Disclaimer: Maximum Ride and all of the characters associated with Maximum Ride belong to James Patterson. Everything else is mine you hear me? MINE!

Chapter description: Sorry it took so long… But I know I'll just take even longer to write the next chapter, so, yeah ;; Ok, not an especially important chapter, but it had to be done eventually

Overall Description: Repressed memories are troubling the broken up flock 1 year on. And the arrival of more Avian teens either makes matters better, or worse.

Pairings: Just a heads up throughout the entire story. OCxMax, OCxFang, OCxIggy.

Other things: Character death, may be slight OOC-ness, I haven't read SOF yet so don't jump on me if I do anything that could contradict it, first few chapters are 1 year before the main plot, I'm different and I love it.

Reviewers: Thank you SO much for reviewing this, it means so much Keep em coming!

POV for this chapter: Chris Hope

Warning: The site was majorly pissing me off when I uploaded this, as you will see, so I've separated my paragraphs with lines. If it stops being annoying, I'll change it.

Chapter 2: Solemn stalker

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I like being different.

There's nothing wrong with liking ones individualism is there?

No, I didn't think so.

Seriously, what's wrong with people liking things that some others think is odd or weird? People who against that are just stupid and wrong.

I'm into like fantasy books and stuff, it's interesting and fun to read.

But, off of that.

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Like I said, there's this new guy at school, I don't really pay attention to what his name is, but he creeps me out. He's one of those angel faced pretty boys who could probably get you to do whatever he wants just by asking. And the worst bit, he's freaking stalking me!

So I'm probably a little paranoid, but having a bit of paranoia never really hurt anyone did it?

Oh, what tipped me off you ask?

Well…

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"You got another one?" Julia snapped. She's my older sister, long brown hair, emerald green eyes, you know the look. "Mom's gonna kill you…."

"Oh tell someone who cares…" I groaned, rolling my eyes and putting a book into my locker, getting ready to leave. "It's not like it's the first one I've got, so as far as I care, it's just another bit of paper."

She just sighed and walked off. "Don't come crying to me when she takes you concert ticket."

I just flipped her off behind her back and turned to leave. Not noticing the guy behind my locker.

"You're Chris, right?" He asked. And there goes the skin crawling.

I jumped back a little… Ok a lot. "Maybe…" I said slowly, also turning around to see his smug expression. Ick. "Who wants to know?"

He started to slowly walk past me, his face twisting a little. "Just a few people." I swear he was snarling. "You're a very desired person."

If my skin wasn't crawling before, it was now. But I said I wasn't gonna let it get to me… So of course, I let it get to me. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?" I snapped, but he just kept walking.

So, naturally, I walked off myself.

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Did you happen to know the sky is really interesting? Yes, I just called that big blue void, interesting. I dunno, I just think it's better to look at things in a different view to everyone else. If you have a problem, tough.

Now what's strange, is that normally, I can tell what kind of bird that's flying around, but there was a couple of differently coloured feathers coming down from this flock of 6 weird looking birds.

But I'll leave that problem for later.

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E.O.C. (End of Chapter) Comments: Sorry these are so short, it's just what I do. Like I said, keep the reviews coming, also, I will be posting a 3 joinable spots on the official MR forums soon, 2 males, 1 female, will post a link when it's done.