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Chapter 35

(Max)

"Gazzy!"

"Gazzy!"

"Gazzy!"

Everyone yelled looking for Gazzy. Sure people were giving us weird looks I mean who wouldn't look at a bunch of kids yelling Gazzy through the streets weirdly. I didn't care though.

I wasn't the only one who had been hurt over the Gasman's words. Iggy seemed more depressed than usual and completely ignored me. He was probably the one who was anxiously looking for the Gasman the most. Well besides me of course.

I was frantically trying to find Gazzy. Me and Maya had kept our distance afterwards. Maya had looked at me apologetically and because she was my clone I understood that that meant she was really sorry. I had given her the same look.

Dylan and Nudge were with me looking for Gazzy while everyone else looked elsewhere. Iggy was going to go all by himself, but luckily he let Total come with him. I was still worried about him though.

While we were searching I was also thinking about what I saw. Fires? Tornadoes? Floods? What was going to happen? Then there was that face.

Seeing her face had gotten my hopes up. Maybe she was alive and being held captive. Maybe she was all alone looking for us.

Oh God our flock was really split up. First Fang, then Angel, and now the Gasman was nowhere in sight. That would make any leader worried.

Ok concentrate. First find Gazzy. Worry about Angel afterwards. Fang? Well I can't fix everything. I can try, but I just can't.

Iggy wasn't the only one ignoring me. Nudge went with me to find Gazzy, but she kept her distance. She was mad at me. They all were. Well it was only Gazzy, Iggy, Nudge, and maybe Total too. But they were my family. If they were mad at me then everyone else might as well be mad at me too.

I won't bore you with all the details of our search for the Gasman. It took a while, but I found him shortly after me, Nudge, and Dylan had split up.

I was just walking around when I heard a slight ruffle of leaves. I looked up and there sitting in a tree was Gazzy trying to conceal himself behind a branch. His feat dangling over the edge. I gave a sigh of relief.

"Gazzy!" I yelled up at him.

He ignored me.

"Gazzy come on!" I yelled, "Everyone's looking for you."

He continued to ignore me. I gave a sigh of frustration.

"Gazzy I swear if you don't come down I'll get you down myself."

I heard leaves ruffle, but that was it.

"Ok I'm coming up!" I yelled.

I've probably climbed a hundred trees in my life, so it was pretty easy to put both of my hands on the tree trunk, jump up, put my feet onto the tree trunk, grab the nearest branch, and swing myself up. I climbed up some more branches and soon I was standing on a branch beside Gazzy.

"Hey," I said softly ruffling his hair.

He pushed my hand away and stared grumpily at the tree trunk. Tear stains showed clearly on his face. I pulled myself up a bit and faced him sitting crossed legged on the branch. Which was pretty easy since 1.) I'm well balanced 2.) I've only fallen out of a tree once and it wasn't going to happen again 3.) Oh and I have wings. So you know if I fell I can fly.

"What's up?" I said.

He didn't reply. We sat there quietly for a moment.

"Do you remember this tree?" Gazzy asked.

Huh?

"Gazzy I've seen a trillion trees. How am I supposed to remember one of them?"

"This is where that cop came and yelled at us. Remember?"

I didn't have to rack my brain for that memory because it flowed into my head right when he said it.

"Oh yea," I said and I took a closer look at the tree were sitting in.

Sure I've seem millions of trees, but if something had happened in that tree like oh I don't know. A cop yelling at you for climbing in a tree, Angel loses Celeste her bear, more cops come turning into Erasers, and Jeb and Ari appear. Then yea I'll remember every little detail that the tree took part in in that situation.

Anyway I looked at the branches. Iggy had slept there. The Gasman had slept there. Fang had slept there. Nudge had slept there. I had slept there. And on the branch that me and Gazzy were currently sitting on was where Angel had slept. I sighed.

"I miss her too Gazzy," I said softly.

"No you don't!" Gazzy exclaimed.

I was shocked at first, but slowly I came to understand what he meant.

"I do," I said quietly, "More than you will ever know."

"You're lying," Gazzy said sniffling, "You don't act like you miss her at all. You don't even care."

"I do care," I said sternly. Then my voice softened again, "I care about her, I care about you, and I care about the rest of the flock. I care enough that in front of you guys I'm strong and brave like always, but inside I'm hurting just like you."

Gazzy looked at me with his big blue eyes, "Really?"

"Really," I said, "She was like my little sister. My little baby girl. But it must hurt a lot when she actually is your little sister," I said.

Gazzy nodded.

"You guys are my family and I love you so much," I said.

Gazzy flushed with embarrassment.

"I'm sorry," Gazzy said, "I don't hate you or anybody else."

"I know you don't," I said.

Gazzy wiped his nose and smiled up at me. I ruffled his hair again and he let me. I hugged him and we stayed in that touching seen for a while.

"Everybody's worried," I said, "We should get back."

Gazzy nodded and slid down the tree trunk. I slid down after him and together we headed towards the hotel we would be staying at tonight. I looked back at the tree. Even if Jeb, Ari, and the Erasers had come we were still all together that day.

There's a purpose for this chapter that you will find out about in the end. I know some of you asked about it, but what happened between Fang and Dylan isn't a big deal. They've never gotten along and they both like Max, so you could see how they'd be some problems between them. Next chapter has some explanations kind of.

To Tamsin: Yea I know my chapters are short. Personally I hate how I did that. I've been trying to write them longer, but the story has already been written, so it's kind of hard. See now I know in the next fanfcitions I write I should write longer chapters ^_^. Also I upload every other day. Thanks so much for the review! I loved it!

I saw the last Harry Potter movie! I'm in denial. I'll probably randomly burst out crying today when my mind finally realizes that Harry Potter is over. Review!