

"It's actually a really long story." she said.

"We've got time." I said encouraging her.

"Well you see my dad was a big business man who got himself in a lot of trouble. He borrowed money that he couldn't pay back. So he got involved in all this other stuff to try to help pay off all the other money. This is what my mom tells me anyway. So I guess one day the people who lent him the money got tired of waiting ad they murdered him. My mom was ready to tell the police and have their whole business exposed, apparently they were running some kind of illegal business. The people who killed my dad said that they would pay her big bucks every month if she would basically keep her mouth shut." she said never looking away from the water that was just below us.

"So your mom took the deal then?" I asked to make sure.

"Yep. That's one thing I never understood. Why would she take money from the people who was the father to her only child? Didn't she care about him more than that?" she said, her eyebrows knitting together.

"I don't know. I'm sure she had her reasons. She was trying to what was best for you I'm sure." I said not sounding like myself.

"Yeah." was all she said.

"Do you miss your dad?" I asked.

"Well I never really met him. I mean I did once but that was it. He was either in jail or on a business trip. He was always to busy for my mom and me. But I can remember the first time I met him crystal clear though." she said. "I was four years old and it was the day after my birthday. He couldn't make it to my party but he decided to come the day after to meet me for the first time. He walked through the door and my mom immediately got this expression that I'll never forget. It wasn't like any I've ever seen on anyone before. I can't even describe it. I thought 'oh my god. That's him. That's the one that I've been waiting all this time for.' my mom scoffed at him and told me to go wait for in my room. My mom was yelling at him like crazy. I never knew what she was saying though. It was like a foreign language to me. Then after the screaming stopped he came up to my room and read me a story. After that he told me he had to leave. When I asked if I would ever see him again he just said no and walked away. A few days later we heard that he died."

"What's it like being normal?" I seemed to be asking a lot of questions. I hope she didn't mind but her life fascinated me.

"It has its days. Sometimes it can be so boring though. I mean nothing compared to having wings." she said and smiled.

"If only you knew." I mumbled.

"Oh come on. Your life is always exciting. Theirs always something happening. My life it's the same old thing. In fact I think if something new happened I would fall over from shock." she said.

"Yeah but we never get to do the same thing twice. Like you. You get to go to school and come home and do what normal teenage girls get to do. I'm never in the same place for more then a few weeks tops."

"Yeah but the exciting part of it all. You never know what's going to happen next. Your life is so predictable. I can tell you what I'll be doing a week from today." she said.

"Most people would love that. That's what us bird kids call being safe."

"Yeah well I wasn't born to be safe. Or normal for that matter. I was born to be different." she said with a certain twinkling in her eyes.

"Yeah I know what you mean about that." I said laughing at the ironic part. I mean come on. I have wings. And there are only 5 other people , to my knowledge anyways, that have wings to. Now that's what I call unique.

Danny looked at me and dived into the pool showing off. "How do you know Danny?"

"He's not actually related to us. We've just been best friends since like birth. He practically lives with us. He goes everywhere with us. I don't know what I'd do without him. We're more like brother and sister though." she said.

"That's how Fang and I are. We can practically read each others minds." I said.

"Really?" she asked shocked.

"Not in an Angel way. But yeah I can basically read his mind." I said looking over at Fang who was under the water taking advantage of his gills for far to long to still be playing Marco Pollo with Angel.

"Wow that's cool. Danny and I aren't that close. Yet." she said.

"It's nice to talk to a girl my age for once. Other then Ella I don't really have anyone." I said.

"Likewise. Danny's a great guy and everything but he still has a guy brain." she said and I laughed.

"I know what you mean about that."

"I wish we could do this more often." I said. "Like I wish we could live like right next door to each other."

"Maybe someday we can." she said. Wow, our conversation had become just a little bit to sappy for me.

"Maybe." I said.

"So. You and Fang." she said smiling.

"Didn't we already have this conversation?" I asked.

"We did. But you didn't really tell me anything."

"What is it you want to know?"

"Well I don't know. You guys are just so cute together." she gushed.

I laughed and mumbled. "If only you knew."

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After lunch we all had to stand in a room while we voted for who was the best dressed, which I didn't find shallow at all. Beware of the sarcasm. We all just voted and aunt Juli left the room to count the votes. Why she didn't just do it in here I really don't know.

I voted for Fang. Not because of how he was dressed but just because I wanted to see his face if she announced that he got a vote.

"I have the results everyone." Juli said walking in fast. She was dressed in an outfit that should be illegal for anyone over 30 to wear. She was showing so much skin. I really don't know who she was supposed to be. "The winner is…"

"Max! with 23 votes!" she said and I about fell over.

"Umm…k." was my brilliant answer. Why would I care. Plus I didn't even dress up. Why and HOW could I have won?

"Come on over here sweetie!" Aunt Juli said with a smile from ear to ear. Why was she so happy? It's not like she won or anything?

I'm pretty sure that I swallowed a few bugs walking over there because I got this very nasty taste in my mouth all of a sudden. Maybe I was just nervous? It's possible.

"Congratulations Max. Who are you dressed as?" she asks me when I finally reach her.

"Umm…a normal person." I say still confused.

Juli's face falls a bit, her smile decreasing. "You came dressed as a normal person?"

I nodded. "Well congratulations Max for coming dressed as a normal person."

That was odd to say the least.

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Alright I know that was super boring and pointless but I needed to post something. It was killing me. I felt so bad for not keeping my promise. I probably won't be able to update until next week sometime.

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