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

Well, Jwan came over last night and we read the Max Ride 3. I'll say nothing on what the book was like. You'll see for yourselves. We stayed up till 5 AM. Fun, anyway.

Kisha's POV

I hoped I hadn't been too forward with them, especially the us being freaks part, but they were big boys and girls, they could handle it.

"I don't get it." Max moaned. It was three A.M. and she crawled under the bed with me and Deveann to talk.

"Don't get what?" I whispered back, readjusting myself, wrapped around Deveann's torso. Deveann slept soundly and when I spoke he never woke up, he usually smiled or something, though.

"How you can be immune." Okay, she was bored.

"Immune to what?" I asked.

"Fang." I smiled spitefully, hoping she could see the discontent in me.

"I know you love him, he loves you, too. You're a cute couple and I truly admire your patience with him but I can't stand to be in the same room as him. I can't stand to see his smug smile any longer. Once he's out of adolescence and has grown a logical mind I will try to accept him for who he is."

"Jerk or not, he's... tempting. You said it yourself." Max laid down next to us. I'd love to see Deveann's face in the morning. First seeing me, then seeing Max.

"As you very well know, I'm very skilled at controlling myself. I can control my levels of anger, usually I don't, but I can, I can control how much I need to eat, a year on end without food? I could do that. I can control my sleep pattern, I'm practically nocturnal. I can control what I think, my instincts, my emotions, I can shut them out, just like that. All traces of what used to be a sane being gone." I flashed my fangs at her. "The only thing I can't control is..." I sighed, looking back at Deveann. He'd risked his life, stupidly mind you but risked it anyway, to save me on numerous occasions. Granted, I usually had to save him in the end but it was the thought that counts.

"Your feelings for Deveann." Max finished for me, I nodded solemnly. His eyes fluttered open.

"I heard my name." He said groggily.

"Go back to sleep. It's nothing." He nodded and did so. I stared at him for a while, wondering what he was dreaming about, then I looked back to Max. "Fang must have been enhanced," I spat the word, my saliva thick with loathing, "the white coats would never have just let him go. They always want to do something extra, something stupid." I rolled my eyes. Something extra, Ahsik, how she gave me heck, thankfully, that little plan turned around and bit them in the butt. Max shrugged. "Goodnight, Max." And with that I fell asleep. Little did I know. We were more right about Fang than I ever could have imagined.

The next day we decided to go to the movies. The kids and Lash were seeing Shrek 3. I thought we were going to see Spiderman 3 but it was all sold out. Instead we saw some gushy love movie. I didn't even know what it was called. I was more preoccupied with biting the heck out of my nails than the movie. The whole time I was thinking about what could have possibly been up with Max. I tried starting with her amazing speed but couldn't connect it to her motherly instinct or pretty much anything else. So I tried again, this time going for the voice, well I had a voice but other than that, Max and I were nothing alike, the voice wasn't a part of me and it wasn't even a permanent part of her for that matter. I didn't know how I was going to solve this. We got out of the movies and I had a headache. So the light suddenly pouring back into my eyes was extremely pleasant, right?

Max's POV

I fell asleep. That is the most embarrassing thing you can do at a movie theater. I fell asleep at the beginning of the movie and so I missed the whole thing. Worst of all, I fell asleep on Fang who was actually trying to enjoy the movie but could only hear me talking in my sleep. He sighed heavily as he caught me glancing sheepishly at him. "Look, it's no big deal."

"Yes, it is. I ruined the movie for you." I looked back at my shoes.

"I'll rent it. You needed some sleep, no matter where you got it. Thankfully, it was near me so I could keep an eye on you." Near him? I was on him. He saw that I was still disgruntled.

"That was pretty good movie, I guess." Kumali sighed. "Except the lovey dovey parts."

"The whole thing was lovey dovey parts, I couldn't see it and I know that." Iggy growled having complained about going to the movies in the first place.

"What was your favorite part?" Deveann tried to make casual conversation, trying to pretend like he'd watched it because it was interesting, not because he was forced to.

"I wasn't watching, I was thinking." Kisha shrugged.

"I liked the part where they kissed." Fang was clearly avoiding the question.

"Which one?" Iggy scoffed.

"One of 'em, you choose."

"So then you don't have a favorite."

"No."

"You should have just said that." Deveann rolled his eyes. Kumali slowed her pace to walk along side Kisha who motioned toward me and suddenly I was with the whole gang. Jamie, Lash, and the kids would be out of the movies in hour or so, so we had some time to kill. I looked around at the eldest members of our flocks and sighed. Our clothes were borderline fitting us and our hair was tattered... well, except Kisha's flock. We needed more clothing we could comfortably fight in. My flock was still fairly dirty and I knew that this month in the hotel would do us some good.

"We need to go shopping." I thought aloud. The two girls looked at me, stunned I would even think of suggesting we go shopping.

"Well, we have some dough, we could go shop around a little before the others get out." Kisha replied uneasily. I nodded. And that's how I found myself in middle of of racks upon racks of clothing. I sifted through them. The ones that were my size didn't suit me and the ones that suited me weren't my size. I sat in the dressing room tugging on yet another shirt. This one fit. I came out to look at it in the mirror. It was a bright green. I liked green, though, I'd seen much too much of it in my lifetime. Unfortunately, it looked absolutely abhorrent on me. I closed my eyes to take a deep breath but when a pair of strong arms wrapped around my waist my breath caught in my throat.

"It looks good on you." Fang murmured into my ear.

"Yeah? Ya think so, it's not too bright?"

"It makes you seem a bit happier, I like it when you're happy." His voice just seemed to melt me from the core.

"I... uh, need to... do the thing... somewhere." I tried feebly to make up any excuse to get out of his arms so my legs could work again.

"What?" He chuckled.

"I said... I um..." My knees caved in under me.

"Whoa." We said together as he caught me.

"Still tired I see." No, I wasn't but I felt my eyes drifting shut, like all of my functions were just shutting down. My heart beat slowed and I could hear my breaths coming in strangled gasps.

"That's it." Kisha's voice barely registered. Fang was pulled from me and instantly everything came back to life. Actually, to be completely correct, I came back to life.

So? How was that? I know, cliffhanger right? Nah, not really. Would anyone like to take a stab at what happened? You might get it right. Jwan, don't even, I told you this morning so you don't count. Kisses!