Ok, ok, I know that almost all of my amazing readers out there are going to shoot me for having this chapter come out so late! I want you all to know that I am so incredibly sorry for waiting this long. With Track and everything else, I have forgotten about this for a while. Plus, my Internet was down. And when I came on today and saw so many reviews I was overjoyed by the response that I have gotten! Anyway, I don't know which of you wanted the dream, so pm me again, or just say it in the review, because I'm not putting it in the chapter. You don't have to click on the link, just spend a little time to pm me and tell me that you want the dream.
The dream is actually pretty much foreshadowing about what will happen, and about Max's new power! Ooooo…. Aaaaahhhh…. Lol :P So, if you want to see the dream pm me or say in ur review! Well… I guess that here we go!
Max POV
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"ARGH! Ella! We have to go!" I yelled, hitting her with a pillow.
She rolled over, not even trying to make a coherent response back to me. I grumbled in response, and got out of bed.
Ella was never the kind of person that liked to get up in time for school. She would put off waking up until she had only minutes to go, and then complain that she didn't have enough time. But, once I got to their house, I was always up, and I always had to wake up Ella for school so that I didn't have to listen to her complain about her hair being frizzy or something.
Stumbling over to her, I shook her shoulder, only to have her put her head over her ears and head in frustration.
"Please Ella, don't be like this on our first day of school! Plus, you might want to get up so that you can cover that big huge bump that is going to be there because of last night!" nonchalantly said, knowing that she would bolt right out of bed.
"Oh shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot! She yelled, getting out of bed and running to the mirror set up on one side of our room.
Three… Two… One…
"NOOOO!" Ella screamed.
My eardrums felt like they would burst. Ella's screams were always horror-movie-person-about-to-get-eaten-by-a-zombie worthy or something close to those lines. I went over to her, and noticed that she was not afraid of the small bump visible on her forehead, but of the zit that was on her nose.
I couldn't help but laugh at her.
"MAX! THIS IS NOT FUNNY!" Ella shrieked. When she turned to face me, the line "if looks could kill" popped up in my head.
"Ella, calm yourself. All you have to do is put some of that… consealer crap on it right?" I struggled to figure out what would stop her madness.
She took three deep breaths, her face slowly turning back to its original color. "Yeah, I guess so. But Max, when did you become such a girl?" Then, the most devious smile crossed her face, and I could guess what she was thinking about in that evil little head of hers.
"No." I responded, before she had even said a word. "No way are you ever going to put that horrible stuff on my fa-"
Have you ever started to talk back to someone, telling them that you won't do what they want you to, only to have them start before you even finish telling them that you won't do it? Well, even if you haven't, I have to tell you that Ella is a mastermind when it comes to doing that to me.
While I had been talking, she got out some iron-fitted ropes, which were meant to hold birds to their masters' hands. (I don't know what they are called, so just bear with me) How ironic is that?
The fact that my mom had them around the house was okay, but when she got them fitted with an iron lining, I could only wonder what they were for. Until now, where I could see how Ella had asked for them like that so she could play Max-dress up.
When I had gotten to the word face in my little monologue of refusing to wear the make-up, she tied the ropes around me, and tied them tight.
Even though I can beat almost anyone, Ella was my sister, and I didn't want to hurt her.
"Ells, please don't do this, you know that I can't bring myself to hurt you." I really didn't want to wear the make-up. But, when I remembered the times that I had refused to do anything with my sister, I stopped struggling, and did what I was told.
"Max, why did you stop struggling?" My sister said sadly, and I was totally confused. She wanted me to fight back with her, even if it was a pitiful attempt.
"I know how much I hurt you guys when I came back, and was all sad, and I just want us to be great sisters again, the ones that do stuff together." I managed to get through. After I was done, I realized my sister was almost to tears. "Why are you crying? Was it something I said?"
"Oh, Max!" Ella said, and hugged me like there was no tomorrow. "You don't have to do this for some sort of payback! I love you and that will never be any different." She squeezed me a little, and then started to do the make-up.
Once she was done, I had to say that I looked… pretty? I guess you could call me that. There was a subtle blush added to my cheeks, and my eyes looked more full. Other then that, I didn't really know what Ella had actually added to my face.
"Love ya, little sis." I said, and hugged her, letting my rare emotions actually shine through.
"I love you too Max," Ella teared up, and hugged me before they could show.
"Now that the emotion-fest is over with, don't you have something for me to wear?" I regretfully said.
"Oh My Gosh! I do! You're going to love it!" Ella squealed like a seven-year-old girl at a Hannah Montana concert.
After ten excruciating minutes where Ella picked out both of our outfits, we finally went downstairs, only to meet up with Bella, who seemed like she had been up for a while already.
"Hey guys!" She eyed us over for a half a second. "You guys look amazing!" She smiled at both of us, and waved her hand to the cereal in the cabinet.
I let my stomach take over then, grabbing some Lucky Charms, and filling the bowl up to the brim. After I had eaten that bowl, I proceeded to eat three more that size. Ella rolled her eyes at me, while Bella just stared at me with a weird look on her face.
"Wow, you girls are already up! I thought that I was going to have to get you up like I normally have to!" I heard my mom say as she was coming down the stairs. Right behind her followed Charlie, and he was all dressed up in his police uniform.
Charlie grabbed his gun belt, and placed it around his waist before coming into the kitchen.
"So girls, you guys gonna have fun today and meet new people?" My mom asked, implying that she wanted to hear all about our day once we got home.
"Yeah, of course we are mom. But now that I really like Seth, you don't need to worry about me flirting with all of the cute guys. But, maybe Max can do it for me this time!" Ella said like it was normal to talk to your mom and new stepfamily about cute guys.
I sighed and put my head into my hands, shaking it back in forth. "Yeah Ella, of course I will!" I said in my most perky, sarcastic voice. "Mom, I'll tell you all about the cute guys when we get home! LOL!" I said, specifically talking to her like a normal 16 year old would to her friends.
My mom looked at me funny, but then started to laugh, only to have Ella and I join her a couple seconds later. They all knew that I was not going to even look at a guy and think that he was anything but just a person.
"You guys have fun with that." Charlie added, seeing as he was totally confused, as was Bella.
"Let's go guys, we don't want to be late." Bella finally said, after two minutes of confused and awkward silence.
I grabbed my hoodie, and headed out the door, seeing as I didn't really have anything to bring. When I closed the door, I put my head up, and saw a Silver Volvo sitting at the end of the driveway. Okay, who the heck had a Silver Volvo in this tiny little town?
Edward jumped out of the drivers seat, and came up to the three of us. Oh. So Edward would be the person to own a Silver Volvo in Forks. Wait. Was there a town called Spoons?
Shrugging off my totally random question, I turned to face Edward, and he crinkled his nose in a curious way, if that was even possible. Being self-conscious of myself, I turned my back away from him, and readjusted my wings, making sure that they were tucked into my back as tight as they could go.
After looking at me for a couple seconds, I recognized the frustration and impatience that was beginning to form in his eyes. When there was complete silence, I felt my shield being pushed against. Ha! He was trying to read my mind.
Well, I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction. I looked him straight in the eye, and gave him a knowing look, which caused the pressure against my wall to subside, and curiosity to form in his topaz eyes.
"Well," I prompted, not looking at Edward anymore. "Shouldn't we be going? I don't want to be late for the first day. I mean, that wouldn't be the best thing to do considering no one will know us."
"Um… yeah. Bella, would you and your step-sisters all like a ride to school?" He asked, still keeping an eye on me.
I smirked, while Bella started to answer, looking back and forth between Edward and I. "Yeah, thanks Edward, that would be wonderful." She bit down on her lip, trying to get rid of the awkward silence that echoed around us.
"Max…" Ella whispered in my ear. She sounded like a two year old about to say something naughty. "There was just a gay baby born somewhere in the world!" She started to giggle, while I cocked my head to the side.
Then I remembered the joke from when her and her friends were talking in our room. I chuckled, rolled my eyes at my sister's weirdness, and pulled her to the car.
"Well, come on then! Am I going to have to show you to your own car?" Ella grabbed Edward's arm as I was pulling her.
I started to shudder as if something had shocked my body. I sensed power, and strength in the air. Resisting the urge to whimper from the unknown feeling, I kept heading to the car, not knowing that I had paused noticeably.
"Max, are you okay?" Edward's soothing voice entered into my thoughts, bringing security with it, although I didn't want to trust it, I liked the feeling. "She just paused or something. And I felt something surge through my body that I have never before. Maybe- no." Edward said under his breath.
I knew that he had said it so low and fast that no one should have understood it, because Bella and Ella were still walking like nothing had happened. It was then that I knew there was something different with Edward. Except for the mind-reading thing. But I found that out yesterday. Or was it the day before?
The ride to school wasn't as eventful as I thought that it would be. Only the ringtone of my sister's cell phone ever interrupted the silence. The song was Kiss Me Thru the Phone, which signified that Seth was texting her. She had changed it after my asking politely to change it while we were getting dressed. But, now I think that I regret that discussion, because this song was just as annoying as the previous one.
Once we arrived at school, I noticed one other car that stood out from the rest of them, but this one was even better than Edward's car. It was a shiny new yellow Porsche, right out of a car magazine. I rolled my eyes, and again wondered who would have a yellow Porsche in the small town of Forks.
A girl about the size of a pixie came gracefully over to us, and hugged Bella and Edward. She must have been related to Edward because of the similarities between the two. They were both unbelievably pale, and both had topaz eyes.
Then she did something that was totally unexpected. She turned to us, smiled at us, and gave both Ella and I hugs.
When she hugged me, something weird happened, another shot of the same energy flew through me, and then left when she took all contact away. Her nose wrinkled in the same curious way as Edward's had done, but her facial expression went blank afterwards, only to focus back on us after a few seconds.
Even though she hid it very well, there was burning curiosity behind her eyes, and I could tell that she wanted to ask me many questions. The fact that she wanted to ask questions wasn't what I was afraid of, but what the questions were… that was a different story.
"My name is Alice, and I'm Edward's foster sister. I'm glad that you guys made it safely here! I can tell that we'll be good friends!" Alice said towards Ella, but made a weird gesture towards me, that I wasn't supposed to see.
Then, perfect timing, the first bell rang, stopping us right before we could say anything more to each other.
"See you all later!" Alice piped up, while she started to skip to her first class.
"Max, what's your schedule?" Bella asked suddenly.
"Oh, yeah. Here you go." I handed her the schedule, wondering myself about where I had to go.
"You have every class with either me or Edward. Come with me, and we'll go to our first class together. Let's go to English!" She said half-heartedly. Then she looked to Ella, who had already gotten someone in her grade to help her get around. As she was walking around, I could hear her and the girl talking a little.
"So you're from Arizona right?" The girl said. "You're really tan, but your sister… she doesn't really look like you, and she's really pale. Why is that?"
Obviously this girl was one of those kinds of people that liked to gossip about new things, and know about things before everyone else did. I inwardly gagged, knowing that my sister might actually become friends with this girl.
"Oh yeah… my sister and I have two different dad's, and her dad was naturally pale, so she never gets tan." Ella lied smoothly. Only the dad part was true. She could've added something about my being an experiment for some corporation that wanted to take over the world, but she was a good girl, knowing that lying was the best option.
Before I could listen to any more, I was being dragged off to English class so that I wouldn't be late. Right when we entered the room, the bell rang. Sighing with relief, I went up to the teacher with my pass in my hands.
"Um… my name is Max Ride? I was wondering if you could tell me what we are currently doing, and where I should sit." I timidly said, pretending to be an innocent new girl.
"Max. I've heard a lot about you from Mrs. Cope. She said that your scores on the curricular test were so high that it was unbelievable. Right now, we are learning about forms of poetry. If you would please introduce yourself to the class, and then sit yourself next to Mr. Newton. His partner just moved away." He motioned for me to get up in the front of the room, and I groaned. I already hated the day.
With my most normal voice, I introduced myself. "Hi. My name is Max Ride, and my sister and I just moved here from Arizona after my mom married Bella's dad, Chief Swan." After I finished, I went to where I was told to sit, and covered my face.
As the teacher (whose name I had already forgotten) started to read a poem, the boy sitting next to me started to whisper to me.
"Hi, my name is Mike. I think that I saw you at my parents' store yesterday?" He put out his hand for me to shake it. When I turned towards him, he openly started to gaze up and down my body. Pervert. I thought automatically.
"Hey, yeah, I remember you. My name is Max, as I just said." I shook his hand, and then faced away from him.
I could feel him staring into my back, so I turned back around. "What are you staring at?" I sweetly said.
"Oh. I was just wondering why there were two long slits in your hoodie." He replied quickly.
Crap. Crap Crap Crap!
How could I forget to grab the right hoodie? I never forgot to get the right one.
"Uh. I got this a while ago, and some things happened to me that made this jacket special to me, so when it got ripped, I still want to wear it because it means a lot to me." That would have to work.
"Oh. That makes sense." I could tell that he wanted to say something else, but he didn't want to get me mad.
The rest of class was boring, and once I got out of the classroom, I took off the hoodie, and wrapped it around my waist. During one of the breaks between classes, I went into the bathroom to make sure that you couldn't see my wings through my shirt.
When I looked into the mirror, I instantly thanked Ella with all of my being. By shirt was baggy in the back, making layers in the fabric down my back, so there was no possible way to tell that my wings were back there unless you smacked me. But, I don't think that anyone would actually be able to get that close to me without my snapping a few bones.
Finally, it was time for lunch. After I had gotten my lunch, which consisted of two pieces of pizza, an apple, three things of milk, a bowl of salad, and three donuts, I saw with my relief that Ella had the same lunch as me.
But, before I could get over to the table where I could see Bella, Ella, Edward, and Alice, some girl walked in front of me.
"Hey, you're the new girl right?" She asked with a sneer.
"Um… yeah? What is it to you?" I asked, trying to seem innocent.
"Well, I don't want some new girl taking all of the guys, especially someone as slutty looking as you. So, just lay off of all the guys until you know that they don't have girlfriends. Okay?" She said sweetly.
Sorry mom. I inwardly said, not wanting to do what I was going to do, but gonna do it anyway.
The girl that had just called me slutty looking was starting to walk away, when I grabbed her shoulder, spun her around, and kneed her in the gut, very lightly. But, my very lightly is totally different from other peoples'. "You need to get a life, stop being so rude, and learn to think, using what little brain that you have, about what you say before it comes out that pretty little head of yours. Especially when you are talking to a black belt in every type of fighting style that you can think of. Okay?"
Seeing as there was no teacher in the cafeteria at the time, I grabbed my plate, and walked over to Ella and the others.
"MAXIMUM RIDE! WHAT WOULD MOM SAY IF SHE SAW THAT!?" Ella whisper-screamed.
"Um… she would say that the girl had it coming?" I said, trying not to get Ella even madder at me.
"I guess your right. You're just really lucky that there were no teachers around, or else you would have been getting detention on the first day! Mom wouldn't have been too happy about that." Ella scolded me.
"Yeah, yeah. Now can you please hand me the salt?" I asked, trying to change the subject.
After finishing half of my food, a couple of girls, around Ella's age, came up to our table. They were all bickering about who should say something to me, when finally a blonde stepped forward. "Hey, thanks for standing up to Lauren, I don't think that anyone has ever really done that before and she needed to get knocked into place." Then they gave me a wave, and all of them left just as soon as they had came.
Hmm. Weird. Oh well.
Once we were all done, we left the lunchroom, but not before I noticed that Edward and Alice hadn't even touched the mound of food that they had gotten on their plates. Then, I remembered when Edward had not eaten at dinner.
Even though something was up, I couldn't place it, and I didn't want to waste time thinking about it.
On our way to Biology, there were a lot of guys staring at me. And I mean a LOT. I guess I was the person that Mike told all of his friends about. Well, I wasn't going to let it bother me. At least, until I saw someone take his phone out and take a picture of me. I wasn't a model or some crap like that!
"Why don't you all just stop looking at me like that, and don't take pictures, because it is very rude. I'm not going to be interested in any of you, so just cool it, and stop annoying me." I ended, still walking as I said it.
Even though I wasn't looking back to where the guys actually were, I could tell that their mouths would be hanging out, and that they weren't expecting me to say something like that. Oh well, that's what they get for being rude.
Bella looked at me open-mouthed, until she got her composure and looked normal again.
Biology flew by quickly, except for the few times I was called on and had to rely on the voice to tell me the answers.
But now, it was time for Gym. I grimaced. I still hadn't figured out how I was going to change without someone seeing my wings through my tank top.
Once we got to the gym, the teacher threw some clothes at me, and I ran downstairs. There were some bathrooms, so I ran to those, and took off my clothes, putting on my gym clothes. It was a smooth change, and no one noticed. I wasn't scared anymore because I knew that I could do that all the time if I got there on time.
Running upstairs, I ran into the girl that I had had a fight with in the cafeteria, and she sneered at me. "I'm going to beat you at the mile today, Max. Count on it." She gave me a scowl and then took the stairs down to the bottom to change.
They had to run today? Boy, this was going to be fun.
Once everyone was done changing, we were out on the Track, and the teacher told us to pick our track event. I could easily win all of them, but I picked the mile so that I could wipe the smile off of Lauren's face.
"Get Ready! Get Set! Go!" The teacher yelled after we had gotten lined up. I started sprinting at a slow pace, hardly wasting any energy. Lauren seemed mad, so I sped up a little, making the first lap before she was barely three fourths of the way around the track. I couldn't look too good, or else I would be asked to sign up for something, or I would get tested or something.
After my fourth lap, I saw something that made my heart stop.
There was two flying objects in the sky, flying so low that I could see that they were not just plain birds. Even though I kept running around the circle, I kept my head towards the sky. My heart was tearing apart, and all that I wanted to do was get my wings out of my clothes and go soaring up to them. But, I couldn't. I just couldn't bring myself to get into that familiar position and jump into the sky.
I finished running, but tears started to spill out of my eyes. Thank god people are supposed to hurt after a mile.
"Max? Are you okay sweetie?" The coach asked.
"Yeah, my ankle is just bothering me, it's always like this, I just need to go and ice it at home." I lied smoothly, seeing that she didn't suspect a thing.
"Okay, just make sure that you do that. I wouldn't want you to be in more pain." She smiled a genuine teacher smile, pat me on the back, and excused me to go in and change.
I ran inside, pretending to limp a little on one of my ankles, and jumped down the stairs to change. I changed quickly, not even trying to think about what possessed them to come back now. They weren't even coming to me. They were haunting me, just flying there, making me relive the pain and torture that I had felt.
I curled into a quick ball, and breathed in and out a couple of times, so that I could calm down, and not look like a nervous wreck in front of other people.
When I heard people coming down, I immediately got up, and pretended to wipe away some non-existent sweat from my forehead.
Breathing heavily, Lauren came over to me, pushed me, and looked at me in disgust. "What are you, some kind of freak?"
I was about to say something, when the girl from lunch came up to Lauren and pushed her right back. "Shut up! Everyone, except for your possey of zombie fashion losers, thinks that you really need to just shut up and think before you say anything! Now leave Max alone, and leave the rest of us alone."
I suddenly felt very proud of the girl, even though I didn't really know her. But I could sense that she had made a big deal of this, and that people didn't stand up to Lauren that often.
"Hey, that was really brave, good for you, sticking up for yourself is a great thing." I said, pat her on the back once, and jumped up the stairs two by two.
"Max! It's time to go home!" I could hear Ella's voice over the bell.
"Coming!" I yelled back. Grabbing my stuff, I basically flew (ha, get it?) over to Ella.
"Edward's giving us a lift back to our house, we just need to find him, or else we'll have to walk." Ella said tiredly. She yawned, and I could tell that school had just completely wiped her out.
"Yeah okay. Listen Ella, I need to tell yo-" I began, only to get interrupted by her phone.
"Hold on, I have to answer it, it's Seth!" She giggled.
When she answered the phone, I sighed, trying to find Edward and Bella.
After five minutes, I gave up, and walked over to his Volvo, where they were sitting in the car, and it seemed like they were waiting for us.
Bella cocked her head to the side and looked at me and Ella funny. "I though that I told Ella to come to the car after she found you?" Bella looked at Ella, and Ella, after hearing her name, she shrugged her shoulders, which could only mean that she had forgotten.
We packed into the car, and all was silent, except for the constant texting that Ella was doing.
Once we got home, I raced upstairs, and curled up on my bed, silently sobbing. I needed to get out of here, but mom was expecting all of us for dinner, so that we could talk about our first days. But, maybe if I told her that I wasn't feeling well, then I could just go for a "walk" and clear my head.
I heard a slam of the door, and I jumped the stairs, trying to see who it was. Charlie walked in the door, evidentally early, because Bella gave him a hug, and had a confused look on her face.
"Bella, I got some of Harry's fish. It was made by Sue, but I bet you it tastes just as good. You don't have to cook tonight." Charlie held out a big bag of fish, and my stomach turned at the smell. Fish never sat well with me after that one time where we only had fish to eat for two months.
"Charlie, darling! You're home early." My mom smiled, and gave him a peck on the cheek.
"Hey mom?" I questioned. I didn't know how she was going to react to me wanting to leave, but I had to give it a try.
"Yes sweetie?" She asked cautiously.
"Well, today was a rough day, and I was wondering if I could go for a walk so that I can clear my head? I'll be back in time for dinner at 6:00." I almost knew that she would say no, but hey, a girl could hope.
"Sure honey, why not." She smiled, still snuggling into Charlie's arms.
"Great. Thanks." I grabbed my coat and ran out the door as quickly as I could so she wouldn't have time to change her mind.
I ran into the woods, hoping that I could find a good place to jump into the air without being seen by anyone that might actually believe that there was such a thing as flying kids. When I got to an opening, I jumped straight into the air, and flew at superspeed, not caring where I was going. Suddenly, when I was closing my eyes, enjoying the wind in my wings, I crashed into something hard.
I opened my eyes only to see that I had been dumb enough to fly straight into a plane that had been flying overhead. That's when it hit me.
One of my brain blasts hit me so hard that I didn't even know where I was or who I was. All that I remember was falling towards the ground, tucking in my wings, and hearing an earsplitting howling noise.
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