Okay, chappie nine is here!!! Lol sorry for the long wait!!!!!!

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Chapter 9

Almost directly after breakfast, the six of us met in the living room. We were all ready to take off. But someone had to be the little "Oh, I forgot. . ." person and grabbed their freaking laptop. You know, Fang.

"Now is everyone ready?" I asked for the second time.

"Yes," chorused everyone.

We all slung on our backpacks and one by one took a running start into the air. Angel went first, followed by Gazzy, Iggy, Sora, Fang and finally me.

We set into an actual formation once we were all basically level in the air; Fang was on my right side and everyone else were behind us.

I could tell Fang was trying to figure out how to comfort me for my invisible emotion of fear. Years of living with him and being so close to him permitted me to have the ability of reading him like a book.

I didn't want to say anything to him about 'not feeling that way,' or 'being weak,' or 'I can handle it' (when I knew I couldn't). Instead I just stayed quiet.

Unfortunately Fang made the other decision: making converstation.

"Max, I know this is probably really tough on you, but I know you'll make it – we all will," he pepped. Okay, if that didn't sound weird, reread it, please. "We'll go to Dr. M's and we'll figure out everything: Nudge's outrageous behavior, the reason behind the sudden absences, everything. I promise." I looked in his eyes. He was sincere. With about 45 words, too (it was actually 41 words. Lol). I nodded solemnly and looked back at the blue sky ahead of me. It would probably be approximately be seven hours of flight. Non-stop.

AG&AV

The rest of the trip was spent in silence, only a soft murmur of one of the four kids behind me.

"Right there!" Fang hollered, aiming downward. I looked down to where he was diving to, and it was, unmistakably, my mother's house. I followed Fang down to the ground, landing a bit askew. I waited for everyone to land before walking up and ringing the doorbell.

When I did ring the bell, Mom raced to the door. How she knew it was me, I have no clue, but she seriously nearly killed me in a hug of her's.

"Max! Oh, how I've missed you!" she cried, hugging me really hard, still. "Come on in, I'll make cookies!" She let me go and opened her door for everyone to walk into her house.

We all walked in happily, but Sora was a bit hesitant. Once she saw me give her a welcoming smile, she walked in slowly.

Mom was in the kitchen already, hurrying to grab all the ingredients for cookies. The she stopped while bending over to grab a bowl.

"Why does it seem so quiet?" Mom asked in a hushed voice. She then stood up and counted each of us silently.

"Where's Nudge?" Mom was too involved with figuring out where Nudge was that she didn't even pay attention to Sora, who was standing right next to Iggy.

"Have you been watching the news?" I asked, trying to avoid answering Mom's question directly. She nodded slowly. "Have you heard about people mysteriously disappearing?"

Again, her head shook up and down. Her eyes grew wide in realization. Nudge had disappeared.

"Max! I'm so sorry!" she nearly cried. "Do you have any idea of where she might be?"

"We're hoping not Itex," Fang spoke for me. Since no one could see our hands, he grabbed mine and gave it a reassuring squeeze. I looked up at him and lightly smiled. Although he didn't actually smile, his eyes were shining bright.

"But if it comes down to it, we'll hunt down more of the branches," said Iggy.

"Oh, Mom, it isn't a school day. Where's Ella?" I asked, first noticing that Ella hadn't hugged us all already. If possible, Mom's face fell more.

"She was part of the group of people that went missing," she whispered. What! I thought, outraged. My only biological sister could not be missing. First Nudge, who practically was my sister for most of my life, and then my actual sister whom I tried to be very close to.

I stood there, staring at my mom for a long while, before letting go of Fang's hand to run and hug my mother.

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