Things were going well in the new house, we've been here about a week. Ella started her new school and spent every available minute over here at the flock's house. Mom started her vet job again and was telling me about how nice all the workers were. She wasn't over as often as Ella, but we still saw her every day. Not much was new with Jeb.

And also, Thanksgiving was tomorrow. Everyone was super excited, Mom, Ella, and Jeb would be coming over and celebrating the holiday over at the flock's house. And the flock was especially excited, too.

"FANG!" Nudge called pounding on the hallway bathroom door. "Hurry up!"

The door opened but no one was inside.

"FANG! Get out!" Nudge shouted, as a snickering Fang turned visible and walked out of the bathroom. Nudge slammed the door closed and locked it. I rolled my eyes, Fang could be so immature sometimes. I turned back to putting dirty clothes into the washing machine.

I felt arms snake around my waist and someone start kissing my neck. I rolled my eyes again.

"Fang," I mumbled elbowing him in the gut, "I need to finish the laundry."

He ignored me and went back to sucking on my neck.

"Gross!" I heard Angel and Gazzy chorus. I quickly pulled back and pushed Fang off me.

"Sorry guys," I said to them. They shrugged and ran off.

Fang started kissing my cheek, I shut the top of the washing machine close and pushed him off again. He sighed as I walked into the living room. Iggy, Angel, Total, and Gazzy were watching a movie. Sky was laying on a blanket that was on the ground. Gazzy and Angel were slightly glaring at Fang and I for kissing earlier. I smiled apologetically.

"Hi baby!" I said picking up Sky, she screamed happily. "Lets go get you some lunch." I set her in her high chair, gave her a bottle full of water and went to the cupboard and grabbed a jar of baby food.

The front door made a very loud 'click' noise as it unlocked (one of the very many traps and warnings that were all over the house) and Ella ran in, smiling. Iggy stood up and Ella ran into his arms, she kissed his cheek. Fang glared at me, his eyes saying, "Of course you let them kiss, but when I try to kiss you, nnoo." I rolled my eyes and smirked.

"Hey, Ell," I called.

"Max! Happy almost Thanksgiving!" I smiled.

"You too." I gave Sky a spoonful of baby food.

Ella walked into the kitchen, by the way she was playing with her fingers, I knew she wanted to either ask me something, or make me do something with her. Like go to some party.

"Hey, Max? Tomorrow before we eat Thanksgiving dinner, there's this thing at my school, everyone is going, like you dress up as Pilgrims or Indians and there's games, and contests, and a dance floor, I guess you could call it a party"- Oh! Did I call that or what? - "It'll be a lot of fun."

"Well, what time does it start exactly? Considering we eat Thanksgiving dinner at like three in the afternoon." I asked as Sky drooled her mushed up food onto her bid. I wiped her mouth with a towel.

"It starts at nine AM and ends at five, but we don't have to stay the full time."

"What are you guys taking about?" Nudge asked. Grabbing a banana off the counter.

"Ella wants us to go to some Thanksgiving school party thing."

"Ooh! Can we go Max? Please? Please? It'd be so much fun! We can dress up! Can we dress up?" Nudge turned toward Ella and she nodded. "See? We get to dress up! Can we go? Please, please, please, please, please, ple-"

"Fine! We can go, but only for a few hours." Ella and Nudge cheered, slapped high fives, and started happy dancing all over the kitchen making Sky spew drooly baby food on me as she squealed. At first it was kinda gross but her finally adjusting to the house and her being happy, made me giggle happily.


I sighed as we walked through the gates of Ella's high school's flied. I tugged at my dress. Apparently Mom and Ella were prepared and had gotten us all costumes for the party. Which was hilarious to see every dressed like that. Especially Fang who normally wore jeans and a black shirt. Even Total had a little Pilgrim hat on. He was also dressed as Iggy's helping dog. Fang had his arm looped through mine, I was holding Sky in my other arm.

As we walked forward this guy yelled, "Cheese!" And took about five photos of us. When we finally got past the crazy picture taking guy, we looked around. There were, about fifteen large picnic tables, bobbing for apples, pie eating contest, pony rides, egg toss, bean bag toss, guess how many beans are in the jar, a paint ball area where you had to "Shoot the Bear" which was just a painting of a bear on a wooden board, a stage with a DJ playing old country music, a dancing area in front of the stage, and a buffet. I'll admit, it was pretty impressive.

"Woah," Angel breathed.

"Awesome!" Gazzy shouted.

"This place is wicked!" Nudge agreed.

Ella was decribing what it looked like to Iggy in a muttered tone.

"This will be a lot of fun." Mom said smiling.

"Someone put a lot of thought into this," I said.

Fang nodded.

Everyone split up. Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel went off to play some games, Ella, Iggy, Total, Mom, Fang, Sky, and I went to the buffet and got some food. We didn't get enough to pig out, but just a snack so we could save room for dinner. Fang and I had filled two trays.

We sat at a table and I gave Sky her bottle as the rest of us began to eat.

"Ella!" Four girls called and waved.

"Oh great," Ella muttered, "Here comes the bimbos."

"Ella!" Mom scolded.

"Sorry."

The four girls trotted over.

"Hi Ella," One them said smiling.

"Hi Linda," Ella sneered.

"This must be your family!" Another said.

"Yep." Ella muttered.

"Ella," Mom muttered nudging Ella's foot with her foot then Mom stood up. "Hi, I'm Ella's mom, Dr. Martinez."

"Hi Dr. Martinez." They all chorused. Faking there cheeriness, I rolled my eyes.


When we finally got back we we started cooking. Surprisingly everything turned out well! And dinner was, good. After about twenty minutes everyone was stuffed. Sky had really seemed to enjoy her first Thanksgiving. She was smiling the whole time. After putting the all dishes in the sink, we all collapsed on the couch and watched, "Happy Thanksgiving Charlie Brown.".