A/N- Alright everyone this is six full pages long according to my document page. I hope you all like it, I was really trying to make Max sound like herself but I'm not sure how well I did because it was really hard with this chapter, please tell me if it sounds like I stayed in character or not. Also this is not a filler chapter, the drama is ON in this chapter I promise you. Well, I'll stop jabbering and let you find out for yourself. Thank you reviewers. ENJOY!
Chapter 29:
Days go by, and soon I find that it has been three weeks that we have been staying here. I can't believe our luck in getting to stay in one place for so long. It's actually kind of nice. Andrew hasn't spoken to Me or Fang since the beach house. He hasn't been talking to anybody really, so no one knows about Fang and I except for the Flock. We already knew they would find out though, what with a mind reader and all. Yep, this week sure has been peaceful too peaceful if you asked me. So of course something was bound to happen sooner or later. I hope I get through my Saturday at least.
-A note from the wonderful mind of Max!
I woke up at 7:00am, on a Saturday. Nuts, I know. Seems I had already adjusted to waking up at seven. Katie, however did not seem to have this problem so I found myself to have gotten time to myself for once. Quickly, and quietly I snuck out of the room and into the hall which had changed from a hectic girl war zone on a normal weekday morning to a quiet deserted place at seven on a Saturday. It seemed no one would be waking up until noon anyway, and the only sounds heard was some loud rather obnoxious snoring. I left the building and headed down for the schools lake (I know this school has a lake, with a gazebo. I told you this was a wealthy school.) I didn't really know what I was doing there, but for some reason I wanted to be there. It seemed that was where my internal GPS seemed to be telling me to go anyway, so I went. Walking along the path I saw the clean blue water of the schools lake, named after one of the school's old headmasters yada yada yada. I was about to sit down in the shade on the grass, when by habit I scanned the area and realized why I seemed to be wanting to be in this particular spot of the school. There, sitting across the lake sat none other than Fang with his laptop. I grinned and stood back up, so much for Max's quiet alone time.
Being as silent as possible I went over to the other side of the lake, where Fang sat against a tree staring intently at his laptop. It was then that I decided that it was time for me to get back at Fang for all the times he's somehow managed to sneak up on me. I grinned, and moved closer as soundlessly as possible. I was know only a few feet away when....
"Good try, Max."
"Dammit.", I muttered and sat down next to him with a scowl. He raised an eyebrow at me. That seem to say, 'language' in that snarky mimicry way of his as when I say that to him. I resisted the urge to stick my tongue out at him. Instead I crossed my arms in front of me and stared out over the water. Of course out of the corner of my eye I can see Fang smile at me, and my mood is suddenly up again. He looked down back at his laptop, and I watched him.
"Answering your fan mail , again are we?", I chided. His lips twitched upward.
"What are they saying now, asking if we're planning anymore attacks on big business companies?", I asked. He pushed his laptop over to me so that I could see the screen. I saw a message was up and read it.
CupidsMagicHold193:
Omg. Fang you and Max so need to get together. You know I am a matchmaker, seriously. I got all of my friends boyfriends that they all LOVE. We'll except for........but you don't want to here about that. You should take my advice though, you and Max. I sense these things you know. We'll I can't type anymore my mom's making me get off the computer. She is so annoying sometimes, she's says I never stop typing as soon as I'm on the computer. I only read your blog, it's soooooooo awesome. Omg, got 2 go. Bye.
I finished reading the message and started laughing. "She sounds like Nudge.", I said. Then looked up to see Fang with a grin on his face. He leaned over.
"She was right though, we are good together.", he whispered. "Also there's about a thousand other massages like that one." He leaned even closer, and my stomach knotted as it seemed to do I realized every time he was this close.
"I don't think I've hid how much I like you very well.", he grinned and I couldn't stand it anymore. I pressed my lips to his, and soon enough my arms we around him. The laptop lay, forgotten.
"I don't think you have either.", I whispered when we finally broke apart. Then of course as soon as the words were out we were kissing again. We stayed by the lake for awhile longer. Sometimes kissing, sometimes talking, sitting, surfing the Internet. We even just together on the grass for awhile.
My peaceful alone time had come and went, but it was defiantly much better than expected. Noon came soon though and more students began arriving at the lake so we walked around the campus. Some guys put together a soccer game, that we watched but it got old watching so we went about walking again. That is until we came to a path at the back of the school that not many students used, where Fang after making sure no one was around kissed me. It was a really good kiss too, that threatened to go onto a full make out session when a scream came from behind us. Shocked we pulled apart and looked for the source. It was worse than ever to be expected.
Erasers? No.
A teacher threatening detention? No.
Iggy threatening to hold this against us for the rest of our mutant lives? No.
Katie? (Insert cuss word of your choice here, then run away screaming into the
night.)
I stared at Katie's shocked, enraged, horrified expression. She looked at me. She looked at Fang. She looked back to me, then to Fang. From me to Fang. It was all getting quiet awkward until she turned and ran away.
I looked over at Fang, he was looking at me with a look that was clearly apologetic. I squeezed his hand.
"I'll see you later.", I whispered then took off after Katie.
Katie was mad.
Katie was upset.
Any girl feeling these emotions seem to possess the ability to run 100 mph apparently, because I could catch up to her until he was back in our dorm room.
I opened the knob to my dorm room and saw Katie sitting on the bed waiting for me. She wasn't crying, which was good because I didn't know how I could handle that. She looked furious however, but compared to some other horrors her anger dimmed in comparison.
I sat down calmly on my bed waiting for her to speak.
"Well?", she asked. "Aren't you going to give me some answers like why were you kissing the guy I like?" Her voice rose to a shout, but I was kind of shocked by her words.
Why were you kissing the guy I like? Not, Why were you kissing Nick? Not, why were you kissing your adopted brother!
I was a little taken back.
"Uh, Nick and I are sort of going out.", I stammered. Her eyes were still furious.
"Aren't you guys like brother and sister. I didn't think I had to tell you not to like him, because of that very reason."
"It's sort of different with me and Nick, I mean were not blood related we were just adopted by the same people." Technically none of this was a lie because the School sort of adopted us.
"Yeah, but you knew I liked him.", she said and I was starting to get angry.
"Your kind of missing the point Katie! Nick and I have been together since we've gotten here." LIE! "We just didn't want anyone to know, because people might think it's strange. So, I just wanted to ask now that you know if your going to tell everyone?"
Katie's anger subsided. "So you didn't steal him from me, he was just already yours.", she asked in a confused voice.
"Yeah.", I managed to get out without adding, 'he's not a piece of meat, Katie.' to the end. Katie seemed to be calm now.
"So your not going to tell anyone right, because we really want to keep this a secret.", I asked.
Katie blinked. "Of course not Max.", she said in a completely endearing voice. "Your my roommate, I would never do that."
I nodded. "So were er - all right then?" Katie stood to leave the room, she smiled over her shoulder at me.
"Of course, were great. I won't tell anybody, promise. The bestest friends!", she said almost too enthusiastically as she left the room.
Somehow I just couldn't help, but feel we weren't just 'great', the bestest friends.
Katie POV:
I closed the door as I walked out as lightly as I could so Max would not be tipped off by me slamming the door in anger. That little WITCH! I can't believe she didn't tell me. Whether she admitted it or not, she had stolen the guy I wanted. Nobody did that, and she had done it twice actually. I had my eyes on Andrew forever, then she walks in and in two seconds he's all over her. Then the one guy I like, that I know Max can't get her hands on and it turns out she's already got him. *&^$#%$%#%$#%$^%$%^$^#$#$^#^&^&*&*^$%%#%#^$#^%^&$%^#%^#$%#%#$^#%$^#%$^#$^$$#^%$%^&^%$#%^&^%$%^&^%$%^&^%$%^%$#!
I can't stand her! Ahhhhhh! What she doesn't know though is that I will get Nick to dump er for me. I will totally crush her.
I stomped down the hall and out toward the 'Phone Room', as everyone called it. The only spot on campus you could use to make calls. Dad had been bugging me to call him all week, and I wanted to ask him for more money I could go shopping with later.
The Phone Room was empty, so I went to the one in the back corner and slid down into the chair in front of the phone. Then with a quick swipe of my phone card, I was dialing Daddy's work number. It rand once, then twice, then the receptionist picked up the phone.
"Hello, Itex administration office. This is Kurch speaking. How may I help you?", rang the voice of the nasally office receptionist Mrs. Kurch.
"Hello, Mrs. Kurch. This is Katie calling. I would like to speak to my father please."
"He's about to go into a meeting ,darling. You'll have to call back..."
I cut her off. "NOW!", I said in an irritated tone to the receptionist. I was quickly put through to my father. Mrs. Kurch never did seem to get that I was bosses daughter, so whatever I wanted I got. Soon my father's voice rang through the phone.
"Katie!", my fathers voice asked.
"Hi, Daddy. I got your message to call. How is work?", I asked into the phone.
A sigh was heard from the other end. "Well everything has indeed been going smoothly after the situation we've had recently, there is just the problem of finding those loose experiments I told you about. You remember don't you."
"Yeah, I remember." My father was the head director of a huge corporation called Itex. One of there branches, a main one, was made up of scientists that experimented on making human weapons. It was a great achievement my father said, but we never talked about it to other people because the government didn't agree with it. My father said that was just because they were scared that we would use it against them. I smiled. I made a ton of money though so neither my mother or myself minded. (A/N: Remember Max saying how evil pays.)
"So dad, tell me about these experiments again. Why can't you just track them?", I asked.
"Well, dear. You know I wouldn't be telling you this over the phone because it can be monitored, but I have a team that has assured me that that can not happen with our advance technology. Also your such a trust worthy daughter, one day you may even take over my position. Well, I'll tell you. There are six of them, three of which are around your age actually darling. The three others ages are six, eight, and twelve. There leader is a girl your age, extremely deadly. She was the only one we had got the a tracker on, the others we didn't think would be very profitable to us so we didn't bother. Unfortunately, she was smart enough to figure out it was there and she got it out. A feat alone we though would be impossible. This one girl is the very reason we almost lost everything. She will stop all of our progress. This girls powers alone are amazing."
I remembered my father telling me how his scientists figured out how to give humans all these super natural powers. It was truly incredible.
"Go on.", she said.
"It seems she has been getting new powers though, some that we didn't even give her. She seems to know our every move as well. At first we thought this was because she had intelligence on the inside by a Jeb Batchelder. That however proved false and Jeb has been freed from surveillance. We have to find this girl and the others. Everyone around here are up in arms about it, everyone cursing the name Maximum Ride from dawn till dusk."
"Maximum Ride.", Katie whispered into the phone. For some reason her mind wandered to the Max sitting in her dorm room. Her name was Max Ride, wasn't it? A gasp escaped Katie's lips, as she thought of the odd adopted family she brought with her and held close. There were six in all, three her age. Max, Nick, and Jeff. Wasn't Max's little sister six? Weren't the other two twelve and eight? There was no way.
"Dad can you tell me more about these other experiments along with Max.", Katie asked her father. She heard her dad's intake of breath.
"Darling did you just call the girl ,Max. It's odd in our report it seems that Maximum does refer to herself as a nickname 'Max'."
"Well, it's just that my new roommate's name is Max Ride and she just came to this school a few weeks ago with five others of those ages. I don't think..." Katie was cut off by her fathers commanding voice talking to someone hurriedly, cutting her off.
"Mrs. Kurch, cancel my next meeting. This is important." ,my father spoke to the receptionist then back to me.
"Darling, I need you to be very clear on this. I am going to tell you about these experiments some more you need to tell me if they match up. The six year old girl has blonde curly hair, correct?"
"Yes."
"The two others that are Max's age they are both boys correct?"
"Yes."
"The one said to be Max's second in command is olive skinned, dark eyes, sullen attitude."
"Yeah, that would be Nick. He's also Max's boyfriend.", I couldn't help but blurt out in annoyance.
"Yes, well. It seems they call him Fang, but they are most likely using a cover name. I think I read in my reports somewhere that he did in fact use this name before, Nick. Now then there's the other one, pale skin, blonde hair, and he is the blind one of the group."
"Jeff, yes it fits exactly."
"They call him Iggy apparently, so this must be another code name. I'm worried Katie, these people seem to be in fact the experiments. You said Max was your room mate. Very clever, a boarding school to hide, we would have never found them. Yes, we found in the past that they never seemed to prefer schools. Which is why we never even check any school records that would point to them hiding in a school. Katie listen to me this is very important. I want you to do something for me, I need you to spy on them for awhile. Keep me informed it might be awhile before we can come up with a plan to capture them, without raising alarm. Whatever you do though Katie, DO NOT LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE ON TO THEM! If they leave or make an attempt to leave, tell me immediately."
"Oh are you sure. I mean if they are dangerous. I mean you never even told me what type of mutant they are."
"They are 2% Avian 98% Human. Basically they are part bird, they have wings."
My breath caught in my throat, wings. That's ridiculous, well I've heard dad's created weirder things. Then I remembered something.
"Wait, Dad. Max can't have wings, she was in a race at the beach, he back is bare. She doesn't have wings.", I told him.
"Well, Katie I really wouldn't put it past them to have found a way for them to be completely hidden. When they left they had no idea that we could in fact make the wings fold into their spine so well that they could be invisible. If this is true they must have figured that out. They do call themselves the Flock after all. Dear, I really have to go please do this for Daddy and I'll buy you whatever you want. Kay ,Darling?"
"Okay Daddy, but before you go. Just one more thing do you mind putting some more money into my bank account so that I'll be able to go shopping later."
"I'll have an extra thousand put into your account right now. I'll talk to you later, Darling."
"Bye Daddy bye, kiss kiss."
"Kiss kiss to you too, dear. Bye."
I hung up the phone. This was a lot to think about.
Max, an experiment. Turning her in to my father would only be too sweet, and then maybe I could even make a deal with him so that I can keep Nick or should I say Fang. Yes, the bosses daughter always gets what she wants.
to be continued...
