Chapter 6
"First of all, who are you?" I asked quizzically.
"Maximum Ride and this is my flock."
"Harrowle and this is my flock with some friends."
"Well then. I would like to know their names."
So you can- I was thinking until my thoughts were interrupted.
We won't hurt your flock. A voice said in my head.
I started to freak out when I heard the voice. Then Max said,
"It's just Angel. Angel, don't go into her head or anyone else's unless they are comfortable about it. Got it?"
"Could you not go into any of our heads?" I asked after looking at Amy for approval.
"Okay, I would like to know one thing though." Angel said.
"What?" I sighed.
"Why that girl wears headphones." She said pointing to Charline.
"Well when she was eight the School took her from her old burned down adopted parents home and, well, enhanced her hearing but it came with the side effect of her hearing too much and she now gets these extreme headaches."
"Oh."
"So, what now?" a tall dark complected boy asked Max.
"How about we introduce one another."
"Okay, I'm Harrowle; this is Matthew, Blue, Treem, Charline, Plermi, and Mint."
"Well then. I'm Maximum Ride and this is Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman aka Gazzy, and Angel."
"Hey! Don't forget me!" a voice sounded from Fangs arms.
"Where did that voice come from?" I asked still looking for where the voice came from.
"Oh that was Total," Nudge said, "He talks and Max can fly at the speed of light and Angel can do all sorts of things like talk to fish and-"
She was cut short by Gazzy clapping a hand over her mouth.
"Thanks, I was getting a headache, the normal kind." Charline said in a releaved tone.
"You're welcome." Gazzy said.
"Wait, who are your friends?" Max asked.
"Oh they're my boyfriends flock though his sister is the leader. We just came from Rome. Before that Rio, and before that, the School." I said.
"Okay, we were just leaving for Florida."
"Well then, we should've gone there instead of Rio." X said from behind me.
"Yeah, well at least you saved me from getting shot by those cartel members." I said while blushing.
"What's going on between them?" I heard Angel whisper to Nudge.
"I think-"Nudge was saying before I said "We're in a relationship."
"Oh. I thought that-"
"Angel, she said her boyfriend's sister is the other flock's leader. Okay?"
"Okay."
We decided to rest for the night in a place called Springfield. Charline was stiff and unemotional the whole time until she went to sleep.
"What's her problem? Is she all right?" the boy named Iggy asked me.
"I have no idea. All I know about her is that her parents put her up for adoption and the family that adopted her moved a lot. She doesn't talk much about her past. Blue found her after she escaped the School's grasp. She was very quiet for a long time until she had a responsibility to help protect Mint and Plermi." I said as I stroked Mint's hair to sit behind her ear.
"I remember a girl around eight sitting in the cage right next to me and she had a small scar on her stomach right by her belly button. Also she would go to sleep holding my hand to comfort me. This all happened before I lost my sight though."Iggy recalled.
"Oh. That's so sad." Blue said from the other side of the clearing.
"Well you were the one who found her. Do you know anything else about her?" I asked crossing my arms.
"Yeah, she has a scar right where you said the other little girl had hers."
"Oh. That may just be coincidence though." Matthew said shocked.
"She had a sufferable past." Angel said in a sad tone. When we all looked over at her she had tears in her eyes and was whipping them away.
"What happened?" Max and I asked both looking worried.
"I'll let her tell you guys. I've already seen enough to know if we've seen her before." Angel said as she curled up into Max's lap.
"Charline? Can you please wake up?" I asked as I motioned for Matthew to get the ice water ready just in case.
"I've been awake the whole time. So Matthew, put the damn ice water away." Charline said angrily as she got up into a sitting position.
"What happened to your adopted parents? We're all wondering." I said as I put an arm around her shoulders.
"I'll tell you, but don't you all dare think of saying crappy sympathetic stuff. I don't need it," She said, "When I was born my parents never wanted me, so I was put up for adoption and was taken in by this loving and nurturing family. They cared deeply about their two other children that they already had. I was there for eight years until the School wanted me back and when they came to get me, the family protected me.
"I had gotten up because I was thirsty and was going downstairs to get some water when I heard them arguing. 'No! You can't take her! She is not yours!'I heard my adopted father yell at the scientists and Erasers. 'It was supposed to come after it was born!' I heard one scientist yell at him. When I heard that Whitecoat talk about me like I was something else other than a living human being I was sickened by his words. 'No! We grew up with her! She needs to stay with us! Please, let her stay!' my adopted sister, Elizabeth, yelled in a pleading tone of voice.
"I knew then that I was going to be taken away from the home I had come to know and love. I decided to run into my room after I heard the sickening sound of throats being slit. I had packed only what I would need for a while and I took off from my window. 'It's getting away!' I heard the Whitecoat yell from my window. 'Not if I can't help it.' The only Eraser that I could see yelled out as he pulled out a gun and shot me in the stomach.
"I fell and they picked me up and put me in the back of a truck and drove me to the school. I woke up with a pain in my stomach and saw that I had a bandage around my stomach. I was just looking around when someone said '-"
"'What brought you here?'" Iggy said in unison with Charline.
"Yeah, how did…" Charline faltered.
"I was there. Remember when we fell asleep holding hands to comfort one another? When we told each other jokes to cheer us up? Do you remember all of that?" Iggy said starting to smile.
"Of course, I never forgot you because you felt like a brother to me," Charline said as she got up and hugged Iggy, "I never forgot."
Awww! that is sooo touching! I just hope I get some damned reviews. If you don't you are a buttmunch.
