A/N- ooh, aren't you lucky! Two updates in two days! I got a nice bit of plot in there what Jayne Mays suggested, like, six months ago, which I've been building up to. Slowly. Few more chapters, then we can get some action? I've got some ideas, some of which involve wild boars. Oh, BTW, the three month or so break was due to my sister getting stupid drunk and breaking my laptop. Seeing as I only managed to recover my files on Sunday, I am doing well, no?

Iggy POV-

"Okay, so we've added the Copper Sulphate and put it on the Bunsen burner. What's next?" I asked. I and Edie were in chemistry, making some blue crystals. It was boring. I got excited when we had double chem, but so far we've blown nothing up. Hardly chemistry at all, if you ask me.

"That's it now. We just have to wait" she replied, sitting down with a light thump.

"How much longer do we have left?" I asked.

"Bout half an hour." There was a slight pause, then "there's some wicked chemicals in here, wanna make a bomb?" I laughed easily, then realised she wasn't joking.

"Yeah, sure!"

Fifteen minutes later, I raised my head from my beaker of chemicals as Edie went to check the crystals.

"I think they're done… OMG, Ig, how did you even do that?" She rushed over, and touched the back of my hand, sending me an image of an evaporating dish with a small, perfect, blue crystal heart sitting in it. I'm just gonna say, it involved a lot of science stuff. And some toxic chemicals I nicked from Gazzy's room.

"Is the answer still no?" I asked. Oh, yeah, I should probably fill you in.

Last night, after we'd told the rest of the flock about Edie's new power (they were ecstatic!), Edie made me give her a flying lesson. Dylan helped me carry her to a cliff overlooking the sea, about a twenty minute flight from the house. It was weird; I swear she weighed, like, two pounds. He wandered off down the beach as we stood on top of the cliff. She brought us to a spot where the cliff dropped sheerly into deep, rock-free ocean.

"Okay, so basically, on the count of three, I'm going to shove you off this here cliff, and you're probably going to instinctively snap your wings out and fly. If not, you'll fall into the sea, I'll hear the splash and come and grab you. Capiche?"

"Yep" she replied, sounding less than thrilled at the prospect of being thrown off a cliff. Can't imagine why.

"Okay, here we go. One…" I gave her a shove on the back and she fell over the edge of the cliff. There was a split seconds pause, and my stomach dropped with worry, before I heard the rustle of feathers and she landed lightly back next to me, laughing.

"Right!" I said authoritatively. "Now for steering!"

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"Hey, guys, if we don't leave now, we'll not be back before midnight" Said Dylan, flying up to meet us as we practised the turning we learnt from the hawks. I nodded, and began flying. Out to sea, apparently.

"Igs! Opposite direction" called Edie. I blushed furiously, turning on a dime (I love doing that!) and flew off speedily. I was surprised to find Edie matching me stride for stride (or flap for flap).

"Hey, how come you're so good at this?" I asked. She gave an annoyed huff.

"Always the tone of surprise" I laughed.

"Seriously, though. Dylan was absolute crap when he was a beginner!"

"Hey!" yelled Dylan.

"Yeah, yeah." I called. "Point is, you are WAY better than you should be." Edie gave a nervous cough.

"I may have already known how to fly…" I gaped at her.

"Why did you make me carry you?" I asked.

"I didn't. I just flew along beneath you." Knock me over with a feather…

"So, why want a flying lesson?" I asked. I don't get females!

"To see if you would teach me." she said, then spiralled off quickly.

"Will you go out with me?" I yelled after her. Whoa, where did that come from?

"Maybe!" she yelled back "I need some sort of gesture or something."

I gaped after her. Dylan flew up next to me.

"Smooth, bro." I scowled at him.

"Don't try to be street. You just sound like an idiot."

"Ooh, harsh" I whapped him round the head with my wing. Hey, that's fun!

"'course I will! How can I resist a guy that made me a heart out of copper sulphate crystals, and then made a bomb in my chemistry classroom?" I grinned at her as the deafening bell rang for lunch.

"I need to pee." She told me. Charming. She dragged me through a corridor, then parked me across the hall from the girl's loos.

"Stay there." She instructed, then her footsteps were swallowed by the mass of the crowd. I looked around. Two minutes, two minutes. I could make it. It's not like I'm gonna get attacked here.

"OMG, JEEFFFFF!" screamed a high pitched voice. Scratch that last. I am getting attacked.

Max, Dylan, god, even Nudge'd do! I prayed to myself. Obviously, no-one came. I got smacked in the chest by teenage girl.

"What are you doing here, all on your own?" she crooned. Ugh, creep.

"Get off me, Lissa." I gasped, shoving her away.

Too late though, because I heard Edie gasp, and run off.

"Well done, slag." I growled, then sprinted off, smacking into people as I went.

"Edie, EDIE! Wait!"

A/N- ooh, cliffie! Tune in next time for… whatever this is that I'm doing with my time.