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Chapter 3

We'd been looking for Max ever since we returned to Arizona, six months after Max 'died'! Jeb got mad at us and told us she wasn't dead and was probably in New York by now. None of the flock seemed to do what they liked best anymore. Every time I think of the bullets hitting her and burying her, tears well in my eyes. Me crying, this had got to be a joke, you're thinking but no, she really means that much to me. Nudge hardly ever talked and it seemed she had turned into me, as she hardly ever said a sentence. Angel never read our minds, she had been scarred by my thoughts, I was constantly thinking about Max's 'death' and burial and what might have happened to her. Often I've found her in the middle of the night crying and muttering. Gazzy and Iggy never make bombs or even bomb plans. Gazzy hardly ever does any mimicking except a couple of times to cheer us up he has tried being Max, but now it's getting harder to remember her. Her voice, her face, her…her…everything. I guess I'm the most miserable, I tried to lead them but I'm kinda rubbish, no, I'm crap at being leader, it sucks. Max…oh Max where the heck are you?

So here we are cruising in New York City, we really should have been on the ground looking but I can't stand landing just yet. Nudge kept shouting out landmarks but nothing about visiting them. The Empire State Building was up ahead when we decided to go lower to search the ground a bit more. The moon is blinding up here, every time I pass it, I have to shield my eyes. For a moment, in my raptor vision, I thought I saw a figure at the top of the Empire State Building, I thought it was Max, but I shook it off. I'd been thinking I'd seen Max a lot recently but it never was her. I haven't even kept up to speed on my blog much. I really missed her, we all did. I really care about her, no, not just care, I love her. She seems to see me as her unofficial right hand man and her brother but I wish we were more. A scream erupted from above us. We turned around to see a blonde haired girl failing from the top, but here's the thing…she had wings! I shot forward leaving the others staring. I caught her in my arms and breathed in her sweet scent, it was definitely her. She must've known it was me because she put her arms around my neck and smiled.

'It's Max!' I shouted to the others. They all shouted her name. She was still tense but I knew it was from pain. Then, all of a sudden, she relaxed, her head laid back over my arm, and I moved her around a bit to get me comfortable. She was a lot lighter than usual; she obviously hadn't been eating properly. I hugged her closer, I was so glad to have her back. We needed to get her back to her mom's house hopefully Jeb would be there because he would know the full extent of her injuries. Nudge was talking to Gazzy and Iggy non-stop all of a sudden. Angel was watching Nudge carefully; she must be reading her mind. I smiled for the first time in ages, everyone was back to usual. So we finally made our way back to Arizona, with Max!

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