Alright, I wanted to make a shout out to everyone that reviewed becuase they all made me smile and keep writing. So thank you to:

FAXlover, mebeemmy, Rowena of Naxen, babiixilyx3, StarofCalamity, Computermind123, , beneath the menoa tree, Maximum-Ride-Addict22, Jake, Me14, JSod93, and finally PaRaM0rE-0394.

And thank you to all the others that have put my story on thier alert. Lmbo. The next chapter is soon to come!

Ella

Chapter 10

I got up and went upstairs to her room. Her bed was still empty, and her window was still open. I went in all the way and walked around just to make sure. No sign of her. I checked the bathroom and the roof. There was absolutely no sign of the girl. This was getting a bit weird for my liking.

I went and sat on the couch in the living room and listened. This place wasn't too big, so I could hear her if she came in any way.

I heard a doorbell 20 minutes later. Total came flying in and started barking like a real dog, no joke.

I stayed invisible on the couch and hoped that Max's mom wouldn't see me. Because she was human and didn't have raptor vision and was more worried about who the mystery visitor at the door was, she rushed right past me without a second glance.

I saw Max in the doorway, standing there with her hands tied behind her back, and dried blood on the hood of her sweatshirt. Where the hell had she been!?

I stayed where I was, fighting the urge to blow my cover. Jeb padded into the front hall. One look at Max and he immediately started asking questions. I stayed still long enough that if anyone was actually looking for me, they would have missed me. My body was aching with the effort to keep myself in place.

I got front row seats to the show.

They took off her sweater and looked at her wing. Max was shot in the wing and she claimed that it was a stray bullet in a freak accident. Complete and total bull.

She was patched up quickly while her mom and Jeb started giving her the third degree. She completely avoided eye contact and was fidgeting with her hands the whole questioning. She was okay lying to the flock all the time, but when mom asked, words became tricky? I was getting kind of mad at that.

Her time to heal was a week, and I bet 10 bucks that we both immediately shorted that to three days.

"And I really mean a week. Not three days."

Man, this woman already had the hang of us.

They stayed for a few minutes repeating questions and Max didn't answer any of them. Then they both gave up and went to bed.

Max sat on the table a few more minutes and looked at the computer with meaning. She looked around the room and looked right into my eyes. I was worried that she saw me, but she kept looking around. She hopped off the table and headed to her room. I waited 10 more minutes before I thought it was safe, and went silently to my room. I stopped by Max's room, and saw her staring at the ceiling. I went by and finally lapsed into a slumber.

(Wow, that last line was corny. Let's change that to "I went to bed". Much better.)

Sorry about the really short chapters. I'm trying to stay with the chapters in the book and they are really short.

Ella