Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride by James Patterson. This story is also rated M/MA

Hi guys, this is my first fanfic. Please review and tell me how I did and if you have any questions, obviously. I also am going to ask you to please take the following events seriously throughout this entire fanfic, because I and other people I know have gone through some of the events happening in this story. Also, when there is an interruption like this: (A/N …...) that's an author's note so it's me commenting on the situation at hand.

Btw, here are the ages:

Max, Fang, Iggy, Sam, and others in their grade are 15

Nudge, Ella and other 9th graders are 14

Gazzy, Angel, Ari and their friends in their grade are 8

Have fun, try not to cry at some points, and enjoy!

Max POV

Hi, my name is Maximum Martinez, but I prefer Max. If you call me otherwise, I will give you the worse experience of your life, or even your death. Got it, get it, good.

Right now, I am riding in the car with my mom, my little brother, Ari, and my sister, Ella. Ella is my half-sister (same mom), Ari is my half-brother (same dad), and Mom is, well, my biological mom. I loved them all so much. Ella was beautiful, more beautiful than I could ever be, but I swear she talked too much and loved fashion and shopping, the things I hate with a passion. She would always try buying me dresses and girly clothes, little does she know, I burned all of them in the backyard while she wasn't home.

When I was a child, up until I was 10, I lived with my biological dad, Jeb (I usually call him the sperm donor, so don't be shocked if I call him that) and one of my stepmoms that he was able to keep for more than a week. I hated them. At the time it was the stepmom, Melissa, my brother Ari, Jeb and me. My sister lived with my mom. I didn't know the existence of Mom or Ella until I moved with them at age 10. Mom had Ella a year after I was born. Ella doesn't even know the full story what happened to Ari and me when we lived with Jeb. All she knows is that a few months after I was born, Mom and Jeb got in a huge fight, causing a divorce, and Jeb took me away and never let me see my mom and mom came for 10th birthday and Jeb and Melissa were considered unfit parents, so Ari and I came to live with Mom and Ella. But there's a lot missing in there that I am not ready to talk about that. Not even Mom knows the full story.

Jeb, Melissa, Ari and I lived in L.A. I only had two very good friends who were close to me all from diapers to 5th grade. Sam and Fang. And of course, comes the worse enemy who is the popular slut that would sleep with a dog if dogs had that low of standards, but I mean, she is a bitch, so technically...you know where I am getting at. And whom am I talking about you may ask? Brigid Dwyer. She would always throw herself at Fang and Sam even though they had a strong hate for her and girls like her, actually what am I saying? It is lower level than girls and a disgrace to the name, so it doesn't even deserve the title of a girl. Anyways, even in 5th grade, besides Sam and Fang, obviously, I doubt there was a single guy in L.A. who hasn't visited Brigid's bedroom and had a fun time in her bed. But my mom coming to take Ari and I was so abrupt, and without notice, I never had a chance to say goodbye to Fang or Sam. They were the only ones I could talk to, and Fang was the only one I trusted, and he didn't even know mostly anything going on at Jeb's house. Ari and I moved to NY with Mom and Ella, and we lived there for 5 years so far...up until now. Apparently, Jeb has been seen around our city and has been moving to new houses, searching for us, and he ended up sending a death threat to our mailbox. So now we were moving pretty much across the country...to Pheonix, Arizona, which brings us to where we are today.

I'm now in the car upfront with Mom while Ella is chatting away in the backseat about the new boys and dressing pretty to start school with a statement, whilst my little, cute brother Ari is peacefully sleeping, I'm surprised Ellas babbling hasn't woke him up yet

"ZOMG I can't wait to get there and meet new friends, hopefully they are like me! I'm going to dress up nice and walk in there and have the guy's jaws drop, and I bet they have lots of hot guys to sweep you off your feet! And you will have lots of friends!" Ella said, wriggling her eyebrows at me as she finished that all in one breath. AS IF I NEEDED A GUY. And a bunch of Ellas running around? I think not.

"Ella, as I said before, I don't talk and am not friendly, so I don't make friends, do you not remember the school we just came out of? I am not dressing up, and neither are you because you are pretty enough and I do not need guys staring at you like a piece of meat, because then I would have to castrate them all and torture them and push them off a bridge. And I totally do not need a guy for anything, especially when they are all assholes, and how am I supposed to have a guy when I don't get friends? And I pray to God that your friends are not all like you, I would be insane, not just going anymore. Damn, now that you said all of that, you made me freaking talk, and I sound like you!" I said and clamped my jaw shut before I got into protective parent/worse than Ella ranting mode. I put my earphones in and listened to music for the rest of the ride. I still miss my old friends from L.A. with Jeb, but I had to make that sacrifice. Still, what I would do to have them back, especially Fang, he was my right-hand man, I trusted him with my life. Then a song came on and it kind of reminded me of my own situation.

Hey guys! I left it off on a cliffhanger! Well, kinda. Anyways next chapter will begin with the song and other people's POVs will be included. I didn't want to explain Max's past, because the part of it being a secret has something to do with future chapters and Max's trust with Fang.