Maximum Ride is property of James Patterson. Kisha Reaper and Deveann are property of Me! Kumali is property of Jwan!

Malissa's POV

I was beginning to wonder what was up with the new girl. She was like, 15 and she seemed so scared of everything. I couldn't understand why, even if she was a new experiment as I had guessed, the Erasers would let her off so easy. She didn't have a scratch on her. I'd seen the flocks fighting Erasers, it's not pretty. Especially not the way Kisha kills. She fights like a hunter. Ripping at them with her nails and fangs, I was almost scared of her. I was also wondering about Deveann and Aaron's sudden rivalry. I knew that Aaron's relationship with Kisha was one of unrequited love but I could've sworn Deveann and Kisha were just friends.

Deveann was allowed off work early and we gathered everyone around Hot Topic within minutes.

"I'll be done with my shift in a minute!: Kisha snarled at Gazzy who kept asking her why she took so long.

"Ew! What's that say?!" Nudge pointed at a T-shirt. Ew. Pervy. "What do they mean by-"

"TIFANNY!" Fang and Max shouted at the same time, except Fang slammed his hand on the counter.

"No!" Kisha pointed an accusing finger at Nudge. "Do not repeat anything you see on a T-shirt you buy at Hot Topic! Things on these shirts are meant to be read and not spoken! You will have this talk LATER!" She hollered. Kumali giggled under her breath at the out break.

"That's gross! Agh! Max!" Angel clung to Max's leg. I broke out in laughter knowing she'd read someone's mind. Deveann sighed, holding his head in his hands.

"Would you guys, shut up? I can't hear myself think. You know what, Kisha? Just leave early, I'll cover for you." Aaron moaned as though in pain. Something Kisha had told him had made him extremely upset.

"If I get fired because you're lying to me I'll pull your pancreas out through your ear." Kisha threatened, already getting her bag to leave.

"Not my pancreas." Aaron rolled his eyes.

"Thanks, Aaron!" Kisha kissed him on the cheek and lead us out of Hot Topic.

"So, wanna see our hotel room?" Kumali cracked a smile.

"Sure." Everyone had a partially evil grin at this point. "I don't get it, what's so funny?" I whimpered.

"Well, I'll think you'll find it to be unlike most hotel rooms." Max shrugged.

"Yeah, and like, twice the size of a regular house." Deveann scoffed, speeding up to walk along side Fang, apparently they were good friends but Kisha wishes they weren't.

When we arrived, I have to say, I was in awe. "Who paid for this?" I murmured.

"Mom. Ah, good, old, rich, Mom." Kisha smiled sinisterly at my reaction. They nearly turned the place up side down searching their dressers. Eventually everyone had found bathing suits and towels. Fang told Max he wasn't going to swim but she insisted he take it anyway. Natalie, who I'd found out was now Lash, didn't have a bathing suit but Nudge had thought a head and brought an extra. She and lash were around the same size and Lash said it would fit and that if it didn't it would be too big. Lash was very skinny, it almost concerned me. But she did come from a very up standing family and she was probably raised on health foods and small quantities of them. As we made our way back to my house I saw that the clerk was staring at Nudge! Nudge was like, five years younger than him! Every fiber of me wanted to scream at that perv. We finally got to my house.

"Welcome to my humble abode." I bowed, holding the door open for my guests.

"Fancy..." Angel rubbed her chin and looked the place over like a snob. She was enjoying this.

"As much as I enjoy site seeing, can we get in the pool now?" Iggy grunted.

"Of course, right this way, sir." I whispered where to go to Kumali. She nodded, took Iggy's arm, and strode off.

"So what did you pack?" I heard Fang whisper to Deveann. They were fuddling (is that a word?) through Deveann's bag that supposedly had swimming stuff in it.

"Where's the bathroom?" Gazzy tugged at my sleeve. he was 11 but he still looked so cute! I smiled and pointed down the hallway.

"Down that hallway and to the left." I ruffled his hair. He snickered and ran off.

"I wouldn't look in there for a while after this." Max warned me. Kisha laughed. I wasn't familiar with Gazzy so I wasn't sure what they'd meant. Later on I'd find that installing a fan in your bathroom is a good idea after all. We came to the pool.

Deveann's POV

I pulled the squirt gun out of my bag and put it in my pocket.

"Aren't you going to swim?" I jumped nearly five feet in the air. Kisha's face was inches from mine and I hadn't even heard her approach, creepy.

"Oh! No! That's alright!" I sat casually on a lawn chair. I kicked off my flip flops and pulled the CD player I'd given Kisha for her birthday last year out of it. Fang sat int he lawn chair next to mine. The lights made it bright and the murals made it seem like we were outside. I opened the CD player. I'd forgotten to check what CD was in it before I left. A CD Kisha'd made from songs ripped from other CD's. I recognized the title, "Sugar High." This was the one with all the happy songs or love songs on it. Gosh dangit.

"Wanna listen to 'Everytime We Touch?'" I asked Fang.

"What?!" He screeched, everyone looked at him. I did the nothing-to-see-here-folks sign and everyone went back to doing what ever it was they were doing. In other words, getting their stuff situated at their chosen lawn chairs around the pool.

"Kisha's CD. Love songs and junk." I sighed.

"But I thought you were the sensitive one, aren't' you supposed to like those kind of things?" Fang suppressed a smile.

"Shut. Up." I pulled my sketch book out of the bag, sighing. I looked up just in time to see Kisha shedding er clothes and hopping in the water.

"Brr! Come one, Max! It's so cold! It's like a rush!" She giggled/called.

"That's reassuring!" Max laughed and jumped in. Max screamed and grabbed Kisha to get above water. Kisha screamed and they both went under.

"You have the weirdest girlfriend ever." Fang and I said in unison before smirking, obviously being to cool to laugh together unless laughing at someone.

Gazzy'd returned and the kids were playing Marco Polo. Iggy was wading by the pool's edge whilst Kumali and Malissa looked at a Christian magazine. max and Kisha were splashing each other now.

"Draw something." Fang instructed.

"What?" I snorted.

"I dunno. how about Kumali, Max, and Kisha. They're always together." I shrugged. I drew them. Kisha was sighing and rolling her eyes. Max and Kumali had a hold of her arms, they were walking together. Kumali was smiling her head off and had an I.D. that said "LIBRARIAN" in big bold letters pinned to her chest. Max was trying to start a conversation but failing.

"Yeah, that's pretty realistic." Fang cracked a tiny smile that resembled a crescent tilted to the side a bit. I discretely pulled the water gun from my pocket. Squirt. Nudge looked all around her but couldn't figure out what had sprayed her hair. I chocked back a laugh. She started yelling at Gazzy and it just got funnier.

"Who wants ice cream?" Malissa called.

"I do!" The flocks chimed as one.

"Who wants to help me get it?" Fang lazily rose a hand and got up. i saw that I still had the squirt gun out and was about to put it back in my pocket when the sweet scent of skittles flooded my senses.

"That wasn't very nice." Kisha whispered in my ear. Her warm, misty breath stunned me. "What's wrong?" She muttered, jokingly. She knew full well what she was doing and that it was working. She came around front of me. She wore a black and blue bikini that matched her hair that seemed a bit lighter from the pool water. water droplets clung to her jet black wings and her sun-kissed skin. "Why don't you swim with me? It's no fun without you."

"I didn't bring my-"

"You're wearing them under your jeans. you were complaining that they were riding up the whole way here."

"Crap."

"Come on." She tugged on my shirt, threatening to pull it off.

"No."

"Please." She batted her eyelashes. I hated it when she did that. She had beautiful eyes, staring at me suggestively with them from under her long lashes would do me no good in this situation.

"Kisha, leave Deveann alone. He just wants to draw, make fun of us, and stare at you from a distance today. He's tired." Iggy called.

"Fine." Kisha sighed, defeated. She canon-balled back into the water.

"Kisha!" Kumali giggled, getting sprayed.

"Hop in!" Angel coaxed.

"It's really nice in here! The temperature is just right and no one can see us! Wouldn't it suck if someone could see us? Then we'd be found out! What if they took pictures of us and put them in a magazine? Or worse! What if an Eraser saw us! They could hurt Malissa or her butler! Oh, but I like Larry! (butler) I don't want Larry to get hurt! Max, what'll we do if an Eraser kills Larry? What if-" At this point everyone just tuned Nudge out.

"Kumali, come 'ere. I gotta tell you something important!" Kisha motioned for her to come to the pool's edge. Kisha cupped a hand around Kumali's ear and her mouth. "GOTCHA!" She screamed, she and Max pulled her into the water.

"Guys!" Kumali screeched. She awkwardly undressed in the water to reveal a forest green one piece. She threw her turtle neck and jeans that were now soaked at her lawn chair and they landed on her towel, soaking it. "Of course." She sighed. Fang waltzed in. Yes, I said waltzed. He looked like he was dancing trying to balance all of our cups of ice cream. One was on his head.

"Alright everybody! Get up here!" Everyone scrambled out of the water and up to him. 'Cept me cuz A. I wasn't in the water and B. Fang could bring me my ice cream when he came to sit down. "Kumali, peaches and cream. Max, banana split with cherries, brownie bits and chocolate fudge drizzle. (that girl has quite the appetite) Iggy, Chocolate Chip Mint. Angel, strawberry. Nudge, Rocky Road. Gazzy, chocolate with brownies, hot fudge, chocolate chips, and chocolate sprinkles. Kisha, I don't know what the heck this used to be but Malissa says it's your favorite." I laughed. He sat down next to me. "Deveann, vanilla with various fruity candies?" he handed me mine.

"You wouldn't understand." I chuckled. "What'd you get?"

"Just a regular sundae, vanilla, chocolate, cherry. For some reason seem to be craving cherry, lately." That night we played truth or dare in Malissa's living room.

"So then, who here wants to go first?" Malissa was goin to ask the questions cuz it was her house.

"Me, me, me!" Nudge nearly vibrated from all the sugar she'd had.

"Alright, truth or dare?"

"Truth or dare..." Naudge repeated to herself. "That is the question." She giggled but then stopped. "I suppose it would have to be the question wouldn't it? I mean, when have you had a disision and there isn't a question? That's completely redundant to say 'that is the question.' Of course it's the question. NAd why do you have to state that? Were mideivel people too stupid to figure out that it was the question on their own? And whether or no-"

"Speaking out redundant." Kisha rolled her eyes.

"Oh! Right! Sorry! Dare!" Malissa whispered into Nudge's ear. She blushed giggled. "Okay!" Nudge looked over at Angel. "Truth or dare?"

"Truth." An evil grin spread across her face, because when Angel was telling the thruth, who knows exactly whose secret is being revealed?

"Have you been telling Gazzy about Max's thoughts during the day and recording them in what you call Max's diary but secretly share with Fang or is that really Max's diary and you just break into it and post random bits of it into Fang's blog?" I started laughing out loud, as did Iggy. Kisha smacked me and I shut up.

"What have you been doing?" Max glared at Fang.

"No, Max does not have a diary, she wishes she had one, though. Not anymore, I guess." Angel sniggered.

I felt like that was going on forever so I'm gonna stop here. It is 3:19 A.M. currently. I'm not updating until someone other than Jwan reviews. Re-stating my earlier question, do you want me to just skip the action and ... FAXNESS! Or would you rather take your time and get around to it? Kisses!