Sorry about the wait, but Geoffrey really wanted to go the Disneyland. I didn't.

Geoffrey: Mmph!

Thanks for all the reviews!

Courtney, you've realized that we do go to the same school, right? Same class? You can just tell me tomorrow. Like with every other thing for the past year.

wisteria, thanks for commenting and I updated as soon as I got your review!

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A.R, I shall continue, but I have to untie Geoffrey first. And untape him. And unhandcuff him and everything else.

And RandomReader15, gracias! But I'm not golden, I'm a winged human. Or at least that's how I like to think of things.

Geoffrey: You can dream.

Me: Yes I can, Geoffrey. Yes I can.

Geoffrey: I told you to stop calling me that!

Me: What?

Geoffrey: It's Jeffrey, not Geoffrey.

Me: How can you even tell?

Geoffrey: Never mind.

Me: This is me disclaiming! The characters, Maximum Ride, etc.? All James Patterson's! If you haven't figured that out by now...

Geoffrey/Jeffrey: Then you should go read a Twilight fanfic or something.

Me: Wait, the ones with all the sparkly people?

Geoffrey/Jeffrey: Never mind.

Chapter 11

"Guys, STOP." Iggy was clearly tired of this, but I guess he must have dealt with our arguments before. Of the opposite kind. "Well, why don't you ask Max how Maya is a redhead?" Fang practically snarled. "She dyed her hair red." I quickly said before Iggy could intervene. Okay, I know that that was a really bad argument, but right now I just wanted Fang to go away. Or come back. Whatever.

He called me out on it. "Max, what kind of an argument is that? I would think that the great Maximum Ride could do better than confuse magenta with red." Okay, now he was trying to make me mad.

"How about you? Fang, the dark and invisible, couldn't decide which Max is which for his own sake."

"I know perfectly well how to tell you apart!"

"Oh, really? The only difference between us is her red hair and the fact that she's just a copy of me!"

"What? But she's more than just a c-

"And a bad one at that." Nudge muttered under her breath.

"Okay, I'm right here, you know." Maya said. "And we should go to the Tokyo Tower."

"And that means we're not going there." I continued. Next thing you know, she was going to claim to have a Voice.

"What if we should, though?" Fang challenged.

"Then you two can go off on your little Tokyo honeymoon. We're staying here."

"What if Angel's there?" Nudge asked. "What if she was just kidnapped?"

And that is how I got caught in the flock/gang-wide conspiracy to get me dragged to Japan.

It took us about an hour to reach Kyoto, which was a bit off the west shore of Japan. I was convinced that we were already in Tokyo, because Kyoto was just a typo on the welcome sign. And the welcome brochures. And the train stops and the post offices. In the end, Iggy had to practically shove me into the train station, and it turned out that Tokyo was actually on the other side of the country. Nice going, Max. Why don't you just blame it on the map. Or actually, how about Fang. If he hadn't left, then I wouldn't have been to Paris, and Angel never would've died. And I wouldn't be here now, stuck on a train for about two hours, squeezed in between Dylan and the Bane of my Existence. Also known as the Redhead Addict. Also known as someone who is a really good kis-

Never mind. I found myself unconsciously leaning towards Fang, because oh God he smelled good. Oh God, what is wrong with me? Stick with Dylan, stick with Dylan. "Dylan, do you think that we'll find Angel? Do you think… she's even alive?" My voice broke pitifully on the last part, but I didn't care, because right now, right at this very moment, they could be torturing her, making her feel things that I had hoped she would never have to go through again. Jabbing her with the sharp tips of needles, making her sprint until she collapsed, seeing how much poison she could withstand. We had all gone through this, many times over, but sometimes I felt as if my strong little mind reader, no matter how powerful she claimed to be, could break at any time. We had all had enough.

Okay, posting the eleventh chapter in the eleventh month, halfway through the eleventh hour... of the tenth day. Dealbreaker, much?

I'll try to update faster next time, hopefully by tomorrow, so keep clicking "Review"!

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