Heya! Sorry I haven't updated 4 awhile... school is majorly annoying! Once again, I didn't really like this chappy much hahaha... I ahve so much self motivation rite? hahahaha So please review n tell me what you think of this chap, and if ur new to da story, the whole thing!

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Disclaimer: On behlaf of the Cheeseworld government, I do not own Maximum Ride, James Patterson does. I do own da oc and da plot!

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Max POV

About an hour passed as Fang and I sat on the shore. It would have been perfect but he just made me confused, he kept smirking. Ugh. I don't get that boy sometimes, first he's Mr. I'm-too-cool-to-show-emotion then he's Mr.Smirks-a-lot

Anyways, we all gathered around a campfire for dinner. I swear, Iggy is an amazing cook, and he can't even see! Our personal chef whipped us up some tender, saucy steak with a side of corn. If you wanna know where he got all the ingredients, don't ask me. After all of us received a paper plate full of food, I noticed how Jade was sitting between Iggy and Jake looking nervous, while Jake and Iggy were glaring at each other and Nudge was practically steaming on the other side of the fire by Angel. What the heck was going on?

While I was wondering what the two boys were being so tense over, Fang elbowed me in the side. I looked over at him and saw that he had an impassive face on (shocker huh?) but with a hint of amusement in his eyes as he pointed towards Nudge. I pulled my gaze off Fang's gorgeous eyes, hold up, I did not just say that, ugh, and saw that Nudge was placing her plate on the sand and striding to the other side of the fire with a determined look on her face. She reached the trio of teenagers and pulled each of them out of their seats and off down the shore. This can't be good.

Iggy POV

When I had "first" met Jade, I thought she was perfect and I still do. She was funny, understanding, kind, tough, with a hint of Fang's personality too. But when I heard her laugh on the opposite side of where me and Gazzy were sitting, I instantly had a flashback.

Flashback

The eight of us, me, Fang, Max, Gazzy, Angel, Nudge, Jade, and Jake, were sitting in a white room back when were seven-years-old, about a week before I lost my eye sight and Jeb broke us out of the school. Angel, Gazzy and Nudge kept crying, since they were just given shots to test how much pain they could stand, and it was getting on my nerves.

I don't know why they put us in there, but the air practically suffocated me because the tense anticipation. But the fact that they didn't stuff us in cages was an up. Then I heard a terrified scream coming from somewhere in the room. I looked towards the sound and saw that Jade was being held by an eraser who just let himself in. I saw that she had a long, bleeding cut on her forearm and the eraser was holding a knife. Now that ticked me off, at the time I admit I did have a crush on Jade. But who could blame me? She was beautiful!

At the same time, Jake, Fang, and I all jumped up and rampaged towards the smirking werewolf. Jade thrashed in the eraser's grip, trying to set herself free. Those flea bags always liked to pick on us at the randomist moments.

Fang jumped and clung to its back, Jake whacked at its hand, causing it to drop the knife, and I kicked it right in the crotch. The thing's face was hysterical! Its eyes were wide open and his jaw was set, then he dropped Jade, who Fang caught, and ended up kneeling on the floor. Fang gently laid a cringing Jade on the floor and the three of us kicked the eraser back out of the room.

End Flashback

Now I remembered how I used to always stare at Jade when I had my eye sight. Her hair was still jet black, but it was still in the style she had today, here cavernous, practically black eyes were always ablaze with an energetic spirit, and her wings. Wow… They made my eyes feel like they were going to end up rolling around the School's hallways.

Remembering my early crush reignited my fire. I was definitely gonna win her over. So, I got up and walked over to sit next to Jade, who was now sitting on the sand next to Jake, the couple's faces lit by the fire. She din't seem to mind but I felt someone's eyes glaring at me. Jake. Although I couldn't see, I glared right back. I heard Jade sigh and felt her tense up. Her cheery mood now replaced by a nervous one. The air around us cackled with tension. Jake was about to open his mouth and say something when someone stood next to the three of us. Judging by the feeling of their skin, it was Nudge and shesent offa rainbow of vibes meaning: she wasticked. I could just picture her with steam coming out of her ears.

Jade POV

Oh shoot. Nudge was here and she look really pissed. She was glaring at me like she wanted me to die right there as she pulled each of us by the back of our shirts over to the shore.

"Hi Nudge," I said cautiously, hoping to start off friendly, but Nudge had other plans.

"Why do you two keep glaring at each other?" she asked sternly to Iggy and Jake. Wow. I'm impressed. She's pretty straight forward for a twelve-year-old.

The two boys shuffled their feet nervously.

"I see that this is between you and the guys… So I think I'll just go over there and check up on Mystery," I said slowly while I started to cautiously walk back over to the fire.

"Not so fast there. Stay," Nudge commanded after she grabbed hold of the hood of my sweater. I sighed inwardly.

Then I heard chuckling inside my head. Oh great, now my brother has to be in on this too. It's an awesome party today isn't it? I decided to ignore Fang and turn my attention back to the conversation.

The boys still hadn't answered so Nudge gave up on them and turned to me. "So, you think your so hot and that you could just nab all the boys you want don't cha?" she asked icily. So that's what this is all about.

"Nudge, I do not. I don't even like Iggy like that. No offense Ig," Iggy looked a little disappointed there, but I ignored it. I stepped over to Nudge and whispered in her ear, "You can have him if you want. He's just a pyromaniac of a friend to me." I smirked while I said it and Nudge blushed and smiled. Thank God.

The two teen boys just looked confused as I walked back to the fire over to Mystery. I haven't spent much time with her. When I approached her, her ears stood up and she pounced on me, licking my face. She was only a pup and she could already knock me flat.

"Oh my gosh Jade! I have missed you so much! I thought you didn't love me anymore!" I laughed as she babbled on. I held up one finger and she knew what that meant. Her tail started wagging excitedly as I stood up and she sped after me as I ran off to my book bag. I saw theothers look at me oddly. I pulled out three canine treats, cheesecake flavored, her favorite, I shook them as she jumped up and down. I ran about the sand as she bolted after me, determined to get the tasty treats. They were tasty. I shape-shifted into Mystery once and ate one, it tasted so good as a dog! I finally slowed down as she pounced me from behind once again. She let me get up and I knelt of the sand.

"Go share these with Akila and Total okay?" she nodded eagerly and I gave her the three treats, which she happily shared with her new friends who ate the treats up like they hadn't eaten in months. I chuckled snd turned around facing the palm trees that were now behind me. I thought I saw something in there, so I looked harder. I gasped as I saw two figures clinging to each other with one up against a tree. Hearing my gasp, they stopped and looked towards me looking embarrassed. I only smirked.

Fang came out of the palms, pulling Max's hand behind him.

Finally had the guts too pull a move bro? I asked smugly.

Yea… he responded dreamily. I guess he had fun. I left him to his thoughts and patted him on the back and stood on my toes to ruffle his hair.

Max POV

Jade was finished talking to a, now, red Nudge and was now heading over to Mystery as me and Fang were sitting on the sand. He stood up and held out his hand to help me stand up. I ignored it and stood up on my own. I didn't need help.

We ended up walking towards the palm trees just talking as we usually did. But there were a lot of gaps of silence, not awkward ones, relaxed silences. Yet, I could feel the suspense rolling off of Fang in waves. I wonder what he was thinking. When we finally reached the palm forest, he tugged me into the darkness, away form the moon, and placed his lips on mine cautiously. Inside, I was screaming, "OH MY GOSH! FANG IS KISSING ME!!" His lips were so soft and gentle, and he tasted good too, like, a sweet tropical smoothie. I couldn't help but kiss him back. He moved us, still kissing me, so I was against a tree and he positioned his head to deepen the kiss.

I tangled my hands in his hair as he wound his hand around my waist. He licked my bottom lip asking for entrance and I opened my mouth willingly. His tongue slipped itself into my mouth, exploring. I moaned in pleasure and his lips formed a smirk. Then I thought I shouldn't be doing this, Fang's practically a brother to me. This'll change everything. Oh great. I wanted to stop, but this felt so right.

Just then, we heard a gasp and we quickly broke apart. There we saw Jade standing in the moonlight looking at us with a smirk on her face. Fang pulled me out, for I was still dazed. Jade just patted him on the back and ruffled his hair as she headed back to the fire where everyone else was.

Fang POV

All the younger kids, including Tyson (he'd been searchin the area before)and Iggy, were asleep. Me, Max, Jake, and Jade were still up. With the fire out, the four of us laid on our backs, side by side, staring at the stars. Jade got up from her sport between me and Jake and went off to her stuff. She came back with her guitar and Mystery tagging along behind her with a smile on her face. I don't blame the pup, Jade hasn't been spending much time with her lately.

Knowing Jade was going to start her nightly perfomance again by the shore, I got up the same time Jake did, Max following behind us.

The three of us sat next to Jade listening intently. Although the guitar wasn't an instrument that went with the song, I still recognized it as The Call. I only knew the song 'cause I was forced to watch Narnia 2 a few months ago. I can never get over how good Jade can sing!

Thanks Bro She said.

No Prob sis. I'm just happy you ain't a stalker, I'd be doomed if you were.She chuckled at that and startedsinging the actual song after tuning her guitar and petting Mystery's snow-white fur.

Jade POV

It started out as a feeling
Which then grew into a hope
Which then turned into a quiet thought
Which then turned into a quiet word

Its true, it did start out as a feleing of missing them, then into a hope of finding them, it became a frequent thought, then I finally said, that day I broke out, "I will wind them."

And then that word grew louder and louder
'Til it was a battle cry

I'll come back
When you call me
No need to say goodbye

Its true, we didn't have to say goodbye back then, we were going to be reunited anyway.

Just because everything's changing
Doesn't mean it's never
Been this way before

All you can do is try to know
Who your friends are
As you head off to the war

"Got that right," I thought as I remembered how some of the white coats who had been my "friends" tricked me into thinkingthat they were on the good side of the war.

Pick a star on the dark horizon
And follow the light

You'll come back
When it's over
No need to say good bye

You'll come back
When it's over
No need to say good bye

Now we're back to the beginning
It's just a feeling and no one knows yet
But just because they can't feel it too
Doesn't mean that you have to forget

Let your memories grow stronger and stronger
'Til they're before your eyes

They just had to believe in their memories of me, and they believed the truth, I was an old friend right before their eyes.

You'll come back
When they call you
No need to say good bye

You'll come back
When they call you
No need to say good bye

I still had the guitar in my hand when Mystery jumped on it and started licking my face. I laughed my excuse for a laugh and put away my guitar, Mystery still behind me. I got out my lap top and sat next to the others who were still awake. My companion curled up next to me as I used one of my hands to stroke her fur, this always got her to sleep well.

I thought, "This is one of the most perfect days in my life."


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