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"Mom, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" I asked.
"Jeb is missing!" she said in between sobs.
"WHAT?" I yelled.
After I had yelled Ella came running into the room.
"What happened? Why is mom crying? Why did you scream?" she asked all at once.
"Jeb is missing." I answered
"Oh that explains everything." Ella said.
"Yeah" I said while trying to comfort mom.
We brought mom into the living room and sat her down on the couch. I went into the kitchen and started a cup of coffee for her, maybe that would calm her down. It didn't work. So I called Anna Walker since her and my mom were good friends and asked if she knew how to comfort an adult.
"Hey Anna!"
"Hey Max" she answered. "Why did you call?"
"Um..., well I was wondering if you would know how to comfort an adult, someone like my mom?" I asked.
"Well, yeah that would be easy to answer, but why, what is wrong with your mom?" she asked.
"Jeb is missing, so she is sobbing and we can't figure out how to comfort her." I said sadly.
"OK, I will be right over." she said.
"Bye"
"Bye"
I hung up and put the phone back in my pocket. Oh, we had school today. Oops.
"Ella, Anna said she would be right over, but we need to get ready for school." I told her.
"Oh yeah, we have school today I forgot." she answered.
"Hey mom we will be right back." I told my sobbing mom.
I think she tried to answer, but it came out as a muffled cry. I went upstairs into my room when I heard the door bell ring I ran back and answered it, but then ran back up again to finally get dressed.
I went downstairs into the kitchen, and I heard Anna trying to comfort my mom which was actually working. How come we couldn't but she can? No fair. I grabbed a bowl and put cheerios into it, I added a little milk and started chowing. Ella came down the stairs as soon as I had finished, but it looked like she had all ready eaten, so we just said bye to mom and Anna and headed out the door, we met everyone else outside the bus stop.
"Hey!" I said partly happy.
"Hi" everyone chorused.
The bus finally got here, so we hopped on, said 'hi' to the driver and went to the back, where we almost always sit. But when we got there, there was a girl that I had never seen before.
"Hi" I said before sitting next to her.
"Hey" she answered sweetly.
"Are you new here." I asked.
"Yup, I moved here from California." she answered, "my parents got divorced, so my mom and I moved here."
"What's your name?" I asked.
"Bridget Johnson." she answered.
The bus finally got to the school. As we were piling out I asked, "Do you want me to show you the way to the office to get your schedule?"
"Sure, thanks!" she answered.
I walked her to the office after saying 'bye' to my friends. When we were almost to the office, Lissa came up to us and 'accidentally' knocked her shoulder into mine.
"Oh, I am sorry, I didn't see you there." she said sarcastically.
"Oh don't worry, I am not going to do anything because thats just who I am." I answered sarcastically also.
She looked kind of scared as she walked away. I looked over at Bridget and she had a huge grin plastered on her face.
"Hey Mrs. Anne, we are her to get Bridget Johnson's schedule, I can show her around." I said when we finally got to the office.
"Thanks" Bridget said happily as I walked her to her locker, it was very near mine, even thought she didn't do sports, she got a full size because that was all they had left.
We compared schedules and she only had Drama and PE with me, but I could still show her around.
When we walked into the French room everyone looked up at us, I hate when people do that, it is embarrassing,
"Sorry I was late, I was helping Bridget, our new student around the school, I also gave her a tour." I told my teacher.
"It's fine." she replied.
Class started and ended pretty quickly. The rest of my classes went by fast, and the same, I came in sat down and listened to the teachers lecture.
When Algebra was finally over, I headed to my locker and grabbed my lunch, asked Bridget if she wanted to eat with us and she accepted.
"Hey everybody, well everyone at this table, this is Bridget Johnson." I introduced. "This is Fang, Bridget; Bridget, Fang, Iggy, Bridget; Bridget, Iggy."
"Hey" everyone chorused.
"So..." Bridget said, I guess she was someone who liked to have a conversation going most of the time.
"Um..." Iggy answered.
"Hey how about we eat." I said with a smirk. We had all just been sitting around staring into space.
After school we burst out of the school, since today was Friday, we would get to have a weekend, though I didn't know that a few things were going to happen, and one of them including something to do with maybe never going back to this school or seeing my friends after this weekend.
"How do you like your new school?" I asked Bridget.
"It was cool, especially my new friends" she replied while smiling at us individually.
"Thanks"
We dropped Bridget off at her house, she lived very close to us, and we walked back to my house, only then did I realize that my mom was probably still upset.
So I texted Anna and asked,
"Hey Anna, is it safe to come home yet? I feel bad not being able to help, but I just make people more upset when I try to help them."
She replied, "Not exactly, she is still bawling, but I called a therapist and they should be over any minute now, so I would go over to my house or something for about an hour or two, I will text you when it is safe."
"OK, hey Ella, we are going to go over to the Walker's house, because Anna inviteda therapist over and they will probably be over for an hour or two." I said with a grin.
We headed over to the Walker's house and when we got into the house, Nudge and Ella ran up to Nudge's room so that just left Fang and I to go up to his room, since Iggy, Gazzy and Angel had already gone home.
When we got up to Fang's room I sat on his bed throwing down my backpack, then remembering that I had my phone and brand new math book, that if it got ruined I would have to pay like $90 for a new one.
I bent down and grabbed my phone, I had 2 texts one from Fang, saying 'what are you doing', and one from Ella saying 'hi'. I replied to Fang saying 'nothing just texting you , I think'.
"Um..., we should probably start on our homework, since we have a lot of it today." I said.
"OK, I guess" he answered.
We got out our math books and started working, it was really easy. Almost nothing in school was ever hard for me. Fang and I finished at about the same time, then we started working on our project that was due on Tuesday of the week after next, we had to draw a cell, it had to be complex and everything. It was really hard, even though I was good at drawing.
"Hey Fang, the vacuole is the thing that looks like a plastic bag filled with water right?" I asked.
"Yeah!" he replied.
When we had finally finished, it took about 3 hours, it was dinner time, so we headed downstairs and into the kitchen, Tess had bought domino's pizza, I loved their pizza, it was delicious.
"Yes" I said while punching the air.
Fang raised an eyebrow at me questionably.
"I love domino's pizza, it is amazing." I said happily.
"Really, me too" he answered.
We sat down and started digging in, I ate 5 pieces of pizza, ¾ of the pizza. I probably could have eaten the whole pizza, but I wanted to save some for everybody else, Fang ate the same amount as me, Tess had bought 3 pizza's she was smart.
"Hey Nudge" I said with a mouth full.
"Nice manners" Fang judged.
"Hey don't judge my manners, I may be immature but..." I said with a smirk. "Actually, I don't know what good things can come from being immature, sorry"
Fang just smirked, so I started eating my dessert, I had found chocolate chip cookies in their cookie jar, so I was eating those like there was no tomorrow.
"I am tired, I have had a long day" I said, "I think I am going to bed."
"OK, I will show you where you will sleep." Fang said.
"Thanks!" I replied.
He headed up the stairs and stopped outside the guest room.
"Here we are my lady" he chuckled, while holding the door open for me.
"Thank You!" I complimented.
"You are welcome, have a good nights rest." he mumbled.
"I wonder if my moms okay" I accidentally said aloud.
"What?" Fang asked.
"Oh nothing, sorry" I apologized.
He gave me a weird look, then walked away toward his room. I walked into the room and flopped onto the soft warm bed. As soon as my head hit the pillow, I was asleep.
The next morning I awoke to Fang getting yelled at by Nudge, I laughed and walked down to the living room where he was getting yelled at.
"Are you to chicken to stand up to your little sister?" I laughed.
Fang just smirked at me and chuckled, I walked into the kitchen and sat down, Ella came in and sat down next to me. A little while later a smiling Fang and a steaming Nudge came in and sat down far apart.
"What was that –" I began, but then Sam came in with a bag full of biscuits and gravy.
I smiled and asked if they were biscuits and gravy, and he said that they were, I knew I was right. I remembered that Anna was supposed to text me, so I ran up to Fang's room, I had left my phone in his room and grabbed it, I had a text from Anna, it said that my mom was better and we could come home, it was from 3 minutes ago.
I ran back into the kitchen and told Ella that, so we finished eating, grabbed our stuff and said 'bye' before we headed out the door and went to our house.
When we got inside, mom was on the phone,
"Yes, yes, he was missing yesterday morning, and he always tells me when he leaves. Yes, no, why would he"
It sounded like she was on the phone with the police, probably reporting Jeb as missing, whenever I heard his name my brain kept skipping back to the vision I had had.
I tried to ignore it but was having a hard time doing that.
"Hey, lets go up to our rooms and wait for her to be off the phone. Do you want to come to my room?" I questioned.
"Sure, good idea."
"Hey mom, how you feeling?" I asked.
"Okay but still sad, the police think he probably ran away, which I don't understand how they can know that without doing anything." she croaked.
"I'm sorry" I said while hugging my mom.
After talking to my mom, Ella and I went into his room to see if there was anything saying where he had gone.
We looked in his desk, everywhere, but then when I was looking in the closet, I stepped onto a floorboard and it collapsed under me. I was falling until I finally landed with a loud 'thump' I twisted my ankle in the process.
"Max what happened?" Ella screamed while looking down the hole I fell.
"I'm OK" I replied.
"I'm coming down"
"OK, but use the ladder, like I didn't" I said with a laugh. "Please bring a flashlight because it is really dark"
I heard her walk over to his desk and open a drawer. Then I heard her yell and tell mom that we were okay.
I saw her come down with a flashlight, she threw me it then jumped the remaining 5 reams down.
"Whoa! It's creepy down here" she said.
"I know the flashlight makes it more eerie." I answered.
We started walking toward the light that we saw in the end of the tunnel. When we got there there it was like an underground laboratory.
"I thought he was an FBI, not a scientist." I said
"Me too"
"Actually that wasn't true, I have been a scientist my whole life." a voice from behind said.
We turned around to find Jeb standing behind us in a white lab coat.
"I was the one who made you and your little friends into mutants." Jeb announced.
"JEB!" I yelled.
I ran at him, but he stepped to the side and I rammed into the table that had chemicals, but they just wobbled and almost fell. I got up and started heading toward Jeb, Ella was hiding behind a table. He started backing up toward a hole in the wall. He ran and got in the hole and started crawling. So I followed him, but he turned around and before I could stop him he jabbed a needle into my arm. Before I passed out I saw Ella running after me and Jeb crawling away.