Maximum Ride is property of James Patterson. Kisha, Deveann, Saber, Lash, Jamie, and the late pants of doom are property of ME! Kumali is property of Jwan!

This morning I had a dream about being alone in the house with a friend over. Except there was a guy, like, murderous, cut-off-all-your-hair-drink-your-blood-and-sell-your-flesh-before-putting-your-meat-in-Glad-wrap-to-worship guy and so we were trying to be as quiet as possible. My friend slipped up and said something like where we were or something, I can't remember but the minute she said it the man went bounding up the stairs. I shouted "No!" And I woke up with a huge gasp. Saber is especially peppy this morning. I forgot to put in the last chapter that Iggy died whilst they were saving the world, previous to when the comic takes place. Hello, free-birds fly at midnight, I see that you are a new user here. I would be happy to read your story, I look forward to when your account is fully active. I have a trivia question for you guys. Previous to when I came over here and posted the first, awkward chapter of A Blessing In Disguise, what two, over ten chapter, STORIES did I write and what category were they under? (like a specific show or comic) Jwan, no cheatsies. On with the- yeah you know the drill.

Angel's POV (New again! Wow!)

"There go the wretched leather pants of doom!" Deveann said below.

"I don't see what was so wrong with them." Fang rolled his eyes. Me and Max had a pretty good time, it's not like anything bad was gonna happen. He thought.

I wanna cook out... Nudge groaned in her head. Only seconds later a low growl emitted from her stomach. "I uh-"

"Max, why don't we have a cook out?" I asked. Preparing myself to use mind control I snuck inside her mind in case she said no.

Dang, Fang looks hot in those pants... Angel get out of my head. I giggled. "Sure, a cook out sounds like fun. None of us put on our pajamas yet anyway. Although the boys have, oh well." Max shrugged. We were walking out the door when I noticed Kisha was still at the window glancing hesitantly down at the boys.

Deveann's not wearing a shirt... oh, this is not going to be fun. "M-Max!" She called. "I don't think I should-"

"Come on, Kisha! Aren't you hungry?" Kumali cried.

"Steak! Steak! Steak! Steak!" Nudge chanted, running down the stairs five steps at a time.

"Kisha, it's alright. I'll help you." I said, holding out my hand. She smiled and took it. I led her down the stairs firing off as many questions as she would answer. "When did you and Deveann meet?"

"When I was twelve."

"Did you like each other right away?"

"I hated him, Kumali had to convince me to let him come with us."
"Did Deveann like you?"

"I don't know when Deveann's mind snapped and he decided he was in love with me but it happened by the time we were fifteen. He's turning eighteen sometime next month. We don't know the exact date."

"Oh! Deveann's older than Max isn't he? That's weird, that would make him the first bird kid, not Max!"

"Deveann was a prototype for Max just like I was supposed to be the back up version. We both didn't make the cut. None of us have. She's the best of the best." Kisha smiled adoringly at Max. She looked upon Max as her older sister, as she did Kumali. Kisha was younger than Kumali, Max, and Fang but older than Iggy. Kisha and Kumali's birthdays were very close but they couldn't pinpoint Kumali's birth date so it was hard to tell who exactly was older.

"How come you know so much about Deveann?"

"An obsession to pass the time." Kisha shrugged, smirking.

"Is that why you're a walking dictionary?"

"The only reason I could ever think of." We came out the back door. Kisha was right, Deveann was wearing his pajamas. Which weren't really even pajamas when you think about it. It's just a pair of black jeans. Fang's usual pj's consisted of red shorts and an athletic shirt but he mixed it up tonight and Jamie let him borrow some of Mr.Reaper's clothing. Tyson, Tyson Reaper was Kisha's father, he hadn't been home in years, he was off doing research as Dr.Washington's pupil. Everytime he would get close to uncovering something he'd get distracted by something else to research. The pajamas Fang had chosen were silky black pants that I can only guess he wore for comfort and a cotton black T-shirt. I only know it's cotton cuz Max said it was soft in her head. I don't know why she was touching his shirt. Iggy wore black sweat pants and a brown turtle neck and Gazzy wore a Gi that Kisha bought him for his birthday. Iggy fired up the grill having Kumali help him even though she thought he was perfectly capable of cooking over a fire on his own. Kisha shook her wings out. "Ah, that feels good." She bent over back wards, cracking her back. She rolled her shoulder and sat down on the lush grass. We stared out at the lake/pond thingy Kisha's mom had out back. There was a little island in the middle.

"Hey Kisha, could we go camping on that island sometime?" Deveann said dazedly, deep in thought.

"You and me or all of us?" Kisha rose an eyebrow.

You and me, alone on the island for a whole night. I'm not sure it would be such a good idea when you're in heat but it wouldn't bother me much. "All of us of course." Deveann lied.

"Sure, that sounds like fun. Max, what do you think?" Kisha asked.

"Hm... yeah, it looks nice. No poison ivy or poison oak or anything is there?"

"Nope, but that's not what I'm worried about." Kisha sighed. "It's April. Tornado season, also very rainy. I know you guys don't came to the Midwest much but it's where I've lived most of my life. Tornadoes are worst in April. They get really bad to the point of shutting off your power or ripping off your roof. Lightning isn't all that pleasant either. Actually, it's the worst. Tearing down trees starting fires. Hail, second worst, destroys cars. Sometimes you could swear a bowling ball was being dropped on your house." Kisha moaned.

"Wow..." Kumali mumbled. "I didn't know Indiana's weather was so harsh."

"That's why I wanted us to stay in South Dakota but you guys wouldn't shut up about the freaking heat."

"It was an oven up there! And in the winter it was a freezer! There isn't even a spring and fall, it's just oven then winter year after year!" Deveann ranted.

"So? It's better than tornadoes, thunder storms, floods, and droughts. Oh yeah, and car racing, ugh, that's the worst. Traffic jams out the wazoo." Kisha shuddered.

"Car racing?" Gazzy scoffed. "That's not even a type of weather."

"It's seasonal, troublesome, and it's on your local news broadcast, sounds like weather to me." Kisha retorted.

"She's got a point." Kumali said.

"I wish we were in Illinois." Kisha said with sparkles in her eyes.

"We're in Indiana, it's right next it, what's the difference?" Nudge asked.

"Chicago. Mom could buy us an apartment complex where we could live and we could go to the Asian mall and Ikea and- I thought that was the reason we went there in the first place." Kisha said abruptly.

"I wasn't really all too hyped about it." Iggy shrugged.

"Yeah, just a bunch of hoopla you girls were raising." Fang added.

"You'd know so much about girls wouldn't you, ladies' man?" Kisha replied. "I know, we could live in Virginia."

"No!" We all shouted at once.

"Okay..." Kumali said slowly.

"How about Georgia?" Nudge threw in.

"Nah, had some bad experiences with a hotel in Georgia, Georgia now scares me." Kisha moaned. Deveann and Kumali nodded solemnly.

"We could always go back to New York." Gazzy suggested. Max shook her head.

"I feel claustrophobic."

"Canada?" I piped up. Everyone just stared at me. "I like Canada."

"I think you're missing the point, sweetie, we're trying to stay in the border." Max clarified.

"Oh. Okay. Well then why don't we go to Wisconsin?"

"Don't know too much about Wisconsin..." Kisha muttered. "Sounds like a plan. But not right now. Let's just get settled here for right now, we'll move later. Our status is still uneasy. Besides we're holding a funeral next week." We agreed and had a moment of silence.

"WHO'S UP FOR STEAK?" And thus the silence was broken.

That's all I could think of for the time being. I'm hungry so I'm just going to put this up for right now. Remember the trivia question.