Iggy: Hey Glimmer! What's up?
Glimmer: Hey Ig! I'm fine!
Iggy: Oh wait, I don't care! Haha!
Glimmer: You know, they say boys make fun of girls they have crushes on...
Iggy: * blushes *
Fang: Ooooooh Iggy's got a crush?
Iggy: You're an idiot.
Fang: Bahahahahahahahahaha
Iggy: So what's going to happen in this chapter? Do I get to beat up Fang again?
Glimmer: To be completely honest, I don't even know yet...
Angel: Well looks like it's up to me again... Glimmer269 does not own Maximum Ride.
IGGY POV
They must be somewhere together. I mean, where else would they be? It's not like they went out together and then looked at each other and said, "I don't like you enough to hang out with you, so I'm going to walk this way and you are going to walk that way, kay?"
They could be just talking. I mean, they were best friends before all of this happened. But that being true was less likely than coming face to face with a saber toothed tiger in Phoenix, Arizona. In case you haven't noticed, saber-toothed tigers are extinct, and they lived in freezing climates.
I tried to keep my cool as I walked out of the house. Heading in the direction of even the slightest noise. Finally I was able to track their heartbeats, and then their voices. I stood a while to eavesdrop on their conversation.
Come on guys. We've all done it.
It was hard for me to make out what they were saying, so I moved a little closer. They were talking about–
The flock taking a vacation?
Where they fu**ing insane?
The flock can't take a vacation! We'll be caught by erasers! Or something could happen while we were there and we wouldn't be able to do anything about it! Someone could break a wing or... Okay. I am officially paranoid of leaving the house.
Suddenly, I felt hot breath on the back or my neck.
Oh God. Please don't let him kill me.
MAX POV
After me and Fang were done kissing, we sat and talked for a while. Our conversations kept moving to more and more varieties of random. But after a while, we strayed to one topic that lasted for longer than the others.
"Wouldn't it be great if the flock could just, take a vacation?"
"Fang," I said as if it were obvious, "We can't go on vacation. Erasers would be on our tails from the minute we get out of the protection of these woods!"
"I was just saying it would be great..."
"Yeah," I agreed, "It would be."
"We could go to California, and see all the famous people, or we could go to Florida and swim in the ocean!"
"Fang, we can swim in the ocean in California, too..."
"Yeah, but–"
"But what?"
He brought his fingers to my mouth to shush me, and looked around as if he had heard something. We stood perfectly still. Without any warning at all, he disappeared, leaving me wondering 1) how he did it, and 2) where he went.
FANG POV
"Wouldn't it be great if the flock could just, take a vacation?"
"Fang," she said with a 'duh' tone of voice, "We can't go on a vacation. Erasers would be on us the minute we get out of the protection of these woods!"
Gosh, Max. I wasn't saying that we should, I was just saying that it would be fun and really nice to get out of here for a while... Why ya gotta be so mean? (A/N I just quoted another song! Mean by Taylor Swift!)
"I was just saying it would be nice..."
"Yeah," she agreed quickly, as if she put 2 and 2 together and figured out that she hurt my feelings a little bit, "It would be."
"We could go to California, and see all the famous people, or we could go to Florida and swim in the ocean!"
"Fang, we can swim in the ocean in California, too..."
Again with the cutting words. Seriously, why can't she just be nicer? It's not that hard...
"Yeah, but–"
I stopped short. I heard something. It was very distinct, but I knew I heard it. The rustling of leaves. Next to Iggy, I have the second best hearing in the flock. I mean, his is way better than mine, but mine is still good for the average bird kid. Wait, 'average bird kid'? That's kind of a double negative...
"But what?"
I put two fingers over her mouth to shush her, and luckily, she caught my drift and shut up. Soon, I knew where the noise was coming from, and where I needed to go to find it.
Oh yeah, did I mention that I can disappear and reappear at will? Well I can, so I did, and went to go track the voice, leaving Max sitting there looking confused. That was payback for all of the mean things she said to me today.
I followed the sound to Iggy, eavesdropping on me and Max's conversation. Jerk.
I reappeared right behind him– I mean like, RIGHT behind him– making him tense up. He was probably thinking something like, oh God please don't let him kill me!
Oh, I'm going to kill him alright.
"I should probably run now, shouldn't I...?"
"Yeah," I said in my scary voice, "You probably should."
He tried to run but I caught him in an instant by the shoulder and spun him around. I grabbed the collar of his shirt and slammed him up against a tree, holding my other fist back, about to punch him. Because, hey, he deserved it.
"Fang!"
This looks bad, doesn't it...?
Glimmer: Yeah, it does look pretty bad...
Max: Maybe that's because it is? Just a guess...
Fang: Well if I didn't kill him you would have...
Iggy: Let's not fight over who gets to kill me, mmk? Can we just go back to fighting over who gets to kill Dylan?
Dylan: Hey! That wasn't nice!
Iggy: No one likes you or wants to talk to you. You should just go.
Max: You tell him Ig.
Iggy: ^.^
Glimmer: Anyway, sorry that I posted another short chapter when I keep promising longer ones!
