HEYZ! I'm so sorry I didn't upload last Friday. I could make an excuse but being totally honest, I was just plain lazy. I didn't even have school on Friday. Sorry about that, but I was very busy this weekend and all this week though! Anyways, since you guys did give me 2 new reviews, which I highly appreciate, here's chapter 8! Oh ya, since no one has said anything about wanting the story to be supernatural, I guess I'll just keep it how it is, and make my next story supernatural. *sigh*

Also, this is in Iggy's point of view. I want to show how he feels about everything as well. And I'll do it with other characters since everyone plays a big role. But as you know, I stink at doing this from a guy's POV.

And there is slight swearing as well! But I don't think it's heavy enough to change to rated M. Don't forget to suggest ideas and songs! It'll help me out a bunch! I apologize in advance for any mistakes and errors Iwillhave. I'll shut up now!

Disclaimer: I don't and characters in from the original Maximum Ride series. They belong with full credit to James Patterson.

Claimer: I do however own any characters not involved in the original Maximum Ride series.

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Iggy's POV

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! I wake up to the sound of my alarm clock. I groaned.

I sit up in my bed letting my eyes adjust to the light. I stretch and let out a big yawn and get up, getting ready for school. After I showered and changed I take a quick look in the mirror. I had my blonde hair all naturally shaggy and scattered on my head like I usually have it. I look at my eyes not seeing why Max always made such a big deal over them. Well that's one of the few differences between us; we had different shades of blonde hair and eye color. Though she denies we look alike at all. Which sadly we look very alike.

I went downstairs towards the dining room and met up with Max, who surprisingly beat me, since she's usually the last one to be ready.

"Is Jake any better?" I asked her.

I shook her head. "Nope. Not at all." She said as she put on an old black hoodie.

Jake had recently gotten the flu and he didn't seem to get any better. My mom has been frantic and's been by his side as much as possible.

"Ready?" Max asked.

"Ya we'll buy doughnuts on the way there."

We got in my car, a black Porsche, a birthday present from my lovely father.

We lived really far away from the school so it was a long way there. The first few minutes were silent. I looked over at my sister who was obviously upset.

"You okay?" I asked her.

She shrugged. "Being grounded isn't exactly fun"

Ever since the incident last week, Max's been grounded from pretty much everything. I did take pity on her.

"Don't pity me" she grumbled reading my mind. That's one of the few things I hate about being twins. We practically could read each other's minds, and it did get pretty annoying.

I also knew there was another reason she was upset. I definitely didn't press her. I was also upset for that reason as well.

"So you want me to rub it in your face?" I asked. "As you wish. Man, it must be awful not being able to next your friends! Or get on Facebook. Or go outside. Or not having any access to internet" I rambled on.

"Oh shut up" Max said as she playfully punched me in the shoulder.

I smirked. I drove to the nearest gas station and bought a couple doughnuts for us to eat along the way with some coffee and hot chocolate. Since picky Max hated coffee, I always had to pay twenty cents extra for hot chocolate, which by now, I've probably have wasted a big amount of cash on.

"I better not see a single crumb in here." I warned her.

"Ya, ya. I won't hurt your precious baby." She said as she rolled her eyes.

"You better not, if you want to keep that hand." I said, nodding to her right hand, which holded her doughnut.

Max let out a sarcastic gasp. "Igneous Michael Ride! Are you threatening your poor sister! I thought they taught you better than that!" She said in a sarcastic shocked tone.

"Hardy har har" I said. "Don't use my full name" I mumbled.

"Don't tell me you're ashamed of your own name now?" she said, staying in character.

"Your name is what makes you, you!" she continued.

"Whatever you say Maximum Elizabeth Ride!" I chuckled back.

She did the goofy thing she always does. She stuck her tongue out at me at me and did a peace sign.

"Why did they have to give us, such weird names?" She groaned.

I sighed. "Some people just want to watch the world burn."

And with that we burst out laughing.

We finally arrive at our school. Don't get me wrong, this is a pretty amazing school, but a lot of the people are, how do you say? Preppy and snobby at times. But there are still normal groups and clubs. I look over at Max who's chugging down of what's left of her hot chocolate. I grab my things, with my bag in one hand, and with my espresso in the other.

Max and I walk into the school together. We had surprisingly arrived a good 30 minutes early before the first bell. Definitely a new record. We come so early that Max's friends aren't here to greet us my tackling her to the ground.

I'm also surprised Max had befriended them. I mean I love my sister and all but Max isn't exactly easy to get along with. Especially with another girl. Especially not girls like her friends Nudge and Ella. They're both girly and giggly and so not Max like. But at the same time they're also different in a not girly matter I guess.

I look over at her once again, trying to connect the dots between her friendship. The last time I say Max in a skirt, we were like what? Six? Now she's all worn out hoodies, and jeans, with beat up Chuck's. Which I guess is exactly like her. And in all of the school we've been to, she's mostly hung out with me, or a couple of friends she made, but never actually called 'best friend' before. She also never really hung out with girls either. Why I in the other hand was engulfed with them. This drove me crazy. I tried by best to tell girls I wasn't interested in them and the nicest way possible, but one way or another, it always ended with tears. Always.

"It feels weird being here this early in the morning" Max says.

I nod. "Ya, it does"

"Ugh which reminds me, I forgot my Science notebook in class" She says. "I better go get it."

"Um, okay?"

Max has been acting differently lately. It's so unnatural. She runs down the hall, turning on the first right.

Alone. I'm alone within an almost empty school. I'm usually arriving a good 5 minutes before the bell, and have never had time to just wonder around. I walk outside into the court yard, which is where most of the small amount of people here are. I see a couple bubbly girls in a group giggling away. This included my cousin Angel. Man, Angel had really changed from the last time I saw before I moved here. For the first time ever, Angel gets on my nerves. But her redheaded friend, the one who humiliated and got Max in trouble, spots me and waves me over.

"Hey Iggy!" She happily says.

I walk up to her, with her staring friends behind her.

"Um hey?" I mutter.

"So, whatcha you been up to" she says in a flirting tone. Just what I needed. Another girl all over me.

"Um, nothing?"

"Haha, cool" she smiles.

"Um, listen I um… have to look for Max" I say as an excuse. Her face instantly looks disgusted. She snorts.

"What are you doing with that slut anyways? You can totally do much better Iggy dear."

Did she seriously just say that?

"Um Lissa" Angel says, probably wanting to explain the situation but Lissa cuts her off.

"I mean, you can get a much prettier girl like me" she says, inching closer.

"Excuse me?" I say.

"What I'm trying to say is, you can do much better than that sore loser. Like even Becky is better than her" She says, towards a girl, who looked Goth, sitting on a bench by herself.

"Geesh Lissa" I start. Lissa gives a flirting smile, taking another step closer.

"You are a bigger bitch than I thought. Max was right." I say. Lissa gives me a shocked expression.

"What?" she says.

"Lissa!" Angel snaps. Lissa turns around to face her.

"What do you want?"

"Max is his sister! I don't think calling her that was the best way to go."

She turns back to face me with a surprised look.

"Oh my gawd! I'm so sorry I didn't know!"

I shake my head. I turn around and walk away, giving them a deuces sign.

"Later bitch!" I say with a smirk.

And I spot Max giving me a huge grin, obviously happy with what I did. And beside her were Ari, and some dude, I think his name was Frank? Or something like that.

She runs up to me and gives me a hug.

"Thanks" she whispers.

"I am your big tough older brother!" I chuckle

She pulls away, still wearing a smile.

"Puh-Lease! Just by a minute!"

"So? I'm still older"

She sticks her tongue at me. But what quickly happens, she gets tackled by Nudge.

"Max!" she celebrates.

Behind her Ella walks up. I look at Ella and for some reason I feel heat rise up in my face. I don't know why. I look at her. She has pitch black straight hair, that reaches the middle of her black, which is pulled back by a multi-color headband. She had on a soft pink blouse with ripped capris, with pink flats. Why am I noticing these details? She catches me staring and smiles. I quickly look away feeling more flustered.

But my eyes land on Frank, no wait his name's is um… um… I don't know, but whatever his name is, he was looking at us. Well at me. I quickly looked away when he saw he got caught.

What was up with that? I look at Ari, who's standing next to him. I stare at him and he stares back. I narrow my eyes, remembering what had happened between us. I definitely didn't like or trust him because of it, and I hated the fact Max really liked him. But I can't tell her, she wouldn't understand.

Okay hi again! I know you have so many questions, but I promise they will all be answered once the story starts moving. Like for example: Who was with Max in the last chapter? Why was Max talking to Fang and Ari? What happened between Iggy and Ari? And probably more. So as a 'gift' for uploading a week late, I'll promise to upload an extra chapter soon, maybe tomorrow. This is also very rushed and *BTW UNEDITED!*

Hello. I'm from the future! Anyhow if you haven't noticed I have a lot of typos everywhere. Note I wrote this over a year ago and obviously for some reason I didn't really pay attention to proper grammar or spelling. Also somewhere along the way I change for present tense to past so just a note. I was here on 12/15/14!